Blog Post #8

• 1. Writing/Editing: I enjoy writing, I have never minded essays or writing assignments in any of my classes as well as editing others works.
• 2. Graphic Design: Graphic design is not my strong suit but I do enjoy it
• 3. Video: I mostly just know how to work iMovie with the experience i have but I enjoy it greatly.
• 4. Web Development: I get coding pretty well and it is easier to learn for me but don't like it that much.

Blog Post #7

Project 2 video link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YUEFy9ooiU&feature=youtu.be

Blog Post #6 Part 1&2

Part 1
I am going to take the advice and use the theme song from friends! To keep it upbeat and no voice over is what i am going to stick with. Mostly going to be sticking with my original plan on what I am going to do with the video.

Part 2

I used Video assets and photo assets in my video. From the Guinness commercial. As well as a song by the Remeberants. Fair Use is in play in my video creation. I used part of the video from the original commercial in snippets on my video. It is for educational purposes. 

Blog Post #5

I plan to make an informational campaign about relationship abuse. I am not for it, and think it is a good topic to advertise that has a goal to discard all abuse verbally and mentally. There are a lot of organizations that deal with relationship abuse and I plan to make a website that advertises it and explains the risk of what this does to people. I plan on adding a video about it an links to other organizations associated with it.

Blog Post #4

http://studentweb.engl.wsu.edu/355/darcyaustin/project1/duosmart/

• I searched for free CSS templates and found one to download. I was constantly deleting most of the HTML codes because it was irrelevant to my website I was making. I was constantly saving and refreshing my browser to check my work on TextWrangler. Without going back and forth it was difficult to keep track on if i was deleting or changing the right stuff. I googled codes for color on fonts and backgrounds.  
• My ideal vision was way ore colorful and had more interactions with the pictures. But I decided to take a different turn this time around on mine and make it easier to read and stay in tact with. If I knew everything there was to know about codes my pictures would be doing some cool stuff, it would be more alive than dull and a site that would catch the viewers attention more so than just looking like a blog. 
• I used Linguistic mode to communicate information through text about myself, my and my family. I mostly used paragraphs to do so. Visually I used different colors a certain layout and the sizes of certain images or text to show different meaning in the website. Spatially I had a certain organization where at the top of the page there are three different internal links. I did so to make it easier for the viewer of the site to navigate their way through in a simple way. Verbally and gesturally I did not have any of those modes to impact my site. I hope these choices have a lasting effect on the audience knowing that it was not a hard site to find anything and they were able to go through it smoothly.
• I assumed my audience could be anyone so I tried to make my website friendly to anyone who visited. I wrote my text in matters that they showed Purpose and were relevant to making a website about myself. I was trying to use codes that changed the alignment of my words and pictures so they corresponded with each other. as well as making the organization of the two work together so that they formed contrast between two different object or sets of words in my website. I showed emphasis on certain words such as external or internal links were a different color than the rest of the writing on the pages. Proximity is shown in the different elements of the designs. With certain spacings to show the emphasis on the proximity. I hope utilizing all of these design tools makes it correspond to the viewers eye or whomever the intended audience is and makes navigating through the page finding what they need to find or reading what they need to read much easier.

Blog Post #3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k00F9XzZKEM#t=59 

Assuming the implied author is Mercedes-Benz promoting their "silent and invisible car" and the actual author is a team of designers and promoters working for Mercedes-Benz. The overall intention of this ad is for people to realize there is a car out there that is good for the environment and good for people to use. The purpose goes beyond just promoting the new car but also the secondary purpose that Mercedes-Benz can make cars friendly for everyone and everything as well as having new inventions. The audience that this ad is for is Environmental lovers and Mercedes-Benz lovers. I think that there is also a secondary audience to this ad and that is people looking for a new car. They come out with a car that can work for a wide variety of people and can bring in new costumers with this ad. This genre is a commercial ad. More specifically a car ad. Most car ads fall into the same type of text were they list specifics about the car that is different from others. Yet still show the car and have a different creative approach with a tag line to it. "für die Umwelt unsichtbar" which translates to, "invisible to the environment". They show creative approach making the car actually invisible.  The medium is a video commercial. This was the best way to portray the "invisible car" to actually be invisible. The text is throughout the ad, explaning the car. In the middle of the ad and at the end is when the German text appears on the car that it is silent and invisible to the environment. They used pretty cool electronic gadgets to toy with the car and to make it "invisible".  This is a great example of a rhetorical analysis using multimodel text because of the way they put the text on the car and how they used advance technology to portray the car to a certain genre and audience of people to promote an environmental friendly car.

Blog post #2

http://studentweb.engl.wsu.edu/355/darcyaustin/sample/