1. My favorite project I completed throughout this semester was easily the Final Graphic Design assignment. Personally, I thought this was the most fun Adobe app to use. Photoshop was easy, simple, and well laid-out. I believe that my Final Graphic Design project was also my best work all semester. For some reason, I really got into Unit 1 as a whole. I just wish that all my other final projects came out as good as my Final Graphic Design. Below is my Final Graphic Design I am very proud of.
2. Although I enjoyed learning Photoshop the most throughout the semester, I believe that the skills I learned with Adobe Premiere will be something I can use later on in life. Who knows when I will have to use a video for a project and this way I now know how to edit the video and potentially do more well on a future assignment. Also, a lot of the tools I learned how to use will definitely help me out later down the road because now I know what they’re symbol look like and I understand what they do universally for Adobe.
3. My career path I see in my future is first, attending and graduating from law school. I am currently leading towards a career in profiling for a federal agency. It is something I have been giving some serious thought lately. To be completely honest I really do not anything that would I learned in this class that would be influential in my career path. Not to say I am not grateful for what I have learned in this course, just simply that this class is much different from my career path.
4. The only skill I wanted to learn going into this class was how to successfully use Photoshop. Considering that we went over Photoshop in unit 1, I can confidently say that I do not wish there was any other skill I wish I would have learned.
5. Basically the only resources that I found helpful outside of all the class materials were friends of mine who had taken the class already and were COM majors. These people were life savers when I did not understand how to complete a task in a tutorial or export a video from an Adobe app.
6. Personally, I think that our Final projects were graded way too hard, I understand that there was most likely parts of the project I did not accomplish or turn in on time, but even when I did I felt like I was getting graded as if I was a professional blogger. The only problem is that I am not a professional Adobe user/professional blogger and this was my first time ever using any of these apps.
For my logo design, I wanted to create a logo for the Student Entertainment Board’s Concerts committee. The Student Entertainment Board has its own branding guidelines with logos and templates that they like to use for all of their committees; however the concerts committee itself does not have its own logo. The logo was inspired by the idea of concerts itself, and it is very clear what the committee does based on the logo. It is pretty identical to the design on my sketch. I started by using the Gotham font that SEB likes to use for most of their material. I downloaded a font for the “SEB” that was related to showtime and broadway to go with the theme. I created the speakers on the sides just using the shapes tool. I created the lights by making a circle with a white to yellow gradient on the inside. I then offset the path and added a gaussian blur to the new selection to finalize the lights. I used the option key to duplicate the lights and lined them up. Even though the logo looks fun, I don’t think it is a very versatile logo and it would look awkward on some material, so for the final project I want to figure out a way to make it look more like a clean logo. I’ll probably aim for only using two colors on the final logo, and I want to use the lights more strategically than how I did in this draft. The idea with the logo is to use it to brand the Concerts department of the Student Entertainment Board. Any posters or advertisements promoting the upcoming concerts would have this logo on it, so it I think it needs to be cleaner and simpler than my first draft.
I want my draft to look something like this. Something clean and simple but still obvious on what it is. Speakers on the left and right, and concert lights shining on top.
Antonio Edwards 