e9 Quarter 2 Reflection

Bonjour!!! I'm back again for another blog, comment ça va? I'm doing well, as well as I can be, i'm very nervous for my finals. I am double blogging for my e9 final though, it's that neat? So here is my reflection on e-COMM.

     My area of strength this semester would probably have to be graphic design. I am a good drawer and I really enjoyed drawing almost all the time in this class. I learned how to use colors correctly and how to make a cool logo. We watched a whole bunch of videos that helped layout everything and I just really liked being able to draw what ever I wanted, I loved the artistic freedom. I would also say I'm good at video. I liked to make the videos and I understood all the things we had to do.

   I need to improve on my creativity. I feel like I am not creative and I cannot work good under pressure so probably I need to calm down. But I think I did ok. In video I need to make sure I'm following the six shots and that I am not making congruity errors. In graphic design I need to be more time manageable. I kinda worked slow, I was still ahead of the game, I just didn't finish a couple projects.

    I loved video this semester. I really enjoyed being able to create my own mini movies and learn everything about the process of creating anything digitally. I liked being able to edit and being an actress in some of my films was fun. I'm really excited to continued in video (If I can) and I enjoyed the fun atmosphere of the classroom.

    I wouldn't really want to change anything. My class is nice and I have a friend as well as making new friends. Everything is so cool to learn about and I enjoy it very much. Maybe I would change the wifi so it works, for some reason I always have bad luck with my school's wifi but other than that I really enjoy everything.

     Oh man, I'ver learned so much this semester. I can make video and they actually look good. I can edit anything I want to thanks to the Adobe programs. I know the secrets of graphic design and how to create a logo that it cool but simple. Colors mean different things and I learned how to use them to make people feel or see a certain way. I now know that making a movie--even if it's a minute--is not easy and everything has to be thought out carefully.

    I would like to continue with my good grades next semester and I want to keep having fun. I hope that animation will teach me a lot and that the final project we do at the end of the year is really fun. I love the e-COMM program and I don't want to be anywhere else.

Thank you,
Sophie the First.

Web Designer Reflection.

        Hello my fellow friends, how are all of you?! This week we have been working nonstop to create a website over all the cool things we have done this semester in e-COMM. I sadly did not finish it but I will explain the process and all that jazz on how I did work on it and what my experience was.

         So the process for creating this website was mildly difficult for myself, I thought it was kinda hard and I kept forgetting to do things. When you first start your website off you have to make sure in in a certain mode, design mode, it won't work in live mode because in live, that's how you can preview everything and make sure it is ok. You have to be in another certain setting too because otherwise you'll see the coding or may even mess up the coding. It has to specific to the http:// that we were using. Then you have to drag in the design for the website that will make the text as well as the layout and what the colors will be. After that you put in one of your favorite graphic design projects and a favorite video project. I choose to do the enchanted rose from Beauty and the Beast and my A to B Sequence video. Before we put in the video and picture we had to make sure that it was a good size so it wouldn't mess anything up. We did all of this stuff while watching video tutorials from one of the other e-COMM teachers. He was very helpful and sometimes I had to keep rewatching a section but it's ok because it helped me understand it better.

       I took my time trying to make my website because like I said before I am not very good at making one. It has taken me almost a full school week and I am going to try and finish it after my final (This blog). In class I used my time wisely. I was always watching a video and I kept working on it. Although I did not get it done i still worked very hard and finished the majority. I only have one video left to do, out of 6.

       Some challenges I faced while working on my website was the computers. I feel like everyones computers weren't working and it was hard because it's finals week and it was crazy. I was stressed out a lot and I think the kinda slowed me down while trying to make my website good so I can get a good grade. The wifi wasn't working with me for a day or two so that kinda threw mw off and I couldn't connect to the server, were everything was saved. Another day I was trying to take a good picture for my profile for my website. But I think the main problem was trying to crunch this project in with only having four days to work on it and the deadline was distracting me from getting it finished.

     I learned a lot of things along the way like, making a website. Even though I thought it was hard I can know say that I've built a website. I'm proud of my work and this took a lot of time. Like I learned about all the coding and stuff, that was kinda cool, made me feel like I was in a spy movie or something. I also learned that pictures have to be a certain size or else they can make a website crash. I also now know that everything has to be in a specific way or things can go badly.

    Overall I thought this project was ok. I don't really know if I want to make a career out of web design but it wasn't terrible. I am liking how my website is turning out and I'm really disappointed that I could not finish it but I will try to work on it a little more at least. It was cool to see and experience they ways of making a website. I enjoyed graphic design as well, drawing all the time, I love it!

  Have a wonderful day my lovelies,
thanks for reading
Sophie the First.

P.S. I finished my website :)
 

Presentation Blog

     Bonjour my fellow bloggers!! Comment ça va? How are all of you?! I'm am doing great, just counting down the days until I am out of school for the winter. We got our first snow on Wednesday, it was great. Anyways we have recently created personal logos and we had to do a presentation own front of the class. Mine wasn't to good, I got very nervous and rushed it majorly but I explained well so that's good. Down below i'll tell you what exactly happened. 

       I have learned a lot on presenting in the class, we watched a dos and don'ts video and I didn't really learned more than I already knew. Most of what presenting is don't turn your back, speak clearly, act engaged, have good posture, make eye contact. All that great stuff. It's common sense, don't act like bored in front of a class while presenting, and if your conifentdnt you'll have fun as well as the audience.

   We watched a lot presentations from Ted to become better presenters and I thought it was pretty cool to watch people speak so passional about climate change and GMOs. That stuff is also a passion of mine and I thought it was cool. I did't really like saying what was wrong with them because that isn't very nice and I liked them the way they were. Like people were making fun of a guys hairdo, I don't exactly like to do that. 

       During my presentation my professional appearance was ok, I didn't know that I had to dress up I just wore a funnel, which is nice for me I guess because usually I just wear t-shirts. My hair was also kinda crazy yesterday but that's because I don't have a brush and it gets crazy on the bus. My posture was also good, I stood straight and tall as well and confident, at least I thought I did. My left profile was turned towards the audience so I didn't exactly cheat out all that much (Cheating out is a theater term for facing the audience)  but it was sill better than having my back to the audience. I tried to make a lot of eye contact during my presentation but it was hard because I was very nervous. I don't exactly have a fear of public speaking it just gives me butterflies, I wasn't to bad, I only looked at the wall when I had to collect my thoughts. I didn't walk around all that much because people said it was distracting while we watched the dos and don'ts of presenting so I tried to stay put for most of it. I tried to also make gestures with my hands, but again people said that was distracting and I wanted a good grade. For the most part I stayed put. 

    So now i await my grade for this presentation and now I'm off to draw about global warming(its real) 
Au revoir mes aimes, Goodbye my friends, 
Sophie the First

Personal Logo

      Hello my good readers, nice to blog again, how are al of you? I am doing great, just waiting for winter break. So recently in my awesome eCOMM class we have been working on logos. Why are logos so important and what makes a logo applying to the public? How do I keep my logo up to date. All this cool stuff. It was interesting to watch the apple logo grow from the apple tree to the half eaten apple we have now. There are five elements for making a good logo Simplicity, flexibility, color, branding, and timeless appeal. These components are helping people make logos grand all over the world. I have always thought it was hard to come up with a logo, for some reason I can't think of anything interesting enough. But this time around I like the logo I've come up with.

    My first and last name start with an S so I choose to do something with that, I ended up making it look like a snake, oops, but it is interesting. I choose the s's combined though because I am intwined with my family and we will always be there for each other. I thought the project was hard only because I'm not good at coming up with logos but other than that reason I though it was fairly easy drawing it out then drawing it on  Adobe. I used a green for the regular S because that's my favorite color and a more  blush color for the backwards S because that reminds me of my family, it's a different shade because I'm similar to my family but I am also my own person. Overall I think the logo turned out a little sloppy on illustrater  but i'm still proud of it nonetheless.

Good day to all of you,
Sophie the First

Green Vs. Orange

             Hello my good friends, Sophie the first is back with another blog and today we are going to be discussing colors. Now I have a lot of favorite colors but today I'm in a very green mood. No I don't mean I'm going to be sick or that I'm jealous of someone but i'm feeling calm and happy right now. Green reminds me of so many happy memories, unlike the color orange. So let's get right into the blog shall we?

      Green. I think of nature and happiness, renewal and calm. It reminds me of playing outside all the time when I was younger. Well I still go outside a lot. It's very relaxing and I like it. My family goes to Colorado every summer and the color green reminds me of the forest we hike through and the trees  surrounding us. It's a very particular green, almost like the green you get  after you walk into the forest after a rain and everything is glowing or like a dark green that's almost black but it's still a very vibrant green. Ahhhh yes I love nature. My siblings and I go outside and play sports in the backyards and I take my dogs on walks through the park. It's just very calming, I think of green and I hear birds chirping and I see a nice forest with a rushing waterfall. It'd great, unlike the color orange.

     Orange on the other hand is the very opposite of green. I feel like it's a very dull color that has no depth and yes it does remind me of fall but I'm more of a winter kinda gal anyways. The orange is out there but too much out there it's like boring, a weird boring, almost like a dull bring. ZZZzzzz sleeping ugh. I don't really have any bad memories of it but the color doesn't appeal to me, at all. The orange is the color for Fanta and orange and I'm not a fan of oranges.

   I hope that I didn't offend anyone with my options on green and orange. Have a wonderful day and goodbye my friends.
Sophie the First.

Sketching and Illustrator

        Bonjour my fellow friends, back again today with another blog. This week we got to sketch an item twenty different times. I chose flowers because I feel like they were my weak point out of the four choices we had. So I grabbed my sketch book and got to work. I don't really know the names of my flowers but I drew a lot and I think they looked pretty good. Well I mean my skills improved. It took me a couple days because I couldn't just sit back and work I have homework and play practice to do so it took me three days I think but I finished them and posted to our online classroom. I thought it was a good way to challenge myself with my drawings because I used shading and tried to make them look pretty without cool because I didn't have enough time to color twenty flowers. Overall this was really fun to do and I'm not one to pass up drawing.

     Our second project this week was to use Adobe Illustrator to create one of our twenty images. I choose to draw a rose, not just any rose, but the enchanted rose from Beauty and the Beast. I love Beauty and the Beast so much, it is also the musical I am in for my school. Anyways It took me an hour I think, and I found out how to shade and use my tools better. I really enjoy drawing either digital or on paper. I fort drew a really rough outline for my rose then colored it in slowly whilst shading. Then I drew the pink shading which was kinda a mistake cause I had to erase some and it looks a little sloppy, after that I drew the green stem and shaded that as well. Then I went back with the pink shading to create the magical glow. Lastly I made some little stars or sparkles. 

    I'm very proud of how my drawings turned out and I think my Adobe skills are greatly improving. I'm really digging the e-COMM program and I can't wait for what is going to come next. 

Till we speak again my friends,

Sophie the First. 

The Illustrator Experiance

             Good day my fellow bloggers, I am back with some more knowledge on graphic design. Recently we have been working on Adobe Illustrator and learning the basics, we've done a few projects so below I will talk about the stuff we've done.

             For my first project we got to use Adobe for the first time and it was pretty cool. I think drawing on the computer is a little challenging but I will get better. We learned how to use the basic shapes like the star tool and the rectangle tool. They come in handy a lot and its way to use the tools then try and draw the perfect shape. We also use the lecturer tool a lot, like a lot. For me changing the brushes and making sure it's on fill or stroke is hard because I want to keep going but I have to change everything first, it's a challenge, a fun challenge. We made the shapes had to put them in spots, we also changed the size and shape of the shapes so we had to fix them red or fill them blue. I really like graphic design; it's drawing the whole time. The first project was pretty easy, just using shapes but the second one was a little more difficult.

          The second project we did was a project of our own imagination. We had to use the skills we already knew like how to make perfect shapes and use the selection tool to make something. I made a snowman since the Holiday season is coming up. I had fun making it and I always enjoy drawing on anything really. I fist used polygons for the body but thought it looked weird that I had polygons instead of circles so I used to ellipse tool to create some perfect circles. After I had stacked three white circles on top of each other I used the rectangle tool to create the two rectangles one indigo and one black to create the hat and then used the ellipse tool to create a very wide but skinny black oval for the bottom part of the hat. Then I used the ellipse tool to create 8 very small, black circles for the eyes, mouth, and buttons. After that I used the start tool to create the snowman’s orange nose. I had to make a star—which is just dragging and holding the mouse—then use the up and downs arrows to add or subtract points, if all the points are subtracted it gives you a triangle, then I changed the size so it would be a small nose. Next I used the rectangle tool again to make two skinny, tall brown rectangles that I used for my snowman’s arms. Lastly I used the star tool to create small white snowflakes; I also just drew some white dots too, to make some variety.

We also Used the shaper tool to create an eye type thing. It was a little difficult to figure out how to crave a chance out of the circle but I still like doing all this stuff. We had to create a giant red circle then a smaller circle to put on top

     

     Overall these projects were very fun to do. I like Adobe Illustrator and when we do the projects it’s just drawing the entire hour and it’s so fun to do. I enjoy learning the new material and hopefully by the end my digital drawing skills get better because right now they aren’t the best but they will get better over time. I’m excited to learn new things and this quarter will be pretty interesting.

 

Au Revoir moi aimes,

Sophie the First