I attended eMagine a few weeks ago. It was a great experience to see so many students from so many schools. It was fun to see all the different entries and winners. I will try to enter my own project next year. It was a fun social event and a great way to spend my saturday night!
The assignment was to create a poster that displayed my 10 favorite things. During this lesson I learned a lot about text padding and how to manage white space. This project made me think about the most important things in my life. I also learned how to add contrast to the lest by making it different colors and sizes and fonts.
Most of the ideas I got for the layout and the things I chose came from the 10 things interview magazine does. This magazine has people pick their favorite things or the things they can't like without. They mostly interview famous people. I tried to be as specific as I could when choosing items. By doing this I could then expand on the item by explaining why I chose it and what extends on to it. For example, I put a picture of Sweet and Sour chicken so that when I explained it I could say that its from my favorite restaurant.
The style of type I chose is called Harry Potter. I liked how edgy this style was and how it goes along with the ice theme of the movie. I put a drop shadow on the text to give the effect that it was icy.
Mountains
The mountains I made are called swiss mountains. I found the idea off of a Titanic movie poster that used this simple design to make a design that was very creative. The design is simply just triangles of different colors layered on top of each other.
Snow
The now in the background was created from a tutorial i found on snowy effects. I just simply used the blur tool and the shape tool to make a snowy effect. The big snowflake in the middle was made by layering different custom shapes together and adding transparent parts in the middle. I also added effects like shadows and inner glow.
Saul Bass
My poster is similar to a Saul bass style of poster because it uses 2-3 colors and black and white. My poster also has a simple design of mountains and custom font. My poster is different than the Saul Bass style because mine is much more complex in the overall design of the poster. The snowflake has more detail than a normal Saul Bass poster would. The Jaws poster is an example of a Saul Bass poster.
I followed the tutorial and then went back and did my own type design. I typed my name then used the create outlines tool to stretch and manipulate each individual letter.
The scope of the blood drive project was to follow the story of a subject giving blood for the blood drive and edit the story with a voiceover and use sound bits.
The scope of the lego project was to follow the story of the two subjects building a lego set for lego day and edit the story with a voiceover and use sound bits.
These two projects were both filmed on the spot without much planning or instruction. There was no planning for this video.
I just grabbed a camera and followed the six shot sequence for both videos.
It was difficult to come up with questions to ask the subject on the spot.
It was even more difficult to find sound bits that made sense with my voiceover because the subjects in the Lego build video did not answer the questions in complete sentences.
As I began editing the Blood drive video, I came to realize no sound had been recorded. To replace the emptiness I had to add my own dialogue as the voiceover.
What I learned
Both of these projects showed me how to go with the flow of what is happening around me and still end up with good shots and sound bits by using the six shot sequence and asking good questions.
From these projects I learned how to act quickly in order to follow the subject.
Technically I learned how to use the microphone to record a voiceover.
I also learned how to properly hold the camera without using a tripod.
Next time I will make sure the sound is turned on when recording and make sure the subject answers in complete sentences.
If I were to do this project again I would ask some of the same questions because the answers made for good sound bits.
This project helped me expand my learning on camera technique as well as editing technique.
For this project I chose a picture of this puppy from morgue files.com. I used the tutorial given to us by Mrs. Lofquist to direct me in making this shadow. From this assignment I learned how to make a realistic looking shadow on an image that did not originally have a shadow.
