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Reflection Recently I took a ten day fast from social media and it was gloriously difficult. It was definitely something I needed because I am almost always on social media, and it was something that I really felt like I needed to do. The first day was extremely difficult, u the following days were super duper easy, it also caused me to use my phone lesser than usual, another plus. The only con that I ran into was the fact that I use Instagram to communicate with my classmates, but that was easily solved by just giving them my number. It was every now and then annoying not being able to access my memes, but I then remembered that I could just use Google to find memes. Once I had finished the fast, I found that I was using social media not as much as I had before, so overall, I thought it was a good experience that all should try at least once.

Over the past couple weeks, I was assigned to do a feature story over somebody in the class. To start, we were assigned our partners, we talked for a bit to get to know each other and to find a topic for the interview. Once that was done we started to write our questions (twenty-one were required). Over the course of the writing of the questions, I found that I would have to dig deep with the questions because I found that some questions I was going to ask seemed far too similar to other questions. Once we started filming was when most problems started to occur, most of them involving the camera as either the lighting was off and would not want to be fixed, or we accidentally picked a crappy camera. I learned through this, that sometimes problems would occur and that I would just have to persevere through them. Ince the editing process began, I decided I wanted to do a more entertaining and goofy take on the interview all while staying on topic. That is the second video, the first is...

1. 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 ...

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 ...

My Personality Type: INFP So I took the Myers-Briggs personality test and I got INFP. The I stands for Introvert, meaning I am more thought oriented and not nearly as social as one who is an extrovert and I sort of keep to myself so that makes sense. The N stands for iNtuitive which means I see patterns and impressions and I think about the future and possibilities. The F stands for Feeling, this makes sense as before I make a larger decision I think about how another person may feel about like yesterday for example I took the donut my dad wanted even though I thought quite a bit about how he may feel about it. P stands for Perceiving meaning I'm a pretty flexible and adaptive person. I would say this is pretty accurate to be honest. Apparently I share the same personality type as Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and J.K. Rowling, so pretty much my favorite authors which is pretty cool. I also took another quiz called Lion, Otter, Golden Retriever, and Beaver. I turned out to be a Golden Re...

The Process First we created our storyboard and decided what we wanted to do with it and picked the roles, mine being director, Jeremiah's being the actor and Halee's being the camera person. The idea to use the spinny chair stemmed from the previous projection which we were going to do that but it didn't end up working for the project. Once that was all sorted out we started to shoot. The first day all we did was shoot most of the spinny chair scenes. Day two we filmed most of the other scenes except for maybe three or four shots. Finally on day three we finished the shoot and started the editing process. The editing process took a couple days as I had to trim clips and cut scenes along with finding the correct music. Now I'm writing this and sitting here wondering why I am writing this while listening to the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack. Then I suddenly remembered I have to for the grade. Group dynamic The group worked well together in my opinion. We g...

The Process What we did to start was create a storyboard. In that storyboard we had an idea to have one of us print of a page and then we fly down the halls in a spinny chair. We all then realized how unprofessional it was so we then decided to just have it so we just print off the page and then walk down to the library printer. Once we had that figured out we took pictures of shots we would use on an iPad. We took turns taking the pictures. After we had done that and put them into a powerpoint/google slides presentation showing what types of shots were in the video and what the viewer was seeing. Once that was done we shot the video clips on another iPad. Finally, we put them into Adobe Premiere Pro and edited the clips into one video. Once done with that t was uploaded to YouTube. Other Stuff We used the Five Guarantees of e-comm quite a bit. For Technical Skills, we needed those in using iPads and Adobe Premiere Pro, a program most of us hadn't touched before. Communicati...