Sunday, March 22, 2009

Critique!

Here's my critique for the remix project:

I chose to critique Christina Short's project. Her project used and mixture of text and pictures to make an entirely new piece. The theme seemed to be children's stories.

She used photoshop to cut and paste several photos together. Each photo represented one of the stories. I wish she could have made each piece of the remixed photo into a link that cooresponded with its story. It would have made it easier to follow, as well as a bit mor exciting. Even so, her project's layout was excellent.

The texts were also changed in various ways. In 'The Lost Princess of Oz', entire words had been whited out. The elongated spaces between words made for a very artsy effect to the piece. In 'The Sea Horse', the names of the characters had been changed, but the story stayed the same. That is an imaginative thing to do; I would never have thought to have done something as simple as changing a character's name in a story. It's cute.

Overall, the project was really well done. The "title" page was clean and presentable, and the links were easy to locate. All required information was cited as well.