La dama y la muerte

This one, in my opinion, is one of the funniest short films that we saw in the multimedia class the other day

la dama y la muerte tell us a story about a old woman who lives alone in the middle of nothing who miss her defunct husband, and one night died, and the death comes to take her soul to the other side of the door to take her with her husband, BUT, a doctor saved her life, and then started a contest between the death and the doctor to see who wins, the death taking the life or the doctor saving her.

Obviously is frustrating to die and be alive again and again, in the end the death was furious and leave the old woman lives, she really doesn’t wanted to, so she took an electronic equipment very angry with the doctors, and throws herself to a place with water with that equipment to die

In another part the death very angry receives a call to take a life, the old woman again, the death was very furious to see that he needed to travel all the way again to took her AGAIN!!

It’s very funny and it was created in Maya animation, the story is very simple, creative and funny, in my opinion inspires a lot to create funny and interesting animations in different ways!

Haven’t you seen it? SEE IT RIGHT NOW AND LAUGH!!

Why Visual Literacy is so important..

Visual literacy is something very important for different kinds of disciplines like Graphic design, because it helps us to know in a very accurate way about how to express something better without confusion.

The visual literacy is an ability to know how to interpret and make a meaning from information and presented in image form, in other words, how to express or communicate an idea with pictures like movies, animations, comics, or photographs in a better way.

This is very important in this days because is the way that we try to tell a story, when we make a project like a movie, an animation or a comic we are trying to tell a story or something, in other words, make other people to understand our idea and meaning of our work.

If weren’t for the visual literacy you wouldn’t realize when a person is happy or angry in a movie, it’s simple, see around you right now, see a photograph, a poster or something… you get a message in your mind about it? How the people or the environment feels? Ok, if you did and you got it, congratulations, you used visual literacy to understand and feel that idea.

Right now, for example, TV commercials, need to know how to communicate things in 30 seconds, you must make other to get the right idea that you want to tell, or in other words, tell a story.

To understand about how to use visual literacy starts with facial expressions, environment, moves, and obviously, from where are you watching the action, how to understand and how to make it is something that is learn with experience and practice.

Imagine a movie where you understand something different than the real main meaning, or worse, you couldn’t understand it, how it feel? Yeah.. That is the importance of visual literacy..

how do you know what they are telling you?