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Project 4

johnsonml2004 — Thu, 04 May 2023 18:49:57 +0000

I learned how I can make intros and edit videos for future classes when needed. I think those skills will be very important for me in later years. I think the easiest part was probably actually inputting the videos into premiere and editing them. I had a really hard time figuring out how to make the title sequence at first, but when I figured it out it became pretty easy. The other part that I found pretty difficult was making the soundtrack. I didn’t really know where I wanted to start with the soundtrack, but I had an idea of the emotion I wanted it to show. I think I probably could have spent more time at making the specific video clips fit with each other and with the soundtrack because there were a couple parts they were almost perfect, but they were slightly off from the soundtrack. I think we could’ve spent more time on actually inputting the videos into premiere and going through how to do transitions with the videos a couple more times. I think there are going to be situations throughout my college career where a video may be an option for an assignment and sometimes a video can portray a message better than anything else and now I can make my assignments more appealing both to my professors and to my classmates. I think the parts that inspired me are in movies when you hear the dramatic music and someone becomes really mad and starts charging towards someone else and a fight breaks out. I think that is kind of the idea I was going for throughout my video.

Project 3

johnsonml2004 — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:00:15 +0000

I learned a lot about my creativity throughout this project and how to morph things to the specific way I want them. Once I got the hang of it, creating items in Maya was pretty easy and honestly pretty fun. It was a lot of organic shapes that I was able to morph into the way I wanted it. It was challenging figuring out how to move around to get to where I wanted to within my game in Unreal. I had trouble right up until the end with moving around. My submission could probably be improved by making it more game like. I could have gone vertically so there were places for my avatar to go upward instead of just little rooms in the square that Unreal made for us. I think it would’ve definitely given it a more game like feel. I don’t really think there is too much to improve with this assignment. It allows for the students to discover a lot on our own and ask for help when needed, but for the most part everything was straight forward after we were initially taught what it was. I could apply this to future scenarios by using Maya to create ideas into physical pieces to give a better visual representation of something instead of just having to imagine it. It would allow for something to be changed based on multiple imaginations instead of everyone thinking different things. There wasn’t too much that inspired me for this project. I was going with the flow of what the game was looking like and changed things as I went to see what looked the best together or what I wanted to try out.

Project 2

johnsonml2004 — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 20:29:10 +0000

Throughout this whole project I learned how to have a color scheme that travels throughout an entire piece. I also learned how to make something come off as a real website. I would say most of the project was easy. The hardest part was deciding the pictures I wanted on the portfolio section and deciding what kind of flow I wanted to have. I think my submission could be improved by adding some parts that look like actual buttons to give a more website feel. I had lines put under words so it looks like you are on that actual page that’s selected which I think definitely helped. I kind of saw it at the end, but having a loose description of what we can do so that we can have a little more artistic freedom. I think at the beginning of this project a lot of the projects looked similar. I would apply my knowledge from this project in parts of a work place that might not even relate to technology. This project taught me to have a cohesive idea that connects all throughout and I can use that in all kinds of work projects. If one part is out of place then it clearly looks odd with everything else. I think more so styles of pictures and such that helped inspire this project for me. I like sunflowers so I found a picture of a sunflower I liked that had a more vintage feel and went from there.

Project 1

johnsonml2004 — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 16:53:47 +0000

Throughout this project I learned a lot about how I can change pictures or edit them to become how I imagined them. I also had to test my creative abilities and this project showed me that I am a lot more creative than I thought I was. The easiest part was probably typing in the words for the card and editing them the way I wanted them. Personally, I found almost everything else challenging with this project. I ended up redoing it multiple times to get the outcome I wanted and by the end I understood how to do things, but changing the backgrounds and removing the backgrounds from photos was probably the most challenging. I probably could’ve made everything flow a little better on the inside of the card. I focused so much on getting everything in the card so I get credit for each part. For future assignments, I am going to explore my creativity a little more and go through the checklist as I am completing the project and focusing on making everything flow a little better. My inspiration was the song “You Are My Sunshine”.

Classwork 1.2

johnsonml2004 — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 20:54:42 +0000

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johnsonml2004 — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 20:48:36 +0000

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