What's Your Stance? Blog Reflection

1. Honestly, I had to change my view on the topic over the time period of doing the project. I did not do so because it was clearly easier to do. When I started this project, I was struggling on coming up with a topic. Due to that, I had to come to more of a realization of the topic. I took a broader view on how technology has affect my life. It has clearly taken a toll of my entire life. I have a game that logs how many hours I have played. When I saw that it had 1,300 hours logged, I completely shut down. I was on game for over a thousand hours and it only took only a year. My view of technology changed throughout the process of the project and also helped me to manage my time with my computer. Finally, the poster shows that the technology affect humans and that how I feel. The human body in the poster grows more out of shape over time due to technology and thats what I wanted to warn the public with, before it was too late for some.

2. Since I changed my idea, I don't think that I have shown my complete image that I originally wanted in my thumbnail sketches. Originally in my thumbnail sketches, I wanted to have either a a row of words showing my idea and either a cartoon way of saying technology is good. However, even though it was completely different, I do like the way that my poster looks right now. I feel pretty accomplished to have the poster look the way it is.

3. From the first draft, I had made a simple plain document with and earth with a wire wrapped around it. It became the dot to the dot of the WiFi signal symbol. It was to show the idea of technology but it didn't quite show my stance. Therefore I went with my final poster look by showing a change over time of a person to the future.

4. Conceptually, I believe is my strongest point. This is because one can easily see what I am trying to state from my poster with the images and the text as well. However, my weakest point would probably my design part because I think that I could've better laid out my images and text.

5. The most challenging part of the project was getting an idea on the computer and actually making it work. I was unable to clearly grasp an idea that could show my stance properly.

6. Technically, the most stressful part of aligning things better with each other and putting them in places where it would benefit the composition in all. It was all because we are all not yet completely accustomed to the new program Adobe Illustrator although we may have worked with it for a while. There are still many options that I am unsure about.