Concept:

Color:

Variously bright colors are utilized to rich the content of my flash animation as well as make my flash look fun and interesting.

Shape:

The screen of the flash is basically made up by a various range of simple geometric shapes. Circle is easily seen in my design. I try to use circles to balance and organize my picture composition. Circle is symmetrical shape embodying peaceful, harmonious and unity. When people see pigs moving around the circle, it is easy for them associate the circle with “earth”. The disaster of swine flu is the world’s problem. I do hope people over the world can cooperate together to desist this disease.

Why I choose swine flu

When I choose the topic of my design, I think I am really influenced by the project I did last semester with other group mates. We were asked to design an interactive game in order to encourage people eating healthily without too much meat. One of my group mate had designed a wonderful logo with the image of pig. Therefore, while I get data of swine flu, I cannot help thinking of “pigs”. On the other, in 2008, China has suffered a serious disaster and thousands people were dead for SARS. The increasing economic is negatively affected by this unexpected disease. A plenty of people were unemployed and students had to stay at home as schools were chose. I do see the harm and inconvenience for society brought by flu. Therefore, I hope this design can keep people’s eyes on this isuue.

The process of designing Mashup

 

Chinese Opera is a kind of traditional Chinese art and Chinese masks have its special artistic value. Red is the predominant color in my design. As a Chinese, I am proud of my nation’s civilization, so I decide to make a Mashup of Chinese Opera masks.

Red is power and passionate. Also, In China, red color has special meaning, which denotes happiness and prosperity, widely being used for attracting good luck. As images posted above, “red” presents a beautiful tone of Chinese Culture. During some essential celebrations, senior people normally send red paper containing money which is called “lucky money” as gifts to junior relatives. In ancient times, traditional brides need to dress up red clothing and sit in a red sedan chair to go for marry. For my Mashup, I try to convey audience “Chinese tue” basing on red color.

The structure of my Mashup is not that creative. I am aiming to ensure that my mashup be functioning well and be easily used by audience within in my limited knowledge. On the hand other, the mashup is desired to a bridge to convey Chinese culture to people over the world. 

Reference:


Melbourne, Vic. : Oxford University Press, 2008. Kelvin Grove / 686.2252 34Downman, Scott. Edit: a guide to layout, design & publication. South


Graham, Lisa. Basics of design: layout and typography for beginners. Clifton Park, N.Y. : Thomson/Delmar Learning, c2005. Kelvin Grove/ 686.2252 31 /2

                                                                                                    

Design for mashup

Design process of final Mashup

Strature of the final mashup

Practice3

 For this practice, we begin to learn how to improve the functionality of the created Mashup by encoding PHP. I have no knowledge of PHP before, so it seems to be a tough job for me. I am quiet into “user-input function” encoded by PHP, as it give users values to search what they wants. With Dave’s help, finally I did my simple PHP document like the photo posted above.