10 (EC)

CHI'S MANIFESTO



- take $20, and start a trip. Go as far as you can.



- keep a habit



- Don't be afraid being laugh at.



- take pictures or keep diary everyday.



- always be the first one to do things.



- there is no standard of creative work. think beyond your knowledge. don't care about rules.



- make up your room



- be passionate. it is always good interesting in something, even they have no connection with your career.



- use your imagination in daily life. Try something new in cooking, doing works, or exerice.



- make yourself comfortable.



- it is ok to feel sad, scare or lonely. actually we need experienceing different feeling. they makes up our life.



This is the last blog assignment I have this quarter. Those manifestos are all comes out from my mind when I start writing this assignment. something may not equal to me, because there are things I believe but I cannot do it well. but i think it's ok. because that's why I am here experienceing and learning. there are too much queations need to be solved. what i need to do is enjoy what I do, and know the reason why my life shaped this way today is because what i did yesterday.

9B

Link to COLLAPSUS

Here is what I want say in the audio.

Collapsus is a cool website. It combined different media creation together in one website. What I see is, um, it has animation, video production, gaming, and …well many different kinds of media together. When we entered this website we will see a video first, and then it goes to animation. At the same time if we slash to the right there is some words and article. And also a short video. If we slash to the left there will be a world map, marked several people in it. This is a typical of trans-media. I think it was totally cool. I really like the first part, when I entered this website. And what everywhere we go, the video is always here. Anyway so this is not that cool. But really, I think trans-media works well in this website. They organized them well. The timing is great, like when we going to another topic of the video, you click to the right it also changed to another topic. By the video continuous, the world map also added things in it. We can see some place is colored differently.

I think trans-media is kind of trying attracting different people in different level or different ages. This is the benefit of trans-media. Take the collapsus as an example; young people will think it was totally cool, even this topic is about electricity. To some adults, watching the video and reading articles is better fit them. They have it to. This is the only benefit come out form my head now. To the opposite, I think trans-media will easily make people confused. Still, take that website as example, when we click all around, there are too much information. Too much media combined. If it is not well organized it will easily get people confused.

In this quarter, we learn many different things. Even we are in different major, I think Eric want us to know about how other media works. Therefore, in the future, when we work with different people to make a trans-media, we will know how to talk with them and well organized our work. So we won’t confuse our audience. Actually I really like the way that course teach. Even I don’t want to do different assignment, but it really helps. I am in a digital media major, for me I believe in the future I will do gaming or animating. The thing is the world is changing too much. Learn how different things work in different media, that way we won’t kick out from our area. Last time when I watching a movie. I didn’t just finish the movie when the story stops; I see the last minutes, which has different names come out. I just notice, they actually have many animators work in filming, even though it is not an animation.

I guess this is how our future media works. Games, video, animation, all different media, can combined and make a new media style.

10A

10a

response to Freak Factor.

The freak factor just like other readings we had before, teaching us how to be creative. But this topic is really interesting and thoughtful. I have never thought about this before. I mean, some of his ideas really helped me solved my confusion about some questions.

In summary, “The Freak Factor” by David Rendall suggest us being a freak. And he listed some facts and reasons to support his idea.

The first one is “what’s your problem?” David talked about the regular thoughts about personal problems. And explained how normal people deal with it.

In the second topic “what is my problem?” The author takes himself as an example explained that people who have problems could achieve success. And weaknesses may make a person special and make whom they are.

In the third topic, he explained his belief; “there’s nothing wrong with you”. Strength is connected to a weakness. He gives some real example to “disorganization” “dyslexia” “addiction” to support his point that weaknesses can also be strengths.

The fourth topic is “forget it: don’t try to fix your weaknesses”. In this topic, David gives four reasons about why don’t try to fix weaknesses. The main reason is “we all have limitation”.

The fifth one is “build on your strengths”. As what the topic says, it is about reason why you need to build your strengths.

The six topic is the focus “you can’t do both.” We cannot fix our weaknesses and build our strengths together. Wal-mart, Target, and Kmart are examples.

“Find the right spot” is the seventh one. It talks about if we want find success, we have to find our right direction first, a right position takes your strengths and makes it a great benefits.

In the next topic David talked about “the power of uniqueness”. The weakness makes you uniqueness, and your uniqueness makes you special. Be a freak.

The last one is about “putting your quirks to work”. how to use your special uniqueness in doing things. Make them a positive effect to your life.

For me I really like this reading personally. I will say David’s suggestion is all valid to me. There are top three in my mind.

The first one is the “there’s nothing wrong with you”. I believe every characterizes in a person makes who they are. And make them as an individuals to the world. Nobody is perfect. I really like the examples he give in the article. I have read a sentence before: While god close a door, he opens another one. I don’t know if it is well translated, I read this sentence in Chinese though. A perfect person does not existing. The weakness can also be strengths. However, I guess only some people can make their weakness to their strengths. That’s why, there are so many people in the world but not so many successful people.

The second one is “Don’t try to fix your weaknesses”. David listed some reason to explain his idea. I cannot agree more with him. I have tried to fix my weakness before, when I first noticed that I am not good enough. But the thing is, my trying is never success. Therefore I figured out people is not easy to changing. After reading this article, I know people are not able to changing.

The last one I like the most is “The power of uniqueness”. The weakness can be strengths. This is what I learn from this topic. Being special is never easy. People feel uncomfortable when they feel they are not like other people. me too. I usually trying to think like others, and do thing like others. But I lost something more important to me. It is my creative thinking. stay in special is not easy. The uniqueness makes you special. This difference makes you shining. People will start to notice there is a person like you in the community. That way, being success is a lot easier.

I think my main weakness is careless. I never considered too much before doing things. Therefore some important points will miss. But because I am careless, I am braver to do things. Maybe it is because I never think before doing one thing, I am good at figured out things out when I do it. and at that moment, I can come up with some funny or special idea. They are always come out suddenly while working. Therefore, usually my works came out with a totally different with what I said in the beginning.

9A

To me, I think the first weak point I see is we didn't well decided about what kind of game are we making. we just come up with a story, but didn't really notice it's a game. so we didn't consider well about the type, or genre. what is the specific player of our game is also not considered. our game is a game of chance, so i considered it can be a PC game. Like plants vs. zombies. if we come out with enough levels for this game, it will work. And another solution I came up is it can be an iphone game. that will make it easier, in stead of using computer keyboard, we can use the accelerometer. that way, players could just need hold the phone and turn to left or right to balance the character. and also, i guess it will become popular in mobile, since today many people having a iphone. and it won't cost too much money and time. it should be long-run in iphone.

secondly, i would like to talk about one of our strong point. the game we made is about college life. basically it is a game for youth. Like what i say in the first point, many young people today like to get a iphone, so it will be popular. and the most important thing is our game is related to their real life. people will get more into it when the story is happened all around them. that can be a really interesting topic in chatting. like "did you get home last time?" "" ya, it is hard to balance myself, because i am really really drunk. but I did it. and this time i just used xxx minutes."

I think the Mechanics is the easiest on the talk with others. when the story and type of game is decided, and clearly to everybody. it is not hard to come up the mechanics. The game designers are all very familiar with different games. so just follow the basic rules of mechanics. like the game in computer, we use keyboard. the complex of control is as well as the complex of game. a easy game can just use arrows. but some complex games we should combine mouse and keyboard together. for example, online games. a mobile game, we should simplified the mechanic. What I mean it is easy is because, there is already a rule here about mechanics. if game designer changed it, players will have to spend time get familiar with this new mechanic.

so just follow the arrows are direction, the space are jump is good enough.

this is what i thought about game design.

8B

Ryan and Matt's Hero/Villain

In matt's drawing, the superhero is in a soft color, He used split-complementary way to color the superhero. He used three different hues, the yellow, red, and blue. In Ryan's villain drawing, he used similar hues and the entire picture is dark, and the saturation is pure.
Ryan did a great job lighting the villain. He added many shadow in his picture even though the villain has a light in his hand, his face is bright somewhere to create more shadow. Especially the background is dark and we cannot see anything but the shadow of buildings. This city seems under a fear and hopeless feeling because of the villain. I really like this picture. The superhero picture has fewer moods in it. Because it has less shadow and the color are too similar. But i can see it had a brighter feeling than the villain's picture. There is one thing I noticed in both pictures that they are both in front of the city. But the superhero is in the bright side which we can clearly see what the buildings look like, and they are colored. To the opposite, the villain is in front of the dark city. He is the black side of the city. The villain is far away from the city, because he is not welcomed. The fire in the villain’s hand is a symbolism of his dark cool heart, the fire is not bright.


Jordan and Lena's Hero/Villain

In Jordan and Lena’s animation, the superhero colored in two pictures show his two different situations. When he is in sleep, he is in cold blue color. But when he weak up, and ready to fight with the villain he changed to yellow which is brighter and seem more powerful and strong. I really like Jordan’s animation. it is colored. From this animation I can see this is more like a cartoon. It’s saturated. And the villain that Lena draw is in a dark color. She did not use too much different color. Just basically all dark color to show it is a bad guy. As we can see the villain is a joker. His head shaped a triangle. I think she could shape the villain in a different shape. And the color Lena used is cool. But I think she could add some background in it, to show more detail what kind of power he had.

Their animation is show in a didactic way. Usually a superhero animation is didactic, they directly tell the story and what is the main point. Jordan’s animation is also like that. We can see the villain is trying to do something bad, when the person is in deep sleep and have a good dream. And their superhero shows his super power and fights back the villain. The motivation is also easy to see, the superhero is trying to protect people’s dream, so he is like a night-light. When the villain shows up, he turns on.


Mike and Andraw's Hero/Villain

Mike and Andrew’s Hero/Villain is so funny. I really like it. the setting is based on the real life, I thought if it will become a animation it will become really popular in OU. Especially for media students. Anyway. Pictures are cool too. I really like the way they colored the character. Basically, because this animation is kind of comedy, they have the highest saturation. Like a common cartoon on TV. And the pictures are easy to see who is the villain and who is the superhero. Professor Williams is colored in bright with closed hues. It is pretty clearly to see he is the superhero. But I don’t really get what kind of superpower he got. The roger, the villain, is in black color. His face is hard to see, because he has a big shadow in his face. The background is in cold and dark blue, with two yellow flashing. in the left bottom corner, “OU” is in there. So we can know where does the story take place.

Form the color I can see tension and release. The superhero is release, because it is warm, and bright. The smile in his face makes audience feel safe and happy. To the opposite the roger must be the tension. His face is not clear, that make a sense of unsafe. We cannot trust people who we cannot understand or see clearly. When audiences see roger they should feel nervous. He is dark with creepy smile in his face. How could people like that will be a good person.

8A

Here is the link to "This American Life"

here is my audio response in box.net

Hero/Villain

Villain By Yichen Li

Super Hero By Paula Chi

Our Animation: