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How to show my work and to make portfolios? Portfolio can tell a story, make shapes and paces of my work and give a presentation of my work. What elements are important for making a portfolio? 

-The content: Display of image documented for optimal. 

-The process: Images that demonstrate the act of creation. (How to make it?)

Exhibition of everyday connections

I would like to express the story of a man. The story is that the man tries to tell his love to woman whom he likes and the result of her answer.

I placed the this 5 photos on the door. It meant the man opened the door and went on his journey. The door was a starting point of the story. However, it was not clear about the story and the photos were too small. The audiences must have been confused and some of them could not have found out this. I should have printed out them bigger. 

At this exhibition I realised how much important the space was. I connected with all of the photos, however, I could use spaces between each photos and also using the space could tell the story clearer. Moreover I should have thought about not only the space of the gap of the photos but also the space which was surroundings of the photos (i.e. the room, the pattern of the wall, the light came from the outside...etc.).

the unbroken and consistent existence or operation of something over time often used through ‘montage’. The maintenance of continuous action and self-consistent detail in the various scenes of a film or broadcast.

Key:

-a journey and action could be a story, sequence.

the arrangement of events or dates in the order of their occurrence.

I ordered all my images in chronological order. Then I picked out images from this sequence and play around with 5 image based sequences.

1. further

2. left on the ground

3. one day

4. go to the shopping

5. look down, look up

a system used for putting things into groups according to how they are similar: the study of how things can be divided into different types.

I organised and ordered my images into typologies.  Then I created 5 image sequences for each 3 different typologies.

1. yellow line

2. line

3. circle

4. edible

5. pattern

6. left on the ground

7. pointed

8. orange

When I solve the puzzle of pictures (images), I should consider content, composition, colours, texture, tone, shadow and framing. 

1. radial

2. circle

3. lines

4. three

5. triangular

6. connection

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This article said that visual story telling (illustration, animation, etc) is important to explain something which is too complicated such as medical situation and science research. The visual images can make audience understand things higher level, have relationship of trust with audience and ensure scrupulous understand of research. And also it can increase wide audiences of scientist and non-scientists.

I watched Stephen Hawking's big ideas... made simple which is in the article. The animation made me understand easily what it said even my first language is not English. Simply I enjoyed the animation. If there is no animation, I must have not understood it at all.

Visual story telling has really strong power.

Stephen Hawking's big ideas... made simple