Daily Archives: February 8, 2019

Originally I was going to use Nintendo as the subject for my blog but I ran into copyright issues. I eventually changed my topic to advocating for new media outlets. I made this choice because of my fascination with politics and news but feel that many old news outlets are biases and have corporate interests in mind. My end goal with my communication degree is to start a podcasting and blogging site that promotes free thought without corporate interests. This project relates to my topic by showing that old media is dull and boring and that new media is exciting and full of opportunity.

This project went through an iterative design approach and I had to modify it many times. The design is supposed to display the dichotomy between new media and old media. Someone should be able to look at this project and tell that my stance is pro-internet and pro-new-media. The old school radios and televisions show how slow and clunky old media was. Many people only knew of these mediums because it was all they had but now in the digital age there are many different ways to get news and entertainment.

My design process included coming up with an original idea which I thought the split panel would be a good way to show my stance on media in general. I then began to collect images depicting all types of media and then made a collage out of them. Finally I added text and layered them to give a stylistic appearance. One challenge I ran into was trying to make the old media pictures black and white because every time I tried to copy them over they would be in color. I then realized that I had to “copy merged” not just “copy” the selected areas. Another challenge I ran into was that some earlier images I tried to use did not line up with my background and seemed out of place. It took me a couple of tries to get all the right images. The tools I used for this project were scaling, cropping, magic lasso, hue/saturation, copy and pasting and rotating.

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