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Project 4

For this project I learned how to create a mini movie using Premiere and some sound mixing using Garage band.
It was easy to put the actual video clips together as I’ve made movies before using iMovie and other programs like that, I enjoyed the refresher as I haven’t done it in a while.
For me the most challenging part of this project was using garage band, I’ve never used it before and am not very musically inclined so my audio file is a bit subpar to be honest. I enjoyed working with it though and would totally play with it more in the future.
I’d say my submission could be improved by playing with Garage band a bit more and having a bit more confidence in terms of sound mixing instead of going with the easier route.
I really enjoyed this project and felt like we had a sufficient amount of time to play with and complete it. I don’t think anything needs to be changed for it.
I could use both the experience with Garage band and Premiere to put projects together for my friends with businesses or things like that.
I took last spring semester off to travel and during those 3 months I spent a month in Thailand doing service work with rehabbed elephants and orphans in a remote part of Thailand helping them learn English and helping to construct a new building for them using environmentally friendly materials. I miss it a lot and that’s what inspired me to make this project about the happiness I experienced in Thailand.

For this project we learned how to start and make a very simple video game with a maze concept. We learned how to start the terrain. adding assists, and adding the first person character camera.
I truthfully did not find anything easy about this project and struggled with even the simplest things, such as creating a terrain in the first place.
I found everything to be challenging, I had a particularly hard time getting assists to work and enabling the first person character camera.
My submission could be improved by having more time to work on the submission, and going through everything slower instead of trying to keep up when I had no idea what was going on half the time.
I think it could be improved by allowing for more time to complete it, I felt very rushed as it was a lot more complicated than any of the past projects we’ve done so far.
I truthfully probably couldn’t apply what I’ve learned to future work or projects, I feel as though I could be capable of doing it if I completely started over and went slower when learning it instead of rushing it just to get a grade in.
I thought a lot about the past video games I’ve played to create the landscape, with tall mountains and a cool path with lots of trees.

For project 2 I learned a variety of things, the first was being introduced to coding. I then learned how to add images, edit the text, edit the color of the header, footer, text and background as well as adding in a new font.
For me, the only easy thing was really editing the text. It wasn’t an easy project but I got the hang of it fairly quickly.
The most challenging part for me, as dumb as it sounds was connecting to the H drive and getting started in the first place.
I would improve my submission by becoming more knowledgable about code and coding. I loved the intro and would love to go more in depth with coding.
I think it was easy to understand and manipulate and therefore I really think this was a great intro to HTML that doesn’t need to be improved.
I could use this information to go further with a more coding focused class or possibly do some simple editing in the work place or just for fun.
I used the format I had for my previous resume to inspire me for this project. I had to create a CVS to submit in order to get an internship in Australia and the format was a different one that I usually see for resumes in the US. I used that uniqueness in design and language to help me create this project.

For this project I learned a number of things, I’m already decently familiar with photoshop so it really wasn’t too bad to complete in the first place. I learned how to make a text appear on path as well as adding a new font to use in text.
It was fairly easy for me to complete, I play around with photoshop for fun at home so I was already used to a number of the things required.
The challenging part for me was doing an artboard as well as printing it in a card format as I had never done either of these things before.
I could improve my submission by may adding more on the inside of the card, especially the left side of the inside.
I truthfully do not think much, if anything, needs to be improved about the assignment in the future. It was a great into to photoshop and how to use very basic tools within the program.
I use photoshop for fun, as well as helping friends with logos or designs, I will definitely be using the path on text in the future for those side projects in the future.
I thought about Hocus Pocus and the cat theme from that film to help inspire my card.

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