Natalie's Blog

 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...

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...

I liked this web project. It wasn't too hard for me because I had taken a class over the summer about web design. At first I was confused because it had been a while since using dreamweaver, but after refreshing it made more sense to me. Sometimes I got confused about what I was doing, but asking people around me helped me figure it out.

In the chase scene project I learned that the way you set up scenes and organize them can really change the mood and tone of a movie. While our group was story boarding we had to decide what type of one we wanted. In my next project I will organize my clips in my story board more accurate to how the movie would look like in the end. In this collaboration I had to work with more than just one other person. We had to combine all of our different ideas into one movie. We all had different views on how the movie should look and then had to work together to make them into one. I would improve collaboration next time by making sure we were all here knowing what is going on and everyone contributed. Overall as a group we worked well together and had a good time.