First web project

Overview

For our Ecomm final we had to make a website. We got a format to use and we had to watch multipe videos. This project took about 5 class periods. Website design is very new to me and i kind of struggled. My links and codes started breaking so it put me behind. I believe this was the hardest e9 project so far.

 What did I learn?

Before this process I thought this would be more simple like using blogger. As the Process progressed i learned that web design is very complicated. I also learned the importances of checking for broken links. At the end of the process i thought about the talent of professional web designers that constantly update and make websites at an extremely advanced level.

Conclusions on My Final  Project

My final product wasn't the best, although it shows I have room for improvement. This project brought many new experiences and taught me alot about web design. I look forward to seeing how I can improve in the future

Final Chase scene

Pre - Production

  For this project Pre- Production went smoothy. I had a great team that came up with great ideas. We ended up using my idea. We were going for an artsy and powerful concept. The idea was that the protagonist suffered from depression and was running away from fear and insecurity. By the end she regains self confidence. We all worked as actors and directed together as a team. I was the main actor and grace was the main director.

Process

Since we came up with an elaborate idea the process took a longer time, but with hard work we got it done faster than we thought. We had to change some of the original ideas due to absent team mates and time in general.  i had a blast filming the chase scenes too!

Editing

With this project editing went really well. I have started to get the hang of premiere pro. This time i added a lot of transitions, changed the speed and changed the color. I still had problems with loosing my footage but when i lost it I got it right back.

Final Product

The final product turned out really great and i'm elicited to share it with my peers.

First Video project!!

Creative Process Before Filming

Before filming or doing anything we had to make a story board. To be honest I felt our story board was pretty basic and dull. Then we divided our team into roles. I was the Actor, Alanna and Micheal were camera people, and the director was Olivia. When we started to take our photos I started to make new little ideas and changes , although one of my group members was not so fond of the changes and wanted to stick to the story board.  The group was pretty good at working together but one person always kind of seemed in a bad mood and kind of just mumbled and ignored us. Also when we took photos this person stopped taking photos, then went the next day when we were all done. This put us behind and i wasn't too happy. At the end of our creative process the idea was to be cheese and quirky. This plan didn't go as well as I hoped but it still looked ok.

The Proceess

During the filming I learned that working in groups can be stressful. I also learned how to work under stress. During editing I struggled a little bit. I accidentally lost my files twice and i had a major freak out. Thank god Zimmerli found them. From this mistake I learned the importance of saving projects multiple times. Editing wasn't too hard. During editing I also had help from my partner 'Michael'

Finished project

Looking at my project I feel like I could of done better, but I also thought I did an ok job considering the draw backs I went through.

The Video

Career Cruising And Ecomm

Matchmaker Results

After the matchmaker test I got many results involved in ecomm. The 5 results that are ecomm related that interested me most were Announcer, Director of photography, Director and image consultant. Out of those Director and announcer interest me most.  An announcer would be like a radio dj or an anchor. The best ecomm section to go in for this would be convergence journalism. A director basically creates film. I have a lot of passion for this because I always like to make little music videos on my free time. In the future  would love to direct music videos as a career. For this career I should go to the video strand of ecomm.

House Builder

A House?!

In animation there was a project that I was not expecting In the course. I also felt like it was the most difficult and least exiting project. At first I didn't really why building a digital house ties into animation. Later after some explanation and working I started to under stand why.

 The Process

To make a house we had to pick a house on houseplans.com and build it on sketchup. The process was hard because I felt like we kinda had to wing it. The only directions we got was how to make the base of the house, basics of sketch and make a different kind of mirror. Although I think problem solving like we had to do helped us better in the long run than actually being taught on making every single detail. To color it we had to get a seamless texture off of online. For me I ended up trying multiple textures because they usually looked very diffrent than the picture when I put it into sketchup. The texture I ended up choosing looked very pleasing and accurate. 

Finished product

When I first started the project I knew I was gonna suck, and I gotta admit.....I was right. I had troubles making the shapes even and properly proportions. At the end my house was very poorly proportioned and kinda lop sided. Even though there was a lot of downfalls there was some good things to like the paint job. I also really liked my doorway entrance. Even though this project was a huge challenge I have gained a lot of knowledge.

Textures Used

House I tried to create

My 10 Words

First Animation

This was the first animation I made in Ecomm. I had to choose best words that best decscribe me and kind of make a design out of it. Then we had to animate the design. At first I strugggled because  never have used photoshop on the computer before. I have always been using photoshop on my mobile phone.  It got even more trickier when we had to animate. I was getting all jumbled between the buttons , but eventually I got the hang of it. When I started to the animations right I was really proud of myself. At the end of the animation I had a great product  to be proud of.                                                    

                                                                              

 Words Used to describe me 

A big part of this project was coming up with ten words to describe me. One great word I used was "eccentric". This word was a great example is because it means I'm different , one of a kind, creative and crazy at the same time, and I am all of those. I love making creative ideas and I love to be unique and differ than everybody else. For example, I  love to wear crazy clothes to school and I don't care what others think. Another special word I  used was "thespian". This word means that you are basically a theatre nerd. Theatre has always been something very dear to me , and its always been a great part of my life. Those were my too best words although there was many other words that I came up with that really represented me. I enjoyed this project and I am eager to start more projects.
                                             

"Sick" Ravens and Sidewalk Chalk

   First Ecomm Project

Last week we had our first Ecomm project, and it was a blast! We were Randomly split up in a group and we had to make a design with symbols that represented us. When I first saw my group I thought they were just gonna be boring and no fun, and boy was I wrong. Our group clicked right away like peanut butter and jelly. We ended up really proud of ourselves because we we came up with a really absurd design that no one else would come up with!

   

Our group attemptin to share our "absurd" idea to the teacher.

 One "Sick" Design  

When we were first coming up with our design are first idea was a paint brush painting out all of our symbols. Our final design ended u being nothing like that. You are probably wondering what was My symbol and the group design is. My symbol was glitter cuz it shows how loud and crazy I am and the design was ...... A PUKING RAVEN! I guess you could say it was one "sick design"😏

Sydney drawing the beautiful raven

Here is our beautiful finished product!

Outside with Sidewalk Chalk

The following Thursday we got to go display our design with sidewalk chalk. Everybody had really fun getting dirty and making our puking masterpiece. Sydney was the only artist of the group so she drew the raven and the rest of us made the puke and the objects in it. We all got really dirty making the puke because we used are hands to mix the colors to make that perfect belching barph color. I'm surprised how much we got done and a short amount of times , but teamwork really gets you far. I gotta say the finished product looked really "sick" and had an amazing time making it.