Lisalyn Dresser

For this week topic, I decided to make a collage to show the movements of the photograph I took two summers ago. As Lupton says  “A motion sequence is developed through a series of storyboards, which convey the main phases and movements of  an animation” (Lupton 233),  so I thought I would use collage as my storyboard.  Short story: Before these action images were taken, the first guy in the photograph challenged our other two friends to jump with him. As shown in the images, they accepted the challenge. However, the guy who challenged the other guys did not jump as he was “afraid” and you can see that at end of my storyboard.  I thought these images would be perfect to relate to the storyboards and animating type that Lupton discussed in the book. In this collage, I had to make sure that I was putting the right images on the right boxes so that timing and motion will match the next image. I did agree when Lupton talked about how slow timing might be a drag for ...

I’m going, to be honest, I had a hard time coming up with ideas for this week's topic. However, when Lupton stated “...diagrams often function to illuminate and explain complex ideas” (215), I realized that this topic is the most relatable to me especially with this pandemic going on. Disclaimer, I do not mean to be insensitive about other people’s opinions on the current pandemic. My idea for this topic is to show how I thought this pandemic affected me vs how it’s actually affecting me. How Covid affected me is a difficult subject to talk about as I tend to be biased by coming up with “it’s making my life miserable”. Creating a diagram or mapping on how it personally affected me makes it so much easier to see and understand without being biased.  The arrow pointing to the right represents how I thought COVID affected me. When I said I am biased about this subject I meant it. The diagram above evidently shows how it affected me negatively. From COVID resulting to quarantine from q...

- Hi all! Today, I decided to relate the art I made in the app called “procreate” to Lupton’s discussion of grid and pattern. These arts were inspired by an event that happened last summer which was the  Black Lives Matter  protesting. Disclaimer, this is only my opinion and I am not here to persuade you to believe in the things I believe in. I just thought these arts are perfect for this topic.  - “Grid Function similarly in the design of printed matter. Guidelines help the designers align elements in relation to each other” (Lupton 187). When I made this, I wanted to emphasize that the Black Lives Matter hence the big lettering. However, just writing “Black Lives Matter” did not satisfy me. I wanted something that would support the statement and to answer some people who asked me “Why do they matter” whenever I say this particular statement. That’s when I came up with the idea to add those “subtitles” as I call it, in the background. When reading those “subtitles” it al...