Practice Story Reflection

In GT we are working on a project that is an interview with an elder. The project will teach us interview skills and practice with rule of thirds.We chose groups and began a practice interview with one person from our group about her plans for the future. We chose her because of her uniqueness in her plans. We had to interview our chosen person and then take a video of B-Roll, then record our narration.

When we started filming our interview we set up a few questions and planned some narration. When we started filming the interview we shot it about 3 times. Each shot that the interview was taken in was slightly different with the lighting and the background. Since Imani said she wanted to be an actress we chose backgrounds for our interview with different equipment like cameras and microphones. For our B-Roll we filmed Imani practicing acting and writing her plans for her future.

We started editing the videos we took of the interview. We recorded the narration we needed for our video and then we added the b-roll to  our edited interview. The b-roll covered a lot of mistake or cuts made in the interview. We then added the narration into our video. We added the narration into parts that were hard to follow or parts that had audio gaps. When we were done it looked like a professional interview. 

All About Me

   

My name is Charlotte McConnell and I was born on February 27, 2000... almost on a leap day!!!! The year I was born in is pretty cool because whatever the year is that is my age, for example right now it is 2014 so I am 14.  I was born on Kauai in the state of Hawaii. I have lived on kauai all my life. My favorite things to do are drawing, painting my nails, baking/cooking, shopping and being with animals.

In my family I have one real brother, two step brothers, and two step sisters. I also have two cats and they are the loves of my life. I also have a fish tank but that doesn't really count as my family considering the fact that the fish die every 7 months.

I am super creative, fun, and blonde. My dream is to be famous one day because that would be awesome. I would like to be famous through acting in movies but so far that is just a dream, besides the fact that I act in theaters but thats different from being on a screen. OK that is all you need to know about me. Bye!
   
(P.S. Tomato Potato you put the avocado in the soup.)

These are my lovelies.

Polar Panoramas

These are my panoramas I finished using the steps below. These steps were similar to the steps of a Spherical panorama. First you take about ten photos that slightly overlap and merge them into a Panorama in photoshop. Then you shape the photo to be square and rotate it 180 degrees. Finally you apply a Polar filter to the image and edit the result until it looks natural.

Then to place myself in the final project I took a photo that was at an above angle so it captured the feeling that I was looking out from the world. Then using the quick selection tool, I selected myself and deleted all but me. I then made a copy for a shadow and turned the opacity up and the saturation down. Then I simply placed it in a realistic place.

Spherical Panos

These are two examples of my spherical panoramas that I made by putting some images I took together into a panorama and then edited them. Next I  resized them to be square and applied a polar filter. Finally I edited them by feathering the edges using the elliptical marquee tool and added a background.

Photomontage Final

Here are two of my finished photomontages that were inspired by David Hockney who first called them joiners. I used a digital camera, adobe camera raw, and photoshop to put this together. It was an interesting and unique process where we took a lot of different pictures that overlapped and then placed them where they generally looked like they would go. 

Magazine Cover

This is my magazine cover I finished in fall 2013 at Kapaa Middle School. I used photoshop and made a contour with color then added text layers with customized fonts. Then I made backgrounds for the fonts and turned the opacity down.