This past quarter we have been working on our products. My team's product was ZapKey, a key that shrinks your car, thus making it much more portable. The graphic design portions took a considerable amount of time, about just under two weeks. The animations only took about a week. The video portion took about a week and a half, mostly due to the lightning special effect, that took forever. The greatest challenge was definitely the lightning bolt effect, it was very frustrating and not too awfully clear on how to apply it. Something I did learn is how to work with a team that I may not entirely be too similar with, for example I was the only introvert (I actually am an ambivert) on the team. Some feedback from my team was to just go for it and to see how it looks on a design, because I would always ask, "Should I do this or that?"Some changes I made were just subtle changes in the designs to make them look sharper. I personally think my work done this quarter was very good.
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I mostly used my class time to work on my projects. When I had extra time I would usually try to find things to mess around with on Aftereffects because I always thought that seemed like a neat program. One thing I did in my free time was make a short little youtube channel intro with a template for the intro of the CW show The Flash. Outside of class we filmed during Power 50 once so we could get the commercial done. One time we didn't utilize our time as well was when we needed to create the presentation.
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Some of my strengths are Graphic Design and video. I have always been great at video, so no real surprise there. Graphic design surprised me though as that has never been my thing. I pretty good at animation too. I would maximize these strengths by fiddling around outside of class. For graphic design I would draw and make youtube channel logos and art for me and my friends. For video I would make YouTube videos with my friends about every weekend. For animation I would occasionally make little stop motion videos with my Lego figures.
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Some things I need to improve is the rule of thirds in my videos, I have never been too great at that. In animation I need to be more patient with it as it is a more time consuming and tedious process. Graphic design I can use colors and contrast them more.
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My favorite part of the quarter was definitely the video portion, I did enjoy that quite a bit. Next time I would utilize the time to prepare the presentation better. I learned that this quarter I need to learn to work better with others as I have usually done things by myself. One goal I would like to set for myself is to improve my video skills much more. Overall, I had a good time this quarter it was actually pretty fun.
What we did This past week we created another web page but this one was for a poem called "Another Reason I don't keep a gun in the House". We began by adding in the starting files and we then created new rules on the different parts such as the headings. Those got changed to different colors, sizes, etc. Once done we added some links and text of our own. The project was fairly easy and simple to be honest. At the beginning the site was just a white page with a dog picture and some text but by the end it had a black background with different text colors and a great variety. CARP Contrast is the first letter of CARP and boy was there variety in this project. The texts were different colors and the colors had great contrast with each of their respective background. A great example is the darker tan text on a light tan background. Another was the text sizes with each other. Alignment is the next letter, this relates to how the text was aligned. The heading/titles ...
The Five Guarantees Over the past four years in ecomm, one thing has been the same, there have been 5 guarantees that we stand by: Technical skills, communication, collaboration, leadership, and project management. Something I took away from Technical skills was that it helped me learn how to handle equipment and adapt more quickly to things I haven't used before. I think that's pretty important in life because evolving and adapting is something we do all throughout our lives. I learned it through experience on set and teachers showing me how to use the equipment. It could be difficult at points, especially when it wouldn't work, but I would power through. I'm still not great at operating the camera, but I am proficient at using adobe software. Next up, communication. Communication made me take away that to get something done, everyone needs to be on the same page. If you aren't on the same page, then the project typically is a jumbled mess. I faced many challenges ...
The process So over the past few weeks we have been working on creating new film reels for ourselves. As we started, I had an idea to use"Don't Stop Me Now" for my music in the reel. Clearly that didn't work out, as I found out, I didn't have enough high energy clips to match the pace of the song. After that I was stuck on trying to find a new song, but I was also working on the feature script so I had to make a decision fast. I ended up using "Gangsta's Paradise" from my last film reel. Needless to say, it fit my style perfectly once again. On top of my clips from the last film reel, I now added more scenes from "Lazy Sunday" and my "Wii" commercial. Overall reflection Overall, I thought that my reel showcased my style really well. I tried to go for a more comedic style of reel as that's what I prefer to make genre-wise. Some solid examples of this is many of the clips from "Lazy Sunday" and my "Tears of T...
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