Home Project

Ling Home

Ling’s set up was very impressive. You could tell that he put a lot of work and effort into it. I really liked how he placed his first picture on the cover of a book. This showed that it is the beginning of a story and it made me want to “turn the pages” and read on. Ling used some great pictures that showed how excellent of a photographer he is. He angled his shots well, like the one of his computer screen and we were able to really see his relationship to it. The only thing I think that Ling that would make his project even better would be to continuously be personal in all of his slides.

John’s Home

From the first page you can see that to John home is family and he used a creative interesting way to show it. One of John’s slides showed a TV with an old family sitcom playing. I though that this was a really good choice because on the first slide John introduces his family like typical characters you would find on one of these shows. This made me want to see more like TV shows are designed to do. On the slide about his sister Cara, we are able to clearly see the reason why he describes her as he does. From this picture we are also able to see more of where John lives. In his last picture of his best friend Tali you were able to see the close relationship that they share, and sticking with the TV theme, maybe setting up a future storyline.

Nikki’s Home

Nikki did a great job in pulling the reader in and making me want to get to know her. She titled her project “the elements of Nicole” and placed small pictures of different parts of her face, representing all the different parts and sides to her we are going to get to know. She then opened up with an inviting introduction. I really liked how she actively gave us choices throughout, as a viewer it made it more interesting and fun to sit through. Nikki took really good pictures. I liked the picture of her books, which related that she was smart and studious, something that I had already known just from sitting in class with her this semester. I also liked how she used two pictures to describe her work. Her caption read something like “not just work, but a second home,” she used one picture that represented the work side of her job and the other showed why she called it a second home by showing her working and having fun with her coworkers, who are also her friends.

Nicole’s Home

Nicole associates home with family. You can see from her first slide that here parents are a big part of her life. It was nice to see that after so many years her parents are still in love, in a world where that is becoming increasingly more rare. What also interested me was that she is an only child who did not miss out on much. Her parents were and still are very involved in her life. Nicole mentioned that they are her best friends and when she was small they were the ones who would play with her. Her next picture was of Mr. bear. You could tell by the way Nicole personified this bear. It was and still is a big part of her life. She told us a story about her bear, which showed us how important he was to her. In the picture Mr. Bear was laying in her bed, his head on the pillow with the covers pulled up around him. In the text Nicole mentioned how Mr. bear is a part of her family and how he knows all of her secrets.