Natalie's Blog

Looking Back... At the beginning of the year I was terrified because I did not know who everyone was and I thought I was going to be a loner. I became friends with Sydney and Mallory which helped. We have been doing convergence journalism, in my opinion, it sucks. I think entertainment will be better.  The projects we have done are: basic procedure, an audio story, an ONW now feature story, a report on the school blood drive, and out ONW Now segment. The key invent of this semester was Allam getting fired. It really messed up the flow of the class because the sub knew nothing, I personally did not enjoy her company, and everyone was confused about what to do. The other key event was producing the ONW Now show. It was kind of stressful having to plan things out and make sure everything got finished. I did enjoy my group, we worked smoothly. The class did not have enough computers for everyone so someone had to use the teacher's, but a student left the class so a free compute...

For this project we went to the blood drive at Olathe Northwest on Friday 13th, November. We were taking a point of view from a donor, nurse, or STUCO member. I chose to take the point of view from a donor. I wrote questions as a guide to ask the donors then I went to the Flex Theater where the blood drive was taking place. I captured b-roll along with interviews at the same time. The next day I uploaded the video to the computer and edited it on Final Cut Pro. My video is 1 minute long to fit the time space. Next time I would bring a microphone to capture the audio better of the interviews and plan my shots better so I wouldn't be scrambled. I was in a rush trying to get all the b-roll and interviews I needed. 

This is a vlog type of video of a man and and woman going to a blood drive at a church. He filmed him and the woman through the whole process of getting their blood drawn. They went to the Red Cross Blood Drive that was at Highland Baptist Church. This video showed how the process worked of getting your blood drawn, but it was not a clear story. The man was telling the story. The video was very shaky, did not have voice overs, had music in the background, and was shot at poor angles. He did do a good job at showing each step and it was in focus, that is all I would apply. The creator showed the emotions, but was shaky and had a stupid camera lens. It distorted the view. There was background music the whole time and it switched between two music choices in the middle. In the beginning of the video the music was solemn, but in the second half of the video it was upbeat. It was a poor tasted in music and had no relevance to the whole video. He should have not had background music in t...

About This article is about how people feel uncomfortable about reporters ambushing them electronically for information on a report. Now that people can "live tweet" events, new reporters want accurate information they can give the public and quickly. Article Review This author takes the standpoint that it is a reporters job to give accurate information to the public. He says that journalists have been saying the public misinterpret their actions,"this how news is gathered and how the pubic gets accurate information when news breaks"(Farhi). Before this news reporters would knock on doors or ask strangers. The article does not show a clear standpoint of whether or not they agree with the claim that new reporters are attacking people via social media or not. The article gives plenty of evidence that is relevant. The author summarizes what happened in Oregon and how reporters are getting backlash for trying to get information about the event. My Critique The ...

This is my audio only interview with Jasmeet. The story is about when she was at the One Direction concert and choked on water. She felt bad the whole time, but as the song "Rock Me" played she began to feel faint and almost passed out. 

Color Codes Today I shall teach you about hexadecimal, rgb, and rgba colors. I will also teach you how to use the rgba colors in Dreamweaver. Hexadecimal and rgb makes it easier to manipulate how dark and light a color is compared to telling Dreamweaver light blue, which could not be the right shade for you. This gives you the power to get the color you specifically need. This is especially helpful in web design so your server knows which exact color needs to be used because this is an almost universal code. Color Words: Color words are colors written is words hence "color words" You do not have as much control over the shade and tint of the color In a code you will type the color name Example: Website:   Color Words List   Hexadecimal:  The hexadecimal color code is a 6 word and or number combination. The tag starts with # then RRGGBB.  The R stands for red, G stands for green, and B stands for blue.  ...

ONW Basic Procedure

Michaela's video . This video had input from her mom, dad, sister, and herself. There was a voice over explaining special events that happened and what was going on in the video. I would use the voice overs to explain what is happening in the video. Another element I would use is the shots that look like they are one continuous shot, but are actually two different shots. I have already learned some of the shots used in this video like, extra close up, wide shot, and medium shots. The creator did well with the continuous shots from one shot to another that looks continuous. He also did good voice overs and made good use of natural noise. The creator could have had better quality and do more varied shots of Michaela and her mom in the kitchen. Overall the video was well edited and created a good idea about Michaela's favorite sport.

YouTube In 2005 YouTube was created and the very first outline of the website was created. It had the same logo, but the color scheme, and layout. In 2005 the font was blue, ad the banner was grey, the only colors on the page were a royal blue, light grey, and light blue.  In the coding they mainly used tables to create the layout. In 2015 there is red icons, the font is still blue on the links to the video, but all of the banners are white. The old layout was all center aligned except for the home, my videos, my favorites, my profile were left aligned, and the sign up, log in, and help links were right aligned. Now the logo, popular links, and search bar are left aligned. The sign in and upload buttons are right aligned, but the popular videos are center aligned. The coding is mostly div tags to create the layout of the page.  Apple One of the first Apple websites was created in 1998. They did not have the Apple logo only their name and a Apple compute...

Our Product: Shockers The Beginning Our final project was a product pitch. We had to come up with an original idea and use all of the different components we learned throughout the year to create it. We used video to create our commercial, graphic designate to create our logo, banner, and ad, web design to create a website for our product that has all the important information, and we used animation to create a 3D visual of our product. The day we started our project with our groups, we began listing off random ideas.  The Process None of our product ideas had to make sense we just wanted a list of ideas we could narrow down to one. After narrowing down our ideas we decided to go with Alex's idea of a candy that gives you superpowers. During our time in graphic design/web design we came up with a theme for our product. We wanted it to be an eighties kind of feel with bright colors. Overall we wanted our product to be kind of cheesy especially in our commercial. It took u...

 This is my commercial for the quarter 4 project. Our group product is called Shockers. It's a candy that gives you super powers for a limited amount of time. The super powers are teleportation, telekinesis, time travel, speed, strength, and invisibility. We wanted our commercial to be cheesy, but still funny. We wanted to give more than one example of how our product worked. We represented teleportation and telekinesis. For teleportation we had Alex act like he was running late to class when a "voice from above" gave him Shockers to help him get to class on time. We made sure to add some humor so it wasn't a boring monotonous commercial. When we did telekinesis we wanted the problem to be easily replaceable. The problem was Gabby didn't have a pencil for class so she looked around and spotted one that was to far for her to reach. To show the pencil "flying" we tied fishing line to the end of it and had Alex controlling the string. To go along with the c...

     One thing I like about my house is the detail I added. The flowers around the porch took a long time to add. I had to make sure the flowers were actually touching the ground. I had to get the flowers as evenly spaced out as I could get. The flowers had to match a color scheme and design.       Another thing I liked about my house was the porch. The house looked flat and had little shape before I added the porch. The porch added more dimension and shape to the house. I

For this project I used the clone stamp a lot to copy the effects of the butterfly flapping its wings. I also used the shortcut command+U to edit the colors on the butterfly's wings. It was difficult to make the wings look like it was flapping its wings. The shadow couldn't be too dark or too light and it had to be placed in the right spot.   In this project I used the mask tool the most. It was difficult for me to arrange the text where it was supposed to be. After messing around with the tools I was able to arrange the text where I wanted it to be.  In the last project I used the mask tool and clone stamp. This project combined all of the skills and tools we learned from the other projects. It was difficult arranging the pictures in a logical place and making sure the raven was cut out as straight as possible. It was also difficult making sure while I was removing the light posts and cars it looked natural and nothing was left behind. For the first project...

My logo is a fake coffee shop I would create. It's called After Midnight Cafe because it would be for the night dwellers who stay up late and like to have a place to go. The dark blue almost black represents the night sky. It is supposed to be calming and peaceful for the customers. I chose this font because it has a nice look that is not too serious but still professional.

Before learning this information of colors I already knew briefly about colors having different meanings. I did not know that colors really had an impact subconsciously in our everyday lives. We learned that companies specifically used certain colors to get our attention or make us feel a certain way. The thought of companies deliberately choosing colors never occurred to me before this. I knew about logos representing something but not color choices. I also never knew about all the different types of color schemes. I always thought monochromatic was just black to white. I didn't know jot was the whole color wheel that could be monochromatic.