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A Moment of Reflection

When I create imagery for my own music or films, I choose colors by how the sound makes me feel; however, I never had to describe why I chose the color. To me it was just natural; it just works with it. So, when I was tasked to describe the color and the meaning of it, for a second I was stuck; I did not have an answer besides it just felt right. I understood certain colors had certain connotations to them when used in specific manners; for example, red in a octagon means stop. As I was writing it, I had to dig way deeper than before “what was the feeling I had,” and “why does it make me feel that way?” As I got more introspective with myself, I began to understand my motivations for colors and describing it got easier. Though most of my recent post were black and white, I through a touch of color in my post “To the Complacent” to raise some alarm. I tried throughout this class to keep my colors minimal, most had a foundation of black then add other colors to keep a sort of regal or sophistication to the post or site.

Overall, I think I have learned a lot about creating compelling digital content. Everything on a page has meaning or significance, even the white space!

When I came into the class in mid-May, I came in with the expectation to learn more about writing captions for social media or twitter post. I also thought more along the lines of blogs and optimizing post with keywords and compelling descriptions. I did not expect to create websites and cutlines for images or other media. I do not think when it started writing included much more than just the words used. As this class comes to an end, I think I have three key take away: Imagery is as important as words, colors speak, and organization of words matter.

The quote “a picture is worth a thousand words,” rings true. I found it much easier to write and describe pictures than to just write what I wanted to say. Also, picture add to the aesthetic of websites and post. They say what I cannot describe in words. People react to them on a real level; people connect more easily when they can see the problem.

As for organization, I somewhat struggle in this. Throughout my life in school I was taught to write paragraphs and essays. Five sentences make a paragraph and no less than a page. So typically, I write in clunky paragraphs like these. I had to figure out the best way to break it up, in order to make my post and websites easy to read. I would start with alignment; the first part of the sentence would be aligned left then I would hit enter twice and align the next part of the sentence to the right. But then I would run into the issue of proximity; would my reader understand that these to sentences go together. I had to find a fine balance between the two.