MIL

• Text


  Any "human-readable sequence of characteristics."
• Creators

  • Authors-Who writes professionally
  • Writers-Who writes anything
  • Contributors- Whose work is included in a book
• Typeface


  • Font, representation of text, comprised of alphabets, numbers

  Serif (formality and readability)

  Sans Serif (clean and minimalist)

  Slab Serif (solid or heavy look)

  Script (brush like strokes)

  Decorative- caters to a wide variety of emotions
• Principles of typography


  • EMPHASIS- importance/value to a part

  APPROPRIATENESS-fitting/suitable the text to audience

  PROXIMITY- how near or far

  ALIGNMENT- position in the page (left, center, right, or justified)

  ORGANIZATION- organize the different text elements, separated but still connected

  REPETITION- consistency of elements, unity, repeating some typeface

  Contrast- different from each other
• Shape


  • Outline, thick, thin
• Form


  • Geometric or organic area. Self-contained and formed by lines
• Value


  • Light and dark, contrast. Extreme changes between value
• Texture


  • Surface feels or perceived to feel. Attract or repel

  You can feel the texture

  Only see not feel
• Color


  • Hue, intensity, value, emphasis, and elicit emotions.
• Volume


  • Figure having volume and thickness, 3d. Has length, width, and height.
• Center of attraction

  • First attracts in a composition. More important in a composition
• Balance


  • Visual equality, symmetrical or asymmetrical
• Harmony


  • Brings together in a composition
• Tension


  • Change in value creating a visual discord
• Rhythm


  • Visual flow

  Recur regularly. Beat of music
• Composition


  • Arrangement of objects in 2d
• Audio


  Sound, recorded, transmitted, or reproduced
• Radio


  Audio sent through radio waves
• Music


  Vocal or instrument sounds to produce beauty of form
• Recording


  Recording of interview, meeting, sound from the environment
• Podcast


  Digital audio or video file, usually part of a themed series
• Physical media


  Plastic fabricated

  External flash drive
• Digital media


  Small storage medium

  Secondary storage devices

  Websites/ file repositories
• Multimedia


  Combination, balance, control of multiple sound
• Timing


  • Time control
• Stereo


  • Aspect of sound recording of using LEFT and RIGHT channel for depth.
• Transition


  • How you get one segment or element to another
• Animation


  Visual media that gives the appearance of a movement. Collection of graphics, footage, and videos, it is combined with audio, text, and interactive content
• Animated film


  Scene from animated film. Process of designing, drawing, making layouts, and preparation of photographic sequences
• Film


  Movie picture, series of still or moving images
• Documentary


  Non-fictional intended to document some aspect of reality.
• Short film


  Film not long enough
• Movement


  • Fast movement

  Movement from one direction to another, growing or shrinking of an object

  Objective (mins, secs, days) subjective( psychological or felt). Clarify or intensify the message

  Switch between scenes

  Adds meaning to the motion

  The illusion of fast movement (animation), censor info (Videos).
• Multimedia


  Information can be through audio, video, and animation. Computer-controlled integration of text, graphics, drawings, still, and moving images.