Stand and Deliver Trailer Remake

https://youtu.be/ZOC6NyE_H2k

To end off the third quarter, we picked a high school movie and made a shot by shot replica of the trailer to analyze the shots and how they were recorded. Our trailer was missing a couple of shots, but I think we executed it fairly well. My group chose the movie "Stand and Deliver." My group was made up of me, CJ Vredenburg, and August Berthed.

PRODUCTION

First, we made storyboards, a google doc of our cast, location for filming, outfits, and production schedule, then we recorded our scenes, and after that was finished, we started editing. Along the way, I learned that it's A LOT easier to do a project over time than rushing in the last couple of days. I also learned that making schedules really helps out and causes less stress on the group.

THINGS I WOULD CHANGE

If I could change something, I would've recorded earlier and followed the schedule more closely to meet the deadline and have more time to improve the final project. Although, I would've kept the same group members because I think we work well together.


 I thought this was a fun project, and really shows that recording shot for shot is not as easy as it sounds.

"Come and Get It" by Selena Gomez Re-make

"Come & Get It" by Selena Gomez Re-make

In our music video, Franchesca Manzella and Paige Winters were robbers and robbed a house. Our goal was to make a music video that was two minutes long, changed shots on the beat, and had a lot of shots and variety of shots. I think my video was more focused on the story than the flowing with the song, and thats what makes it different from the other videos in my group. Before we started recording and editing, we had to make a storyboard, a beat sheet, and a schedule for the whole project. After finishing those, we recorded and edited the clips to the music video. Along the way, I learned the different types of moving camera shots like pan, track, and zoom. I also learned that there has to be a lot of communication and teamwork to really succeed and make the video as good as possible. If I could change one thing it would be to color correct some shots so it didn't look all black in some shots. I would keep my editing type the same though; focusing more on the story and not so much on the song flow. After creating my first music video I experienced that it is much easier to edit music videos for me because my weakness is audio, and my strength is creating the story. Overall, I thought this was the most fun project of the year so far.

"Paradise" by Coldplay Music Video Review

"Paradise" by Coldplay

 
   In this music video, an elephant escapes a zoo and tries to find his friends by traveling around the world. The story being told is that friends and family are the most important things in life and it is worth doing anything to get to them. The one aspect I would apply to my work from this music video is the variety of settings. I think it really makes the video pop and makes it very colorful. After watching this video I saw that they changed shots to the beat and had a wide variety of them, whether it be a shot of the setting or a close-up of the elephant. This music video did a great job of keeping the viewers attention with all of the colors and beautiful contrast. One thing that could've improved was making the text on the cardboard signs darker so you can easily see what they say. I really like this music video and song. I believe it is a very uplifting video and has a great story and ending to wrap all of it up.

"Carrying a town's water" by Diana Marcum review

"Carrying a town's water" by Diana Marcum review

   This article was about a 72-year old woman named Donna Johnson who did anything she could to get families water during a drought in California. She walked door to door in over 100 degree weather and asked people if they needed water or had extra water. Marcum was saying that Donna Johnson was very helpful during this drought. She supports this claim by talking about Johnson's experience with the people in the town and about her journeys to find someone with water. This article is a good story, but its not really an argumentative piece. Marcum always was describing how tired the people were and how hot it was to add on to the setting of the story. The main point is expressed throughout the story, but not enough to make it significant. Marcum never really ends the story with people thanking Donna Johnson.

   I thought this was a good story, but not a great one. I don't think it paid much attention to the main idea, and it didn't really stand out to me at any point while I was reading it. I think Marcum could've done a better job with making the story more exciting and making a better ending.

http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/diana-marcum

"How Does VR Actually Work?" review

"How Does VR Actually Work?" review

  

  In this article, Sophia Charara, talks about all of the details of VR and how it actually works.  VR has two main tracking systems, head tracking and motion tracking. head tracking has to do with where you are actually looking. It runs off a system called 6DoF (six degrees of freedom). This is the X, Y, and Z axis that is measured where your head is moved to. motion tracking is where you are moving in your headset, whether you are moving in real life, or ordinarily, moving with controllers. this tracking system can make your VR experience better because you can look like you are doing stuff with your hands when you actually aren't. VR is connected with animation in the fact that many of the games are made in 3D programs. imagine making a virtual world in Maya and putting on a VR headset and walking around in what you have just created.

   

   

"Yes, as a Matter of Fact. You Do Need to Learn 3D." review

"Yes, as a Matter of Fact. You Do Need to Learn 3D." review

        In this article, the author, Starshine Roshell, believes that everyone needs to learn how to use and create 3D projects. She gives many examples of 3D use in regular day life and tries to persuade you into trying out a program. In Roshell's argument, she says that 3D is everywhere, from furniture models in IKEA to video games, and even in food commercials. Her strength in this article giving good examples and making yourself believe you need to start using 3D. Roshell does not really have a conclusion, but she does have more of a recommendation. Roshell recommends programs for you to get started with, like Photoshop and Maya. In the body of this article, I do believe her arguments do fit well with the claim of using 3D programs. She convinces you to look around and find 3D around you and expresses that you need to be making 3D, too.

https://www.lynda.com/articles/you-need-to-learn-3d

glasses and salt shaker

In Animation class we made 2 glasses using the revolve tool. To make these, you have to choose the revolve tool and place points in the shape of half of a glass. To finish the glass your must use the 360 degree tool to make the circle into a 3d glass. I made two glasses and colored them with the phong material. This was more of a small project, because we made a salt shaker too.

While making the salt shaker we used the loft tool. to make this, we made a cylinder and used the loft tool to make grooves in the middle of the shaker. I colored the shaker with phong swell.