Natalie's Blog

MX4D is a  relatively new interactive experience for movie goers. The MX4D allows viewers to become more immersed in the movie than 3D movies by using the 5 senses. The movie theatre enhances the viewer experience using moving chairs, water squirters, scents sprays, and other sense stimulators. I had been to one MX4D theatre previously at Sea World. It had been quite a few years so my memory of the experience was not clear. What I remembered was being sprayed with water, but that is about it. My experience was sub par. I was sitting in the very front row so that negatively affected my experience. I think the moving seats was the best overall, but I did not enjoy the weird butt bumps because it did not match well with the movie. My least favorite part of the experience was the water/air sprays. In theory it's nice if there is water action, but when there was gun shots it was just annoying being sprayed at the back of my head repeatedly. I think MX4D negatively affected my view o...

Our group originally chose Courtney's script, but after shooting we realized that the footage was bad and trying to do a party scene would not work. Instead we chose my script, but revised it in order to be able to shoot it as efficiently as possible. My script was originally about a boy and girl who both suffered from social anxiety and together they are able to work on it and overcome it.  The pre-production process was rushed due to our time restraints. Courtney spent a day revising the script to reduce the amount of locations we had to go to. I called a couple coffee shops to see if we could film there, but ended up filming everything at JCCC. I also created shot lists for our shoot day in order to try and give some structure and efficiency. Courtney was our actress and she found Danny for our actor. I was the cinematographer and editor for the film. Originally Grayson was the cinematographer, but was unable to make the shoot.  On a Saturday Courtney, Danny, Wes, a...

Peer Pressure For our PSA we decided to choose peer pressure as our topic. It is a topic that most people can relate to. We took inspiration from one of the example videos of having different situations throughout the video. To make it more interesting we wanted to shoot it in first person perspective so the camera was the person who was being peer pressured. All of the actors had to look into the camera like it was the person. The whole video was going to be pretty much one shot for each scene. The scenarios we chose were some of the most common situations someone would be pressured in. We shot most of our scenes at school during the day because most of these situations were related to high school or young adult issues. The only scene we had to film outside of school was the drunk driving scene because most times it occurs at night.  As the cinematographer I decided not to use a tripod to make the shots less formal. I still tried to keep the shots relatively steady but no...

In the Beginning….          I was horrified of coming into the class and having no friends-a typical high schooler worry- but luckily I had Kaylee and Tori. I walked in on the first day and found my friends and sat at the tables to begin the problems of burning eyes from staring at computer screens for a long time.   The first project we did was on Text Mate where I learned and refreshed my coding skills.   It was helpful to refresh my forgotten coding from the summer. Later in the first quarter we began working on Dreamweaver. We transferred our Text Mate knowledge over to Dreamweaver to advance our skills.            The Between… It was good to work in Dreamweaver because this is what professionals use and it gives us a “real life” experience. One of my biggest struggles of this class was remembering all the past coding information form freshman year and implementing it into thi...

In the Beginning of time….             I was a terrified potato with not many acquaintances or friends in this class. I already had basic knowledge of video from freshman year video. The first project we did was a basic skills video showing the six shot sequence. I partnered with Katie, who I have known since elementary school-thank Jesus it was someone I knew. Our video was pretty good and we clearly displayed how to log in to the student Wi-Fi.               I soon became closer friends with Mallory, Sydney and more acquainted with Alyssa. I also got my first dose of Roan, which I think I regret. Throughout first semester I came out of my hermit shell and less of recluse. Unfortunately, I did discover some not so great people; I won’t name names…at MB.             In the middle of the semester we did a step-by...

Intro Responsive web design provides optimal viewing and interaction for viewers. Having a responsive site makes it easy to read and navigate a site with different viewing platforms from a large iMac to a small screened smartphones. Media queries enable the CSS to adapt to the different screen sizes. To get the display to adjust you must define the breakpoint where the CSS will change styles. Example The website I chose was a by one of my favorite blogger In the Frow:  http://www.inthefrow.com/

This project was a website focused on the important rules of photo composition because photography is becoming more important and used in web design. Design To start the layout I used a basic layout format I created a couple months ago that I can use for any project that has all basic html elements. I made my header with a photo I took in  California of the skyline. I chose to focus on the rule of thirds, symmetry, point of view, background, depth perception, natural frame, space to move, filling the frame, contrast, avoiding the middle, pop of colors, and breaking the rules because you always need a rule breaker. To show examples of the rules I took all of the pictures on my site. Most of the pictures I had previously done before the project. My favorite picture I took was the one I used for breaking the rules.  This is an example of breaking the rules because the subject, my dog, is in the very center and is not following the rule of thirds. It is also my favo...