Monday, November 24

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.

For Thanksgiving, I'm going back to Michigan. I leave Tuesday and will be back on Saturday. I'm really excited to see my family and my two best friends. It felt like it's been forever since I've seen them. On Thursday, I have to go to my grandmother's house on my mom's side, my aunt's house on my dad's side, and then this hall thing on my mom's side again. It's a lot in one day! And early in the morning on Friday, my bestfriend and I are going Black Friday shopping. I'm so excited because this will be the first time I've done it at 3 in the morning. And that's all that I have planned!

Monday, November 17

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

On Friday, I opened my birthday present from my parents. My birthday was on Tuesday but since my dad has really crazy hours, we celebrated it on Tuesday. Anyways, my parents got me a new computer. I was so happy and shocked. Before I could open it though, we had to go out for dinner. For dinner we went to Jose Peppers. I just  wanted to finish my food so I could go home and mess with the laptop. I was disappointed with the laptop though because most of the keys weren't working. We went back and got a brand new laptop. The keys on this was working but it didn't recognize wifi. So we took that one back, got a new laptop with a different brand. I was so happy to finally get the laptop that I wanted and it was touch screen. and this is the exciting things I did this weekend. 

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Friday, November 14

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.

The experience was okay I guess. I didn't really understand why we have to take pictures in a computer class. It was kind of fun doing it though. It was really hard making sure that the camera was steady and stayed the same through all the pictures. Another difficult thing was taking a picture, and then moving and then taking another picture and moving something. Next time, I would try to use a tripod so the process wouldn't be as difficult.

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Monday, November 10

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

Stop motion animation is when you make and animation that  can not physically move seem to move. You see this in many different cartoon and animated movies. What I do know is that you have figures and you move them around slowly with a video recorder or camera. When you change the angle or  position of  the figure, you record or take a picture of that little piece that you moved. For example, the movie Chicken Run is stop motion animated. The characters and the set was made of some kind of clay.

 

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5 Frame Storyboard

Wednesday, November 5

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 5 picture story board is me getting a milkshake and drinking. It is not at all interesting and it is probably pretty boring. I wish I could make it really interesting , but I just don't know how to do that. Getting a milkshake isn't very interesting but it is the best that I could come up with. The main character in the story is me. I honestly don't understand what mean by plan of attack but I think some of the images I took looked really great.

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Tuesday, November 4

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.

I don't really know how to explain my photos. I really things with art and nature. I feel like pictures with those look amazing. I tried to use different "filters" but I mostly made them a lot bright and add a little bit more detail to them. With the photo of my dog, I made it black and white because it seemed different and it suited the picture.I chose the photos I used because by looking at them, I knew they had some sort of potential to be something greater. I felt they were kind of unique and different but still very simple.

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Photoshop

Monday, November 3

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me about your weekend - details please!

This weekend was pretty much just like my other weekends. I did stuff but it was just average. Friday of course was Halloween. When got home, I just relaxed for a while and then put my costume on. I actually got a lot of compliments on it from the kids I was passing out candy to. It was actually surprising because I didn't think it was all that grand. While I was passing out candy, I watching Gossip Girl on Netflix. That is currently my favorite. Other than passing out candy, nothing really happened. And that's my interesting weekend for you guys.