This unit introduced me to important topics, from poetry in English to web production in Digital Media. We also learned professional software applications including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Pro Tools, Google Applications, and Word Press.

Throughout this unit, I was introduced to new topics and programs. In Design, I learned about the way a viewer would look at art and interpret it. We studied works of art by artists and analyzed the artwork for forms of art and elements of design. For our final conceptual project, we were tasked with representing our concept statement while incorporating elements of art and design. Mr. Greco taught us how to analyze poetry and gain a whole new perspective on the art behind poetry. With the concept statements we were given we had to write Throughout this project, I learned so much through the process of learning applications and elements of design. Lastly, in Digital Media we learned how to use many software applications, cameras, and recording equipment. Our projects required us to use programs such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Photoshop, and Avid Pro Tools.

Poem

In our English class, we were assigned with creating a poem that was represented as a piece of art that we took when we were at the San Fransico Moma. The image below shows the image that I took in the Moma.

This is the poem that I wrote about this piece of art. We were given time to create a poem and make an image of this in Photoshop.

This is the audio recording of my Poem Release.

Creating the Photo Haiku Sounds and Photo

Photo Haiku

This is my Photo Haiku. Created in Google Images, we learned how to take photos that were representative of our drawings.

Photo Haiku Video

This was a video that we created using Adobe Premiere Pro using a picture we took, our haiku, and royalty-free music.

Elements & Principles of Art

In this assignment, we were introduced to the Elements and Principles of Art. These elements are shown below a presentation I assembled about the Elements and Principles of Art.

Design – An Introduction

This year through Design I learned about art in different ways and from different perspectives. Design showed me the importance and value of art in our lives, and throughout this unit, I learned about art and applications that you can see represented in the photos below.

Design – Conceptual Photo

I am exploring the feeling of being held back through the process of being silent.

In my photograph, I used a roll of duct tape and bars from a fence outside my house. I placed the roll of tape behind the bars to show that the duct tape is trapped inside of the bars, unable to escape. The duct tape is placed at an angle so you can see the duct tape sticking upwards to look better in the photo. For the lighting of my photo, I took the photo when the sun was behind the clouds to give the photo a dark and gloomy effect. Lastly, I decided that it would look best if the image was taken down below, almost head-on so you could feel engulfed by the jail bars and living inside of the image.

The photograph exemplifies my concept statement because it portrays the feeling of being held back through bars and the process of being silent through the duct tape. The bars hold a feeling of being trapped and show the idea that I am trying to illustrate, a jail cell. It is popular to associate being silent with having tape put on your mouth which is why I used duct tape. Altogether, my objects and concept statement form a dark tone, with pieces such as duct tape, jail cell bars, and dark lighting to create a dark piece of art.

Lastly, I learned a remarkable amount about Photoshop through this project. When editing my photo, I started by cropping my image because there was a lot of unnecessary background objects, such as plants and bushes. I then used the curves and contrast tool in the image to differentiate the light areas of the image from the darker areas, mainly to give the photo a dreary and hopeful feel. Lastly, I added a vignette, which made the picture focus on the duct tape on the bars instead of the surrounding objects.

Design – Alphabet Photo

In this project, we were tasked with taking pictures of objects that were shaped in letters that spelled out our line. It was the first project with our new DSLR Cameras so we learned had exposure to our cameras for the first time.

Design – Elements Final

In this project, we took pictures of the Elements of Art that we learned about in class. We had to go out and take pictures representing each of these photographs and these were the results of my photos.

Creating our Images in Photoshop

Final Thoughts

Design helped open my eyes up to the world around me, and once I started learning about Element of Design I was able to look at the world through an entirely different perspective. I was also introduced to applications such as Photoshop where I used different tools to create images that fit my liking. I feel like I have learned a substantial amount from design throughout this short unit but ultimately learned extremely valuable information for the future.