Reflection over this year

Hey Bloggers!
        This is my last blog with e9, and sharing about this year.  This year I learned a lot about how to work with technology and video.  I learned about all of this from my great e9 teachers.
Its going to help me with experiences and opportunities in the future.
         My strength was video and editing it and my weakness was animation and graphic design creativity.  I have improved with those skills after the group project.  I will use what I have learned with graphic design in the yearbook staff next year.  I would change how some of the teachers taught me because some didn't know what they were doing.
         In all I am not doing ecomm next year because I have joined yearbook, but I will use everything I learned this year.  I feel that I should get in A i the class because I put a lot of effort into my work this year.

Product

Hey Bloggers!

Lately in Ecomm I have been working on an end of the year project.  I was put in a team to make a video, an animation, and logo for a product we had to makeup.  My group is the Space Time Company and our product is the Time Zone app which is a time machine/tele-porter.  We worked well as a team with coming up with creative ways to introduce our product.  We struggled mot with getting along to get the job done.  Next time I need to learn to corporate with others easier and help them make compromises as well.  I would have changed some of the setup of the commercial it was just sort of boring to watch.  I have improved my graphic design skills by make the logo.  I contributed to the animation, made the logo, and filmed some of the video.

Graphic Design

Hey Bloggers!  Whats up?  I have some fun new projects to show you all!  I made all of these projects with Adobe Photoshop.  Its was really hard to time manage all of these projects, but it was worth it! The raven was definitely the hardest but looks the coolest.  Hope you enjoy!

Invasive Website

Hey Bloggers!  Sorry I haven't posted in awhile I have been working on this super cool new website project using Adobe Dreamweaver.  It took awhile but was worth it to have it finished. Anyways this is the home page which went a lot like all of the other pages.  I had to add the youtube video by going to the embed code on the video and copy it.  Then I pasted it on to my source code so that it shows the video on the page instead of you going to the video on another link.

 Here are all of my css codes.  It probably looks super confusing but if you follow the tutorials right than it will al be correct.

 This is my Purple Loosestrife page!  I loved this page because they are just so beautiful!  The oink color is my absolute favorite.  I uploaded these photos from google images.  You have to download it on a certain file and then drag it on to the design page.

On this I did the same thing as the home page video.  To get those links to show up as links, I had to copy them and paste them under lists, then they become a link! Hope you enjoy my cool website!

Orthogonal Cube

Hey there bloggers!  I am back with an orthogonal cube used with Adobe Illustrator.  It might look harder than it was because it was super easy, and anyone could do it!

My Own Logo

Hey Bloggers!  I am back with my awesome new monogram logo for myself.  I used Adobe Illustrator to make this.  I love monograms and thought it would be a super cool thing to make i my logo.  In my e9 graphic design class we all critiqued each others work.  Everyone really like it for the most part but they said my first circle should be white like the letters.  I hope you enjoy my awesome logo!

Famous COCO Chanel Logo

Hey Bloggers!  I am back with a super fun project!  I got to make tons of different logos which were so cool.  I used Adobe Illustrator and looked up tutorials on youtube.  I love COCO Chanel so I knew I would have fun with this one! Enjoy!

Anatomy of Typography

Hey Bloggers!  Whats going on?  I am here with a new super cool project!  I used Adobe Illustrator to study the anatomy of typography!  I know a lot more about fonts and its so interesting!  Hope you enjoy my skills! See you next time!

Color Wheel

Hey Bloggers!
This is my very first project post I have done in graphic design!  I enjoyed using a lot of color in this and making such a fun object.  It took a lot of hard work and I used Adobe Illustrator on this project.  Hope you enjoy this beautiful and colorful flower!

This is apart of my final for e9.  I had to make a website which was way more difficult then you would think and I am really proud of it.

This is my project page for my website and I chose my ten words for my favorite animation.  I like this one because it describes me as a person well.

This is the 2nd part of my project page and my favorite video I made was my chase scene.  I recorded this on an iPad and edited on final cut pro.  I enjoyed this project the most of the whole semester.

e9 Promotional Video

This is my e9 Promotional Video, which is advertising the freshman that are in the E-Communications program, which I am apart of.  I spent a good amount of time editing this video, and feel like I did that well.  I also feel like the music I picked fit the tone of the video really well.  I could've got more footage to fit the script better. I also should've had my voice over be a little quicker.  I hope you all enjoy this persuasive video!

Elevator Pitch

Elevator Pitch

  Hi I am Lauren Sanford!  I am very interested in your company at the moment.  I have skills within editing videos very well and in a great amount of time.  I also have some skills in animating in photoshop.  I have a passion for everything about video, it’s just right for me.  I absolutely love filming and coming up with creative topics.  I am a good communicator, and I am outgoing, funny, friendly, compassionate, positive thinker, futuristic, believing, achiever, and arranger.  Make sure to contact me, if you need me I am your girl, lsanford2016@gmail.com.  My blog is along with my email in case you want to check it out!  I really hope I can hear from you soon!

LaurenSanford chasescene

Lindsey and I filmed a chase scene racing time.  I wanted to go to the bathroom and get to class on time.  I was critiqued and I shouldn't of shot anything in the bathroom.  I had a lot of different shots which is a good thing and that it told the story well.  I needed to move the camera around more too.  I really enjoyed doing this project.  Filming is a lot of fun and I hope you all enjoy the video!

Sanford printing

Personality Match

Hey Bloggers!
Today I took a test about my personality trait.  Turns out I am like a beaver.  I am super organized, I tend to be more creative.  I like to solve things and I take my time to do something right.  I don't like change at all.  I sometimes need reassurance.  My strengths are high standards, order, and respect.  My weaknesses are unrealistic expectations of myself and others around me, and expressing flexibility.  I am limited on seeing the optimistic side of the world.

6 Shot System

                                     The 6 Shot System

                   Hey Bloggers!  Today I will be showing you how to do the 6 shot system!  The 6 shot system is a way to create a complex and dramatic way of video.

This photo is showing the extreme close-up.  Extreme close-up shows the expression of the person.

This photo is showing a regular close-up.  Close-ups show the emotion of the person.

This photo is over the shoulder.  Over the shoulder shows what the person is looking at.

This photo is the medium shot.  This shot ties everything together.  Including  what they are doing and the posture of the person.

This photo is showing the wide shot.  Wide shot shows the person from head to toe.

The last one of the system shows extreme wide shot.  Extreme wide shot shows the setting or where the person is. 

Social Media

        At Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine there was a high school senior that attended a session and posted rude comments about the people around her on Twitter.  This was looked upon by the college which denied her acceptance to the college because of these posts.  

         

         I was suprised that they actually took the time to look at her posts, and the fact that she did that in the first place!  She probably should be more cautious about what she posts on social media.  This also teaches me to be more cautious about what I put online.  I was also surprised that job candidates get cut if there social media isn't appropriate as well.  Many job applicants will get there social medias looked at to see if they are good for the job.

 

         I was wondering if my high school pays attention to all of our social medias.  Do they look at them and see all the things people post for certain applications for activities?  Do they cut someone based on there social media posts?  

           This article made me more cautious about what I post on social media.  I will be sure to check my social media consistently so that this never happens to me!

Drawing Name Animation Tutorial

Name Animation Tutorial:

The very first thing you do is open up photoshop on you're Mac.

When its open click file and new, and make the dimensions 600 by 150 pixels.
After you have set it up click layers on the right hand side of you're screen.
Once you have done that create a new layer and click the text tool on the left hand side of the screen, then click on the background wherever you want your name.

Choose the font, color, and text size you want for you're animation.  After you have done that you click the eraser tool and choose the size you want.  Then you will start erasing little bits of the last letter in you're name.  You will continue to do that with each letter.

Once you are done erasing every letter in you're name, you will need to click timeline and then click the little box that says frame by frame animation.  On the right hand side of that click the tiny box, and choose make frames from layers.

Then you have to highlight all the layers at the bottom, and click that tiny box again and choose reverse frames.

When you have finished play it and make sure everything is in the right

spot, and if not edit it.  Then your DONE!!

10 words

Hey bloggers it's Lauren!  I just made a video animation with my 10 words to describe me!  This was a lot more challenging than the others, because we used video instead of frame animations.  I learned a lot about video animating and I think its so much fun.  I hope you enjoy watching all the hard work I put into this as much as I do!

Hey guys its Lauren!  I just made my second animation and so proud to be showing everyone! This animation was a lot more challenging then the last animation, as you can see.  It took me about two days more than the last one.  I definitely feel like I have improved a lot since the first animation.  I also think that I have learned a lot of ways to do animation; all the tips and tricks.  I hope you enjoy this great animation I made!  I will definitely be showing more of these!