Author: Bonnie Chan

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Week 3: Portfolio Website – Bonnie Chan

Link: http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~bc2328/commlab/week-2/portfolio/

Reflection:

Since I already have a portfolio website, I focused on trying to imitate the same format that I originally have but also try to experiment with different things. I have yet to decide on a specific style or format that I would like to change my portfolio to become and that is why I stuck with the same flex box format from before. I did however, change the font and colors in order to provide a cleaner image for the website. Moving forward, I think I really want to include interactivity and other changing elements that will allow for the website to become more dynamic. I still feel as though coding for the website is such a huge trial and error process that I continue to work on. I think I want to continue making my website more complex throughout the semester.

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Week 2: Bonnie’s Portfolio Site

Link: http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~bc2328/commlab/week-2/portfolio-hw-exercise/

The process for coding this site was a lot of trial and error. I had to try a bunch of different codes as well as commenting and uncommenting different parts in order to really debug the code. I had a lot of help from w3 School (https://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_flexbox.asp) and was able to figure out the flex code through the different examples I tried on the site before working on my own code. At one point I realized that even very minuscule things or simple mistakes can easily make your code defective. I learned a lot about debugging and experimentation throughout this exercise.

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Week 2: Photoshop Collage – Bonnie Chan

These are the original photos for my Photoshop collage:

    

Completed Photoshop Collage:

Process:

I had genuinely wanted to create something impulsively and put together random items in order to challenge myself as much as possible. I worked a lot with the pen tool to draw out selections for as much precision as possible. In addition, to make the collage seem as three dimensional and realistic as possible, I decided to cut out a part of the banana and paint it black in order to provide space for the person in the photo be placed into the banana. Overall, it was quite a fun but interesting challenge to my Photoshop skills.

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Week 2: Understanding Comics – Bonnie Chan

Comics were always an intriguing art form for me. It was a hybrid of text and images that somehow managed to develop into intricate stories and showcase complicated relationships. To think of comics as static images in deliberate sequences seems so different from the experiences I have when reading comics. The sense of time and space is so easily understood without fully recognizing the details of the information at hand. That was something that really intrigued me. The idea that pictures are received information and do not require formal education to understand unlike words. It made me realize the power of images and recognize that the power of comics lies in its use of both the strengths of text and images in one.

Other important parts that stood out to me was this idea of how images form in our heads through the small bits that are presented to us visually. Pixels on a screen or newspaper are only small dots that somehow group together to become whole. Or the idea that many panels of separate objects is capable of recreating a continuous scene. As well as the idea that symbols and simple images often aid our abilities to understand a message as the most important elements are emphasized. Our imagination takes such a large role in deciphering not just comics, but also art that human capabilities never cease to amaze me. This not only taught me how our mind processes images but also how to create images and works that will be easily understood by viewers.