Animation

THE PROCESS OF MAKING AN ANIMATION
      Is surprisingly easy considering what need to be done. The first step into making an animation, I was making a ball bouncing up and down, is to start with a shape of whatever it is you want to animate. So I started off by making a background, which was pretty simple, just a sky blue background and a green rectangle to act as grass. The next part was just as simple, in which I made colored circle and added a gradient to it for lighting. Next I created multiple layers in which I made many different versions of the ball (same color and gradient just in a different place for each layer) go lower, till in eventually hit the ground. Now to make it into frames. The process of making frames is the exact same of making layers. Using the time line this part was very easy and I was satisfied with the results I got.

WHAT I LEARNED
      Is very simple and not as complicated as most people would actually think. I learned how to ad gradients, make different layers, use the timeline to create different frames, and basically create an animation using photoshop. It was very fun and simple process, one I hope to do again in the future.

WHAT I WOULD DO DIFFERENT NEXT TIME
      Is add some more background, maybe some clouds here and there. Also put more shading onto the ball, definitely use a different color this time around. Last, I would make the ball smaller and instead of having it just go up and down I might make it bounce to the left or right.

College and Social Media

      Being accepted into college is a hard task to complete in general. But imagine being accepted into a college only to later be declined because they saw a tweet you posted. In sounds pretty bad to me, to have good grades and a nice GPA only to not be accepted because of one photo or snapchat. Recently all of the e-communication members of my hour have read an article talking about the issue about social media affecting whether some kids get into college or not. I've already heard that it's common of colleges to do so, checking your scale media, but I didn't think that it affected your entrance into the school so severely. Apparently about 30 percent of admission officers found information online about students attempting to enter the school that had negatively affected their prospects, at least so the article says.

      Personally I think it's a good idea, checking students social media, but at the same time it seems a bit unfair to the students since they most likely were just joking or maybe even in the heat of the moment made a post. I thought of this as very surprising since you'd think that more people would be more wary about what they post online, especially since it could drastically affect their chance of entering college. 

This Week of E-communication...

      One of the first things we worked on this week in e-communiction was to make a logo of our name. We did this in order to improve our technical skills and learn more about expressing ourselves. I thought the project was interesting and very fun to finish. Although it didn't look very professional when finished I like how mine turned out in the end. 
      The next project we started working on was the handwriting project. In this project we wrote our names multiple times in different fonts and write ten different aspects about ourselves. For the first time I wrote my name I simply wrote my name in my own handwriting. Then I wrote it again this time with the Disney font because Disney was basically my childhood and I love it. I then wrote my name in a font that was my handwriting only no with no cursive inside of it and instead of putting dots on top of  the i's I put circles. For the last one I simply put my name in full cursive, mostly because I love writing cursive since it's easier than picking up the pencil for every letter but also because it looks nice.
       Then for the different aspects I chose to write down imaginative, creative, odd, quiet, weird, honest, random, bookworm, intelligent, crazy, and nice. I chose these words because ai think they describe me rather well. Either way, in the end I think tis was a great project to do and I certainly hope that in the future we will have more projects like this one.