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Week 10 Summary

By skinzer | March 30, 2015 |

Ami here to recap the week.

Video Assignments

I created a Queen Latifah highlight video, an Odell Beckham Jr. video, and a video representing my life and development.

Organizing

I am flying solo.

Daily Creates

I made fingerprint art, a color video, and a story about …

Turay Narrative

By skinzer | March 30, 2015 |

For this assignment (worth four stars), I had to describe myself (my character) through various clips.

I started with No Church in the Wild by Angel Haze to represent my distrust of society from a young age. Then, I used Man Down by Rihanna to show how and …

Queen Latifah Highlights

By skinzer | March 30, 2015 |

For this assignment (worth three stars), we had to create a video of a few of our favorite actor’s best scenes.

Queen Latifa is my (Ami’s) favorite actress. She portrays a wide variety of characters, but always a strong woman who loves herself. I wish there were more roles created …

For this assignment (worth 5 stars), I made a highlight reel of Odell Beckham Jr., my (Ami speaking) favorite football player. I found clips online and compiled them into a video, finally adding Power by Kanye West as the music.

The Giants are my team. I don’t indulge in things …

Week 10 Daily Creates

By skinzer | March 30, 2015 |

Friday- Fingerprint Art

For this TDC, I had to make art out of fingerprints.

I made a Divest banner. The colors I used were black/gray and orange because those are the colors of the divestment movement. There will be an open forum on divestment tomorrow at 3 pm in …

Final Unit Choice

By skinzer | March 29, 2015 |

Looks like Turay is flying solo. Can’t trust anyone but yourself. I’ve known that for a long time.…

Week 8

By skinzer | March 16, 2015 |

Radio Listening

I listened to and reviewed Noir D&D on Tuesday night and commented on Twitter.

Inspired

I inputed my inspirations and posted about the process.

Character Assignments

Monster– 4

A Love Story– 3

Lie About Your Age– 3

Character Social Media

I made Folami a …

Monster

By skinzer | March 16, 2015 |

For this assignment (worth four points), I had to design a lyric typography poster. I chose to use this to express the dynamic between Ami and Sebastian Crane, an assertive and powerful ex-lover. I used Photoshop to combine text and images. Concepts from the Vignelli Canon like using …

A Love Story

By skinzer | March 16, 2015 |

This assignment (worth three stars) required me to tell a love story in three photos. I used this assignment to tell the story of Ami and John Brown, a handsome, wealthy lawyer from Florida visiting his birthplace, NY, for a few weeks. To create this, I took images …

Lie About Your Age

By skinzer | March 16, 2015 |

For this assignment (worth 3 stars), I had to make an album cover through a detailed process for each aspect: title, band, and image. I tweaked this assignment by creating my own image based on what I found as well as Sylvia and Ami‘s relationship. The title was generated …