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Week 6: Homecoming response by Khaliun Dorjderem

I’m the type of person who learns things by listening, and I prefer this method compared to any other methods. I dance and make dances, when making dances music is really important. With my interpretation of one music my dance should stand out from others dance on the same music, and I like it because it allows me to differ from people. So, I enjoyed listening to the podcast, as it allowed me to picture the visuals the way I wanted to and only I can do. 

At first I was confused by the different sound effects, and changes, but later on hit me as it was a transition between scenes. When there was a a siren sound I was able to see red blink in the scene, and all the ups and fallings of the sounds helped me more to transition smoothly. Usually in podcasts they have one narrater who tells the story, but this time we had phone calls and conversations helping the podcast to flow smoothly. Also, the relaxing background helped me to concentrate more on the main characters.

I think this podcast is an example of how sound effects can be used to make the audience imagine more precise image in their heads while listening. For me, while listening to this podcast I focused more on the methods used to tell the story rather than focusing on the storyline. It encouraged me to make dance on different audio collage. 

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Comic Project Reflection – Khaliun(Helen)

Link to our comic:

http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~kd2130/Wk6_Comic/comicindex.html

Description:

Our comic project is about vegetables fighting for survival. Carl the carrot and his friends wants to escape from the farm because they found out they are going to be eaten. Throughout their journey they struggle to not to be noticed by the evil humans, and to make it to their new home safe and sound.  The true meaning behind the story is that we wanted to encourage people of all ages to be conscious of their food consumption and remind them to not to waste food.

For the interactive aspect of our project, we have a “background music” button for the reader to choose if he/she wants music while reading. Also, to read the comic the reader has to click/tap the trackpad. We created two paths in the middle of the story for the reader to explore different possible endings of the story.

Work process:

VISUALS:

For the visuals of our project we decided to work individually on the separate paths. We chose the vegetables, the background and other objects together and agreed on photoshopping. Since I don’t have much experience working on photoshop, I struggled on blending the character colors and change their facial expressions for the first few pictures. Then I got used to it, so making the visuals process was faster compared to the coding process. The most useful tools were color replacement, magic eraser, and quick selection tool. 

Also, I had to save the picture every time I add a text box so that we can use the counter on javascript.

CODING:

For the coding part, I wanted the comic to go as the reader clicks on the picture. So, I choose to use the counter on javascript, but first I didn’t know that we can have the onclick on img and buttons, so I only had a button for the reader to click. However, when I went to one of the learning assistants, hr thought me how to have the counter work on images.

We worked on the main html together, and separated our Path A and Path B htmls. I wanted to add a mouseover and mouse out functions, but at first I couldn’t figure out how to add the functions within the counter, I only knew how to do it on a single photo. So, I spent a lot of time watching tutorials or trying to add it in the counter and fail as usual, but then we figured out how to add the split function within the counter so, I did the same coding for the mouseover and mouse out functions. 

Moreover, I wanted to give the readers a choice to play background music or not, because I thought it would be more interactive. My first idea was to have multiple music buttons for variety, but I couldn’t make the first music stop wen the reader clicks another button. I tried so many tutorials, some were working on my friends’ project, but not working on mine. So, after many many unsuccessful tries, I decided to only have one button. I’m still disappointed that I couldn’t have multiple buttons, but still glad to at least have one button.

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Week 4: ScrollFun exercise – Khaliun Dorjderem

http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~kd2130/Ex2_ScrollFun/index.html

 while working on this exercise I had difficulty with showing the story line on scroll. I uploaded my folder into cyberduck but the text wouldn’t appear on screen, but it worked perfectly fine on my laptop. After hundreds of tries, I figured outwit was wrong. I had to delete my old folder from cyberduck and re upload it.