a) What is the feeling you wanted your gum
package to portray? How did you achieve this?
I wanted my gum package to have a fun and laid back look. While I was acheiving this, it started to turn out to be more of a “dirty” gum. This was a result in the bubbly pink colour and the white bubbles all over the gum package.
b) Who are you targeting your gum to? How did
you achieve this? I am targeting my gum to teens of my age. Anywhere from 12-17. I did this by the very catchy title, “Let’s Bubble” because many teens are interested in that and therefore attracting them more to the product.
c) What area in your design did you use Photoshop? I used photoshop to create the bind part of the gum package. I made a star and put it in the center of the side of the gum package.
d) More marks are given to designs that are
custom created and not just taken from free
vectors or free stock photography. What part of your gum
package did you custom design?
EVERYTHING! I custom designed every part of this package EXCEPT: the barcode, the nutrition facts, and the ingrediants. All of the little tiny white bubbles made were from my own hands and mouse. And my eyes still hurt!
This is my Peace Week Poster. Through the duration of making this poster I felt very frustrated and upset. The reason is because while I made this poster I realized how many females around the world suffer. I was frustrated because I feel helpless in saving these women from suicide, and self-dictruction. However, given a chance to make a poster like this has been an eye opener for me because I can see that something as simple as a poster is going to help. That if even one little girl sees this poster and gets the courage to stand up, that I have helped, and I have made a difference. If I took even the slighest weight off that little girls shoulders, than my existance is worth something.
a) What does your logo/tattoo represent?
My logo represents obviously, ME! It shows my creative writing side and my love and passion towards writinng poetry. Alsol, it shows my last name, which is my identity. It is who I am and who I will always be. b) How did you design your logo/tattoo to represent this? I did this by adding the feather to the ending of my last name. By doing this it appears that the feather is writing my last name. The feather itself represents writing, and poetry.
What happens when you paint part of the layer mask
…black? …white? …grey?
When you brush over the picture in black, the picture behind of the toddler shows. And when the toddler is painted over with white, the original picture of the frame comes back.
a) What were you trying to express and
how did you achieve this?
I was trying to express self-anger and frustration. Yet also trying to achieve overcoming, and overpowerment of this anger. I did this by using vry dark colours in the background. I took pictures with dead roses. I also put words such as, Anger, Guilt, Fear, and Denial. The pictures showed different ideas. For example, holding the roses gently yet about to break them because of frustration yet being gentle becuase the roses are all people have left. The white rose in the middle shows the over coming of this dispear and shows the main goals in life. Such has, Equality, Peace, Family, Respect, and Dignity.
b) What filters did you use and where?
I used almost all of the filters. Most of them were used on the word in the middle of the rose so they would stand out. I used filters such as Burn, Luminosity, and Hard Light
c) What layer blending mode did you use and where?
1) How did you enjoy the film? What stood out for you?
I enjoyed every part of this movie. It was blunt and honest. It the harsh reality that many people are blind to. The thing that stood out to me was firstly, Puja’s confidence and bravery. She had no desire to listen to other people and clearly lived her life as she pleased. She took advantage of opportunities given to her. Secondly, i love the fact that not only were girls targeted, but also boys were given the chance at a better life. Just because it’s the girls that become the prostitutes, it doesn’t mean that the boys aren’t effected. I love how she helped both and not just one gender.
2) Did you learn anything new about photography, life, people? What?
I’ve learned that at times the most simplest of pictures carry the most meaning. And also, that there will always be people everywhere simply spending their lives just hoping for one of the many chances I get everyday. Life is full opportunities. I’m sure many people have heard that line before, but it carries a different meaning for me. Life is full of opportunities that are laid out for us. It is up to us to reach our for them and to use it wisely. Once one opportunity is wasted… they’ll eventually stop coming.
3) How do you think the world needs to change? How important is this?
The world needs to change in soooooooo many different ways… If only it was actually possible. The world needs to change the way women are treated. They need to change the way children are treated. And of coarse I’m sure men are treated unfairly as well. It is very important. But then again, there would be no good if there was no evil…right? Yes, it is important to change. But I don’t expect the world to change and become perfect. I’ll do my part, and hopefully, the rest will do theirs too.
4) What are you willing to do TODAY to be a part of that change?
I am willing to do anything is one can guarantee me that prostitution, child slavery, and abuse will be stopped everywhere for everyone. I think I’m pretty much already apart of that change. By standing up for myself, and for others and simply educating others I believe i can change the world, one person at a time.
5) Do you know a good song/rap/poem with good lyrics about change in the world? Post a link or lyrics to share it with us.
I know of a few song lyrics that I find interesting and helpful. They’re not specifically about changing the world, but that show the “Stupid Girls” of our society. And the other tells one to simply listen to “The Voice Within” and block out all judgments and criticism that people throw at you.
Here are pieces of lyrics that are most powerful to me. The lyrics have a different way of explaining the society but mean just the same thing. Girls can be stupid.
PINK – Stupid Girls
[Stupid girl, stupid girls, stupid girls
Maybe if I act like that, that guy will call me back]
[What happened to the dreams of a girl president
She's dancing in the video next to 50 Cent]
[I don't wanna be a stupid girl
Baby if I act like that, flipping my blond hair back
Push up my bra like that, I don't wanna be a stupid girl]
[I'm so glad that I'll never fit in
That will never be me
Outcasts and girls with ambition
That's what I wanna see]
These lyrics are powerful to me because they are blunt and honest. They don’t try to cover up the real with the fake, but show in black and white how stupid girls can be. “Push up my bra like that” ? It’s sad, and I’m ashamed to say it’s true. This is what many women think about… having that one man “call them back”… being skinny… and making millions of attempts to look like a plastic doll and labeling themselves as “beautiful”. Reality check… you’re ugly and fake.
Here are some more lyrics that really have value. They have a deeper meaning and show the importance of the inside rather than the outside.
Christina Aguilera – The Voice Within
[When there’s no one else, look inside yourself
Like your oldest friend just trust the voice within
Then you’ll find the strength that will guide your way
You’ll learn to begin to trust the voice within Young girl don’t hide
You’ll never change if you just run away
Young girl just hold tight]
[It’s so hard to stand your ground when you’re so afraid
No one reaches out a hand for you to hold
When you look outside look inside to your soul]
[No one can tell you what you can’t do
No one can stop you, you know that I’m talking to you...
Young girl don’t cry I’ll be right here when your world starts to fall]
This song is important to me because it give insight to something that many people are oblivious to. No matter how hard the world is on the out side… no matter how hard it is to go on and no matter how impossible it is live, looking within can change that. These simple words, have changed someone’s life. These simple lyrics, have given someone in the world the confidence to say “NO.” They gave someone the courage to leave a place of destruction and find a better place. These words, has opened someone’s eyes to see that they DO have a chance, they DO have a right, and they DO have the choice. All they have to do, is listen to “The Voice Within.”
6) Pick a non-profit organization that is important to you. Why is this important to you? Do they have a website?
I would have to say, Free The Children. It is important to me for various reasons. One, it was invented by someone who was younger than me (at the time) and decided to start something for other children and not himself. Secondly, it has become a world wide organization that provides for children everywhere. Their website is www.freethechildren.com
7) What ideas do you have for media arts projects that we could do individually or as a class to help contribute to these organizations that are important to us?
We could write a short story from a child’s perspective.It could be the trouble that they go through day-to-day. Or what the organization has done for them. Just a short paragraph and with that a designed page to collaborate the ideas from the paragraph with pictures and symbols.
Do you feel that you’ve been conditioned to be a certain way or look a certain way? How so? Now that you have some exposure to the truth that what we have been striving for is not real but created, how do you feel? If you think its important, how should we educate others?
Yes i do feel that I’ve been somewhat conditioned to be a certain way. As much as i may think that I’m not, there’s still a little voice in the back of my head that comes up every once in a while and tells me what i should wear, how i should act, and what things i should say. I’m proud to say that the voice is only getting quieter and quieter. =) It’s the media which i can now see, isn’t even real, and celebrities that think that just because they have money, they have a life worth living for. I don’t feel much different. I guess i always knew that it was fake. If not that, it’s probably my simply refusing to believe it because of people telling me how beautiful i look being myself. Media arts is a great way to educate people. And as a way for people to visually see this, there could be an assignment in which we actually change a picture of ourselves and see what’s real, and what’s not. It would be fun, and pretty shocking to some people.
