AUTO-MAT commercial

This is our commercial about the new automatic lawn mower called the AUTO-MOW. It is an enhanced lawn mower that does its work for you. This is a project that our group decided to create. Our group's idea was to create a lawn mower that works by itself, so you don't have to work out in the   hot sun. Instead wouldn't you want to stay inside and watch TV instead of working all day and wearing yourself out. This new and improved mower will reduce that mowing time of yours and let's you do whatever you want to do. The idea of this project was to create something that would benefit others use in so many ways. Our group was struggling to come up with something until we started thinking about the environment, then ideas came up like that.

Below is our commercial about the new automatic lawn mower called the AUTO-MOW.

Lego Activity

This is a single Lego Brick. Today we did a team building activity using Legos to build whatever we were assigned to build. The rule was that whoever had the instructions couldn't talk or point, depending on the thing we made. We also had a limited amount of time to build. The hardest part was being the leader because you had to explain what you wanted without doing it yourself. In todays world you have to work with a group or team to get things done. Teamwork can be very difficult, especially when it's people you don't like or can't get along with them.

When we were doing the activity I wasn't leading much, but it was a little hard to keep up with my group sometimes because i didn't know what they were wanting. If you have a good and balance team, you can accomplish a lot of things. Even though you may get stuck with people you don't like doesn't mean you don't do any of the work. You should be the one who takes charge and show people what skills you have to contribute.

This activity really helped with my social skills, leading skills, and listening skills. Overall the activity really helped me and I will be able to use this in the near future. This was a good hands on experience and I hope I can take this and learn from it to make myself a better person.

Invasive Species Website

This is my second website that I have made using Dreamweaver. The idea of this was to create my own website using the content and logos that were provided. We had to come up with our own color schemes and pictures to put in our website. The process of our website took a long time. First we had to put in a code of what the dimensions of the website will be and what it will look like. What I will do differently next time is follow the coding very carefully next time so i don't have problems. What i will do the same is blending the text my color scheme. Overall this was a great project and I hope to use this in the future.

Dream-House Animation

This was a house that I created using Google Sketch-Up. The main idea of the project was to create a house that was a one-story building, that had a pitched roof, and an overhang. The process it took to make it was first, I had to find a floor plan that I could use to start building. Once I got my plan, I started building. It wasn't easy at first. The hard part was to create the house to start out with. If you didn't know what you were doing, then you wouldn't know what to put in. My house took me a while to figure out an I had to start over many times. What I learned along the way was how to use Google-Sketch-Up, and how to add components. Components make things much easier but take a lot of space in your file. What I would do differently next time is try to come up with more creative ideas. What I would do the same is add components because they make building so much easier. What I will draw from this experience is that I know how houses were designed and how hard it is to do so. In conclusion, I liked this project better than the chair because I had more time to work on it, and I had someone to help me a lot at home who knew the software.

Animation Project

Scope:

This Animation project I did was the first project I ever did in Keynote and in iMovie. The idea of the project was to create a 30 second animation that interests you and interests others. 

Process:

How I created it was first I had to come up with an idea. Then once I had an idea, I had to storyboard it. After I was done with my storyboard, I started animating in Keynote. The animating was very difficult at first because you had to make the opening scene and that takes the longest, but after that it is pretty easy because you can duplicate multiple slides. Along the way my work did not save in keynote, so I lost 2 days of work, but I caught up in time for the deadline. Then I exported it to iMovie to edit my video of how long the time lapse of each slide will be and I added sound effects. 

What I learned:

I learned the different thing in keynote and how you can use shapes to make a lot of different things. The deadline was also very fast, so you had to go very fast in your animation to get it done. 

What I Would Do Differently Next Time:What I would do differently next time is try to go faster, because I had a complex story but I wasn't always focused. 

What I Would Do The Same:What I would do the same is try to create a fun little story that everyone would enjoy. 

Overall:This was a great experience and now I know what to expect an animated video to look like.

My Video

Photoshop Projects

Below are the five photoshop projects I did using Adobe Photoshop. Each one of these I did were related to Graphic Design and Web Design.

The First one is a picture of my school with letters and a compass that has the name in it. The tools I used were the horizon tool to blend it in with the clouds and I used to opacity tool to make it shade to a clear shade.

The Second one is a picture of a Monarch Butterfly. I kind of messed up on it but the tools I used were the Paint Bucket and the selection tool. I used to the selection tool to select all the parts inside the butterfly and used the paint bucket to fill it with different colors. I also used the clone stamp 

tool to make it look like it's flying so I hovered over it, option-click and dragged through the wings.

                                                     

 The Third one is a picture of the school cut out into the words of the name. The tools I used were the gradient tool to make the colors right. I used the crop tool to size the image just right and I used the selection and inverse tool to get the words to look like what is shown.

The Fourth project I did was a picture of our mascot, school, and the inside of the school. The tools I used were the lasso and magnetic lasso tool and those were used to shape the image I had on the raven and cars that were originally in the picture. I also used the clone stamp to erase the light posts that used to be there. Finally I copied and pasted the image inside the school and used the different opacity levels to blend it in with the picture.

The Final project I did was my name in a color scheme. The tools I used were the gradient tool to highlight the color scheme I wanted to use and a mask tool to get it white and I turned on the transparency to get like this.

The differences between Photoshop and Illustrator are that in photoshop you have different tools to use pictures and Illustrator uses different tools for designs. Graphic designers need both because to make a good image you have to have a picture and good a good color scheme. Overall these projects took a long process but they paid of in the end.

Web Project

This web project was my first project using Adobe Dreamweaver. It was a very long process and it took a lot of steps and it was very difficult at some points. The parts that were hard were making some of the new CSS rules, because if you didn't follow the steps correctly than you would be in trouble because you can't undo it. What also was hard was getting the links to work. Even if you are one letter off, you have to start over the link process. It doesn't take long but it takes time off from finishing. Overall the project was fun, I got to experience something I've never done before and it gets me into the Web Design strand. The web project will help me with Web Design in the future. A few questions I have about web design are What do we do in the future of High School and Is this a good job in the job industry?

Below are some of the things I created in Adobe Dreamweaver for the Web Project