Brief: Create a visual representation of your ‘journey’ to the MA Communication Design programme that includes a profile of your current interests, skills and strengths. How you interpret the brief is open to your imagination, but your work should be based on features and characteristics of a map. You can interpret the idea of a journey metaphorically or literally. Visual elements will also be used to create a background video image for your online teaching session.
Mindmap
Mindmap about ‘My Night ‘
IDEA
In my life, I have a strong dependence on headphones. It not only meets my daily needs for headphones, such as listening to music, radio or learning, but also helps me a lot. However, the most important thing is that the quality of my sleep depends on headphones. Especially at night, I have to wear headphones to go to sleep. Although sometimes I don’t listen to any music or radio station, I can only go to sleep with headphones. So in my ‘journey’, headphones are like navigation, which can bring me a good sleep, just as the sleep quality depends on glial cells, so headphones are indispensable to me. So I recorded my night, which reflects my strong dependence on headphones and the rooting of headphones in my mind, and my emotions can be completely vented at night.
Keywords: Dependence , Headphone ,Glial cells
DRAFT
Draft about the’Glial cells’
I choose this because I want to show a stronger sense of dependence, just like the influence of nerve cells on the quality of sleep, headphones are also taking root in my mind.
TRYING
This is the first image. In order to better highlight the night, I directly chose black as the background color, and the main body of the picture chose a bright color to match. Because I want to use a more direct and meaningful impact way to show how much I rely on headphones at night, so I research some information about the changes in people’s brain waves under different Hertz, and I wanted to add my brain waves when I hear different music. However, I couldn’t test the real brain waves by myself, so I made adjustments in the second modification.
In the second modification, I collected the pictures of the songs I listened to the most times and collaged the pictures. The picture also adopted a two-division structure. On the right half of the screen, I chose the keywords in my mindmap, such as catharsis, rooting and sprouting, sleep quality and high dependence. I put these keywords on the forks separately, just like the headphones took root in my mind at night.
Collection
Collect covers of songs I like to listen to.
Final modification
In the final modification, I adjusted the color and font again. Because of the second modification, my picture showed an unbalanced visual effect. I used a light color as the background color on the right half, so in the final modification I still used a dark color as the background color and used some graininess. To enhance the effect of the night, I also made the ear expression more specific and added the element of headphones, and the visual effect of the whole picture will be more harmonious.
The reason why I choose headphones is not only because it is my necessities. In fact, I usually spend very little time alone. Only at night I have time to be alone. So it’s like cells that affect the quality of sleep. Headphones not only relieve my emotions but also my sleep quality is better. So, this is why I chose the headphones as a map to describe myself.