Fawn Chen

Since I had a class on Narrative Filmmaking, until now, it seems like I have a little experience on photo/video industry. For me, it is the first trial to go to that place.

I am glad to have class on it. Because I was thinking about being a Youtuber as a side job. But I do not have any idea about how to start and what the video begins with. Therefore, I think this class is helpful.

In these 5 weeks we learned the basics of camera, storyboarding, sound and editing by watching the classic part of the famous movies. We used phone cameras and Premiere Pro to create short films. It is not a technique job for the beginner. But for me, it is hard to make the favorite cutting. It is time-consuming. Firstly, we were taught to storyboard first and then film it, but, for me, I am not professional in storytelling. I always came up a few ideas when I was filming and even editing. Everything messed up at the end, so I spend a lot of time in editing. The second thing is it is hard to make the perfect and correct sound for the video. I need to search in the sound file which has more than 2,000 sound effect and listen to it nearly one by one. And then add to video in the Premiere Pro. In total, it is a nice beginning. But I am not in favor of the process of making the film.

To go deep into it, I searched online to learn more about Visual Media.

“Visual Media is all about using images – both still and moving – to create messages that connect with people.”

“Visual media is interpreted using what we, as people, see visually instead of aural (hearing) or tactile (touch) media. It plays a role in advertising, art, communication, education, business, and engineering. Visual media is often used as a learning and teaching aid, such as in presentations and training guides. Photography and video are the primary visual media types and capture a location, moment, memory, or message in a visual form.”

 It seems like a quite interesting way of expression.  Compared to graphic design which emphasizes on idea and using different form of expression, visual media focus on image and the technique to express. Student graduated from this program will become fine artist, photographer, photojournalist, video & film producer.   

For me, I do not consider this career for this moment. But it is nice to think about it in advanced.

Inspired by Australian artist Meredith Woolnough who creates embroideries that mimic delicate forms of nature like leaves, a colorful wall of skeletonized leaves come into my mind.

When I was a child, I was really into picking up the leaves from the ground and staring them for a long time.  After that, I was always surprised by the power of nature. How could the nature have such an organic and powerful shape? The line showing the power within the tiny thin leave which try it best to absorb the water and give nutrient back to the whole tree. I enjoy the moment staring them and feel strength and peace after it. 

Sincerely share to my colleges.

Working as an Interaction Designer for one and a half year, I was familiar enough with the component from Material Design and iOS design guidelines. But I feel like I was constricting in the App and website design and was tired of making wireframe. And then, I thought it was the time to choose some new types of work. There are several types of job come into my mind. 

The first one is UX designer. The most important part of UX design is knowing the motivation behind the behavior and give the solution for it. It is the key point we need to learn in whatever kind of job area. Personally, it is interesting for me to analyze user and data and define something no one has done before.

The second one is freelance artist making installment in the museum. Although it is different from the first dream job which has high information density and board audience, installment which relatively has low information density and might is suitable for specific audience is something I really into. I have passion in doing specific thought-provoking stuff and expressing myself. Even I will only have small group of audience, I really enjoy hearing feedback that they have something change in their mind or behavior after interacting or watching my installation.

The third one is branding strategist. It is unknown area for me, but I am interesting in making poster and  playing with typography. 

In this week, I was stuck on the Graphic Translation Project in the illustration class. But this Monday, I got inspiration by the process of listening to a story and drawing it with  the pen which no leaving the paper. Jason said, “just let your hand draw and your hand will tell you how to draw”

Inspired by this, I started doing some sketches on the way to school and drawing how I felt when I saw different things. It helped me a lot even on the first day I tried it.

In term of “Mashup”, I think why don’t I draw the video  I took from every spot I have travel to. This behaviors started from the first week to Seattle? It is a huge collection in my phone and have not being edited  and reorganized before.

As far as “Mashup” project goes, I thought why didn’t I draw the video I took from every place I’ve been. This behavior from the first week to Seattle? This is a huge collection in my phone that hasn’t been edited and reorganized before. Then, I make the video below. It shows my first month living and studying in Seattle.

https://youtube.com/shorts/8JqAAfDBoHk?feature=share

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