Discourse

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

1. Demonstrate basic awareness of the leading practitioners within their field of study
2. Evidence of understanding of the historical context for the discipline
3. Have a broad understanding of the wider applications, creative and commercial of their chosen field

Thinking Skills

4. Demonstrate an ability to analyse and distill a range of imagery and information
5. Articulate their ideas in text form
6. Present cogent arguments verbally

Subject-based practical skills

7. Reflect in the appropriateness of their chosen media to the subject matter
8. Present an informed position regarding cultural and historical events relating to their discipline
9. Present a learning journal that reflects their research methodology

Skills for life and work

10. Discuss and evaluate their own work in group situations
11. Contribute to seminars and critiques in relation to the work of their peers


Week 3 (Reflection)

What work have I done this week?
Find a sub-culture to discuss among the class

What was successful in my work?
Successfully discuss the sub-culture

What was unsuccessful in my work?
None

How will I develop my work in the coming week?
Present the sub-culture in form of power slide


Week 4 (Reflection)

What work have I done this week?
Present the sub-culture in Powerpoint

What was successful in my work?
Successfully presented the sub-culture and gained additional information

What was unsuccessful in my work?
None

How will I develop my work in the coming week?
Find 5 influence artists that influence me in many ways



Week 5 (Reflection)

What work have I done this week?
Discussion on Analyse

What was successful in my work?
Discuss on Analyzing artworks from a designer view

What was unsuccessful in my work?
None

How will I develop my work in the coming week?
Further develop my analytic skills by analyzing a random image or artwork


Task (Image Analysis)

We were given a task to find an image of any sorts and analysis it's content and give out discussion based on our findings. The image above is the image I've chosen to do the analysis on, it is a photoshoot for a magazine.

My analysis:

Subject: Surrealism

Context:

The colour used is plain and bright to enable easy find on the main focal point.
The main focus is the bag not the clothing or the model.
The tree is a prop to make balance between the top and bottom half of the image.
The model proportion is align with the columns in the background.
One of the tree branch is invading the bottom half of the image to give a connection between the top half and bottom half.

(26th February 2014)

Sub-culture Website Design

In the next task I've been told to design a webpage based on the sub-culture that I've previously chosen which is Car Clubs.

I chose the Honda Civic Car Club to be my webpage design and here is what I've done

HOME PAGE

and if the mouse is over a certain title that part of the car will change

GALLERY

The tyre rotate and works like a scroll bar and the images can be click to enlarge it

TECHNICAL SUPPORT

When you choose a topic

Click the red dots for more information

FORUM

EVENT

TRADE MARKET

SELLING

BUYING

That is all the pages for the website I've design

Task (Analysis)

The analysis for the website of the Honda Civic Car Club is that it is a website design solely for the usage of car lovers and not for average person to use because of its theme. The multiple shapes of cars uses may annoy most users but not car lovers.

The website is designed for the Honda Civic Car Club members therefore the functionality and design flow are more bias on that side, however it still can be improved by changing some of the ways the layout is used

For example, the car shapes used for the website context box can be changed to less car like shaped but not entirely square, a rounded kind of shape of a car. That way other users, like non members can also use the website and this can be seen as a way to get new members into the club without much promoting the new member would come to the website find it interesting and joins.

The one thing this website has problem with is the colour usage, the colour combination is the website is slightly below average. Something kinda like from a cartoon world where the flow is all mixed up. The colour makes the website looks weird in a way, and also kinda makes it less interesting.

The website also use repeating props and objects in the design this may also make it look corporate like in a sense. This is something the website should not follow, it should be more experimental and more dynamic then just a simple and plain website like a normal corporate websites, this website stand in between that the dynamic and complex design and simple plain corporate websites.