Storyboard

 #2

One sunny day, while playing in a field outside her house, a little girl heard shouts from behind some bushes. She timidly peaked through to the park on the other side.

 Through the bushes were four boys in soccer uniforms awkwardly standing in a line. This amused the girl and she thought these boys were very strange for standing like this while playing soccer.

 She thought the only explanation must be that they were anxiously waiting to use the bathroom. She felt bad for them for a moment because they looked awfully uncomfortable, and then she went back to playing in her yard.

#1

 One afternoon a man nervously waited for a beautiful young woman that he recently met to meet him for coffee. As time passed with no sign of his date, he tried to fight off the feeling of disappointment, but was becoming increasingly discouraged.

 Meanwhile, the young women did not wake up to her alarm clock after what was intended to be a quick refreshing nap. She had no intention of standing up her date but continued to innocently sleep late into the afternoon.

After waiting for more than a reasonable amount of time the man sadly accepted that his date was not going to show and it was time to leave. He left the cafe alone and headed for home.

This assignment was harder than I thought it would be and took me a long time to think of how to construct the stories. I was hard trying to describe what was happening without just describing the picture and it was challenging to think of a story where the pictures added something and were not just there. For the story where we had to choose two pictures and connect them I thought it looked like the little girl was looking at some one and thought it went well with the soccer picture, for those two I used a subject to subject transition to show what both of the subject were doing. For the next transition I used aspect to aspect to show what was really happening on the other side of the bushes.
For the second story I thought it looked like the man was upset about something, but in a public place and so I thought I would work to make him upset over a girl. For this story it was a scene to scene from the first to the last but the middle picture was aspect to aspect because it was happening at the same time and nothing extra was happening, just retelling the from a different point of view.

Simple Table To Graph

I chose to look at the cost of tuition and room and board from 1996 to 2009. I wanted room and board and tuition to be separate to show where the increase in total cost is, and not everyone pays room and board so it is important that tuition is separate. I used both excel and PowerPoint to create these visuals. I made the graphs in excel and then added label inside the graphs on two of them instead of having a legend because this reduces the cognitive load. I also had trouble getting the label to appear inside the graph when using excel and that is why I used PowerPoint to do that.I think that the column chart is the best representation of the information because it shows the steady increase but it is not necessary to have a continuous line because there is no data in between the dates. I also think that it gives a better visual for comparing the relationship between room and board and tuition.

“Take a sad world and make it better”

 

I chose to redo directions on how to tie dye because I found that these directions we overcomplicated and not simple enough for the target audience of kids. The original directions were two full sides of text and images and in order to simplify these I chose to condense the steps to one sheet. I also wanted to show as much as I could with only visuals in order to avoid using excess text. My first attempt helped me realize how to organize and space the steps for the second attempt. I also used a lot of vibrant colors to make the visuals more aesthetically appealing. In my second draft I also added in lines to separate the different steps and make the process more clear.

How to make a spaghetti dinner

 

To make a visual of how to make a spaghetti dinner, I used some of the ideas that we learned in class. I tried to make the visual as simple as possible because in class my groups how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich had too much information and it became complicated. It was difficult to get some messages across without using words or numbers, like what temperature to boil the pasta at. For that step I tried to indicate that the stove needed to be on high by the size of the shapes on the dial and the color of the burner. It was also difficult to show the amount of time without using numbers, but the shape of a clock is pretty universal and so I shaded in a quarter of the clock to show 15 minutes. After finishing my visual I thought it would be beneficial to add arrows to indicate the order of steps. I also included arrow that pointed down because in class we talked about how in different languages there is a different order of reading and I wanted this visual to be understood by most people regardless of language. After doing this activity I realized how much only visuals could explain and that their is not always a need for words, and sometimes visuals are easier to understand. I think this is helpful before creating other visuals because it could be used as a first step and then words could be added after to aid to the directions but not over complicate things.

Lawncare Decision Graphic

Collage

 

-uneven boarders
-nature/outdoors
-relaxing/ happiness
-travel/ activities
-in rows
-lines of field, birds, men, pencil
-trees/green

I noticed a lot of the same things that others commented on, like nature, the color green, and repetition. To me i felt there was a theme of being active because of the birds, the trip, the lantern, arrows, feet, field,"to do", and "crunch time" but no one else commented on this. I also think of happiness and well-being when I look at this, but that is probably because these things make me happy. I did not notice the use of cool colors or how the color blue was used and this was commented on multiple times by others. 

Concept Map

For this concept map I chose the topic of field hockey. I chose this because field hockey has been a big part of my life and I have learned so many things from it. I played all throughout high school and I am currently starting a field hockey club at RWU. I was interested to see all the ideas I associated with field hockey and how they all connected. While making this map I had a hard time not making it into a mind map. My first draft came out to be very similar to a mind map with a lot of confusing lines. To help solve this problem I moved the topic to the top of the page instead of the center, so I had more room to connect the ideas. I also thought it made more sense to use "team" as a subcategory and have all of my ideas split off from there. I still had a hard time making it clear how these ideas connected, so I wrote words on the connecting lines to help explain what idea it lead to next. I also used symbols, like an equals sign and arrows. There were a couple key words that had the same connecting words like winning  and team that really visually helped make it clear what makes a team and the same qualities that make a team also lead to winning.