Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Thinking about Project 3

I have a fair grasp of what we are supposed to accomplish in project 3. I, along with most college youth with an internet connection, am familiar with the wide range of Web 2.0 sites and their inherent styles, purposes, and formats.
I am not absolutely sure what kind of identity I would like to create for my fictional persona, but I understand the concept of creating a fictional character to be represented through the means of these websites. It is interesting to think of creating a fictional persona on the sites where people attempt to portray their real selves.

One idea I have for a fictonal persona is creating a stereotypically conservative persona, both politically and ideologically. This person made be a wealthy, white male of perhaps attractive stature. This persons conservative beleifs and attitudes would be a blatant part of their identity and essentially consume others impression of them.

I guess that sounds like a Stephen Colbert.

On the other hand, before I fully develop a persona for this project, I would like to think of some original and eccentric identity to develop for an example of how many strange people there are out there portraying themselves on the internet.

To what extent does our fictional person need their relations developed?
Pictures?

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Project 2 Progress

I have a general idea of how I am going to construct the images I have for project 2. I have a narrative of idea of capturing a snowboarding trip and showing different phases of it; watching snow fall, overlooking a mountain, the actual riding, and having to leave. I need to narrow down what images I am going to use specifically because I have brought some in, but I am not positive that those are my final candidates. Once I have chosen my definitive images I need to properly edit all of them, probably in Dreamweaver in order for them to be movable, be inter-linked, have alt tags.

I may possibly use iframes and other techniques, but I will decide what is necessary for the project and what works for my ideas.

I need to properly organize my WinSCP folder and have my project 2 part of my website functional.