A/V Semester Reflection

     This semester in Video class we worked on the ways to create a video and how to make all our shots look "well". There were many project of which all had something similar, but still had their own unique thing. The very first one we did was the procedures video in which we had a partner, and the 2 of us had to create a video representing what not to do and what to do at ONW. The second project was an audio recording of our partner to show us how to write a story board after interviewing someone. Thirdly we made a video of one of our classmates and what their hobby is which showed us how to put all our other stuff together that we've learn. Lastly we worked on the blood drive video where we all used each others clips to create our own video.

     A key event in this entire process is probably the third project because thats where our skills were put to the test and showed how committed you are at getting your video done in time, and who ever made the best got onto ONW NOW(sadly not mine). My thoughts through this process was me asking myself how can I make this better what can I do? Eventually I got an idea for a cool background for the interview, but it didn't go very well because there weren't any chairs available so the set up wasn't that great. When I went to the gymnastics place it was a little uncomfortable, but it all turned out good I got a ton of shots and hey I don't really talk much and I didn't have to.

     The elements within all the projects that worked for me was the creativity of getting a variety of shots and having the knowledge know to make them flow smoothly with the audio. Something that I was unable to do is get a second interview which could of made it better, but when it all finished I found out it wasn't going to fit if I were of so it all worked out for the best.
     This semester I learned the steps in which a video should be made and what order the steps go into, I learned the way to position something correctly, and I also learned how to crop a shot to work within the three corners.

     Next semester I am hoping to learn how to create a real good music video. Since music is really my life I want the knowledge in how I can share it across the world and a music video in my opinion is the way to go. Can't wait tell entertainment.

Accomplishment :D

I made these the other day when I was bored and I think they look so cool. I started by creating the main logo in Illustrator, but that just looked boring so I brought that boring old average logo and put it into Photoshop. I messed with their radiant and feathered them a bit. For Captain America's I grabbed a paint splatter and put around giving the affect of the red of the shield flaring out. For the Green Lantern's logo I painted the outside of the circle and then burned almost all of it so it got the cool radioactive feel.

Logo

Made already existing logo then after that I brought it to Photoshop put on a mask and added my own little touches to it.

Painting of the floating mountain

Mountain

logo

In Graphic design class we have been working on making logos using our initials and we had to go through many steps to complete this process.

1st we made sketches/ thumbnails of what our mindset was on what we want it to look like. In my sketches I got into the mind of music within a jazz kind of feel so I started drawing kind of squiggly notes representing a music note. Well my name doesn't really work as a music note so I just kept the squiggle in my last sketch and went on with that.

2nd we went to someone and talked to them about how we wanted
our logo to look like and we also asked them about theirs.

3rd we messed around on illustrator to see what we can do with our names.



4th we worked on our professional project.

Rim change
My process through the the actual project on illustrator was I started with one that I thought was good, but I needed more and so my mind started flowing and started get more and more ideas.
So first I changed the rim color to a gradient, but I didn't really like that to much so I moved on.

Change of mind
Well after that I decided to try simplifying it to something a little more relate-able and I changed the colors to a brighter feel because most jazz can kind of give you that feel of enlightenment. I also added a circle because I felt as if that was a lot more smooth compared to a rectangle which is in the thought of smooth jazz.

Mistake
Well I started thinking of a music note again so I tried to recreate one with my initials which didn't work very well so this one just back fired.

 

My final project.
I realized I didn't really like it simplified, but I loved the color and the thought of the circle, but then it hit me I have to do something to make my T stick out since it's my first name so I shrank the B and hid it in the back and I made the two have the same colors but flipped. To me this is truly my best. 

Sydney

Bending rules for design

In the article Creative Anarchy at Its Very Best it talks about the ways on how to bend rules to make a design better and give it more of an eye catching theme. The author argues that following rules to graphic design will make your design boring, lame, uncreative so instead of following them bend the rules a little bit and go in your own path "Design is everywhere. Poor design creates chaos." (Denise Bosler).
The article though has many strengths like giving quotes from famous people and researching them to find a quote from Michelangelo. Another strength would be the creative topic, title and picture which is grabbing the readers attention. What the author can work on is keeping the reader attentions there are points where it just started going from interesting to boring to interesting and that can be fixed, but right now thats annoying.
The authors general conclusion in this entire article is your knowledge is limitless it just requires bending rules and going your own route.

Critique 

1. The author stays on his point throughout the entire passage and continuously mentions it.

2.The evidence is very convincing and stays on topic like the transition from "poor designs creates chaos" to the ballot card box in 2000 for the U.S. presidential election.

 3. This gives very good information to help graphic designers see what you have to do to create something eye opening that catches peoples attention and makes them want what ever it's advertising.

Creative Anarchy at Its very Best 

By: Denise Bosler and Lasse Skarbovik 

pattern

Finished

Progress

Pattern

Graphic design project one.

      The past couple days my e-comm class has been working on requiring the skill of illustrator. We followed step by step on how to make a pencil and a can as seen on the right. I had problems finding a good shade of yellow so I kinda messed with it a little bit.
     after we finished the main pencil we made our own we; well I'm weird so I kinda twisted it around and gave it a red a black coloring like a black widow spider don't ask why I just did. So that was the theme really for my own pencil a twisted pencil with the black and red.
     Finally we got to make our own little thing again my weirdness kicked in and I made a duck looking thing and gave some extra stuff around I believe it had to do with something about me well I guess I can call myself a quack so I added that in. Really in that last thing I just wanted to mess with different tools and see what can be made off using only 3 shapes yes that picture is full of twisted stars, rectangle, and a circle. Well that was our first illustrator project this year and can't wait to do more.

first Video blog 2015

     In this project I had to watch and create a storyboard for a video about a girl that lifted weights.  In order for me to do this I must go scene by scene and pausing at each transition so I can see the sequence change and so I can draw what is being shown in the image.
     The story that was told was about a girl but she wasn't one of those everyday girls; Michaela lifted weights with her dad as her coach. She held many records at her school as a power lifter making her father proud. This was told in a manner to show how her family loved her no matter what weather it was in the kitchen or on the court lifting.
     Something that I would take out of this video would be the way they used the six shot sequence and how it flowed smoothly and for future project the control of always having sound weather it was from the background or someone talking. Something that could be approved in this video is keeping the camera still there were points where I thought there was a shake. Other for that the video was great it had a very good story behind it, great transition shots , and really good voice overs.

Basic procedures GO ZONES

Here are the basic procedures for Go Zones.

What is Graphic Design?

Graphic design is an art that is edited by another persons imagination for advertisements, magazines, or books. Graphic design can be found everywhere on buildings, containers, furniture pretty much everything. Most pictures you will see have been photoshopped which is another type of graphic design. Without graphic design this world would be boring and people wouldn't know what the heck anything was just picture the world without graphic design look at stores they wouldn't have a name it would just be blank; see without graphic design our world would just be lost. Graphic design is important.

Final Blog Project.

So in our group we all had something to do for every transition. We would all put in our ideas and put them together to make something big.

 I was in charge of the banner, the animation, the store, and I came up with the floating pencil idea in our video. Sadly I was gone for the editing process in the video so I am unable to post my version.


Next time we do a project like this I will probably need to make sure what events I have coming up so then I don't fall behind and try to get ahead in the project so when I get back there wont be to much to do that I wont be able to get it done. If I was to do something the same it would most likely be trying new things on the illustrator because cool things happen on accident. Accidents to me tend to always make things have a cooler affect like when I used the gradient tool and blended it with something else it made this cool kind of color that would of been great if it was in our color scheme.

 

     So in e-comm for the past couple weeks we've been working on 4 projects sadly I couldn't seem to find one of them, but I am pretty sure I did it. Well as you can see we changed the colors to a monarch butterfly, and put ONW and a compass in front of our school and then lastly we put the raven and parts of the building in front of the outside of our school. This was a real good learning process for future references because each and every single one of these had
something different to do with them.
     In the butterfly project we had to use the magic wand in order to change the colors to the butterfly and use the stamp to give it find of a flying affect on it which to me was my favorite project.
     The one with the compass we he to kinda paste in the compass and type the words in then lastly kinda fade it so you can see through all of them.
     The last thing we did was the hardest mostly because we had to delete this light post which was a pain and it literally took forever, but you know I got it

done; then we had to copy and paste and put a mask on the pictures to edit the size of them and the form.

Logo

I learned that in order to make a logo make since you must give it some flavor with color sadly I could only use two colors :( so I chose black and blue to kinda give you a futuristic kinda feel. The logo is teleport and I realized after all this sketching i ended up going with something completely different that i liked better. I used a circle to represent my teleporter.

Something to do With Color. 

In these projects I learned more of the specifics of colors and what they mean for example red represents hate and death, but on the other side of it it stands for love and all that kind of stuff. Another thing I learned was the meaning of shading and tenting a color. If you add white to a color you are tenting it, and if you add black to a color you are shading it.