Author Archives: Xiao Yan Wu

Final Project Brief

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http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21719516-relatively-few-them-are-sleeping-rough-new-york-has-record-numbers-homeless

Masses huddled
New York has record numbers of homeless people
But relatively few of them are sleeping rough

This short article is about homeless people are moving into hotels are for temporary living. Hotels can’t afford too many people; this hasn’t included those are living on the street, subways, and parks. The city is planning to build more homeless shelters in order to help the homeless people. However, homelessness is a long battle that is hard to end the problem. What we can do is too little, so we have to raise the problem to the public and everyone can help a bit.

1.The audience is New Yorkers
2.It will be people and still life.
3.It will be serious and depressed.
4.It is literal for all approach.
5.I will ask Malcolm or Johnathan to be my model.
6.The objects will be cardboards, garbage bag, plastic bag, and rotten or dirty clothing.
7.The lighting will be bright. The light direction comes from either left or right side. For the still life, the light comes from top or side and bottom. For the people, it’s in silhouette. The background color will be white, but it can add some color filter to see different results.
8.For the people, black and white might work very good on it, but I will add some color filter to see the different results, and change back to black and white to make it feel poor. For the still life, I will try to maintain the original color first to see how it looks like, then I will also try to make it black and white to compare the results of it. The overall purpose is trying to make the photographs look sad and also impact the public.

Social Media

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Social Media addiction is a bigger problem than you think.

Social networkers and creators are trying so hard to make their networks so addictive that you can’t resist them. A study shows that people intended to quit them, but they couldn’t make more than a few days. They are fear of missing out because everyone is using social media; everyone has a phone. That notification number draws them into it. Image ideas are two people have their phone, one you can see the notification number on top of the Facebook app, one you can see the notification number is on while the person is on Facebook; another idea is a person is on Facebook watching a funny video and interacting with friends.

It’s Not All Bad: The Social Good of Social Media

The main point is that major new outlets, corporations, and persons of interest use social media to deliver messages to the masses. When news or items are posting immediately, the public can stay informed. Delivering new alerts on social media channels reach more people faster. Social media can also be a valuable tool for sending safety messages and showing photos from severe crashes resulting from distractions. Sometimes, social media does more good than harm in retrospect. Image idea: one person is on Facebook looking at the posts about internship or designs in Group or Public information (Communication Design @ CityTech) on Facebook; another idea-a person is using Facebook Messenger on the phone, talking about homework with his/her classmates.