Andrew's ecomm blog

The Projects themselves The first project was my typography project. In that project I had to choose 4 quotes that I felt described me. The project roughly took close to two weeks to complete. I found it to be fairly easy. The hardest part was actually a fairly simple part, the color schemes. It was tough to find colors that worked well together. During the project I learned how to utilize typography effectively to make the quotes pop. Mrs. Beaudoin gave me good advice on colors and what looked good. I changed the Ron Swanson quote because of the type of food visual I wanted to use. Overall I liked the look of the project and especially the Han Solo quote. The second project was the vector illustration of myself. This project was the one where I had to choose a picture of myself (the one I chose was truly majestic) and use the pen tool, something I was seriously inexperienced with, to illustrate it into a graphic. The overall project was fairly challenging, my biggest challeng...

I overall had a good time making the short film. It was a good experience for me to learn how it's like being in charge of a production.  I learned that communication between the cast and crew is crucial, and when there is little to no communication it doesn't work as well, in our case it caused problems with continuity such as with Cassidy's outfit because she did not have her phone. Noah was very cooperative though and was very clear with us about when he would be available. Overall, this project went pretty darn smoothly if I do say so myself. Next time I would definitely make a clearer schedule, this schedule was fine but I think I need a better schedule for the next time.

Pre-production and development So when Mr. Cooper told us that our next project would be to recreate a movie trailer I was very excited.  But then he told us that our groups were assigned and that lessened my excitement, I was fine with working with Anna but Blake was the one I was worried about because every time I'd worked with him in the past he was super lazy. When we decided our project would be the Breakfast Club (mostly due to the cast size and the location) we started the casting process along with the storyboard. Blake was fine in the beginning, he volunteered to be Bender and was  the cinematographer, but he also wanted to do part of the storyboard and never ended up bringing it. The casting actually went really smoothly and we began to shoot. Production The production was rocky at the start, the scheduling was tricky due to Crew and Emma's theater rehearsals and on top of that, Blake didn't show up for shooting so we had to recast bender in less than 24 ho...

Preproduction When I was told that I needed to find a glorious, high-quality picture to use for my vector project I knew exactly what to do. I have this picture from 2017 that I took with my head out of a car window on the highway and it looks absolutely majestic so it was an easy choice. So before I started the project I had to do this thing in photoshop to show the different shades of color on my face in the picture. In Illustrator, I then made two artbords, one with a lower opacity version of the and the other had the full opacity. Production When I started the project I immediately ran into problem, as I picked an extremely complex photo. The face was not one shade anywhere, it was all just a ton of different shades. That made it much more complicated and trickier than anticipated. It got to a point where I genuinely considered choosing a new photo but I persevered. Each part of my project was split up into separate parts such as mouth, eyes, eyebrows, etc. I did learn that ...

Over the course of the past month my class has been working on recreating music videos. My group chose Rick Astly's Never Gonna Give You Up music video. In this blog post I will break down the process of the creation of the video. Pre-production Our pre-production was very busy once we picked the song and music video. Ryan was tasked with the story boarding, which is quite a feat considering how many different shots there are. That took close to a week. I did the filmscaping as I was the cinematographer. That took about twenty minutes, I also helped find the props. Alexis was there to tell us what to do, can't exactly remember what her document was that she had to do. Alexis and I then did the casting, which was mostly her friends, I tried to get my amigo Zeph to do it but he was like nope so we cast Nathan as Rick. Once that was all finished, we finally got to start production. Production Our production was pretty hectic to be quite honest. Our main actor did not want ...

The beginning's beginning When I started this project and was looking at quotes to choose from, I looked to movies, tv shows, and books for quotes that I felt I could relate to. I only was able to decide on 5 quotes because either I could not find one that I really liked or it was not appropriate for school (see: "Don't half *** two things, whole *** one thing" -Ron Swanson). The five that I found were:  “I knew exactly what to do, but in a much more real sense I had no idea what to do.” -Michael Scott, “Not all treasure is silver and gold mate” -Captain Jack Sparrow, “It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live” -Albus Dumbledore, “When I eat, it is the the food that is scared” -Ron Swanson, “Never tell me the odds!” -Han Solo. I ended up not using the meaningful one (Dumbledore's) because I liked the others more. The Creation During the actual production of the project was trickier, mostly because I just jumped into this class a semester late...

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.