Design:
At the beginning of the unit we had to create blog on Gmail – Blogger- and for that class time we had to get use in using it. We needed to make it our style and the title had to be random. Before we even began our poster we talked about our blogs themes and background. We discussed about our blogs and how we could make it better and simple. We began to create a poster by using Adobe Photoshop, which wasn’t much help as I knew nothing about Adobe. We then began to learn about contrast and at the same time repetition, at the end of each lecture; we would go on to our computers and work with our poster by using contrast and repetition. We would then write about it and also give a small definition on what contrast and repetition meant. Once we could understand this we moved on to the rule of alignment and proximity. He used many of our posters and blogs on how that rule was used. Are the entire edges of the poster/blog 1 cm apart? Is it aligned so that the audience can read? We went back to try these rules out. For the next few classes we then began to watch parts of movies to understand the rule of thirds and hierarchy. And the pauses we would say it would either relate to the rule of thirds or the rule of hierarchy. We had to upload pictures that used either the rule of thirds or hierarchy. We began to talk about color, referring it back to contrast too. In our blog we had to include a color wheel. So every time we’re working on our poster we would have easy access on a color wheel. We then worked on fonts. As one of our homework’s we had to find a cool font tutorial that you could create in Adobe and also show it to the class, then try it out.
Create:
By the time that was done we had to begin our summative assessment, but before we could even begin we had to look at a few posters from Mr. Holmes old school and a few random ones, we also had to rate them. I loved the graffiti poster and it look so real I took that as my challenge for my summative. We had to draw out our basic format that we were going to use throughout the 3 posters we were making for the IB Learner Profiles. My initial poster was to have a street wall as my background, IB learner profile and also a picture both in graffiti. Once I got a confirmation from Mr. Holmes I began with Reflective. But first I had to find a wall as my basic background. I found a very simple wall and type my word reflective on there. I had to make it look real so I added effects onto there and then decreased the opacity to about 50 – 60%, so you could also see the texture of the wall. I showed it to Mr. Holmes and he suggested to me to change the background of a wall with people walking down the street, and so I did. It came out perfect. Then I began with my other two IB Learner Profiles which were Balanced and Thinkers. I was struggling with the fonts since I could not remember what font I used so I used another basic font and added the effects and decreased the opacity. Even though the fonts weren’t the same, everything else was great.
Attitude:
My project of 3 posters for the IB Learner Profiles was a success and I am very happy with the results from the product. I am also very pleased with myself, for learning adobe very quickly and taking the time to get used to it at home. I was very happy to learn this but in a different way. At the beginning I was soo frustrated with the way Mr. Holmes taught because it was so different. But now at the end of this first unit, I felt that he taught us in a way that it would engage us and it wouldn’t be boring. It was a learning and teaching style I liked now.
