GARVAN'S DIGITAL MEDIA BLOG

 Film Production  What is design thinking? Design thinking is a tool or mindset that will get you to think about all aspects of a design before you even start to create it, it makes you ask yourself who is this design aimed at and how can I target that audience in the best way. It's important to be aware of design thinking because not only will it make the project, you’re working in better but other designers will be using it too in a professional setting as in the video it is described a standard practice for digital designers. Design thinking seems useful for projects that you are not given a very clear brief, or you're not given a brief at all, and you get more freedom to create your own design, it also seems useful for advertisement designs or designs aimed at a certain demographic.   The process of making a film is called “production” this process is then broken down into three stages “pre-production, production and post-production”. Pre-production takes pace befor...

 Cancel culture   The topic my group has chosen to discuss is online shaming and cancel culture, which is very relevant in today’s world of social media. The reason I wanted to do a project on cancel culture is because social media is more than a way to catch up with old friends or post holiday pictures, social media has evolved into a way to express your self online and nowadays, some people's first impression of you is the version of you that you portray online So, what is online shaming and cancel culture? To be “cancelled” is to shamed online which Is not anything new even before we had the internet we had tabloids newspapers that would report celebrity gossip and drama for people to read, the difference now with social media is people are not only reading the gossip and drama, but now they can get involved and some people like getting involved not because they care about the drama or gossip because they like cancelling celebrities this is what is creating today's cancel c...

The medium is the message Video 1: This video talks about the different forms of media and how as it is now more accessible than ever with digital media, but with this greater access to information also come greater access to misinformation and how anyone can create content online and make it look credible. There is multiple was to now check if information is true websites such as Instagram have fact-checker check post and will give a warning post they contain falls information whereas sites like YouTube will tell you if news accounts are funded by the public or government run, and it will also tell you which country is funding the account. If I see an article or piece of information that I am interested in, I will google the headline and try to find multiple articles with the same information there are also websites that fact check trending headlines to verify that the claims are legit.   Video 2: The second video talked about digital literacy in today’s society and how as technol...

My Experience Reading This Paper    I honestly had a hard time understanding this paper, as I am not used to reading academic papers whatsoever, so it was a new experience for me. I am also unfamiliar with the subject, which makes it very hard to comprehend and have no knowledge on the subject the paper was about, so it was hard to find any valuable information even after multiple reads. From what I could understand, the paper talked about what is the best way to retain information and how some people suggest that retention is automatic with comprehension while others suggest the retention is influenced by interactive  factors. Personally, I feel like it depends on the person but for me when I do interact learning or studying, I retain information better than if I was to just learn it off, I also feel like I retain and can information quicker and study for a longer period when I am doing interactive study.   I think this paper was primarily aimed at teachers and educ...

   Video 1: The first video was very helpful to me, as I have always had a hard time studying and staying on task. The first video provided me with lots of very useful tools and programs such as Pomodoro which will help me manage tasks, set reminders and overall help me stay focused on my study. I also found the part about quizzing (aka active recall) very helpful as when I would try to study in the past, I would just try to read a piece of information repeatedly till I had it memorized, which I found very boring and took a very long time. I liked how mike compared studying to learning an instrument or playing a sport, and how the only way to get better at it was to be active in it. Mike also talked about spacing which I found interesting as I’ve never heard of it before and how nowadays we use spaced repetition software (SRS) which I am excited to try as before I would just do all my homework and study together just so I had it done.   Video 2: The second video w...

 Introduction To Garvan 1/10/21 Hello, my name is Garvan Mc Quaid, I am nineteen years old and have been doing graphic design for the last 4 years as a side job to makes some extra money. The main program I use would be photoshop, but I have used adobe illustrator and InDesign in the past for some projects that I have worked on. I mainly do promotional designs like business cards, flyers, logos, and booklets but have also designed many other things like hoodies, t-shirts and cycling gear. What made me want to pursue graphic design as a job was because in 2019 I entered a design competition for the LGBTI+ nation youth strategy welcome sticker, this competition was open to everyone in Ireland that was under the age of 24 and there were over 4000 entries in the first stag e , o nly 8 people were chosen to move onto the second and final stage. This was the first time I had entered a design competition and I didn’t expect to win but I got invited to the second stage where they were g...