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I think we can all agree with Kanye right now... Step 1: Inspiration I chose to do this as my meme because this is how I feel everyday past mid-November. Walking to class at 7:45 a.m. suddenly feels like I'm charging through a blizzard, my lips are chapped, and I need to wear multiple jackets/sweaters to maintain a functioning body temperature.  Step 2: Photos                       + I chose Kanye West because he is known to possess a "pissed off" look in many of his photos. I thought his facial expression accurately portrayed how I feel when it drops below 60 degrees. I also feel like I'm living in photo #2 when I'm walking around campus towards the end of fall semester and at the beginning of spring semester, despite the fact there has yet to be a single snowflake in High Point, NC.  Step 3: Editing!                           ...

youtube link: https://youtu.be/x8U9kgNi_BI For Blog #5, I decided to use the water bottle video completed in another class. I downloaded four emoji png's that described four of the students in the video. With each student and emoji, I utilized the editing/effect controls in Premiere. With that, I played with tools such as position, scale, and opacity for the emojis. In order to place specific effects on specific frames, I used the razor tool to single out one clip at a time. It made it easier on me to focus on one scene and the effects that I applied to it. I slowed down the scene where she flips the bottle, for dramatic purposes, by clicking "clip" then "speed/duration." From there, I was able to change the speed from 100% to 50% in that one specific scene. I learned that from the "How to create slow motion effects" reading. One scene, where I placed multiple emojis, I had to create a new sequence and place the three different question mark emojis ...

For my Blog post, I decided to use the iconic, "look at all those chickens" video. I downloaded the original video as an MP4 and imported it into Premiere. I then clicked the M button in the A1 area so the original sound would be muted. I then downloaded an MP3 of the birds from "Finding Nemo" saying "mine, mine, mine" over and over again. Once I lined up the clips in an appropriate manner using my selection, razor, and marker tools, I left in the beginning of someone saying, "Oh would you just-" before inserting a sound effect of a censored bleep noise to give viewers the impression that the little girl was cursing at the birds. I had a lot of fun with this project and feel like this is a skill that can be used in the future! youtube link: https://youtu.be/OHZAQ3mXTXg

Swatches of Furniture Task 1: Photo I was in the common room of my residence hall when I started realizing all of the various colors in the furniture. Though there are multiple colors, somehow they all blend together. I decided to photograph a chair alongside a little decorative stand. The black, cream, and dark olive green provided the perfect colors for my swatch assignment. Task 2: InDesign Once I uploaded the image to InDesign, I set my original colors from the photo as new colors on the swatches icon. I found my perfect colors. Using the rectangle tool, I created my boxes for the swatch. I then used the "click and option" tool that we used in class to create the same size rectangles across my swatch. A dark grey, dark olive green, and an off white cream color. I set those as the boxes on my first column on 100% tint. In the next column, I placed the same colors, but at 70% tint. In the last column, I placed the same colors, but at 30%.  Task 3: Nameplates Us...

youtube link: https://youtu.be/fP0uSZxCAUg My Still Image video project is about about my family's dog, Maui. A golden retriever who we got in the summer of 2017 who completes our family. Step 1: Audio in Adobe Audition. I imported my recording of myself talking about Maui. After trimming down the clip and removing unnecessary parts and pauses, I used the razor tool to separate the audio into two different clips, making it easier to import audio. I downloaded audio from freesound.org and inserted a song for the introduction and conclusion, along with audio clips that went along with the story. Such as, people asking, a car stopping, and dogs barking. I played around a lot with the fade in and fade out tools, so that my audio would sound smoother overall. Besides the razor tools and fade in/out edits, I also lowered the volume of a single audio track because it was too loud over my voice. I exported the audio file as a multitrack in preparation to use it in step 2. Step ...

Since I did yearbook for three years in high school, creating my Photostory draft felt as if I was creating a spread for yearbook. I started in Photoshop and chose two photos where the lighting was off or their were distracting elements in the photo. In the airplane photo, there was originally a Starbucks cup that I edited out by using the stamp tool. For the largest photo of the chair in Slane Student Center, I also edited a few lighting distractions by using the stamp tool and the paint tool. In InDesign, I used the fit content buttons a few times when moving around my photos, for it can be easy to make a mistake with that. I also utilized the proportions InDesign gives when you move things around. It makes your layout more organized and easier to complete. I also played around with the type tool and different fonts that InDesign has to figure out what would look best with my PhotoStory.