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There was a period of time for me where I was -just somewhat lost

Like there was something missing that missing in my life that I couldn’t really figure out

Where I’m from everything was very driven by sports

I played everything, ranging from basketball

 To soccer 

To football 

Too baseball

I very good and at these activities but they just didn’t do it for me

This was eating away at me

It became very frustrating because I had all of these people around me who had these different passions and i was there involved in nothing I truly loved

Then it hit me

I was watching a music video and was looking at their artists perform

The music was great but there was something more that stuck out to me

The clothing 

I started researching these clothing brands and became obsessed

Starting off at low end street wear companies to researching and learned about the biggest high end fashion houses in the world

I ended up finishing out those sport seasons but never went back once they started back up

I ended up taking the time where i would be in practice, to instead using that time to travel in the Manhattan and the other boroughs to visit various retail shops, thrift stores, and places to purchase fabric

I would do this all the time and as frequently as I could

I became enamored with the fashion industry as a whole

I fortunately had opportunities to go visit things like limited Channel exhibits and go visit showrooms for different retailers

All it took was that music video to spark in my mind what I have already had

The void that I thought was once there was there no more.

The music editing process with using Audacity was super easy. Bring the mp3 into the Audacity app wasn’t hard and cutting down the time was really easy also. I got the music to play throughout the presentation because once I got the wav file of the cut down version of the song I chose for the presentation, I just clicked “play across all slides” to ensure that. I got the presentation to run on its own by rehearsing the times of the presentation and making sure everything matched up accordinly.

For the second slide, the process of making the bullets come in one by one was easy. All you have to do was create an entrance animation for each different bullet and make sure they come one after the other. This is very important to have the bullets come in one by one because when the viewer sees all of the bullets up there at once, its becomes over whelming and the viewer is getting and overload of information at one time. Presenting the bullets one by one is the most effective way because it gives the viewer a chance to digest the information easier and fully take in all of the information without feeling overwhelmed.

I animated the third slide by first having the title of the album which was “Astroworld” enter into the slide. Next what I did was put the cover of the album on the left half of the slide to come in. Lastly, for the third slide, I had the track list songs by having the first half of songs pop up and then after that the second half of songs came in. The track list was placed to the right of the picture of the album.

For the fourth slide, setting up the table was not hard. What I did was went to the Insert tab in powerpoint and selected table and created a 4×4 table with the label’s Artists like Travis Scott, Hometown, Debut Album, and the number of Twitter Artists they had. The other two artists I compared Travis Scott too were Future and Young Thug. I used seperate text boxes throughout the table I created because then I was able to make each text box pop up on their own whenever I chose for them to pop up. If I didn’t use separate text boxes then everything written in the table would’ve popped up all at the same time. I created those separate text boxes by going to the Insert tab and choosing text box and placed them accordingly throughout the table.

On the last slide of the presentation, I chose pictures that I felt represented Travis Scott as person as well as a musician which is way I put pictures of himself performing, pictures of him with his family, and pictures from some of his promotions he’s done in the past. The used the same animation for each picture throughout the final slide of the presentation to give the slide some organization and sequence between pictures. I changed the link name and color by changing the link to a hyperlink and then changing the option for a new hyperlink color.

The first image I am going to use is the photo of OJ Simpson’s mugshot that used for Times Magazine and Newsweek during his murder trial. Newsweek used Simpson’s original mugshot where Times Magazine used the same image but darkened the overall image. Times Magazine said they darkened the image to give the image a more dramatic tone due to the fact that it was connected to a murder trial. I do understand the reason for Times Magazine darkening the image but there was a lot of racial tension connected to this trial and a lot of racial tension overall during this time so it was not the smartest idea to darken the image due to the circumstances of time. If Times Magazine just kept the original mugshot photo there would be no issue. I would say the altered photo of Simpson would be okay under the rules of Fair Use because the change that was made was appropriate for its use.

The next photo I used was a photo taken in Beirut, Lebanon where there was an Israeli air raid. The original photo showed smoke coming from a building and hovering over the suburb. In the altered photo the smoke is a lot darker and there is a noticeable amount of smoke coming from the village then there was in the original photo. This was done to exaggerate the damage that was done during the air raid. I do think that the way the image was altered was unethical. I say that because the altered image made the damage done during the air raid a lot worse than then it actually was. This could cause more panic to the public then needed and can be seen as if the photographer was pushing a political agenda. The photographer could have avoided this by just not altering the smoke of the picture. I would say you can’t dramatize and exaggerate a photo more than it realistically is because it gives false information. The Fair Use rules would say that the amount changed was not appropriate for the cause.

The last photo I’m going to discuss is a photo of a burning building published by FOX13 in Memphis said that this was in Baltimore, Maryland and was related to riots happening within Baltimore. It turns out that the FOX13 messed up and after publishing the article using that photo was actually taken a year prior in Valencia, Venezuela. This definitely could have been avoided by FOX13 if they have double checked their sources and made sure that the photo was reliable instead of just using the photo without really knowing.This move made by FOX13 can’t be justified because what they published was wrong.

Font 1: Times New Roman

Times New Roman was created by Stanley Morison in 1931. Times New Roman came about because Morison was upset about the printing quality of a London daily newspaper “The Times”. “The Times” hired Morison to create a new typeface that he that would look good and this is where Morison came up with Times New Roman which replaced the font Times Old Roman. The reason I chose this font was because of how common it is used and the traditionality of the font. I personally don’t like Times New Roman and tend to find it very boring. A situation where Times New Roman would be used could be when you are writing an essay for school. I have had many teachers in the past use Times New Roman as a requirement for our work.

Font 2: Bodoni The font Bodoni was created by Giambattista Bodoni in 1790 at the palace of Duke Ferdinand of Bourbon-Parma. I chose this font because I like the elegance of the font. I like how the letters of the font have parts of the letter that have thick lines that sharply turn into very thin lines. One scenario this font can be used is for movie posters. The movie “Goodfellas” used Bodoni for their movie poster.

The saying I chose to use for my font poem was a quote from Buddha. That saying was “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” The reason I chose this saying was because I felt like it gave me good content to work with when creating the design portion of my font poem. I have also always been pretty interested in Buddha because I never really knew what he stood for in the past so this saying gave me more insight into that.

The fonts I chose were Optima and Eurostile. I chose the font Optima because mainly because in part of the poem I bend the words to look like they represented the rising and setting of the sun and the moon. With this font I thought the style that this font gave off when set in this manner fit this design very well. I used the Eurostile because it put a lot of emphasis on the word Truth which is the only work in the saying where I used Eurostile. 

I put the first words “Three Things” first at the top in a large Optima font to have those words pop out to the eye first. The next words under that I put “cannot be long hidden” in a smaller font. I used the effect Squeeze on the word hidden to give the effect as if the word “hidden” is actually trying to be hidden. The next words I put were “The Sun, The Moon”. I placed the words to represent the rise of the sun and the setting of the moon by using the Arc effect. I changed the word moon to a purple to represent night time and the sun to orange to represent the sun. Lastly I put the words “The Truth” under the words “The Sun, The Moon”. I used the effects Bevel & Emboss and Gradient on the word “The” to have the eye lead to these words after reading “The Sun, The Moon”. I also used the Outer Glow effect on the word “Truth” to give that word the most emphasis out of the rest of the saying because this is where the saying ends.

The one problem I ran into when creating my font poem was that I wasn’t familiar with photoshop due to the fact I have never used it before but still managed to figure it out. One way I got around this was through trial and error. I tried different effects, fonts, and word placing until I thought I found the right fits. I also was given help by my professors and fellow classmates to help me through the process of getting used to photoshop.

The thing I am most proud about after making my font poem was my word placing and the effects I used on certain words. The word placing really helped step up my font poem from being just saying to actually giving the saying I used substance. This also goes for my effects. The effects in my font poen helped out a lot by giving certain words in my font poem emotion which gives off the ability for the viewer of my font poem to connect to the message my font poem is conveying.

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