Gigi's News

For my initial ideas regarding the Major Project, I have created a Milanote board that can display my ideas. My major project will be a feature news article discussing media communication during a crisis. The article's title will be "Media and Disasters: enhancing panic or preventing it?" In my article I will explain how the media communicates a crisis, the language and strategies used to communicate to the audience and I will also talk about fake news and the impact they have on society. I have researched some information on how to structure a feature news article and I have learned that providing some quotes or ideas taken from an interview that I have made will help support my article by making it more professional. I have decided to interview my media tutor for this year, her name is Bettina Downing. It is a good idea to take a photograph of the interview to add to my website so I can practice some software editing.  I was thinking of using Lightroom by adobe f...

In this new blog post I will discuss the research I have done on three websites. First two relating to my continuation route which is media and communication (can be classified as Journalism), and the third relating to fashion brand. The picture below is the home page of the first website I am going to talk about. This website is about a journalist, photographer and copywriter, named Matt Hussey. I like this home page because i find it neat and well organized. The multiple sections are found on the top and I believe they are clearly displayed.  The 'About' page and the rest of the pages are found by scrolling down. This page includes other social media platforms on which you can find his profiles and work. This is a very nice idea because it gives access to a wide range of information about him. The picture below shows the section regarding his published articles. In my opinion, this section should have been divided in folder categories arrang...

In order to learn more about feature news articles, I have chosen to research feature news articles through The Guardian newspaper because it offers many diverse topics from which I can gain a good understanding to write my own article.  I have researched 2  different articles, beginning with the reintroduction of wolves in the National Park of Yellowstone.      Jim Peaco/National Park Service, Rose Creek Pen, (1996) The article started with a sentence that introduced the main idea possibly trying to catch the reader's attention, followed by a narrative. A narrative is recounted story, so this feature news article is telling the story of how wolves where in reintroduced in Yellowstone and what impacts this had on the ecosystem. The body of the article starts from the very beginning, by explaining what happened to the wolves back in 1870 and why it happened. There are many facts throughout the body, in addition to quotes used from people that were inte...

This task was difficult to create and it took a lot of time, but i think that i have explained the process thoroughly and clearly. I have learned to put effort on detail and planning which is very important. I lacked some initial research but I have updated my post. The desert image could have been selected differently because it lacks light and sensation of a dry and burnt land. We tried to insert a better image but it was difficult to blend it with the top one. I think the slogan should have been more colorful or with more detail to attract the reader's eye. The background needed some changing too because the colour does not reach out to the audience, perhaps a bright blue color would have been better.  I am far from being perfect, however I believe this was the best task done in the first attempt. The more I practice the more I will improve.  

Global warming is a big issue nowadays  the is affecting the whole world. Australia is suffering from extremely hot and dry  weather  that has resulted in devastating bushfires. These bushfires have already scorched millions of acres and slaughtered an estimated half a billion animals in the country (Law, 2020).   This example was provided to emphasize on the importance of climate change and the terrible effects it is causing to our planet. Process of creating the advert: - Adobe Photoshop CC was the software used to create the advert   New document -width (8.267) -height (11.962) change background color add vignette - use the elliptical marquee tool, create a selection,  feather the selection (  select > modify > feather), feather 250 px,  invert selection (select > inverse)  Add a curves adjustment layer (layer > new adjustment layers > curves) Adjust the curves to control the vignette...

For our new assignment, Rea and I are supposed to design an advertisement. We thought about creating an advertisement about global warming that will look like this: As illustrated, the focus of the advertisement is an hour glass that will show a beautiful snowy image on the top half while the bottom half will show a very hot and dry desert. The slogan will be "There is no plant b"  and we will create an NGO called "Earth Protection Protocol"  I will discuss the font selection and layout, along with the process of creation in my next post. Research:                                             Global Warming By Sabir Nazar (2019) This picture was made by Sabir Nazar:; Nazar is a Pakistani painter and and editorial cartoonist that has worked for many NGO's such as HRCP Pakistan, Action Aid, OXFAM and UNICEF.  His cartoons are regularly publ...

My partner and I were given an assignment of creating a set of sequential images as classwork and this is what we came up with We made this simple but creative task using a cup, water and a tea bag. We took pictures showing every change of color the water went through as the tea dissolved inside it. You can see the tea bag changing color as well from white to yellowish. The water slowly changed from being transparent or see-through to dull. We used my IPhone to shoot the photos and an app called Pica Art to create the collage. No editing was made except cropping the images. This was our first time to create sequential photos so we kept it simple, but many things could have been improved such as; keeping an equal distance from the camera to the cup in all pictures and shooting from the same angle. We should have added some editing and perhaps shoot a set of images with a better quality because these look somehow blurred.