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B4 Final Digital Media Product Peer-feedback

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B4 Final Digital Media Product Peer-feedback

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Slowmotion Topaz Video Ai VS Davinci Resolve

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For some time, AI video enhancers have become must-have tools for filmmakers, content creators, and fans. These advanced technologies, powered by artificial intelligence, take ordinary videos and make them extraordinary, improving clarity, color, and detail seamlessly

4x slow motion

8x slow motion

Auto crop stabilization

Convert to 60fps

Deinterlance footage and upscale to HD

Upscale to 4K

Upscale to 4K and convert to 60 fps

Upscale to HD resolution

Learn more in your Canvas Online classroom:

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/7691321/assignments/47263972

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Slowmotion 比較　Topaz Video Ai VS Davinci Resolve ヤマキチョウの飛翔

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Peer-feedback Critique

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Please add your strategies on applying Principles of Design, Elements of Arts, Composition techniques on your 'Memories' project explaining how you plan to apply them, where and why to make your final product more appealing to your ideal audience.

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B4 Project Idea Peer-feedback Presentation

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B4 Project Idea Peer-feedback Presentation

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Your lookbook is intended to offer visual references and work as a jumping off point for discussions, but it’s not meant to lock any of your ideas in stone. Just as you need to let go of being precious about your script when you direct it, you also need to see your lookbook as a blueprint to help you and your team find the best visuals for your film.

Learn how to make your lookbook in Canvas classroom:

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/7691321/pages/4-dot-5-the-look-book

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Commercial Cinematography Series: Building a Visual Lookbook

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In Part 2 of the Commercial Cinematography Series we look at constructing a Visual Lookbook and why they are so important to a cinematographer.

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Project Management: Production Flow Chart

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Project Management: Production Flow Chart

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CMAD 3 B4 Health - Assignment Brief International BTEC L3

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This is a digital version of the assessment brief 'HEALTH' of B4 'Extended Creative Industry Response' Module.

Read it thoroughly, resolve questions if they arise, make sure you understand the requirements of the work and the parameters to obtain a full grade upon submission on the 21st of June, 2024.

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Wonder leads you to discover Beauty, and Beauty to Healing

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Starting 15 years ago, scientists have been studying the complex and mysterious emotion called awe -one you might have felt if you've stood in front of the Taj Mahal, hiked among towering redwoods, or had your mind blown at a concert, play, or ballet.

Inducing goosebumps and dropped jaws, awe experiences are remarkable in their own right. Moreover, a growing body of research suggests that experiencing awe may lead to a wide range of benefits, from happiness and health to perhaps more unexpected benefits such as generosity, humility, and critical thinking.

In our busy lives, seeking awe may be low on our list of priorities. But we might be underestimating its power. "One simple prescription can have transformative effects: Look for more daily experiences of awe," writes the GGSC's Dacher Keltner.

The latest research suggests that taking the time to experience awe-whether through engaging with nature, enjoying great art or music, or even bingeing on breathtaking YouTube videos-may be a pathway to improving your life and relationships.

1. Awe may improve your mood and make you more satisfied with your life

Need a mood boost or a stress slayer? Some studies suggest that experiencing awe may help.

And you don't have to take a trip to the Grand Canyon to get the job done. Just watching awe-inducing slideshows and videos can improve your mood and well-being, according to a few studies. Another study found that people who read a short, awe-evoking story about seeing Paris from the top of the Eiffel Tower reported greater life satisfaction in that moment than people who read a story about seeing a plain landscape from up high.

Of course, it's tough to beat real-world experiences-so in a recent study, researchers took military veterans and youth from underserved communities whitewater rafting. They found that the more awe the participants experienced, the more improvement they saw in their well-being and symptoms of stress one week later. According to a different survey the researchers conducted, undergraduate students reported greater life satisfaction and well-being on days when they spent time in nature, which was attributable to the higher level of awe they felt on those days. This suggests that awe just might be a crucial ingredient in nature's restorative powers.

2. Awe may be good for your health

Experiencing awe over time could potentially have long-term health benefits, at least according to one study. People with a greater general tendency to experience awe-but not any of the other seven positive emotions studied-had lower levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6), a marker of inflammation (too much inflammation can lead to a host of chronic diseases).

A second part of the study found that participants who reported feeling more "awe, wonder, and amazement that day " had lower levels of IL-6; this was true even after accounting for people's general tendency to experience awe and be open to new experiences. In other words, all of us-not just people who are prone to experiencing awe frequently-may be able to reap the health benefits of a particularly wondrous day.

However, this study can't tell us whether awe decreases inflammation or whether people with more inflammation are less likely to experience awe-a question for future research.

3. Awe may help you think more critically

Some studies suggest that awe may be able to sharpen our brains. One study found that when people were induced to feel awe, they were less persuaded by weak arguments than people who did a neutral activity (imagining doing their laundry). In contrast, some other positive emotions-like anticipatory enthusiasm or amusement-made people more susceptible to weak arguments.

Intriguingly, a recent theoretical paper argues that awe may help facilitate scientific learning and reasoning in children. For example, when a child sees an anvil and a feather drop at the same rate in a vacuum, this experience likely violates their intuitive understanding of how gravity works, evoking feelings of awe that lead them to develop a new theory about the relationships between weight, gravity, and motion.

Similarly, a recent study found that people who have a greater disposition to experience awe had a more accurate understanding of the nature of science and were more likely to reject creationism and other scientifically questionable explanations about the world. Importantly, these people didn't have greater "faith" in science; they just understood better how science works.

4. Awe may decrease materialism

A few studies suggest that experiencing awe may dampen feelings of materialism. The experiment with the Eiffel Tower story also found that, when given a hypothetical choice between a material good (such as a $50 backpack) or an experiential product (such as a $50 iTunes gift card), people who read the awe-inspiring story chose the experiential product more often than people in the other group did.

In another study, participants who recalled an awe experience placed less value on money than did participants who recalled a happy or neutral experience, and viewing awe-inducing images reduced the effort people were willing to put into getting money (where effort was measured by tolerance for listening to an unpleasant sound).

Why might awe decrease materialism? According to the researchers, the answer may lie in the self-transcendence that awe can inspire. "People in awe start to appreciate their sense of selfhood as less separate and more interrelated to the larger existence," they write. "The experience of awe elevates people from their mundane concerns, which are bounded by daily experiences such as the desire for money."

Further evidence for this idea comes from a recent study, suggesting that awe can function as a buffer against negative emotion when you lose material possessions. After time spent marveling at the world around you, misplacing your new sunglasses might not feel so bad.

5. Awe makes you feel smaller and more humble

One of the most profound effects of awe is how it can change our perception of ourselves relative to the larger world. In particular, multiple studies have shown that awe can make us feel small, diminished, or insignificant-what researchers call the "small self" effect.

In one particularly interesting study, researchers asked visitors to Yosemite National Park and Fisherman's Wharf (a tourist area in San Francisco) about their feelings of awe and other emotions, as well as their sense of self. Tourists at Yosemite reported experiencing significantly more awe, represented their current self with smaller circles (when given a choice of sizes), and drew self-portraits that were nearly 33 percent smaller than tourists at Fisherman's Wharf.

Besides making people feel physically smaller, awe may also make people more humble. One recent study found that people who are more naturally prone to experiencing awe felt more humility and were rated as more humble by their friends. Experimentally inducing participants to feel awe led them to acknowledge their strengths and weaknesses in a more balanced way and to better recognize how outside forces contributed to their successes.

6. Awe can make you feel like you have more time

Awe may also expand our perception of time. One study found that people induced to feel awe felt less impatient and agreed more strongly with statements suggesting that time is plentiful and expansive than people induced to feel happiness. The researchers speculate that by immersing us in the moment, awe may allow us to savor the here and now.

"Awe-eliciting experiences might offer one effective way of alleviating the feeling of time starvation that plagues so many people in modern life," the researchers write.

With more time on their hands, people feeling awe reported a greater willingness to offer that time to others-to volunteer their time, but not their money, to help a charity-compared to people feeling happy.

7. Awe can make you more generous and cooperative

In fact, multiple studies have found that experiencing awe may make people more kind and generous. For example, one study found that people with a greater tendency for awe were more generous in laboratory tasks like distributing raffle tickets between themselves and an unknown participant. And people who stood among awe-inspiring eucalyptus trees picked up more pens for an experimenter who had "accidentally" dropped them than people who stared up at a not-so-inspiring large building.

Together, these studies suggest that awe may prompt us to help others and to be more generous, perhaps because of the way it encourages us to focus less on ourselves and expands our perception of available time.

8. Awe can make you feel more connected to other people and humanity

Awe has an amazing capacity to bring people together. Research suggests that awe helps us feel more connected to the people in our lives and to humanity as a whole.

In one study, participants spent time near an awe-inducing Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton or in a regular hallway. When asked to describe themselves, the dinosaur viewers were more likely use universal descriptors (such as "a person" or "an inhabitant of the Earth") rather than more specific descriptors (such as "tall," "friendly," or "a student") than the other people, suggesting that awe increases our sense that we are part of a greater whole.

Another study found that people experiencing awe reported feeling more one with their community compared with people feeling neutral (an effect that may only hold for people with high self-esteem). Interestingly, another part of this study found evidence that culture may also influence awe's effects, leading people from individualistic cultures to feel as if their social network has expanded (they feel closer to more people) and people from collectivistic cultures to feel closer to those already in their network.

As a 15-year-old science, awe research is literally in its adolescence. This means that many of the findings discussed in this article are based on very few studies (and thus should be taken with a grain of salt). What researchers don't know about awe far eclipses what they do know. For example, we don't know much about how awe affects children throughout development, how awe is related to religious and spiritual experiences, and how awe can be used therapeutically. And researchers are just beginning to explore the neuroscience of awe.

But with increasing interest among psychologists and the public in the topic, the future of this research looks bright-maybe even awesome.

Greater Good wants to know: Do you think this article will influence your opinions or behavior?

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Eight Reasons Why Awe Makes Your Life Better

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HEALTH: The 8 Dimensions of Wellness to a Happy, Healthy and Fulfilling Life

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HEALTH: The 8 Dimensions of Wellness to a Happy, Healthy and Fulfilling Life

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Wellness comprises of eight mutually co-dependence dimensions: emotional, physical, occupational, social, spiritual, intellectual, environmental, and financial.

If any one of these dimensions is neglected over time, it will adversely affect one’s health, well-being, and quality of life. A well-rounded balance of these wellness dimensions provides holistic harmony to one’s personal well-being.

https://www.medicinenet.com/what_are_the_8_areas_of_wellness/article.htm

https://www.csupueblo.edu/health-education-and-prevention/8-dimension-of-well-being.html#:~:text=Wellness%20comprises%20of%20eight%20mutually,intellectual%2C%20environmental%2C%20and%20financial.

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Character Animation: Timing Actions. Generic Walk

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Character Animation: Timing Actions. Generic Walk

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In a normal walk cycle animation a character takes two steps in 1 second (24 frames). But the first and the last step hook up into the same pose so that it can be looped again and again. This allows a character to appear to cover ground without actually moving anywhere.

Read more in the Canvas classroom:

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/7689648/assignments/46775198

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AI Copilots are indeed virtual assistants enhanced by Artificial Intelligence to boost productivity and efficiency in various work settings.

Learn about how to use Ai chatbot co-pilots assistants for research optimization and writing assignments:

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/7689614/assignments/46689796

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Time & Motion With Shapes and Patterns with Digital Tools

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Time & Motion With Shapes and Patterns with Digital Tools

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Get inspired by artists that use shapes and patterns to inform 'motion' in art using digital softwares.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/graphic-design--553872454146429550/

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Graphic Design | Principles of design, Composition design, Principles of art

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Balance Balance is a theory with many contributing factors to it, such as Emphasis, Weight, Symmetrical, Radial and Asymmetrical balance. These factors make up how you subconsciously percieve works of art such as websites and posters. It's key for a graphic designer to learn about these different aspects. Emphasis is t…

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An old dramatic principle, the three-act structure can be traced back to Aristotle’s Poetics, in which he defines it as one of the five key elements of tragedy.

According to Aristotle, each act should be bridged by a beat that sends the narrative in a different direction. His belief was that stories must be a chain of cause-and-effect beats: each scene must lead into what happens next and not be a standalone "episode."

Read Syd Field's chapter 'Building the Story Line' (pages 199 to 214) and the Canvas classroom to learn more about where the two plots are located in the narrative line:

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/7691321/assignments/45979574

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From origin stories to folktales to supernatural mythology, well-told narratives have been passed down across cultures and generations. In today’s world, we’re most familiar with storytelling in one of four forms: spoken stories, novels (or short stories), live theater, and filmed entertainment. In all forms of media, the stories that stand the test of time are those with strong, compelling narrative structure.

What are the elements of the classic storytelling structure?

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An AI image generator allows users to enter simple inputs (such as a text prompt) to create visual imagery.

Learn more in the Canvas Classroom:

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/6702652/assignments/46554661/edit

https://www.adobe.com/products/firefly/features/text-to-image.html#:~:text=Text%20to%20image%20is%20a,their%20relationships%20to%20one%20another.

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10 Best AI Art Generators to Create Image From Text

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AI art generators use machine learning to create images from text prompts, transforming the creative landscape.

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B2 Work-in Progress Peer-Feddback Presentation 

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B2 Work-in Progress Peer-Feddback Presentation 

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Writing the Results Section of a Research paper

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The results section summarizes and presents the findings of the study to put them in context with your research question(s). The study's data should be presented in a logical sequence without bias or interpretation.

Learn more in the Canvas Classroom:

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/5537540/assignments/46506310

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Learn how to cite sources in MLA style using parenthetical citations with author, page, or title information. Find examples, guidelines, and tips for different types of sources and formats in your Canvas Online Classroom:

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/5537540/assignments/45650024

MLA Citations Generator: https://www.scribbr.com/citation/generator/mla/

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The methods section of a research paper provides the information by which a study's validity is judged. Therefore, it requires a clear and precise description of how an experiment was done, and the rationale for why specific experimental procedures were chosen.

Learn more in the Canvas classroom:

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/5537540/assignments/46480133

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Abstract vs Introduction in a research paper:

Abstract: A concise summary of the entire study, including context, research aim, methods, results, and key conclusions.

Introduction: Provides more detail on the background, motivation, and objectives of the study.

Learn more in the Canvas online classroom:

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/5537540/assignments/46437815

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Use your Research Findings to Build Your Case on Your Paper

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Use your Research Findings to Build Your Case on Your Paper

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Why did I do this work?

What does it mean?

What hypotheses did I mean to test?

Which ones did I actually test?

What were the results?

Did the work yield a new product; what are the characteristics?

Did I invent a new method successfully?

What measurements did I make?

Why does it make a difference?

What did I learn?

Learn more in you Canvas classroom:

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/5537540/assignments/46336842?module_item_id=108410267

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Collecting Statistical Data to Create Your Infographics

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Collecting Statistical Data to Create Your Infographics

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According to statistics studies of the most popular use of internet worldwide is social media. And the most popular use of social media is for chat & messaging.

According to this information, how do you plan to publish your research study to make it reachable to most people in the world? What type of population are your product is aiming to reach (age range, genre and country, app)?

Find out more statistics facts: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2024-deep-dive-5-billion-social-media-users

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Types of motion

A motion is when the position of an object changes over a certain period of time. There can be various types of motion including oscillatory, rotational, transactional, uniform, non-uniform, periodic, circular and linear.

How many types of motion there are?

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/5645975/assignments/46364793

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Time & Motion: Shapes, Patterns and Colors

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Time & Motion: Shapes, Patterns and Colors

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The method of repeating a design through a cut shape will help to create a repeated figure in motion. In the visual arts, this technique involves the use of ink or paint over cut-outs or holes in cardboard or metal onto a surface, therefore reproducing or transferring the design on it.

Learn more in your Canvas classroom:

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/5645975/assignments/46364793?module_item_id=108483457

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Time & Motion: The Zoetrope in Contemporary Art

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Time & Motion: The Zoetrope in Contemporary Art

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Zoetrope animation is one of the most popular pre-film animation techniques. Originally developed in the 1830s, it became a popular Victorian toy. It is still used today - adapted and updated to make 3D versions by the likes of Pixar. Find out more about how this simple but effective technology works.

Learn about the Zoetrope technique for motion animation in your Canvas Online classroom:

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/7689648/pages/a3-dot-3-2-the-zoetrope

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Meet a Practitioner: Eric Dyer - TED Talks: The Forgotten Art of Zoetrope

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Meet a Practitioner: Eric Dyer - TED Talks: The Forgotten Art of Zoetrope

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Artist Eric Dyer spent years working at a computer to produce images for the screen. Longing to get his hands back on his work, he began exploring the zoetrope, a popular 19th-century device that was used to create the illusion of motion long before the arrival of film. In this vibrant talk, he showcases his resulting art inventions: spinning sculptures and that evoke beautiful, dreamlike scenes. (Warning: This talk includes flashing images and lights. Those who are photosensitive or have seizures trigged by strobes are advised to avoid.)

https://www.ted.com/speakers/eric_dyer

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Eric Dyer: The forgotten art of the zoetrope

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Artist Eric Dyer spent years working at a computer to produce images for the screen. Longing to get his hands back on his work, he began exploring the zoetrope, a popular 19th-century device that was used to create the illusion of motion long before the arrival of film.

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Abstract Structure for Research Investigation Papers

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How to Structure Your Abstract for Your Research Paper Investigation

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How to Structure Your Abstract for Your Research Paper Investigation

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Don't write too many details; pay attention to the elements of an abstract. Research paper abstracts summarize your study quickly and succinctly to journal editors, researchers, and general readers and prompt them to read further.

Learn more in your Canvas Online classroom:

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/5537540/assignments/46342041

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Research Methods: Tools of Observation to Determine 'Causality'

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Research Methods: Tools of Observation to Determine 'Causality'

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Causal effects are a prime concern in media research, and experimental research designs are widely regarded as the most effective way to identify and gauge 'causality'.

'Introduction to Mass Communication, Media Literacy and Culture' by Stanley Baran.

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Thesis Writing: State an Arguable Thesis

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Thesis Writing: State an Arguable Thesis

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If you're hoping to make a strong claim that seamlessly fits into a powerful essay, you will need to make sure that your claim ticks the right boxes:

Your claim can debated — solid arguments can be made both in favor and against. Therefore, statements such as "I live in Queens" or "Joe Biden is the President" are not claims. ...

You will state your claim as a matter of fact. ...

Your claim is sufficiently specific to allow you to explore all aspects that you intend to tackle. ...

Learn about steps to formulate an argument:

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/5537540/assignments/36070226?module_item_id=81476406

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MLA, which stands for Modern Language Association, publishes an academic style guide used in the humanities. Formatting your writings with the MLA structure is easy to remember.

Learn more on your Canvas Online classroom:

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/5537540/pages/u3-dot-4-2-mla-formatting-2

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_sample_paper.html

https://www.scribbr.com/mla/formatting/

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Essay format refers to the structure and layout guidelines for writing an essay. This typically includes elements such as font size and style, margins, spacing, indentation, and citation style. Essay format may vary depending on the specific requirements of the assignment or citation style (e.g., MLA, APA, Chicago).

Learn more in you Canvas online classroom:

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/5537540/pages/u3-dot-4-1-essay-format-writing-intro

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You might not realize it, but infographics are one of the main ways we absorb information. If you start to look for them, you’ll notice them everywhere. From school textbooks to brochures to public information leaflets, infographics are a concise way of sharing facts and opinions.

They’re also handy for conveying research results, as the graphical format with limited text is much easier to absorb than your average research paper.

Learn about how to create infographics for your research, applying the Principles of Design, fonts and imagery in the Canvas classroom:

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/7689614/assignments/44920653?module_item_id=104642065

Get infographic tools right away!: https://www.riseatlantic.com/Best-Tools-for-Creating-Awesome-Infographics

Lucidchart free accounts allow users to create an unlimited number of diagrams with a limit of 60 objects per diagram.

Create infographics in minutes with Adobe:

https://www.adobe.com/express/create/infographic

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https://candicezheng.wordpress.com/2024/05/08/speed/

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Learn about how the uses of the knife vs. the uses of brushes in painting to create the illusion of evanescent, fleeting, fugitive, momentary, transient, ephemeral and transitory actions in your canvas classroom and experiment how to exploit this technique.

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/5645975/assignments/46231596?module_item_id=108140195

https://drawpaintacademy.com/palette-knife-painting/

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Peer-Feedback B2 Project Idea Presentation

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Peer-Feedback B2 Project Idea Presentation

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How do content creators protect the copyright of their work on social media? (e.g., animators)
Are there many people studying 2D animation at Baptist University? I feel that there is a lot more demand for 3D animation than 2D animation in the market right now, but I am more interested in 2D animation myself, therefore what kind of jobs do you think I should be pursuing in the new market place?

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This is a digital version of the assignment brief 'SPEED' of B2 'Personal Investigation' Module.

Read it thoroughly, resolve questions if they arise, make sure you understand the requirements of your work and the parameters to obtain a full grade upon submission on the 21st of May, 2024.

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There is two types of time and motion: slow and fast.

Slow shows a single movement

The fast ones show continuous movements over a period of time.

In the first drawing I tried to show the faster Time and motion. I drew the different movements of a person over a period of time, the person first groomed himself in front of the mirror, then cleaned the floor, and finally went back to bed to rest.

In the second painting, I painted the slower Time and motion. I deconstructed the individual movements of the flower and the person and combined them. I have combined the shape of the flower with the clothes of the person to create a interesting effect.

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SPEED Part-set Assignment Brief 2-Days CMAD Immersive Course

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SPEED Part-set Assignment Brief 2-Days CMAD Immersive Course

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'The world is getting faster. New technologies and developments seem to grow exponentially, making everyday interactions ever faster and instantaneous.’

Read the instructions to complete the 2-days assignment.

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May 4-5.5 24 CMAD3 Open Immersive Classes2 - SPEEDdocx

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Principles and Elements of Media: Time & Motion concepts in painting generated the Futurist movement in 1910.

Learn more about in the Canvas Online Classroom:

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/5645975/assignments/46059277?module_item_id=107699731

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Fascinated by new industry and thrilled by what laid ahead, the early 20th-century Futurists carved out a place in history. Growing out of Italy, these artists worked as painters, sculptors, graphic designers, musicians, architects, and industrial designers. Together, they helped shape a new, modern style of art that still has staying power today.

The Futurists were revolutionaries, members of an avant-garde movement that sought to free itself from the artistic norms of the past. Through frequent, well-laid-out manifestos, they were able to spread their ideas widely and enjoyed great success prior to World War I. This group firmly looked forward and couldn't get enough of what they saw. For the Futurists, the past was something to look down on. Airplanes and automobiles symbolized the speed they craved and the dynamism with which they saw the world.

Today, the Futurist movement is known for its embracing of speed, violence, and youth culture in an attempt to move culture forward. Though the movement is probably most widely associated with Umberto Boccioni's sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, there's a lot more to explore.

The Origins of Futurism

Futurism was founded in Milan by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. He published his Manifesto of Futurism in 1909, first in the La gazzetta dell'Emilia and then in France's daily newspaper Le Figaro.

This initial manifesto laid out the Futurist's disdain for the past, stating "We want no part of it, the past, we the young and strong Futurists!" In the text, it's also clear that Marinetti wishes to reestablish Italy as a new cultural center. Italy, which was only unified in 1870, was still basking in the glory of the ancient Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance. For the Futurists, this wasn't enough.

In fact, Marinetti was through with the past, writing, "We will free Italy from her innumerable museums which cover her like countless cemeteries." Futurists saw much more beauty in the great industrial discoveries of the 20th century than classical painting and sculpture. In the manifesto, they outright state that modern industrial inventions are much more appealing: "We declare...a new beauty, the beauty of speed. A racing motor car...is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace."

The manifesto also promoted violence and the necessity of war, but interestingly did not discuss or outline any rules for the visual arts. That would come later, with the 1914 Technical Manifesto for Futurist Painting. It was just one of many manifestos that they would produce, as the Futurists wrote about all sorts of topics, from architecture and religion to clothing.

Surrounding Marinetti during this early stage was a core group of artists that would shape Futurism and, particularly, the visual arts. Composer Luigi Russolo, as well as painters Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Giacomo Balla, and Gino Severini formed the original Futurists.

Characteristics of Futurist Art

As the early manifesto did not directly address the artistic output of Futurism, it took some time before there was a cohesive visual. A hallmark of Futurist art is the depiction of speed and movement.

In particular, they adhered to principals of " universal dynamism," which meant that no single object is separate from its background or another object. "The sixteen people around you in a rolling motor bus are in turn and at the same time one, ten four three; they are motionless and they change places. ... The motor bus rushes into the houses which it passes, and in their turn the houses throw themselves upon the motor bus and are blended with it."

This is best exemplified in Giacomo Balla's Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, where the motion of walking the dog is shown through the multiplying of the dog's feet, leash, and owner's legs. Urban scenes such as this were typical subject matter for the Futurists, who saw the city environment as the apex of their ideals.

Umberto Boccioni explained the principals of Futurist art by distinguishing it from another avant-garde movement- Impressionism. "While the impressionists paint a picture to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the picture to its resemblance to this moment, we synthesize every moment (time, place, form, color-tone) and thus paint the picture."

The Futurists were also highly influenced by Cubism, which was first brought to the group by Gino Severini. Severini came into contact with the style while visiting Paris in 1911 and introduced its use of broken color fields and short brushstrokes to the Futurists. The core artists used these techniques to create even more dynamic scenes of everything from cyclists to dancers to cities under construction.

Eventually, Boccioni took his work from two dimensions to three dimensions and created the acclaimed sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space. Aerodynamic and fluid, it's emblematic of the painter's new obsession with sculpture and its ability to suggest motion. Interestingly, the sculpture was never cast in bronze during Boccioni's lifetime. His original plaster cast is located in São Paulo's contemporary art museum. Several bronze casts were made beginning in 1931, with one of the original casts acquired by New York's MoMA.

Decline and Legacy of Futurism

The beginning of World War I signaled the end of the original Futurist group. Boccioni created only one painting during the war and was drafted into the Italian army. It was a huge blow for the group when he was killed in 1916 during a training exercise.

After the end of the war, Marinetti revived the movement. This period was later called Second Futurism which became associated with Fascism. Similar to many Fascists, they felt that Italy was a country divided between the industrialized north and agricultural south and wished to build a bridge to bring them together. Marinetti's Futurist Political Party was actually absorbed into Benito Mussolini's Fascist Party, though Marinetti would later disagree with some of their principals and withdraw from political life.

Post-World War I Futurism was dedicated to new types of expression. In particular, Aeropainting became a popular style in the 1920s. It combined the love for flight with aerial landscapes and was often used in propaganda. Not limited to landscapes, Aeropainting was actually varied in its subject matter and remained popular until 1940.

After the defeat of Mussolini and Marinetti's death in 1944, Futurism as a formal movement was dead. However, it remained highly influential for subsequent 20th-century art movements like Dada, Surrealism, and-in terms of design-Art Deco.

Today, works by Futurist artists can be found in major collections around the world and are essential to understanding early 20th-century culture.

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How well does the author cover the title?

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Summarizing, or writing a summary, means giving a concise overview of a text's main points in your own words. A summary is always much shorter than the original text.

There are five key steps that can help you to write a summary:

1. Read the text

2. Break it down into sections

3. Identify the key points in each section

4. Write the summary

5. Check the summary against the article

Writing a summary does not involve critiquing or evaluating the source. You should simply provide an accurate account of the most important information and ideas (without copying any text from the original).

When to write a summary

There are many situations in which you might have to summarize an article or other source:

As a stand-alone assignment to show you've understood the material

To keep notes that will help you remember what you've read

To give an overview of other researchers' work in a literature review

When you're writing an academic text like an essay, research paper, or dissertation, you'll integrate sources in a variety of ways. You might use a brief quote to support your point, or paraphrase a few sentences or paragraphs.

But it's often appropriate to summarize a whole article or chapter if it is especially relevant to your own research, or to provide an overview of a source before you analyze or critique it.

In any case, the goal of summarizing is to give your reader a clear understanding of the original source. Follow the five steps outlined below to write a good summary.

Step 1: Read the text

You should read the article more than once to make sure you've thoroughly understood it. It's often effective to read in three stages:

1. Scan the article quickly to get a sense of its topic and overall shape.

2. Read the article carefully, highlighting important points and taking notes as you read.

3. Skim the article again to confirm you've understood the key points, and reread any particularly important or difficult passages.

There are some tricks you can use to identify the key points as you read:

Start by reading the abstract. This already contains the author's own summary of their work, and it tells you what to expect from the article.

Pay attention to headings and subheadings. These should give you a good sense of what each part is about.

Read the introduction and the conclusion together and compare them: What did the author set out to do, and what was the outcome?

Step 2: Break the text down into sections

To make the text more manageable and understand its sub-points, break it down into smaller sections.

If the text is a scientific paper that follows a standard empirical structure, it is probably already organized into clearly marked sections, usually including an introduction, methods, results, and discussion.

Other types of articles may not be explicitly divided into sections. But most articles and essays will be structured around a series of sub-points or themes.

Tip: To see at a glance what each part of the text focuses on, try writing a word or phrase in the margin next to each paragraph that describes the paragraph's content. If several paragraphs cover similar topics, you may group them together.

Step 3: Identify the key points in each section

Now it's time go through each section and pick out its most important points. What does your reader need to know to understand the overall argument or conclusion of the article?

Keep in mind that a summary does not involve paraphrasing every single paragraph of the article. Your goal is to extract the essential points, leaving out anything that can be considered background information or supplementary detail.

In a scientific article, there are some easy questions you can ask to identify the key points in each part.

Introduction

Methods

What type of research was done?

How were data collected and analyzed?

Results

What were the most important findings?

Were the hypotheses supported?

Discussion/conclusion

What is the overall answer to the research question?

How does the author explain these results?

What are the implications of the results?

Are there any important limitations?

Are there any key recommendations?

If the article takes a different form, you might have to think more carefully about what points are most important for the reader to understand its argument.

In that case, pay particular attention to the thesis statement-the central claim that the author wants us to accept, which usually appears in the introduction-and the topic sentences that signal the main idea of each paragraph.

Step 4: Write the summary

Now that you know the key points that the article aims to communicate, you need to put them in your own words.

To avoid plagiarism and show you've understood the article, it's essential to properly paraphrase the author's ideas. Do not copy and paste parts of the article, not even just a sentence or two.

The best way to do this is to put the article aside and write out your own understanding of the author's key points.

Examples of article summaries

Let's take a look at an example. Below, we summarize this article, which scientifically investigates the old saying "an apple a day keeps the doctor away."

Example of a full article summary

Davis et al. (2015) set out to empirically test the popular saying "an apple a day keeps the doctor away." Apples are often used to represent a healthy lifestyle, and research has shown their nutritional properties could be beneficial for various aspects of health. The authors' unique approach is to take the saying literally and ask: do people who eat apples use healthcare services less frequently? If there is indeed such a relationship, they suggest, promoting apple consumption could help reduce healthcare costs.

The study used publicly available cross-sectional data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Participants were categorized as either apple eaters or non-apple eaters based on their self-reported apple consumption in an average 24-hour period. They were also categorized as either avoiding or not avoiding the use of healthcare services in the past year. The data was statistically analyzed to test whether there was an association between apple consumption and several dependent variables: physician visits, hospital stays, use of mental health services, and use of prescription medication.

Although apple eaters were slightly more likely to have avoided physician visits, this relationship was not statistically significant after adjusting for various relevant factors. No association was found between apple consumption and hospital stays or mental health service use. However, apple eaters were found to be slightly more likely to have avoided using prescription medication. Based on these results, the authors conclude that an apple a day does not keep the doctor away, but it may keep the pharmacist away. They suggest that this finding could have implications for reducing healthcare costs, considering the high annual costs of prescription medication and the inexpensiveness of apples.

However, the authors also note several limitations of the study: most importantly, that apple eaters are likely to differ from non-apple eaters in ways that may have confounded the results (for example, apple eaters may be more likely to be health-conscious). To establish any causal relationship between apple consumption and avoidance of medication, they recommend experimental research.

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An article summary like the above would be appropriate for a stand-alone summary assignment. However, you'll often want to give an even more concise summary of an article.

For example, in a literature review or meta analysis you may want to briefly summarize this study as part of a wider discussion of various sources. In this case, we can boil our summary down even further to include only the most relevant information.

Example of a concise article summary

Using national survey data, Davis et al. (2015) tested the assertion that "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" and did not find statistically significant evidence to support this hypothesis. While people who consumed apples were slightly less likely to use prescription medications, the study was unable to demonstrate a causal relationship between these variables.

Need some help writing your summary? Try our free text summarizer

Citing the source you're summarizing

When including a summary as part of a larger text, it's essential to properly cite the source you're summarizing. The exact format depends on your citation style, but it usually includes an in-text citation and a full reference at the end of your paper.

You can easily create your citations and references in APA or MLA using our free citation generators.

APA Citation Generator MLA Citation Generator

Step 5: Check the summary against the article

Finally, read through the article once more to ensure that:

You've accurately represented the author's work

You haven't missed any essential information

The phrasing is not too similar to any sentences in the original.

If you're summarizing many articles as part of your own work, it may be a good idea to use a plagiarism checker to double-check that your text is completely original and properly cited. Just be sure to use one that's safe and reliable.

Read our comparison of the best plagiarism checkers of 2022, or check out the Scribbr Plagiarism Checker directly.

Other interesting articles

If you want to know more about ChatGPT, AI tools, citation, and plagiarism, make sure to check out some of our other articles with explanations and examples.

Frequently asked questions about summarizing

How long is a summary?

A summary is always much shorter than the original text. The length of a summary can range from just a few sentences to several paragraphs; it depends on the length of the article you're summarizing, and on the purpose of the summary.

Tip: Want to create a summary in a matter of seconds? Try our free text summarizer! You can also easily adjust the lenght of your summary within the tool.

Cite this Scribbr article

If you want to cite this source, you can copy and paste the citation or click the "Cite this Scribbr article" button to automatically add the citation to our free Citation Generator.

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Our compilation of the latest social media statistics of consumer adoption and usage of social networking platforms

Social networks have transformed marketing and, as this post shows, their popularity is still growing in our latest global social media statistics research summary for 2023.

Networks vary in popularity with different demographics and they're still evolving. Research by Global WebIndex that we reference in this article shows that globally,

59% of the world's population uses social media. The average daily usage is 2 hours and 31 minutes (January 2023).

We'll keep this post updated during 2023 as the latest statistics are published drawing on our recommended top 10 digital marketing statistics sources. We'll be pointing to new data on the popularity of social media from Global Web Index (worldwide), Pew Internet Surveys (US) and OfCom (UK), and most recently the Datareportal January 2023 global overview.

This post will apply the latest reports to our answers in 7 key areas crucial to understanding consumer use of social networks:

Q1. What is the overall popularity of social media compared to internet use globally?

Q2. Which are the most popular social networks by demographics (age and gender)?

Q3. Which are the fastest-growing social networks?

Q4. How do social users interact with brands when selecting products and services?

Q5. What are the different engagement metrics based on consumer behavior when using social media?

Q6. How do consumers interact with different post formats in social media?

Q7. What are the most popular times for consumers to use social media suggesting the best times to post?

Now more than ever, marketers need to make smart decisions when planning their digital distribution channels. So reviewing the latest social media diffusion and usage stats is a crucial part of any company's digital marketing strategy.

If you're looking for a new data-driven approach to planning your digital marketing strategy, why not download our free RACE Growth System template?

Q1. What is the overall popularity of social media compared to internet use globally?

Datareportal regularly updates its massive global compendium of social media statistics, which gives some great insights into the world of social media. It's a great download for including slides for your presentations.

How many people use social media?

As per the Datareportal January 2023 global overview we can see that social media growth has continued to increase:

More than half of the world now uses social media (59%)

4.76 billion people around the world now use social media, 137 million new users have come online within the last 12 months

The average daily time spent using social media is 2h 31m.

The full report from Datareportal contains a huge amount of insight collated from different data providers across 200+ slides. It provides country-specific data for the vast majority of the world, so you might want to check out the slides of the countries in your core markets to get a better idea of the current state of social in the areas you operate. In this post, we focus on the social media data which starts at slide 160 in the report.

This chart, by Datareportal, summarises the importance and growth of social media today.

Post-pandemic marketing update

In addition to business as usual, a special report by Datareportal in July 2020, examines changes in social media usage during the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown period. Notably a monumental increase in online and digital activities.

The increase came after a couple of years where growth had seemed to slow down, this behavior was attributed to changes in user behavior due to the lockdown. However, with growth continuing in 2023, there may be more at play than just the initial lockdown trends.

Q2. Which are the most popular social networks by demographics (age and gender)?

The best source for getting stats on the biggest social media platforms is direct from company statements and earning announcements.

Notably, of the top 4 social media platforms, 3 are owned by Meta. Facebook is the most-used platform in total - but as marketers, we know it's crucial to consider different trends of usage for different demographics, as we'll see below.

The rapid growth TikTok underwent in 2021 (resulting in a 142% increase YOY) saw it ranked the sixth most-used platform for the first time in July 2022. In January 2023 that remains the case.

With Elon Musk's proposed acquisition of Twitter we can expect changes to the platform including how Twitter regulates/empowers freedom of speech values for consumers and businesses.

So, what does this mean for your social media marketing strategy? Clearly, there are lots of opportunities to reach, interact with, convert and engage social media users across a wide number of channels, each with different features.

Don't forget you can use our free RACE Growth System template to identify digital priorities across targeted social media marketing to your identified target markets, through their favorite social media channels. You can find out more about the biggest social media channels in the breakdown below:

Global Facebook demographics

Since it is still the top dog, I'll share the Facebook demographics from Sprout Social Media's 2022 report. But you can get this breakdown for each channel and more in the report. This report was last updated in March 2022.

As we can see, from the Facebook data, the biggest demographic on Facebook is males aged 25-34. For females also this age range represents the largest user pool.
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The Pew Research Center news usage research is a very strong recent source showing US social media statistics trends in usage for news. Interestingly, nearly half of those surveyed in 2021 used social media to get news often or sometimes.

More interestingly, the stats breakdown below shows which social media channels are used by which genders, ages, education level, race, and political affiliations. For example, Facebook is a regular source of news to nearly double the amount of women to men. Nearly two thirds of Snapchat's regular news consumers are aged 18-29.

The 2021 Children and parents: media use and attitudes report published by OfCom (UK) is interesting if your business is involved in marketing to children or youth markets or you want to understand future adult use of social media. Notably, 44% of 8-11 year olds use social media apps/sites, swiftly increasing to 87% of 12-15 year olds.

Here's a snapshot of two of the four age groups featured.

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Q3. Which are the fast-growing social networks?

Every marketer has limited time for social media marketing, so which fastest growing social network should you focus your efforts on?

The fastest growing social media network in 2021 was TikTok, with 18.3% YOY growth, over 87.1% growth in 2020, as measured by US Social Network User Growth.

With the ' Rise of Social media' interactive tool from 'Our World in Data' you can see the growth of the main networks between 2004 (when Myspace became the first platform to gain 1 million users) up to the end of 2019.

A summary of global social media growth

The number of social media users globally grew from 4.2 billion in January 2021 to 4.62 billion in January 2022. This accounts for a 10.1% growth YOY of global social media usage. In comparison, January 2023 saw a modest 3% growth of +137 million users.

Social media vs internet users: opportunities for growth

This chart shows the total number of Internet users as of January 2023. Whilst 64.4% of the world's population are internet users, 5% of those are still not active social media users.

Social media platforms today are evolving and developing to meet an ever-wider variety of consumer wants and needs. Surely the value that social media usage can add to consumers' lives is more evident than ever before - social media marketers can tap into that.

2023 analysis of regional use of social media shows the wide variation of social media penetration:

72% in Eastern Asia

74% in North America

72% in Southern America

84% in both Northern and Western Europe.

This falls to 41% in Southern Asia, 13% in Western Africa, and 7% in Middle Africa.

As you can see, the makeup of our international social media users is varied. This useful infographic demonstrates the share of global social media users - with Eastern Asia representing 27.7% of global social media users.

Q4. How do social users interact with brands when selecting products and services?

One of the challenges of social media marketing is that by its nature, social media are peer-to-peer, involving conversations between friends, families and colleagues. Given this, brands must be sensitive to how they use social media.

The research from GlobalWebIndex in their social media trends 2021 report shows how/why visitors use different social media services. Instagram, Pinterest, Linkedin, Reddit and Twitter users all report 'follow/find information about products/brands' in their top 3 motivations.

Platform-specific social media marketing planning

Our new Organic Social Media Learning Path modules (released May 2022) are dedicated to helping marketers optimize their organic Instagram marketing with a strategic approach, integrated across the marketing funnel.

Our bite-sized modules contain tools and templates designed to help you address the systematic issue of businesses using social media platforms to create standalone posts rather than planning a strategy.

Our Social Media Learning Path has modules with dedicated help for:

This example plan, taken from our Facebook module, demonstrates how a joined-up approach can strengthen each stage of the funnel, across the RACE Framework of reach, act, convert, and engage.

Q5. What are the best benchmarks for different platforms' engagement rates?

Social media statistics benchmarking tool Rival IQ produces these useful sector-by-sector benchmarks of social media engagement metrics including:

Posts per day

Posts per week

Engagement rate

Top hashtags by engagement rate

These include useful sector benchmarks for Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter you can compare against. Here is a sample of the insights from their 2022 report.
Facebook engagement rates
The 2021 median average engagement rate per post (by follower) on Facebook is 0.064%, across all industries. Sports Teams see the highest engagement, achieving an average of 0.27%, followed by Influencers with 0.23% and Higher Education with 0.15%.

At the lower end of the spectrum, Health & Beauty, and Tech & Software receive an average 0.02% engagement rate.
Instagram engagement rates
Engagement rates are significantly higher on Instagram compared to Facebook. As you can see the 2021 average median engagement rate per post (by follower) is more than 10x higher, despite engagement on Instagram dropping approx 30% between 2020-21.

Q6. How do consumers interact with different post formats in social media?

Marketers know intuitively that the right type of visuals and videos are more effective in gaining engagement.

This is supported by observed interaction rates. According to LinkedIn, Images typically result in a 2x higher comment rate and Video gets 5x more engagement on LinkedIn, Live Video gets 24x more.

This is also supported by this data from this Social Bakers social media trends report:

Videos longer than a minute achieved the highest median interactions and median reach on Facebook, according to Socialbakers data.

In fact, for both reach and interactions, there was a correlation that showed the longer a video was, the further it reached and the more interactions it received.

Socialbakers' metrics for video length are very short (less than 11.882 seconds), short (more than 11.882 and less than 24.362 seconds), medium (more than 24.362 and less than 61.248 seconds), long (more than 61.248 seconds and less than five minutes), and very long (more than five minutes).

Q7. What are the most popular times for consumers to use social media suggesting the best times to post?

Testing different frequency of updates and timing is another aspect of social media optimization based on consumer behaviour.

Each network tends to have a 'sweet spot' for frequency based on their algorithms. It used to be beneficial to post several times a day on Facebook for many brands, but with decrease organic reach, a single update tends to be more effective. We find a higher frequency on LinkedIn or Twitter tends to be more effective.

Sprout Social's 2022 social media strategy builder compares the best times to post on social media. Compare these to your patterns of posting and consider how you could post differently.

Each network tends to have a 'sweet spot' for frequency based on their algorithm and the most common times for consumer usage. It used to be beneficial to post several times a day on Facebook for many brands, but with decreased organic reach, a single update tends to be more effective.

We find a higher frequency on LinkedIn or Twitter tends to be more effective. The results from Instagram and Facebook show a clear preference for around midweek at midday, so you should consider this when scheduling your post updates.

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I found that the use of analogous colors makes the picture more harmonious, calm and comfortable. I use yellow’s analogous colors in my paintings, and the picture looks very fresh and harmonious as a result.

I also found that using complementary colors or split-complementary colors can make the image look more impactful and the differences between objects look more obvious.

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Draw your preferred career path on your niche.

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Surrealism is an artistic movement that has had a lasting impact on painting, sculpture, literature, photography and film. Surrealists—inspired by Sigmund Freud’s theories of dreams and the unconscious—believed insanity was the breaking of the chains of logic, and they represented this idea in their art by creating imagery that was impossible in reality, juxtaposing unlikely forms onto unimaginable landscapes. Though it waned as an organized movement, Surrealism has never disappeared as a creative artistic principle.

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This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and inspiring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery of the treasures found within. Lush, evocative, and deeply humane, the story of Santiago is an eternal testament to the transforming power of our dreams and the importance of listening to our hearts.

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The opportunity to ask questions at the end of a job interview is one you don’t want to waste. It’s both a chance to continue to prove yourself and to find out whether a position is the right fit for you. In this piece, the author lists sample questions recommended by two career experts and divides them up by category: from how to learn more about your potential boss to how to learn more about a company’s culture. Choose the ones that are more relevant to you, your interests, and the specific job ahead of time. Then write them down — either on a piece of paper or on your phone — and glance at them right before your interview so that they’re fresh in your mind. And, of course, be mindful of the interviewer’s time. If you were scheduled to talk for an hour and they turn to you with five minutes left, choose two or three questions that are most important to you. You will always have more time to ask questions once you have the job offer in hand.

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"So, do you have any questions for me?"
When you reach this point in a job interview - where the interviewer is done with their questions and opens up the floor - you don't want to be caught off guard. It's important to have a plan for how you'll respond, and a list of questions specific to that opportunity.

But what types of questions should you actually ask? And are there certain ones to avoid? I turned to two job interview experts for advice: Art Markman, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Bring Your Brain to Work, and John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of How to Get a Job You Love. Here are their recommendations for how to approach this part of the interview and sample questions they've seen work in practice.

How to Approach This Part of the Interview

Focus on two goals.

You might think of this portion of the interview as your chance to assess the organization and whether you really want to work there, and that's true. One of your goals is to use these questions to help you determine if this opportunity is right for you, says Markman.

However, the interview isn't over yet, and you still want to demonstrate that you are the best person for the job, says Lees. So, your other goal is to continue to prove you're a fit for the specific opportunity. Lees suggests saying something like, "I do have a few questions but before I ask, can I say one thing?" That will give you an opportunity to drive home any key messages about your suitability for the job. In fact, before the interview, you should " decide in advance on two or three messages that you want to get across," says Lees, and if you haven't been able to convey those points in response to the questions you've been asked so far, you should do so now. Then, you can move on to your questions.

Personalize your questions.

How you phrase your questions is important. Rather than using generic language, you want to ask the questions as if they pertain specifically to you. For example, instead of "What does a typical day look like?" you want to ask "What would a typical day for me in this role look like?" That will allow the hiring manager to begin seeing you in the role. According to Lees, this is a "great psychological trick" because "as soon as they visualize you doing the job, it's hard to let go of that image."

Build off of your conversation.

You also want to pick up on what's happened in the interview so far. Ask questions that build off of what you and the interviewer have discussed. You might want to follow up on a project they mentioned you'd be working on, or a responsibility that you didn't see in the job description. The key is to make this portion of the interview feel like a continuation of the conversation.

Sample Questions to Ask at the End of a Job Interview

Here are categories of questions you'll want to consider in an organized list, along with samples of each that you can personalize.

Questions about the specific job

1. What are your expectations for me in this role?

2. What's the most important thing I should accomplish in the first 90 days?

3. What's the performance review process like here? How often would I be formally reviewed?

4. What metrics or goals will my performance be evaluated against?

5. What are the most immediate projects that I would take on?

6. How long before I will be... [meeting with clients, have responsibility for my own accounts, interacting with other departments, etc.]?

Questions about the team

1. What types of skills is the team missing that you're looking to fill with a new hire?

2. What are the biggest challenges that I might face in this position?

3. Do you expect my main responsibilities in this position to change in the next six months to a year?

4. Can you tell me about the team I'll be working with?

5. Who will I work with most closely? What other departments or units will I interact with?

6. Can you tell me about my direct reports? What are their strengths and the team's biggest challenges?

Questions for your potential boss

If the interviewer is your boss, you want to ask questions along these lines as well.

1. How long have you been at the company?

2. How long have you been a manager?

3. What's your favorite part of working here?

Questions about the company

One important note here: Don't ask things that you can easily find with a quick Google search (more on this in the "Questions to Avoid" section).

1. What are the current goals that the company is focused on, and how does this team work to support hitting those goals?

2. What gets you most excited about the company's future?

3. How would you describe the company's values?

4. How has the company changed over the last few years?

5. What are the company's plans for growth and development?

Questions about the culture

Lees warns that you should take answers to questions about the company culture with a grain of salt. It's highly unlikely that the interviewer is going to come out and tell you that the culture is unwelcoming, or even toxic. That's why questions like #22 below can be helpful. They get at company culture without explicitly asking about it and can "help you uncover any unexpected elements about your potential new workplace," Markman says.

1. How do you typically onboard employees?
If the position will be remote, ask specifically about how remote employees are integrated into the company culture, Markman advises.

2. What do new employees typically find surprising after they start?

3. Is there anything that I should read before starting that would help me have a shared understanding with my colleagues?
Asking this question not only signals your interest in the position but also shows that you're eager to have "shared cultural references with the people you'll be working with," Markman says.

4. What's your favorite office tradition?

5. What do you and the team usually do for lunch?

6. Do you ever do joint events with other departments or teams?

7. What's different about working here than anywhere else you've worked?

8. How has the company changed since you joined?

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Questions about professional development, career paths, and future opportunities

Markman says it's critical to understand what growth and career development will look like in the job. You want to be sure that you can see yourself not just in the role you're currently applying for but that there is a career path at the organization that you're excited about.

1. What learning and development opportunities will I have in this role?

2. How does the team I'll be part of continue to grow professionally?

3. Are there examples of a career path beginning with this position?

4. What are the common career paths in this department?

5. How are promotions typically handled?

6. Where have successful employees moved on to?

Closing questions

1. What am I not asking you that I should?

2. Is there anything else I can provide you with that would be helpful?

3. Is there anything I clarify for you about my qualifications?

4. What are the next steps in the hiring process?

Questions to Avoid

Here are a few examples of what not to ask at the end of your interview:

What's the starting salary?

Can you tell me about your health insurance?

What are your paid leave policies?

You want to avoid asking about salary and benefits too early in the process, Lees advises. "You're not in a position to negotiate well because you're still in unknown territory. The time to discuss salary is after they've fallen in love with you," he explains. But what if the interviewer asks you about your salary requirements? This video offers helpful tips for how to navigate that complicated question:

You should also avoid asking questions that try to close the deal. ("So, do I have the job?") You don't want to sound presumptuous or like you don't respect the company's interview process.

Also refrain from asking something that you could've found out in your research ahead of time - and you should definitely do research about the job and the company ahead of time!

. . .

This opportunity to ask questions is one you don't want to waste. It's both a chance to continue to prove yourself and to find out whether this job is the right fit for you. Of course, you aren't going to ask all 38 of these questions. Choose the ones that are more relevant to you, your interests, and the specific job ahead of time. Then write them down - either on a piece of paper or on your phone - and glance at them ahead of time so that they're fresh in your mind. And, of course, be mindful of the interviewer's time. If you were scheduled to talk for an hour and they turn to you with five minutes left, choose two or three questions that are most important to you. You will always have more time to ask questions once you have the job offer in hand.

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Integrated multimedia is defined as the multimedia where source documents such as graphics, images, video cuts, and sounds merge into a final presentation through digital media. Interactive multimedia is defined as the multimedia where we allow the end user known as viewer of a multimedia project to control what and when the elements are delivered.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/maximizing-content-impact-power-multimedia-tehniat-rubab/

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Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture.

Let's sketch a series of designs on the same theme, to apply combinations of color scales.

Learn more in your Canvas online classroom:

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Getting Ready for a First Job Interview in Your Sector

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One of the most important things I learned in college was what not to wear to a creative job interview. Going into creative advertising, it was stressed to not show up in a suit, no matter what your parents say. Arriving for a creative interview in a suit would mean that you aren’t well versed in your industry, and could give off the impression that you are stuffy or unwilling to roll up your sleeves and get dirty.

Find out about what to wear to attend a first job interview for recent graduates in the creative sector.

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The personal statement. It’s one of the most important parts of the entire college application process. This essay is the perfect opportunity to show admissions officers who you are and what makes you stand out from the crowd. But writing a good personal statement isn’t exactly easy.

Start writing your personal statement for a college entrance application.

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https://www.collegeessayguy.com/blog/college-essay-examples

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Develop a Self-Branding Style: Looking Awesome Everywhere

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Develop a Self-Branding Style: Looking Awesome Everywhere

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Inform Who You Are With Style Across Platforms:

The most important thing to communicate your personal brand as a creator is to be authentic and engaging. You need to show your personality, share your story, and connect with your audience on an emotional level. Your personal brand is a journey, not a destination.

Color Hunt Generator: https://colorhunt.co/

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Years ago, when I started painting and learning more about art and business, there was nothing called personal branding for artists. What people talked about the most at that time were art styles. It meant having a specific painting style that people would instantly recognize as yours and which naturally speaks of you. However, today:

Your personal brand as an artist is everything.

In case you're interested, I have a blog post about how you can find your art style in case you're interested, check it out.

Nowadays, especially with the large social media presence of artists and creative professionals, having a personal brand as an artist matters more than your art style and your art itself.

So, what's personal branding for artists? And how can you create your own personal brand as an artist?

What's personal branding for artists?

Personal branding for artists is how you want your audience to see you and how you promote yourself. It is the personality, the skillset, and the values you want others to attribute to your name whenever they hear it.

As an artist, your personal brand reflects itself on your work first, then on your physical and online presence. Your behavior, spoken and unspoken words, and your attitudes, all speak for you. If done well, you can deliver the right image of who you are through your personal branding as an artist. But if not, you will let it grow chaotically on its own and have people from the impression they want or just not care at all about you.

Why do you need to have a personal brand as an artist?

Your personal brand is a must for your creative business. It is the way you're introducing yourself to your audience including clients and potential clients.

You're not always going to get the recognition your business needs only through creating no matter how awesome your work is.

It also provides you with the opportunity to highlight your strengths and passions and just tell your story which makes people believe they know you better. As a matter of fact, people have much more trust in those they believe they know, even if they have never met them in person.

How can you create your own personal brand as an artist?

As I have mentioned above, building a personal brand is about you and what makes you unique and stand out from others.

You will have to start by asking yourself specific questions about who you are, what your message and values are, and the best visual representation of you and your messages.

1- Brand yourself as an artist

Creating an artist's identity takes work. You'll need to delve deep into your artistic personality to find a trait or experience that distinguishes you from others. This feature is known as your " value proposition" in the marketing world. It is considered one of the most important aspects of personal branding. Don't be afraid to express your thoughts or perceptions of the world, as well as your values, no matter how provocative or unconventional they may appear.

2- Find your Art Niche

A very important thing before you decide on your niche, don't trap yourself in a too narrow niche. You are an artist, your work will clearly change and evolve. If you overly restrict yourself, you will eventually feel trapped in your personal brand which will lead to giving up.

Being an artist, I bet you already know what you are interested in: painting, designing, photography, or writing about one of these topics.

It could be a theme, a color palette, or a technique that you enjoy and deeply connect with. However, the more specific you can get with your brand, the better.

A way to do it is to:

Brainstorm your values.

Look at your art.

What inspires you to keep creating for years to come? What do you want others to know about you when they see your work online and offline?

Artist Stephan Brusche (iSteef) says: " With branding, it has to feel authentic, especially as an artist. The only way to accomplish that is if it's really connected to who you are. It will also help you make choices going forward."

3- Don't become a copy of someone else to get what they got

Even if you are wishing to have the clients they're working with, don't become a copy of them! I have heard this so much in workshops on personal branding and so on, that you have to see what others in your field are doing and just do the same. And while it's great to imitate and learn from others, you shall never fall into the trap of becoming a copy of some great artist. No matter how much their work speaks to you, you can use it for inspiration, critique their work to learn more, and just experiment with what's out there, but don't forget to add your authentic persona to that. Your personal brand as an artist shall be yours and uniquely yours because it is your forever living trace of online and offline presence.

4- Share your journey

Every artist has a story to tell, no matter how basic, boring, or dull it might seem to you, if said properly, people will connect with you through it. Even if you're a beginner and have no idea what you're doing, share that with your 30 followers, and stop trying to be perfect and influential. It could be about your process of learning, how you're turning a hobby into a business and a lifestyle.

It is about inspiring others with your consistency and the way you're chasing your dreams.

5- Have an aesthetic

I know this may sound weird for personal branding, but it's just another way to say: develop a visual representation that speaks for your taste and inclinations.

Your aesthetic should represent you as an artist in the first place then your work.

Here's an example: You are a female painter who's into nature and enjoys painting landscapes and reading books. The ideal aesthetic for your taste would be cottagecore. And thus, I'd expect your social media feeds to look something like this.

I would also expect to see you exhibiting your artworks in an open space. Something more natural, more plants around, and so on.

What matters is that you stay consistent and coherent with your aesthetic. You can always change along the way though, you're not tied to an aesthetic for life. But, if you shock your audience with a radical change, or just be a mix of every aesthetic, you will create confusion around your brand and damage how your audience sees you and what they expect from you.

6- Words matter

Art is a very wide tricky philosophy, if we are talking about painting, it's not just visuals and paintings, we're talking: about impressionism, renaissance, surrealism, and more. Words matter in art, whether you are reading an Instagram caption, a portfolio, an artwork description, or a press release for an exhibition. You have to know how to speak of your art, you have to learn how to write and express yourself with the right proper words (which I know many artists suck at). Create a brand statement, which refers to a short sentence that describes your mission as an artist, what you could offer your potential clients, and your area of expertise (what you do? Why you do it? And what makes your art unique?).

Your writing should best describe your art and values. And it should be in a voice of your own.

Example:

Let's say you are an artist painting the sea and caring about life underwater. Your artist brand statement could be : "Eco-friendly sea landscapes artist, contributing to ocean and marine life conservation". Here you have spoken about your values, art, and why people should support you all at once.

Last, don't be afraid to come up with words to describe your art style or personality type, this is how people have been doing it for years.

7- Get feedback and take it into consideration

This is the main reason why you should share your story and journey with others (especially online). It is the way to get immediate feedback from your audience which will certainly affect your strategy of posting and creating in the long run. How we want people to see us, and how they actually see us are two different things. So it's always a great idea to:

Post your work and see how others respond to it.

Tell your story in words and let others tell your story in their words to learn the difference and maybe rework some bits here and there.

8- Use as many promotional channels as you can manage

Interaction with social media audiences is also essential in developing a successful art brand. As an artist, you should always be available for a comment or an answer because it shows that you care about those who appreciate your work and want to engage with them. By reaching out to your target audience, you are building an army of devoted fans for your art brand. And using different promotional channels guarantees you a wide variety of audiences and thus, different povs and feedbacks.

Another thing to note is that when creating your brand guidelines, make sure that all of the elements are consistent with the original voice and style that your artworks convey. Note that brand guidelines are:

Your brand name (could be your name).

Logo (could be your picture).

Color palette.

Photography style (angles, filters, editing style...).

Editorial chart (key messages, the tone of voice...).

Include these brand elements in every promotional channel you use, such as your website, social media profiles, and business cards, so that potential customers can recognize your brand at a glance.

Last but not least, I want to remind you that no matter how strong and successful your personal brand is, you will feel the need to change things up in the long run. Do not restrict yourself, and enjoy the process of evolving and growing.

Conclusion:

Building a personal brand as an artist is a bit of a process to which you will need to devote attention and time. But it gets easier the moment you are able to identify your values and your intention for creating art.

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Value relates to the lightness or darkness of the colours. Depending on the light and the material of the object, the light and darkness of the picture will Depending on the light and the material of the object, the light and darkness of the picture will be different.

I started by making two value scales: achromatic scale and monochromatic scale. The two scales show the different levels of lightness and darkness from 1 to 10 for black and white and monochromatic colours respectively.

I made a sketch of a flower, I first observed the object and then depicted the light and darkness of the flower. Then follow the achromatic scale, labelling the picture on a scale of 1 to 10 for value. I gained a deeper understanding of value in this process.

I drew a picture with different value of blue (both black and white). Although there are only monochromatic colours, it is possible to create different effects by contrasting the light and dark between the colours.

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Social networking uses internet-based social media platforms to connect with friends, family, or peers.

Some of the most popular social networking sites in the U.S. include Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, and X.

Marketers use social networking to increase brand recognition and encourage brand loyalty.

Social media can help connect people with businesses for various needs.

There are disadvantages related to social media, including spreading misinformation, concerns posed by user anonymity, and the high cost of using and maintaining social network profiles.

Check on the Canvas online classroom:

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Social networking is the use of internet-based social media platforms to make connections and share various media with friends, family, colleagues, or customers.

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Be S.M.A.R.T. in Devising Your Career Plan

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Be S.M.A.R.T. in Devising Your Career Plan

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Sketch Your Career Action Plan to Reach Your Goals:

Your Career Goals

Job Type

Title Job Name

Job Description

Position Salary/Location

Devise You Personal Career Plan

Research about job positions that may fulfill your professional personal goals. Find out the responsibilities that employers look to fill these positions and alternative opportunities that may be goos for you as well.

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The Importance of Soft Skills in Interviews

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The Importance of Soft Skills in Interviews

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What are Soft Skills?

Personal attributes that enable someone to interact effectively and harmoniously with other people.

https://www.eseibusinessschool.com/the-power-of-7-essential-soft-skills/

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When employers go through piles of resumes, it's fair to say that soft skills are not the first thing they look at. There's a reason for this - statements to the effect that "I am a great negotiator and exceptional at listening" are almost impossible to back up on paper.

However, these soft skills are increasingly being recognized as essential to employees with the potential to advance within the modern workplace. When you have two candidates with the same hard skills - master's degrees, certifications, and software expertise - it makes sense to prioritise those with better interpersonal skills.

Though candidates may stress these skills more and more in resumes, they can only be evidenced or proven in person, either through an interview or in practice.

The Evidence for the Value of Soft Skills

Here's just some of the evidence base for these often-overlooked skills:

A study by researchers at Harvard University, Boston College and Michigan Ross found that workers at a global clothing exporter who had received training in soft skills were 12% more productive than those who had not.

A LinkedIn survey (2019 Global Talent Trends) discovered that 92% of HR professionals considered soft skills as equally or more important than hard skills.

A McKinsey study found that 80% of C-suite executives considered soft skills a major priority.

Harvard Business Review ran a study of 5000 C-Suite level resumes from 2010-2016, in partnership with executive search firm Russell Reynolds. What they discovered was surprising - by 2016, candidates were no longer emphasizing financial or managerial skills. In fact, as HBR reports, "when companies today search for top leaders, especially new CEOs, they attribute less importance to those capabilities than they used to and instead prioritize one qualification above all others: strong social skills."

The reasons are not hard to discern. Where employers face a pool of potential candidates with equal and provable hard skills, why wouldn't they prefer those who would be better team players, communicators, decision-makers, and empathetic managers?

What Exactly are Soft Skills?

First of all, the name doesn't resonate with many talent managers, who prefer the term, Power Skills. That terminology at least recognizes the value inherent in these interpersonal and organizational abilities.

Here's a short list of the power skills that employers are looking for:

One immediately apparent factor is how difficult these qualities are to demonstrate in a resume. This is why interviewees often get asked hypothetical questions or queries requiring the candidate to tell a personal work anecdote.

Such questions might include:

"Tell us about a time you faced a workplace conflict, and how did you resolve it?"

"What do you think are the main attributes of a team player?"

"Explore a major problem you faced, and how you went about solving it."

These are open questions, requiring more than a yes or no response. They are often the questions that an employee dreads because the answers to such questions are rarely concrete or obvious. The employer is trying to dig deep into a candidate's interpersonal or problem-solving skills. These questions are inherently difficult to prepare for, yet vital.

Why are Soft Skills on the Rise?

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the pace of change in hybrid and remote working, creating new challenges for businesses. Talking to Arabian Business , Jon Ede, regional director of Michael Page Middle East, said "leaders have needed to keep a keen eye on staff wellbeing, whilst ensuring that communication and collaboration evolve in line with a switch to blended ways of working."

With fewer face-to-face interactions, soft skills are stretched to breaking point, exacerbating the need to find truly excellent candidates who can manage remote teams, collaborate at a distance, effectively manage time, and problem-solve in a distributed workplace.

In recent years, there has been a growing literature on soft upskilling, together with training courses, books, online programs, and articles emphasizing its importance. It's now more acceptable to prioritize such abilities, whereas in the more brutal, less wellbeing-centred 20th century, options of "empathy" and "conflict resolution" may have seemed too fuzzy and soft, to take seriously.

How can Soft Skills be Improved?

If we accept the premise that these skills are vital in the 21st-century workplace, how can we ensure our employees exemplify them?

Firstly, workers can be encouraged to focus upon:

Listening, rather than reacting

Leading by example

Concentrating on strengthening relationships

Fostering collaboration over competition

Being open to feedback, and making changes

Volunteering for team leadership

Patiently working through conflict

Leaders and workers can strengthen their soft skills by taking an empathic approach to tasks, problems and conflicts. Rather like developing muscles through frequent use, soft skills must be practised, rather than learned by rote.

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Most Common Questions:

1-Tell me about yourself

2- Why do you think we should hire you?

3-How do you deal with uncertainty?

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Add Principles of Design to the Element of Art 'VALUE' in a monochrome flower composition.

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Look for sources of inspiration in partitioners on your niche.

Research on practitioners' websites: How do they brand themselves?

Review websites layout patterns Canvas Classroom

Find a home page layout sample to show how you'd like to brand yourself.

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/7691271/pages/b1-dot-3-2-web-page-layout?module_item_id=105431787

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Poster design for the animated short film A Trip. The fonts were drawn with hand-drawn brushes to fit the style of the animation.

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I study some typography skills. The font is Times New Roman. The text was overlapped, and special patterns were drawn over the text i, giving texture to the font, and colour to emphasise the message.

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I revisited my knowledge about the three primary colors and learned about Complementary colors, Analogous colors and Split-Complementary colors.

Analogous colors lie next to each other on the color wheel. Complementary colors are directly across from each other on the color wheel. Split-Complementary colors

are any given color along with the two colors on either side of its complement.

The theme of paint is flowers. The reason of choosing this theme is the beauty of flowers can bring people happiness. Flowers are colorful and having sense of vitality, give us good emotions.

I created the artworks with Complementary colors，Analogous colors and Split Complementary colors in different parts. In the right part I use analogous colors of yellow to draw the flowers, like orange and saffron yellow. In the middle part, the  Complementary colors of blue and orange are used. In the left side, I used red and it Split-Complementary colors, yellow green and blue green.

I study use Complementary colors，Analogous colors and Split-Complementary colors to create different visual effect.

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Color theory is the study of how colors work together and how they affect our emotions and perceptions. It's like a toolbox for artists, designers, and creators to help them choose the right colors for their projects. Color theory enables you to pick colors that go well together and convey the right mood or message in your work.

Learn about most common color combinations.

Learn more in the Canvas online classroom

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Typographic Emphasis: Designing with type often calls for the use of typographic emphasis in order to call attention to an important word or phrase.

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Read and explain what are the 20 most common mistakes in User Experience UX

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Sometimes, advice on how not to do turns out to be the most practical, because simple guides and recommendations always leave room for wrong decisions. That's why we decided to share some examples of bad user experience with you.

So, let's not keep you waiting: here they are - the most stupid mistakes in creating UX, which even experienced webmasters often make.

#1 - Autoplay of audio/video

Needless to say, one of the most annoying things that can overtake website users is the instantaneous audio playback when opening a web page. In short, instead of forcing your website visitors to turn down the volume in a hurry, just provide a default mute with an option to turn it off.

#2 - Misuse of breaking news

Is COVID-19 making you feel bad? Our furniture will fix that. Our sushi delivery will fix that. Our phones will fix it. Similar, perhaps less literal, phrases can be found on almost every website whose administrators decided to add a little relevance to its textual content. Please don't do that. You shouldn't drag any world problems to your business niche if it's not connected with them.

#3 - Unstructured web forms

The forms below are quite simple. They may not confuse anyone (although such cases also happen), but the "aftertaste" after visiting websites with such forms won't be pleasant. Spend a few extra minutes to personalize your forms.

#4 - Long dropdowns

Have you ever tried to get to the needed item in a dropdown menu when it has to be scrolled? Believe us, this is not an easy task, especially for mobile users. Do not complicate their lives, this is not an easy thing, alas.

#5 - Violation of the three-click rule

Have you checked how many clicks a user needs to make on your website to complete the desired action? If for basic tasks this number exceeds three, something in your UX is definitely not right.

#6 - Сhecklists with a large number of options

Did you know that checklists were originally created so that the user could give a binary yes or no answer? This is not entirely true, there may be more options, but you definitely shouldn't abuse them.

#7 - Plenty of tooltips

Have you ever had tooltips clutter up important parts of the interface? We are sure that each of us has faced a similar situation. Indeed, if your interface requires such detailed explanations, perhaps it's a bad interface and needs to be made more intuitive?

#8 - Low discoverability

Are you sure that your users won't have to look for a needle in a haystack? We are talking about features that should be visible to the naked eye. Decide on the priority functionality and only then complete the less important interface elements.

#9 - Annoying color scheme

If color were so unimportant, there would be no Pantone Color Institute. In fact, people pay a lot of attention to color, and this rule applies to website color scheme as well. Therefore, instead of choosing something brighter, take an interest in what shades have the most beneficial effect on human perception.

#10 - Complex password requirements

Do you share secret Pentagon data on your website? Or maybe post conspiracy theories? If this is not so, why allow only people with outstanding memory to access its resources? Apparently, only they will be able to access their accounts on your website due to the high password requirements.

#11 - CAPTCHA overuse

We never understood why a CAPTCHA was required to enter an account on the marketplace because usually, robots have nothing to do there. If you want users to love your UX, don't put sand in the wheels when they try to load web pages.

#12 - Incorrect use of demo content

If your website is required to promote extra content on a paid basis, there is no need to embed offers to download demo content on every web page. This will quickly bother your visitors by having to constantly click 'X' to close the popup.

#13 - Lack of intuitiveness

Very often, the creative thinking of webmasters takes precedence over sanity. As a result, they create solutions, as in the example below. What to click, where to click? Let me move on to another website.

#14 - Specific jargon

You don't have to use buzzwords to be trendy. After all, how do you know who will be the next visitor to your website? Perhaps it will be a person far from your main target audience. Please don't forget about it. Speak clearly.

#15 - Empty space

Too little content? Come on, if even when the Internet is turned off, Google finds something to captivate users with (we all played with pixel Tirex), you should also have enough imagination to fill in empty spaces on such a web page.

#16 - Authorization issues

Authorization on the website is a reason to increase conversion rates. Why then complicate this procedure? Offer to test your login form with at least a couple of people to make sure it's not complicated.

#17 - Overuse in words

Finding a good copywriter is not an easy task. However, it's much more difficult to analyze later why users don't visit your website as often as you would like. Look for those who can write concisely and to the point, and you won't go wrong.

#18 - Unneeded messages

There is nothing worse than texting your boss that you want to quit, change your mind, hastily delete the message, and then try to explain what you wanted to write in it. We are talking about the example below. Many web solutions fall short of this approach. Unlike yours, if you follow our recommendations.

#19 - Lack o recommendations what to do

Consider that users are children who need clear instructions on what to do next and how to do it.

#20 - Load delay

Don't keep your users waiting. A few years ago, an acceptable download speed was equal to three seconds. Today this number is much less.

We hope that we have saved you from mistakes that make it difficult for your website visitors to interact with its interface. Therefore, now you are one step closer to creating the perfect user experience.

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Every year, we have a line up of new design trends that not only look good, but also stick around and influence other designers to "steal" the trend. Love it or hate it, there are actually some design waves that are smart and functional. These functions could range from including more information in less space, to build more engagement with the users.

Let's have a look at some of these trends that are here to stay and are taking over the internet!

Bento boxes are a staple in Japan's culture of tiffins and lunch boxes. They are well known for storing food in a rather organised format and keeping things clean.

Image credits - Freepik

We'll never know who thought about this, however bento boxes are as great digitally on a screen as they are filled with food in a bag.

Bento is another design trend that started making waves on platforms like Dribbble and Behance for millions of designers to pick up on, however the concept of "modular" design started with dashboards for websites. This includes sales and finance dashboards like PayPal, analytics like Google Ads, and a bunch more.

Remember Windows phone and Lumia? Well, the UI they used was essentially early iterations of Bento designs. Later, Microsoft also implemented this concept to their Windows desktop start menu with Windows 8.

Windows 8 start menu

While being used by the industry all over, Bento designs blew up completely when Apple decided to first use a Bento grid. They initially used it on their iPhone landing pages, but soon expanded to Apple event slides and presentations.

Apple is widely known to start megatrends, and Bento was just one of these. Every designer and their uncle was using Bento for presentations, websites, product launches, and the list goes on.

The biggest difference between older bento-like designs and the new trend, is that each section of the grid signifies a unique space instead of being a part of a group.

Unlike a lot of other UI design trends, Bento is actually evolving to be more than just a pretty layout style. It has now evolved to include product demos, mixed with some other unique layouts, and even stylised with new visual design concepts.

Have a look at this:

The above example is from diagram.com, which uses bento grids to show real life examples of what its tool can do through an interactive experience. This makes the tool so much more appealing and tells the users what they should expect.

To help designers like us, there are some websites dedicated to Bento design inspiration from all over the web. One such website is bentogrids.com, that has a large collection of just Bento grids for UI and graphic design. Bless the creators of this website!

You've just woken up and picked up your phone to view "important emails" while going number two, and your entire feed is full of Apple's new Vision Pro. This was the exact morning of every tech and design enthusiast in the world on June 5th of 2023.

For the next few weeks, this was all the tech world could talk about, and every designer was trying to pick up spatial design skills. Apart from the design trend, various AR/VR startups came to the forefront and their tech was finally being spoken about. This gave a real boost to AR and VR, one that was truly needed.

With great tech, comes great design potential. From smartwatches to folding phones, designers have always come forward to show their true adaptability. Spatial design was no exception.

This comes with the launch of a popular designer focused tool called "Bezi". It's very close to design tools like Figma and Spline, but with the added 3rd dimension. Designers can get into spatial design, connect a working AR/VR headset, and create interactive spatial experiences.

A little glimpse of what Bezi allows us to create:

Demo from Bezi.com

A large contributor to better AR/VR experiences, is better UX. Deeply understanding the tech behind the pretty designs, using an actual VR headset, testing things out in spatial environments, will all be part of the job. There will definitely be a lot of new lessons and changes to our current understanding of UX as we go along. However, this is one of those skills you want to stack up right now, and possibly use in the future.

Apart from the large imagination and deep pockets of Apple, there are some less tech-savvy companies which bring a whole new experience to wearing glasses.

Even though Google's project "Google Glasses" never touched real big production, the sunglass company RayBan has entered the smart wearables race with their new Meta Wayfarer.

Image credits - RayBan

Don't let the normal RayBan design fool you; The in-built cameras and smart features allow you to store video/images and livestream to social media. This brings a new dimension to user experience and customer experience. Perhaps, a trend for the year 2025. Who knows!

A new trend is often born when a new skill becomes accessible to more people.

This was one mission that LottieFiles had. When I joined the company as an evangelist, I was already in awe of the easy animations we could add to any UI in any tool. Looking at the demand for lottie animations, they even launched a plugin for Figma that allows us to convert our Figma animations into an exportable lottie JSON file.

This eradicates the large learning curve of After Effects and similar softwares. Hence, more designers can animate quickly on their own.

You will also start to notice enticing interactions on every company's landing page nowadays. This is all thanks to the ever-growing need for differentiating experiences for website visitors, and a greater demand for storytelling as a tool to sell products/services.

Take the following landing page interaction for example:

With scroll animations in place, visitors will be engrossed in what you have to present to them. No-code tools like Webflow and Framer are forever innovating to bring such animation capabilities to designers without the hassle of writing long lines of code.

One would think the ride ends here. Animation may have peaked and there is nothing more to look forward to. Fortunately for us, people in tech are always looking for the next big thing. Also, due to a never ending slew of capable tools, everything you can imagine becomes possible.

One such possibility has been the new "animated button trend". A new UI style that brings in animation techniques to liven up a simple button. These changes range from a simple stroke animation around the button, to literal stars moving inside the button on mouse hover.

Such trends are often created by a domino effect. First one designer's social post gets popularity, and then other prominent designers follow.

Of lately, a lot of designers are talking about how the design world is shifting from flat design (like the one you see here on Medium), to more pseudo realistic visual styles. These include 3D graphics, depth effects, neuemorphism, skeuomorphism, etc.

Recently, we saw a ton of companies implement 3D as a core style. Even though it might not show up right now on web and app design, logos are being updated with this new trend.

Just a few good examples of the new 3D wave made by Chan Karunaratne

Much like the other design trends, a huge reason for people to implement these styles is an introduction of "easy-to-use" web based 3D tools like Spline and Vectary that make including 3D assets on web and app super easy. They also bring 3D assets to life using animations, with some of the shortest learning curves I've experienced.

It's crazy to me as to how a basic linear gradient and some shadows, can add depth and a 3rd dimension to your designs and assets.

Another company that has always driven design and trends is Airbnb. They are widely renowned from their simple yet effective app designs and interactions. In 2023, they announced an app update that would really bring some new, important features.

What did they do? They incorporated more than a dozen 3Dish visual elements, and their announcement video is almost all about 3D.

Isometric visuals, 3D characters and animations, and a slew of app interactions makes me want to watch on repeat. The transition from flat to 3D is truly slow and steady, which is why I believe this trend is here to stay.

Now, who started this trend is always going to be a mystery, but the demand for realistic and relatable designs, drives us to innovate for the user, and for our own selfish creative reasons of course.

Artificial intelligence is the most used and recognised word in tech in the past decade. While some designers take it as a threat to their career's future, most of us are using this tech to create the best designs faster.

Adobe Firefly being used for video manipulation

A set of design tools advertising themselves as "A.I. powered", are trying to implement Open A.I. APIs at various levels, and are also working on their own A.I. model. However, most of these A.I. features are simply gimmicks. Randomly designing UI, shuffling assets around, and even providing basic solutions to tough problems. These are just a few of the criticisms I have, which are backed by a lot of community members.

In the clutter of these gimmicks, there are a few heroes that come to save the day. One such hero is Relume, a definite fan favorite. This Webflow focused company, launched something called Relume A.I., a powerful wire-framing and site-mapping tool.

You put in a prompt, which is essentially your project description, and it spews out a complete and detailed site-map and a wire-frame as well. This wire-frame is full of relevant data and layouts that can be quickly copied over to Figma and Webflow.

Also, am I the only one who thinks Chat-GPT is ruining human creativity and building dependency?

Image by Josh Calabrese

Enough about visuals and UI designs. UX has evolved to say the least, and this is something that can be justified by what UX researchers and designers are focusing on. This means leaning the process down to make designs accessible and inclusive.

A ton of designers are dipping their toes into the lake of usability over visual design. This has brought simpler and actionable designs to the centre. Designers are sticking to what works, rather than reinventing the wheel, despite the changes to the industry in the past few years.

The above Google trends graph shows how accessible design has become a truly industrial requirement.

These accessibility techniques range from color contrast, readable fonts, recognisable action elements, all the way to shadowing differently-abled humans to bring accessibility focused features to the board.

Why is Accessibility In Demand?

Accessibility is also being pushed hard due to the current need to design for people of all ages and even physical limitations. Companies want to cash in on all different demographics and are also pushing for inclusivity at every aspect. As more and more people go digital, it is almost mandatory for a designer to focus on accessible design.

Courses and bootcamps sniffed the demand from miles away and are also preparing students to get into design with a good knowledge of accessible design.

Personalisation

Apart from Accessibility, personalisation is what is really keeping people locked into an app or website. You must have seen this little message on YouTube before -

You might also observe various apps experimenting with a new feature for a few days, and then pulling it back because users didn't appreciate it. This is a direct representation of how UX designers are taking the lead when it comes to the future of products and services.

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