From A to B

      Recently in e-Communication we were partnered up to make a video where we would be trying to get  from one place to another, in this project I took all the footage while my partner walked form the second floor of the school to our courtyard. We used the 6 shot system and attempted to ry to use he rule of thirds, though I don't think that went well. But overall the project was actually proved to be fun to do and in the end i actually liked how it turned out.

      

The Process

      Getting the camera and stand for it was easy, using it was harder. Unlike in the other video I took for the six shot system, in where we had normal stand the stand that we had in this project was slightly damaged making it harder to stand up correctly. 

      We started at my locker, which was conveniently on the second floor. Writing a quick scribbled note, my partner acted to be surprised then we began the process of walking down the halls and stairs all the way to the courtyard. Getting to the courtyard was harder than you might've imagined since the doors were at first locked, leaving me and my partner on a small journey to find a custodian.

      

What I Learned

      If anything I learned that when making a video like this, it's better to make 50% of it close-ups/extreme close-ups. This makes the video more interesting in a way. Besides that we still used Premiere and the same camera's as last time so I didn't actually learn much this time.

What Could Have Gone Better

      Some of the shots I actually didn't like at all. There's this one shot of going down the stairs, but the camera was angled wrong and it paned the shot. I didn't notice until editing the video, so I'm really annoyed at that shot. And in another shot you can see he camera stand in the background. Giving the chance to that again I would be more careful of the camera and what's in the shot.

Word Project

Our project in e-Communication was to find a picture, then to make words that describe ourselves float into the picture.

THE PROCESS
Making this video had its easy parts and its hard parts. Starting off with making the words in Adobe Photoshop, I chose ten words that I thought described me fairly well and a photo background of a library. To make the video so as I made it, I used the transform option in the video animation on the timeline. Putting those together proved to be easy, it was just animating it be 10 seconds long that proved to be a challenge for me. Although you can imagine that editing the small video would be easy, and don't get me wrong it is very easy, I just happened to not comprehend my interactions of making the video 10 seconds long.

WHAT WAS NEW
Using the transform option in the video and just doing the video was new for me. I'm used to using frame animations and not video.  At first when looking at the video animation, I initially thought it was going to be more complicated than it actually was going to be. The video was fun to make and the transform option, which is what allowed my project to slide in the way it did, proved to be just as simple to use.

WHAT I WOULD DO DIFFERENTLY
As I said earlier, I had misheard directions and thought that we would be making our video only 6 seconds when actually it was 10. This was a bit challenging to fix, but at the least I now I have future reference to know of what to do if I'm ever to do this project again.

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.