Final Soundslide

The Final Soundslide!

This project was arguably one of the most difficult projects we had all year in regards to using our creativity. The reason for this is because we could truly do anything we wanted for this project. So we truly had to produce a product that we could could call our own and be proud of. So simply in this product I was hoping to achieve something that i was truly proud of.

I found it challenging to create something that would accurately display my love of food and cooking. It was also difficult to gather and use proper pictures for the project. I had to think long and hard about the sounds to be used and the script that was to be used as well. However to solve these problems it was easy to figure out the solution, in that all I had to do was dedicate myself to the project and put in the appropriate work and hours.

I really enjoyed using garage band, soundslide, and all of the other programs involved in this project. I enjoyed all of the creative control and the whole process behind the whole thing as well. I am not extremely proud of the final result, but I am proud of it in a sense in the fact that it came together nicely.

If I had more time for this project I would have definitely worked better in training my voice for the project. Also I would have been more creative with the sounds involved in the project. But all in all I really enjoyed the project and it was a good way to to end the semester.

P.S. I really enjoyed this class professor and I hope I get the chance to take another class with you again at sometime. Have a wonderful summer!

Bibi Cards

Note: I could not find a way to get the adobe images up on the blog.

In this project I was hoping to achieve a similar bibi card to that of which was in the the Men's Health magazine that I had. For this project there was not to much decision making, and the only real decision making was choosing what type of font to use, and even that was predetermined by the bibi card.

This project had a variety of challenges that proved to be difficult. The first of which was getting the adobe pics on the blog, which I still found to be impossible. The next biggest challenge was sizing up the card properly on the MAC. I remember using measurements from a ruler, but having the programs distort the sizes on the MAC and making the bibi cards way to large. Besides these to challenges the hardest part was creating an accurate representation of the original bibi card. The only way to solve these problems was to constantly go back and readjust settings, text, or the size of objects.

What I enjoyed most about this project was the fact that I could use this skill in the real world for a job or to market myself. This is also what I am most proud of as well.

If I had more time for this product, all I would have done would have been to strive for a more professional looking product. I would have done this by probably employing photoshop or programs similar in nature. Beside that I believe I did a decent job.

My Website.

For this project, the class had to essentially design a website for the six-Panel brochure that they created. I created a simple website for the the spelunking service that I wanted to offer.

The thing that I found to be most challenging with this project was the coding. The coding had to be perfect or else the site would suffer many problems, such as pictures not loading or links being down. However this problem was easily solved by double and triple checking the coding. Besides that there were not too many problems with this project.

I feel that I learned a lot about the aesthetic appeal of websites through this project. I believe that I learned how to really reach out to the user and do my best to be user friendly. I was also very proud of the ease and flow of the site.

If I had more time to work on this project I would have liked to add animations or something more entertaining to the project. However, I still feel that the site came out well and I am very proud of it.

6 Panel Brochure

For this project, our class had to create a six page brochure that could be hypothetically used for commercial use.

All I was hoping for with this project was to create a six panel brochure. I wasn't necessarily trying to make it as pretty as possible, i was more a less just trying to create a functional format. And to achieve this all I simply did was follow the professors exact directions and add in a bit of creative flair. Once I got the basics down, I then attempted to add pictures and rotate the text. After achieving these small feats I decided not to push my luck anymore.

I found this whole project to be challenging just due to the nature of the constraints of the project. To work in a confined space was slightly difficult and to also have everything line up perfectly at the end was even more difficult. To solve, these problems all I did was listen to the professor and have the students around me lend a hand.

However once i got past all of these difficulties, the project was quite enjoyable and after completing I realized how much of a skill it really is to design a brochure. If I ever decide to go into the field of design, this will be an extremely valuable skill to have. This is probably the fact that I am most proud of as well.

Last if I had more time, I would have liked to used a wider variety of colors in the brochure to make it more appealing. Also, I would have liked to research the subject more so and get some exact facts on pricing and seasons for the service. But all in all, I feel this project came out pretty well.

30 Seconds to Mars soundslide

This project was easily the hardest project that we have had all year in my opinion. My reasoning for saying that it was the hardest is because it required a variety of programs and resources to create a final product.

With this project i was hoping to learn more about the soundslide program and sound editing in general. I was only hoping to achieve a basic understanding of soundslide with this project, but I learned alot more. However it was quite challenging, I had alot of difficulty in creating a mp3 for this project. However because of that difficulty I learned alot about using audacity, which will definitely be of use in the future. The learning process was mostly trial and error, but I did learn how to solve problems in the program.

Once again, I did not feel alot of pride in this project because I feel it did not do the band justice. However, If I had more time to mix more music and create more informational slides, I feel as though I could truly be proud of this project.

30 Seconds to Mars Poster

This project was an extremely fun project to work on. The reason for me saying this is because with this project i felt as though I could learn a lot from it.

When starting this project, I had hopes and many goals that I wanted to achieve . I wanted to create something that could truly be used in the real world to promote this band. My goals were simple, create something that would catch the eye and provide enough information to spark interest, yet not bombard the viewer with information overload.

One of the most challenging things that I felt with this project was to create something that would meet my goals, yet still stay true to the bands image. This proved to be difficult and required many drafts to just get the layout correct. Then I had to experiment with a variety of color schemes to create something appealing and that the band could use. These challenges proved to be difficult, but also taught me a lot about color scheme and why it is important to make drafts.

There is nothing particular in this project that makes me extremely proud. I only say this because I really enjoy the band and I do not believe that one of my first attempts at poster creation would do them justices. However overall I had a lot of fun with this project, and I am hoping to return to it soon for recreational purposes to create something better to actually give to the band.

30 Seconds to Mars Power Point

With this project I was hoping to achieve some basic mastery of the power point program. I tried to achieve this goal by experimenting with various techniques and tools inside of the program. However experimenting with some of these tools and techniques made the project a little more difficult. In one of my experimentation's with the table tool, it made the slide disfigured and not pleasing to the eye. It took me several attempts to remedy this situation, but the problem was eventually solved and I learned a lot about creating tables and charts in the process.

I really enjoyed working on this project because I felt I had a lot of creative control with the project. I got to choose the band I wanted to do the project on as well what I wanted to use in my project. And because of this I was extremely proud of this project because I found something that I liked working on.

If I had more time to work on this project I would have liked to create a few more slides and maybe insert some video footage of the band if it was at all possible. This may be something that I will pursue in my free time however.

Second Life Blog.

Second Life is an interactive online community in which people from around the world can communicate and interact with one another via virtual avatars (not the ones from the new movie). The site was started on June 23, 2003 by a company known as Linden Lab.

The community allows for a variety of activities to occur. Users can simply communicate with one another, participate in events, or even play a role in the virtual economy and buy and sell goods for Linden dollars. These Linden dollars can be purchased for USD (the dollar) or traded online. some users have actually made profits from the online community. The profits have ranged from anywhere around $10 to a few successful millionaires.

As of January of 2010, Second Life reported that the community had over 18 million user accounts. These accounts have contributed education, arts, music, and a variety of other concepts to the online community. The community shows no signs of slowing and is a popular social networking site in the online community.

Poem Post

For this font poem project, I was really hoping to achieve a basic understanding of how the presentation type could truly effect the message it sends across.

Because of this intent I choose a few lines from a poem that truly effected me. I choose the the first few lines from Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven". I choose this poem because it was the first poem that I read that really broke the traditional model of poems for me. So I figured it was only appropriate to use this poem for the first time that I wanted to brake the traditional model of using type.

The most challenging part of this whole project was trying to find the right typeset and the right positioning of the type set to accurately display the mood and emotions set by the poem. The only real way to solve this problem was to try, try, and try again. I had to go through countless combinations of using different font settings and font positioning to get a final result that I kind of wanted.

Despite the frustrations of trying to find the right type setting and positioning, it was very fun experimenting with the different kinds of font and seeing how they looked in different locations. This project is definitely a great learning experience and will greatly help for future projects.

Sadly, there is nothing I'm particularly proud of with this project. I feel as though I could have done a better job with it and that I could made it look better in the end. I wish I could go back and fix it up a bit, but unfortunately I cannot.

If I had more time for this project, I would have tried experimenting with more colors, layers, and filter effects. It would have been really cool to use some of the exquisite corpse techniques on this project, and I feel it could have produced a very stimulating image.

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With this project I was hoping to achieve the basic skills of being able to create and animated gif. To achieve this goal however, I had to consult my notes, the professor, and my reading materials many times. Also, I felt I had to study the poetry and Poe to see how a poem like like should be put into an animated gif.

The most challenging part of this project was to get everything to appear in the right place and to create a sense of timing. To do this I had to go back many times into photoshop and create and recreate gifs and images. The whole process was time consuming and offered up a bit of a challenge. However it was entertaining and i feel as though I learned alot from this project.

The thing that I most enjoyed about this project was gaining the knowledge to create an animated gif and the end result. It was very satisfying to see a final project that moved from still pictures. I would really enjoy creating another animated gif at some point.

What I am most proud of with this project is the final result. I felt that the end result was a good reflection of what I learned and applied to the project.

If I had more time I would have like to make the gif last longer and show more. I feel as though my gif wasn't fluid enough a final product. I would have liked more resources to make it more entertaining as well. But, if I get the chance to do this in the future. I will definitely take advantage of it.

Contact Sheet

The "contact sheet" was our first project for Comm. 240. Through out this project I was hoping to achieve some advancement in the basic skills of photoshop and photo editing capabilities.

For this project I decided to use some random photos on my camera of events in the past in which I had fun. I had no particular reason for each photo, only that as a whole each of them represented a fun memory. So i decided to try something new and fun with some old but fun pictures.

While first working on this project, the thing I found most frustrating was resizing and re-cropping images while making sure that the quality of the picture stayed aesthetically pleasing. This was frustrating until the Prof. taught us in the ways of properly using edit image in photoshop. Afterwards the project was pretty straight forward and was met with no other serious problems.

After dealing with the small issues, this project was actually quite enjoyable and fun to complete. My favorite part of the project was most likely experimenting with the wide variety of photo filters. Using these filters really gave me a sense of creative control and I feel that in future projects this tool will be incredibly useful.

After completing this project and looking back on it, I realized that the thing I am most proud of is it the fact that it wasn't very hard. In fact I enjoyed working on this project. I am proud of myself that i actually enjoyed working on something.

Finally if I had more time I would have like to experiment with more things besides filters. I would have loved to worked with other aspects of photoshop or other editing tools. I felt as though the exquisite corpse could have been part of the contact sheet.

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