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After struggling a lot with clipping masks, alignment, and even finding pictures I was happy with, I finally created a final product that I was happy with. I chose a dramatic dark red color to demonstrate a moody and almost sexy feel to my mood board. My narrative was a kind of cyberpunk nightlife feel, illustrating a night of a woman going out on the town.

The grid was a very confusing tool for me to use. I could set up the guidelines just fine, but struggled with working inside those lines. The images seemed to be constrained within a certain ratio, so it was hard to align the images how I wanted them to be. Things were slightly off and it all looked very unintentional/inconsistent.

After receiving feedback on my mood board, and getting pointers about how to use the tools, I improved my design so there's a better flow and things look more consistent!

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competing focal points

inconsistent alignment

not a clear flow

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Revise and/or iterate your fundamental photos based on feedback in class. Ensure you arrange posts so they are in an organized sequence. Add a comment for each post addressing changes. This will serve as your required change log for this assignment.

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Add the link to your folder for this unit (Unit 3) in Google Drive. You should be backing up work there and adding all native layered files, jpegs, pngs, and any docs or slides.

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Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.

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A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It’s the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

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Write, video using screen share, or audio record your reflection and add it here. Use course terminology from the lectures and reading to discuss your experience learning to see using the principles and elements through photography.

Address what you learned about color as a concept and mood.

Discuss how you used the design process from concept to final product with your moldboard.

How did you utilize CRAP in your choice of images for your mood board layout?

Explain how the grid was a helpful tool for alignment to organize visual information and create a focal point for the portrait and color swatch.

Discuss your narrative based on consistent use of the chosen Pantone color and concept exercise.

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Mood Boards & Visual Storytelling

As you learned from the lectures, ****mood boards are used for developing a visual narrative for many types of clients and projects in the creative industries including graphic design, photography, and digital media like video games and comic books. Before you create your mood board you must develop your concept for your narrative. We will do this by using the Brainstorming method Mind Maps.

Create Your Narrative Concept

A Mind Map is a visual way to brainstorm that uses images and/or text. It is often more effective than list-making alone because all of the ideas are branched off of one central concept.

Create a Mind Map to brainstorm your Narrative. Use the section below "Develop your Narrative Content". Add your Color to the center of your mind map. Then brainstorm your main character on one branch on the left. After that brainstorm your location, props, and textures on branches on the right. Your mind map can be set up like this example:

Develop your Narrative Content

1. Choose a color theme either positive or negative from the color symbolism chart above. Choose a keyword from the list for your color, such as the Yellow positive symbolism of Creativity.

2. Choose the main character, which will become your portrait. Will your character be a child, a teen, or an older adult? What will they look like? You will use a photographic portrait from the stock sites below. The portrait of your main character will become the main focal point in your mood board.

3. Choose a location, props, and textures. These supporting elements will help complete the narrative.

DELIVERABLES:

Mindmap

1. color theme

2. character

3. locations, props, and textures

Your Padlet hyperlink should be posted in Teams where your instructor requests it for class critique. See instructions in Project 1 on how to duplicate a Padlet and apply them to Project 2.

Create a subfolder for Project 2 in your Google Drive Unit 3 folder

Add the image of the mind map for your narrative concept in your Google Drive Unit 3 folder.

Name it lastname-first-narrativeconcept

Note: File names should always have your "lastname-first-name of folder/project".

Turn into Brightspace by the deadline as a hyperlink to your Google Drive folder for Unit 3 with "Anyone Can View" access.