Well, it's almost been a year already, and I'm still in this class. We learned a bunch of stuff, which I only realized looking back, and I think, since this is the last post I'll probably make for the year, should be about the year. Well first, an overview, this year was pretty nice, pretty hard, Mr. B was not lying when he said it would be challenging, but I got a pretty good grade for each quarter, the people were nice, most of the time, and the stuff we made was good enough to look back and say, "I liked making that."
So, when we first started out, we did a bunch of lessons on history, which was not that bad, slideshows tend to be my strong suit, I'm not so sure about public speaking, but the stuff was pretty distant, I was surprised when a question from this unit was on the test, oops. Well, after that, we learned about Photoshop, and bitmaps, which was when the year started taking off. What we did there was hard to understand at first, but made sense in the end, which could apply to most of our lessons, or the entire year, but the stuff we did there was pretty useful for most of what we did. Next is Illustrator, and it's vectors, which everybody did not enjoy, since they learned Photoshop first, but it was't that bad, there were weird tools at times, but it trades off for qualitative images, which could be useful for professional stuff, which they do use for their own pamphlets and stuff, so it has a purpose other than a "Different Illustrator." We did Premiere, with video editing, next, which was, personally, my favorite, since we made videos and stuff. Which, is nice, because it made sense, it's freaky how it just clicked with me. Making cuts, thinking up concepts of videos, and how to put it all together. It used all of my favorite aspects of projects. Which was pretty cool. The last concept we did was 3DS Max and, well, 3D modeling. This was actually my least favorite, but had it's place in our curriculum, I guess. It's very different from what we did earlier, which was the same reason we didn't really enjoy Illustrator, but put in the frame of the entire year, which we could've done anything to change, except ACTUALLY push on and just do it. Which I'm not a fan of. So, this was an up-down sort of thing, but it was pretty nice in the end, and changed me, like some sort of rite of passage, or a pilgrimage, I guess
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We have a video project, make a PSA about a certain social topic. This was, just like the other video projects we had, boring at first, but grew to be more fun as we went along. The first part we had to do was make a script, which was pretty slow, but we got it done. I also had to research, because I was the writing department, which went by quickly too. But, putting that together with Judah and Jaiden, the graphical and video people, was the hardest. Since, we had to make some adjustments in order to fit our parts together, or make certain elements up with someone else's plans. Then, we had to actually film, which was the slowest part, but the most fun. Since we got to recording a bit early, we had a bit more time and tried to figure out how to actually do each of the roles, as I don't know how to act. We had to shoot fourteen shots, with multiple takes in some. We also goofed around a bit, due to the somewhat open interpretation with my script. This resulted in not so serious line deliveries, like me going "Am Sad," or use not being able to walk off screen correctly. But, we had good cuts and footage that resulted in a pretty good video. So, I liked this project, since it was fun and had a nice end product of a video that involved all sorts of elements to put together. There were laughs, dramas, and lots of fun to be had. So, what did we learn, again?
The PSA we made The goofs and outtakes from shooting
Sorry, for the weird title, I want a title different than "what we did this week." Well, we don't have a blog post this weekend, but we have a EoQ check that I only have ONE more personal blog post to have in order to make the grade. So, may as well make a post.
So, I FINALLY finished the montage about capitalism, and, initially, I got a bad grade, because I didn't have music. Which, makes sense since it did make the final version a bit more tense. After we did that project, we made a "shot reverse shot" sort of montage, in which I made a bit more snarky make of the video. This was fun at first, making something by our own intuition, and having a little fun with it. It then turned infuriating, when I had to cut it down to thirty seconds, when my original "Director's Cut" was over a minute. But, in the end, it was a nice little project that put a little spin on something we take for granted, which is camera cuts and angles. But, they are SUPPOSED to be like that, so it's pretty cool. Since this is a personal sort of post, I don't have to research a topic, so WOOH. Sorry for the CAPITALIZATION, I "had" to go on a weekend long vacation with family. In which I couldn't bring my computer, because we went straight there from school, and I forgot once we got home, until now, before bed. So, we're making montages, with ACTUAL clips of footage, AND sound effects. This was just as fun as the last montage, but way more hard since we had to gather clips, sound effects, AND music. But, I wanted to use just the sound effects, for a more unnerving, isolated feeling in my Capital Corruption montage. But, the rest was pretty hard, since we had to nut down the footage to fit the twenty second time limit, and to get the one part we want. The sound effects were not so bad, since they were pretty fun to listen to. But, alas, I couldn't turn into the deadline, and can't show the video for the montage, again. The video is done, but I have to go ALL THE WAY back in the history to find each clip's exact web address to cite, it's also in the school computer, oops. Well, we must research now. So, let's research... sound in movies, because that is what we are doing, sound in movies. I already did this concept in one of the first presentations we did in the year, which, I think, is still in the "my works" tab. So, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, and people were like "Hey, why don't we just have this along with pictures to make a more (literally) cinematic experience?" Well, they did, after each the phonograph and the movie were successful by themselves, AND after they figured out how to sync each, and made one of the first "talkies," "The Jazz Singer." After a LOT of development, it became not just an industry standard, but a basic component of film today. So, what did we learn?
http://www.wonderstruckthebook.com/essay_silent-to-sound.htm https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10286252 A tiny little shot of a clip I used that I snipped from Videezy,
I know it's small, but my mom is waiting for me to finish This week we finally moved onto a new topic to use, audio and video editing. We had to make a slideshow with color, which i guess is as a small Color Theory review. This was actually really fun, since we had to think of a way to show a change in each of the images. I did this by using green, I transitioned from an urban green setting, to a more natural and alien like green setting, and making the images faster for tension to make the video more interesting. I think this is a bit like the logos we had to make, since this is so open-ended and varies from person to person. But, I took too long trying to find pictures, I even took a work day just to choose a color. So, the extra thing of uploading the video to YouTube, since i'm still assembling the slideshow. So, we have to work FAST on the assignments we have now. But, I'm just going to have to keep up. Well, let's research, say, color movies? But, it's pretty hard to tell where color movies originated because, well, color was developed in certain parts. Also, many movies are still made in black and white, so we should see where Technicolor originated in 1915, but it was just a fad, just like talking in films a before they were a thing. But, after WWII, it was widely accepted by the public. So, a bunch more innovation, including color theory, we have color today. So, what did we learn?
https://www.thoughtco.com/how-movies-went-from-black-white-to-color-4153390 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/02/technicolor-at-100/385039/ http://zauberklang.ch/filmcolors/ Color Wheel, because Color Theory
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