Sera Knobler

Final Project from Sera Knobler on Vimeo .

I looked at a YouTube video that I really like because of its use of jump cuts. The video is called “Girl Talk As You Grow Up” and the actor in this video creates two characters who are both played by herself and she uses these jump cut scenes to go back and forth between to girls who are talking to each other. The camera focuses on one character first, while she is speaking and when the next character responds, the camera cuts to her. The scene is broken up between three sets of girls, all played by the same person. The first set of conversations is between two kids in elementary school. The scene goes cuts between the two while they speak with each other. The next has the same concept, but the camera cuts between the two elementary school girls to two middle school girls. The same thing happens again when the camera cuts between middle school girls to high school girls. The purpose of these cut scenes is to show that time has passed between the shots. Since the first part of the ...

Interview with Virginia! from Sera Knobler on Vimeo .

It’s quite fascinating to take a moment to just sit and listen. The sounds we hear everyday, the ones we are so familiar with, seem oddly unfamiliar when we isolate them in our brains. It becomes almost difficult to pinpoint the sources of the sounds that we are so used to. When I say this I mean that we are so tuned out to our surroundings on a daily basis that familiar noises sound different and more significant when we take time to tune in and really hear them.  I am fortunate enough to have a terrace as part of my apartment, so I took some time to sit out there and hear my neighborhood. With my eyes closed for a while, I am able to focus on the first the louder sounds – the sounds of the occasional car braking to make the turn that leads to the bottom of the hill I live at the top of, the rumbling of the highway at the bottom of that hill, and the sound of my dog barking at my increasingly brave cats trying to join me on my soundwalk.  As I begin to listen more closely...

My name is Sera Knobler, and I am a junior at Hunter College studying Sociology and Media, with a concentration in Emerging Media. I enjoy simple and minimal design and although my experience with web and photography is limited, I am eager to learn.  What interests me most is web design and typography, as well as video animation and finding ways to incorporate some of these skills into my works. Specifically, I want to create layouts for posters, and design functional illustrations for both print and web.  Today, I am working to understand the relationship between design and the public, and I wish to explore the effects media has on a person’s decision making as well as desire to participate in the public sphere.  To achieve this goal, I am currently designing my own website and creating a portfolio with all my works. I am working towards developing my design skills to conceptualize my personal brand and I am hoping to pursue a career in marketing and advertisi...