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In this project, I had a lot of fun working with clips to make a video of an awkward know knock joke that displayed the 180 rule. I found it pretty difficult to make the characters have the correct orientation and setting, and I basically had to redo this project because of it. However, the ordering of the clips didn't take too long because I have become more proficient with Premier Pro. Actually, I thought a lot of things in Premier Pro have become a lot simpler since I started learning, like knowing where to make cuts and insert audio.
In this assignment I created a video demonstrating fluid momentum with cuts. For this project, I tried to tell a short story about someone forgetting his keys. I learned a quite a few techniques from the video we watched in class about how to create a clean edit using different types of cuts that I tried to incorporate into my video. When creating this project, I found that it was very easy to organize my clips along the timeline. However, I felt that creating a video that told a story and also matched the 20 second time constraint was very difficult. This project made me a lot more confident in Premier Pro by teaching me many skills with cuts and even how to reverse a video clip. I had a lot of fun with this project, making a goofy video centralized around meerkats. This project was pretty different from the last because I was working with videos instead of images. This meant that I had to find specific pieces of different videos that I liked, that I could use for my project. This project also incorporated audio which led to me using much of my time trying to find a good section of royalty free dubstep music to use. Using audio also had the effect of making it so I had to mute the audio from the meerkat clips. Overall, working with video was not that much harder than working with just images.
I thoroughly enjoyed my first experience with Adobe Premier Pro. In this project I chose a singe color to focus on and display images of while building intensity. Something I found simple about premier pro was the UI for organizing the images and audio in my video. Something I found slightly difficult about Premier Pro was exporting my video because the menus for exporting in my version of premier pro were different from the one in the tutorial. Premier Pro seems like a very useful tool to create and export videos, I can already sort of imagine of how a studio could assemble a whole movie purely within this software.
I created this project to honor one of my personal idols, Bill Murray. I chose my font MS ゴシック because it was a very basic font that I thought I could work with while still staying readable, even if warped. When creating this, I faced many difficulties such as getting most of my letters not to overlap and to make the simplified image look like an old Bill Murray. While working on this, I learned how to warp text when I warped the word comedian on Bill's neck, I also just learned generally how much was possible with a very simple tool such as typeface. +
For this project, I was tasked with creating a simplistic poster for a movie of my choosing. I chose Mad Max Fury Road because I love the movie and it had as a very strong aesthetic that I thought I could easily incorporate into my poster. When making this poster, I chose to use a color scheme of orange and yellow because the movie is set in a desert wasteland. To create this poster, I used many tools such as the shape builder and mesh tools to make realistic objects from the movie such as the famous war rig. The biggest focus this quarter was learning how to create vectors in Illustrator using the shape builder and pen tools. With each project I completed in Illustrator, I became more confident creating realistic vectors. The completion of my various artworks have taught me many specific skills, allowing to do anything in Illustrator, from simply creating a shape, to adding lighting using the mesh and drop shadow tools. My portfolio reflects that since last quarter, I have gradually increased my skills with a new software: Illustrator. This quarter, I really enjoyed the course being less reliant on tutorials than in the other quarters. I liked this because it allowed me to just jump right in to a project and have more creative freedom. A struggle I had was getting used to using the pen tool. I eventually got the hang of it by practicing the Bezier game. I hope that I will be able to further develop the skills that I have learned in Illustrator, so that in the future I will be able to make art art in my spare time. Before the next portfolio, I aim to become more proficient with 3ds max and hopefully get certified in one of the software's we have studied this year. This project taught me many ways to use the pen tool. It was fun to use the tool in this guided sort of way where we could could see what what possible while creating a cohesive shape: a star wars logo. I really liked learning to use shift and the bezier curves to creation what ever I wanted. Also, since most of these logos were symmetrical I learned to use the reflect tool to make my life easier and do half the work.
Previous to this project I had no experience with the pen tool. This game did a really effective job of helping to learn the functions of this tool. The tutorial was extremely intuitive and it was fun to try to compete the maps with as few nodes as possible. I did finish the game and I'm glad I did because it gave me lots of confidence with the pen tool. |
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