webpage critiques

1. A good professional design: wall street journal
    As it is known to all, WSJ is a professional website for Business News, Journal and other kinds of information. Its home page is user friendly. It is clear to see its categories from world business news, national news to small business information. Also the background color is soft and basic, and the ads do not distract readers' attention.

2.A good personal design: This is indexed
   According to the blogger, this is a blog that lets him make fun of some things and sense of others. The background of the blog is pure white, which is pretty clear to look at. The pictures in the posts all seem like his notes, which are really interesting to read. The context are simple but can lead to some meaningful afterthoughts.

3. A bad personal design: Style bubble
    This blog is the one I always follow to get some fashion news. The blogger is a newborn stylist who has sharp insight for fashion. However, her blog is hard to read for a long time, because the typefaces on the page are various and the colors of letter are really colorful. Also the links on the page are unorganized, or say, are not well organized.  Although the contexts are very excellent, she need to put more efforts on designing the webpage.

video project

Ads: Find what you love in Starbucks.

Nov.2 lab video

what makes a good video

In my opinion, there are three elements that makes a good video.

First: Keep it short. People watch videos everywhere on websites, and they trying to get information they want as fast as possible. The reason why people like to watch videos is that they want to get more informatin in relatively short time, or else they could choose to read book. As a result, a good video has to be succinct and abundant in the same time. It is best to be short, share, and to the point.

Second: Be meaningful/useful/ interesting. No matter what genre of video you are making, you have to make it for a meaninful purpose. News---gives latest information about things happening in our world; Instructional video---teaches audience some skills or knowledge; Ads---have commercial purposes. Fill your video with interesting contents so that your audiences will not close it before it ends.

Third: Good sound and visual effects. No body wants to watch a video that is full of noise, orh the camera is shaking all the time. That will make your audience headache. Be professional when you shot the video. Keep an even pace to move your camera, and use professional audio equipment to collect voice.


There are three good videos I find online.

• News: Onion News :)   Onion news is a very popular news series online. It makes fun of all kinds of social events around us.

• Instructional video: How to make up as a Tim Burton style   Michelle Phan is popular online because of her outstanding making up skills. This video is teaching how to make up in a gothic style in Tim Burton's movies.

• Ads: funny tv commercial   This is a beer advertisement that impressed me several months ago. I like it because it is funny and creative.

         The genre I want to choose is Advertisement video. I want to work on this, since creating a good ads needs creativy, professional skills, interesting stories, and, sometimes, sense of humor. I am a creative person, and I like to tell interesting stories. I want to make a good advertisement for drink or food. That must be funny.

oct.19 audio editing lab

here is the link of my audio file


K's interview

oct.5 lab

I changed the contrast,So the red became more bright than before. I raise the exposure, So the photo became clearer.I adjusted the curve, so there are different tones in the photo.
And I also used the effects in Photoshop, and that is why the photo looks kind of spooky.

still photo practice

the original version

photoshop version