Final Project: A website

For the final project first semester we created a website with two pages. One was about our bio and elevator pitch, which you can find in the "About Me" page I just created here. Then the other page was our best assignments. I don't have anything for Graphic Design yet (coming 3rd Quarter!), but for my animation, I chose my very first bouncy ball animation, and my horse girl chase video for video. Both can be found in past posts here. So you get the idea. Since this website was made in Adobe Dreamweaver and will never be published to the WWW, here are screenshots so you can see the whole picture.

So, that is my website. What do you all think? I am proud of it, even though I had trouble choosing colors. Well, that's all I'm going to post for a while because winter break is in 3 days! Have a Merry Christmas, and see you in 2016!

e9 Promo Video

Well, here is the next project we did. The title says it all, this is a promotional video to convince next year's class to join. Helen and I did something like this beginning of the video rotation (even though we didn't get to edit it). I did it with another girl in the class, Elicia (http://eliciacastillo.blogspot.com/) since we had assigned partners this time. I was pretty bored filming at first, because I've been there done this. That's usually how I now feel starting to film: "Why do I have to do this? This is extremely tedious, why not a professional filmmaker?" But then halfway through, it started to get fun, and I even ignored our storyboard and filmed clips I made in my head! Besides, we lost it somewhere in the hallway...

Anyway, I did the voice acting since we were falling behind and couldn't get someone with a good voice in the class. Excuse me, I had a minor cold that day. The really fun part was editing. I absolutely LOVE experimenting with the clips, rearranging them, adding music, playing with special effects, adding captions and credits, I could go on and on and on but you get the point. Dang, next time I get enough money I'm buying a Mac so I can use Final Cut Pro at home. And then a good camera and a tripod. Filmmaking is fun.

This is the video I am probably the most proud about, more than the horse girl chase. I'm gonna show this to my family and post an excerpt on Instagram. Although, I can only think about one thing I should've done better. If you watched you can see: too many clips promoting film, not enough clips promoting graphic design, very fewer clips promoting animation. So with the captions, I tried my best to arrange the clips based on that, but talking about animation and graphic design, there were clips of us filming.

Other than that, I'm glad I could do this project again and make it better. A bit of a news update: my future job idea has changed. After this class, I want to be a filmmaker instead of animator. Yay! I'm also sad because after winter break I'll go to graphic design. Once I'm an upperclassman though, I'll have to be in video doing this hours a day in and out of school.

Well yeah, hope you enjoyed this video. And if you live around this area and you are in middle school, at least consider joining if you're interested. You don't even have to be a high tech genius, 'cause I didn't even know the keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste when I came here! Now I can use basic html, and that's a huge improvement. If you don't care for it, fine by me. Live your life how you want to. I'm just saying that I love being here, and will never regret applying at the last minute.

So yeah, see you next post!