Wednesday, May 20, 2015

The Office Parody


    Great Value is a film about a group of students plan out and shoot a water bottle commercial.  The director of the group Ben is portrayed as a know how been there done that before kind of person.  He is very bossy and control oriented and will not take any ideas.

    There were several problems in the beginning of the film.  Everyone in the group had different ideas in what they wanted to do for the film.  Anton did the storyboard and I wrote the script.  With my issues with time constraints, I finished the script one day later than I was supposed to.  When we initially started filming, things went rather smoothly.  Once we got into the middle stages however, our personalities started to clash a little bit.  In my opinion, Anton who was the director was being a little too controlling and just wasn't having fun with the process.  Granted yes, me and Matt could've focused a little more but what's the point in filming if your not going to have fun with it?  Anyway, our group did finish filming on time and got the editing down and turned in.

    Overall, I think this was a fun class.  I'm not going to take video next year but I learned a lot.  I made a lot of new friends and people.  Its too bad that this year was one of the worse years of school.  I knew both Cady and Cierra so that hit me pretty hard and I think with the stress of being so young and holding a job really  took its toll.

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Responsive Design on the Web

   Responsive Design is a technique that web designers use to make a website look good not only on an ordinary computer screen but also on a tablet or a smartphone.  In my last blog post, I explained that the number of mobile users are increasing at a steady rate each year so as a web designer, it is important to make my site look appealing on a mobile device as well as a computer because more and more people around the world are beginning to use their smart phone to access the web.
 
   To make a website responsive, one must simply edit the CSS and insert media queries.  Media Queries are guidelines the website follows to tell how big to make certain parts of the site so if I am viewing a website with the resolution of 1024x768 the banner image will be one size but I'm looking at the same site on my mobile phone with the resolution of 468x360 the banner image will be much smaller and the picture itself may even be different.  The points where the CSS triggers these changes are called breakpoints
Lets take a look at an example of responsive design



 Here is a screenshot of website from the UK.  Goofy right?  Stuff and Nonsense is actually a site where you can send your own website in to them and they will help you make your site responsive.  Right now, the screen is at its biggest and what do we see?  The banner image expands through the page and covers up a lot of the screen.  The text in body and the menu bar are fairly large and spread out.


Now lets shrink the screen a little bit...


What happened?  Well, as the screen got smaller and squeezed the banner image so that it takes up more space on the page.  If you notice, the image changed as well.  Nothing else really changed with the text and the menu besides the fact that it just got smaller but proportion wise, nothing really changed .





And even smaller...



The biggest change happens when the screen is shrunk to its smallest.  The banner image changed once again and the menu bar disappeared.  This version is simpler and throws all of the important information at the viewer right away because most people that visit websites on their mobile phones want to quickly search for the info they need rather than look through the page.

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Desktop vs. Mobile; Global Trends

   From the beginning of the school year in 2012 to the 12th of March in 2015 the number of mobile users increased from 20,379 users to 44,359 users.  That's an increase of 23,980 in just three years.  So what?  This shows the steady increase of people that are using their mobile phones to access the web than desktop computers and laptops.  

Friday, December 12, 2014

Lego Day!

Reflection Coming Soon to theaters and IMAX