Movie Trailer

Pre-Production

To start our project which was a movie trailer we needed to find a video to replicate. We found a movie called "The Breakfast Club" but a bunch of people in our class were doing it so we decided not to. We found another movie called "Stand and Deliver" which we decided to work with. I started with story boarding while my teammates found actors and such. After storyboarding was done we had to figure out who was available at what times and which scenes that we were going to do at school.

Production

During production my group was pretty busy so we didn't have many days after school we could film, eventually we found some days and got the basic shots done. The main issue wasn't finding main actors but finding background actors. We eventually got everything done with minor issues except that some scenes were impossible to replicate with our surroundings. I improvised in editing with certain scenes. The video turned out pretty well with no complications with editing.

Conclusion

While working on the video the only complication I had was finding background actors. Other than that I learned how to use a dolly for shots and practiced with premiere. But overall I did enjoy the project and the journey to complete it.

Finished Video:

Vector Portrait

Pre-Production

     I forgot to get a picture for a vector portrait project in graphic design and so I looked through my phone to see if there was any selfies I had taken, there was only one. This majestic piece of work was gonna be my low-poly vector portrait for graphic design. I got prepped by using a filter in photoshop to bring out more of the color in the picture and to simplify the piece and use less colors to make low poly work better.

Production

    For production I started by making a grid to snap my curser to so that making triangles would be easier to create. I started with making triangles for the headset then going down to the face and then glasses and finally the hoodie, all of these pieces were all on separated layers. I used different stroke colors to tell the different layers apart. After all the triangles were finished I started working on coloring them in. It was simple at first, select the triangle and use the eyedropper tool to get the color in the center of the triangle, but I wanted to have the triangles next to each other to have separate colors so you could see all the triangles in their glory, it was difficult but it worked out in the end but the shapes really made it pop out.

Final Product

     I am happy with the final product but if I were to change one thing it would to have more triangles so that the end product would be more detailed and look better in the end.

                                                                        BEFORE

AFTER

Music Video

Assignment

For my Video Production class an assignment was assigned to make a music video. You had to recreate the scenes and overall look of the original. So finding a song that was school appropriate and a song you enjoyed so when editing it, it wasn't utter pain, was a good idea.

Production

My group consisting of Me, Alexis, and Andrew went to search for a funny video to film so we wouldn't be bored working on it and had some motivation for a very entertaining piece. We went through a couple of songs but the song EVERYONE agreed with was Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up. It seemed pretty fun at first and it looked achievable. I had to draw out every camera angle and scene change, it wasn't fun but it got done. When the actors, Alexis, and Andrew went out to record (over a two day period) I couldn't go due to my work making me come in. Once they finished filming I had to edit the video with a bunch of random clips that didn't even have the right voice lines or rhythm to the original. So basically I was looking blindly through a bunch of videos with no good result just to attempt with some clip that looked alright. I manage to finish the video and the VERY end of the video shows how I feel about it.

Post Production

One the video finished uploading was okay. It was well received by my friends and everyone usually enjoyed the video. Most of them said it was okay and the clips don't really line up well with the voices. So if I had to change something it would probably be putting the video in the BACKGROUND while the person SINGS the SONG. Like am I weird for thinking that its stupid that they didn't put the song in the background while they sung the song so they matched it extremely well? Anyways, it went alright I guess, I posted it on my Youtube so I earn that Youtube $$$.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKR2Kvyvl7nfRbBPoYLRcvA?

Typography

Pre-production

     For a project in graphic design we needed to create graphics using quotes and using our newly learned typography skills to pick out fonts for those quotes. I wanted to have my own quotes so I spent a couple of days coming up with 10 quotes that I liked. I picked out 4 quotes to use for black and white, they were pretty simple and graphics could be simple as well. I used a common cursive font for all of them, then had a simple font that went with a word in the quote.

Production

    I got a bit better and faster at using illustrator after this project will work well in the future. I wanted the graphic to go with the quote or go with the word that pops out the most. Graphics were simples and not complicated so people can understand and recognize them immediately. Color looked better than black in white for 3 of the 4 I created. The 4th one really relied on the 2 colors for a cool contrast look, but overall I preferred colored.

Final Product

     I think the quotes turned out pretty good and as of now there isn't anything I want to change about them. They look great and get the point across. I also prefer the colored ones except for the broken glass one, it looks better in b/w.

---B/W---

---Colored---

Preformace Review

Project Review

      The Project was to create an infographic about any topic. It took about 3 to 4 weeks to complete the entire project. Challenges were the main central object in the middle of the infographic because I lost some info for the infographic so I had to improvise. I learned how to create objects and how to organize them. Some feedback I was given was to make bites out of the text boxes on the infographic and I thought it looked nice. I made a bunch of changes, ranging from the central object, the fact i'm using 3 side facts rather than 4, and even the graphics design themselves. I think it turned out very well in the end and i'm happy with the result.

      The project was to follow this guide on how to make shapes in adobe illustrator. It look 3 to 4 days to complete. Challenges were figuring out controls and strategies on how to create objects in illustrator. I learned how to create simple objects in illustrator and it really helped me out with my infographic project. Feedback I was given was to use different colors for some of the graphics and I think it turned out very well. I didn't make any major changes to my original plan so I think it went well. I think the final project went well.

     The project was to take a photo of someone in class and make it look like pop art. The project took about 3 to 4 days to complete. Challenges were the coloring and the cropping of some of the stuff within the pop art and making it look good. I learned how to crop and use filters to my advantage when making an illustrator project. Some feedback I got was to use line around the main objects of the project and to make it pop out more. Some changes I made was to have some of the background of the real photo in the background in the shapes of the pop art, which in my opinion looks pretty good. I think this project was a success but it isn't my best.

My Behance:

https://www.behance.net/thevortexb0e1c

Time Efficiency 

      I stayed productive in class after finishing a project by drawing my own style of characters in illustrator and practicing my own graphic abilities on the computer. I spent some time out of class using my own adobe illustrator software to practice and learn some tools in illustrator. 

My Strengths & Weaknesses

      Strengths I have in graphic design is computer experience and Adobe experience. Ive been on a computer for over half my life so i've learned some strategies. I also have an Adobe account with Adobe premiere, photoshop, and illustrator, so I can practice using those programs outside of class. Weaknesses I have are not staying on task, sometimes I can get distracted and talk to some of my friends and will not want to do the current project.

Final Words

      I loved the final infographic project at the end of the semester and the freedom we had with it. I wouldn't do much differently I think everything went pretty well in the end. Illustrator is a great tool you can use in many departments and jobs in the future. One goal I have is to continuously improve on my illustrator skills over the time I experience it. I had a great time this semester and will probably have a better time next semester.

Video Interview

Project

The first project for interviewing in video was to tell a story of a person within your class and use proper techniques. I was assigned to Asya Leavitt so I had to ask her some questions to get some story ideas for the interview.

Ideas

After asking a bunch of questions to Asya I ended up coming up with a couple of ideas for the interview. She liked photography, photo journalism, and traveling, which kinda all ties into each other. But once I figured that out I needed to get enough questions so the interview wouldn't be to short. 

Problems

One big problem Asya and I had on the interviews were the 3 days we lost progress. One day I was gone and two other days we had to reshoot an interview. When editing the video I realized that I didn't shoot enough b roll. One thing I did learn from this experience is to shoot plenty of b roll, just drown your SD card with b roll. 

Finished Product

Im happy with the finished product with what I had. Im glad we had an extra two days to edit our projects a bit longer which made my piece a lot better in the end. B roll was the only problem I had with making the video and I enjoyed making most of it. Hopefully this experience makes my future projects better.

Watercolor Transfer

Digital beginning

To start off the watercolor transfer I need to have something to eventually transfer. I used my pop art project and made a black and white version for a second print. After that I printed it out and stored it for later.

Watercolor

Once I had something to print I got prepared to make some water color sheets. Using classic water color tools I tried to paint one to look like rainbow blocks for the black and white piece. For the colored piece I made the paper a blue and purple gradient to match the pop art. After that I added red dots to spice it up a bit.

Mod podge 

Once the watercolor was finished I added the mod podge to the cut out pop art pieces and added it to the water color and used a squeegee to get the extra out of the bottom. I did this process for both pieces and set them out to dry.

Poly acrylic

Once the transfer print was completed I got some water to rub off the paper left after the print with some water. This took a couple of attempts to get the majority of the paper off but it ended off working well. Once that was all done poly acrylic was added to the prints to get the tiny bits of paper off to finish the piece.

Reflection

The printing process went pretty well in the end. I did pretty good up to the  rubbing part. I used too much water which made the water color bleed a bit which made the outer edge look a bit rough. Other than that i'm happy with the ending prints and good with the experience

Prints