Movie Poster

Wreck-it Ralph Movie Poster

Process:

     I started this poster project by looking at posters by Saul Bass, and then I selected my movie and drew a few sketches. After I started creating my poster in photoshop I decided to make the bricks blend into the background instead of sticking out, and I think it looks really cool and more like a Saul Bass poster. I found the fist on google images and it was labeled for re-use, and I really like how it is an outline and you can see the bricks though it. The cooled part of this poster was the candy cane letters. I took picture of a candy cane and I turned it into the three candy cane letters, I think they look really cool. 

Saul Bass Movie Poster

Reflection:

     I chose to do the movie Wreck-it Ralph, because it is my cousins favorite movie and I have watched it a million times with him. I also chose it because it has a really cool plot, and I thought I could make a really cool poster about it. My favorite part of the poster is the bricks in the background, and the candy cane letters. If I were to do this project again I would probably pick a different font because I doubled up on the bricks, and I would try to pick a different element of the movie to allude to with the font. I really enjoyed this project and would love to create another movie poster, or do another project related to this one. 

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Custom Name

I used Adobe Illustrator to make my name look like it is connected all together. I used the sill I learned during the apple organics tutorial. First I typed my name and adjusted the kerning, then I turned all the letter into outlines and adjusted the anchor points to make it look like all the letters were connected together. I think this looks pretty cool, but the font I picked is kind of boring so if I did this again I would pick a better font and maybe alter the font a little bit more. I learned a lot of valuable skills that I an use to make the title for my movie poster.

10 Things

 Values and Consumption: 
      I learned that peoples values have a huge impact on their consumption, and designers really have to tap into people's emotions and values in order to get them to buy the products.

Indesign: 
     This was my first project in indesign and I learned a lot. I learned how to use character styles, paragraph styles, and object styles. I also learned how to create a grid and use object boxes.


My Poster: 
     I learned a lot while making my poster and I changed a lot of things throughout my process. I changed the spacing between each box and the size of the box so that it looks more consistent  and I changed the leading on the copy so it is easier to read. I like all my pictures and I am pretty happy with the way everything turned out. If I did this project again, I would make it more colorful, I like all the white space, but I think it is a little bit boring.

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Video Final

Reflection

I really enjoyed video this semester. I really liked all the projects we did, and I liked most of my groups that I was in. My favorite project was the Lego project, and the Final project. I wish I had more time to edit the Final project, but I think it looks pretty good for the amount of time we had. 

The only thing I would change about this semester would be our grips for the project. I really wish we could've picked our groups more often. I liked most of my groups, and I think working with different people is a good thing, but I would have liked to have done at least on project with groups of our own choosing. 

I think I learned a lot this semester, and my videos improved throughout the semester. I am excited to learn even more things next semester.

Backpack Journalism

The Process: 

      The process for both of these projects was to prepare some questions before hand, but since it was backpack journalism, most of the project was on the spot. I had to find something interesting about each event and make a story out of it. After I filmed both of my stories I had to import the clips to Final Cut Pro, and go through all the clips and favorite the ones I wanted to use. Next, I created a script for both of the packages, the scripts included which clips I was using, the voice overs, and the sound on tape that I was using. After the scripts were finished, I recorded the voice overs, imported them to Final Cut Pro, and then edited the packages with J and L edits, and made them match the scripts.

Experience Gained:

     These were the first two journalism projects I have ever done, so I learned a lot of new things while making them. I learned how to get a steady shot without a tripod ( I am not very good at it though), and I learned what kind of shots to get while interviewing someone for a journalism project. I also learned what kind of questions to ask, but most of the time you should make up questions that go with the story you are making, but you usually don't know the story until they start talking, so most of the questions are made up on the spot. I learned more about editing too, I learned how to use J and L edits, and how to make voice overs and insert them into a video. 

For the Future:

      I really enjoyed backpack journalism, so I hope I get to do it again in the future. I will definitely use J and L edits in the future. I will also remember the proper stance to having a stable shot without a tripod, and the types of questions to ask during an interview. I will probably use voice overs again in the future, and I am really glad that I learned how to record them, and how to incorporate them into the video so it sounds like it belongs. I will use the template for the scripts again in the future as well, I think it was a really helpful tool in planning and editing the package. 

Reflection:

     The hardest part of this project was trying to keep the camera stable. The easiest part was coming up with questions to ask. The most important thing I need to remember is to leave some silence for nat-noise, during the Lego video I was asking questions the whole time, so there was very little nat-noise without someone talking. I am pretty proud of both of these projects, and I think I did a really good job for my first attempt at journalism. Next time I do journalism though, I need to remember to take a variety of different shots to make the videos more entertaining.