November 24, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
What are you doing for Thanksgiving? Do you have any traditions? Go in to detail about your plans for the 5 day weekend.

I am staying in town for this thanksgiving and I plan on just spending time with my family and my girlfriend. The only "tradition" that my family has is making a special blueberry pie each year and then eating too much of it. I plan on spending Wednesday just sitting around the house and then Thursday and Friday will just be family time. By Saturday I'm sure I'll be sick of my family and I will want them to go back to their own homes. It is fun every single year, though.

November 19, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
Reflecting on the comments and grade of your stop-motion animation... what you would do differently if you had to do it all over again? Would you manage your time better? Find better lighting for your photos? Come up with a better idea? Explain what you would change about your video.

If I could resubmit my video then I would have made the frames go by a little faster because a lot of the comments I got was that it was really long. If I made each frame only stay up for .3 seconds then I think that people would get less bored by it. Also, I would make the story a little less obscure and weird. Overall, I think I did OK but I could definitely improve upon it.

November 17, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me about your weekend.

This weekend I just relaxed and finished homework. I had a lot of fun doing nothing and watched The Graduate which is a pretty solid movie. I also watched Book of ELI and it is a really cool movie. Denzel Washington is a pretty amazing actor and I like him in basically everything he does. I hung out with my girlfriend and we got sushi at this really cool place in town center. It was the first real sushi I've ever had and I loved it. It was a really good weekend.

November 14, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me about your experience with taking your stop-motion photos. What problems did you run in to? What did you find difficult about the process? What would you go back and change about HOW you took the photos? Explain yourself.

When I was taking the pictures, I always made sure that the lighting was correct. I did not want the pictures to be too dark or too bright because then the finished animation would not look very good. Also, I thought that it was hard to not move the camera or move the objects on screen too much in-between the pictures. I had fun though.

November 11, 2014

What is your stop motion animation idea? How is your idea creative? How are you going to execute your idea?

My idea is going to be a car going a lot of different rotations and weird tricks in a parking lot. My idea is creative because a car would not be able to do the things that I am going to have it doing in real life. For example, a car would not be able to do a 360* rotation while driving. I will druive my car and change positions a little each time.

November 10, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
What is stop motion animation? If you don't know, look it up! Explain.

Stop motion animation is a type of animation where you take several successive pictures of something and play them back in a way that makes it look like animation. A good example of this is the popular cartoon, Wallace and Grommit. In that show, they use a type of stop motion animation called calymation. In claymation, a clay sculpture is manipulated to look like it is moving. Other popular stop motion animations are South Park and Team America: World Police.

5 Frame Story Board

November 5, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me about your idea for your 5 frame story board. What is the plot? How do you plan to make the story creative? Who's the main character? What is the beginning, middle and end? Tell me about your plan of attack.

My idea for my story board is me getting ready for school. I made it creative by putting some funny stuff in the pictures. I am the main character because I am the only person that you see in the pictures. The beginning is me waking up, the middle is me getting ready for school, and the end is me going to school. I am going to edit the pictures so that they look a little better and then I am going to post it to my blog.

November 4, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
Yesterday you edited and uploaded photos to your blog. Tell me more about your photos. HOW did you edit them? Why did you choose the photos that you did? Explain your assignment.

All of my photos were pretty basic. They weren't very impressive or artsy but they fit the assignment's requirements. I edited the photos by fixing the exposure and the white balance that were in the pictures. It was pretty easy to do, but I tried to avoid the auto-correct feature of the program. The software was very easy to use.

Edited Photos

November 3, 2014

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me about your weekend. Give me details and photos!

This weekend I just enjoyed not working. I probably spent about 10 hours playing Destiny, which has officially consumed my entire life. My friends and I started this thing called a raid and it is so hard that even after playing for four hours we still didn't beat it. I also hung out with my girlfriend and watched a movie with her. On Halloween I spent my night pretending not to be home so that I wouldn't have to give candy to little kids. All in all it was pretty uneventful but I still had a lot of fun.