Final Project

Public Awareness Ad

My partner and I chose Littering for our public awareness assignment. We both felt that littering was a major problem in many neighborhoods of Staten Island. We thought that by spreading the word in an interesting way, youth such as peers our age would take time to pay attention.

Learning Reflection 4-8

For this flash assignment, the task was to create a stick figure on a moving background. It was fairly easy, and only consisted of changing the positioning of the stick figure.

Learning Reflections 4-3-2014

 This week, I learned how to use the flash software for animations. I thought it would be challenging at first since I'd never used it before. However, when I finally got the just of it, it was very simple and fun to use. I created this animated face using Flash.

03-13 Movie Animation

This week I created a video out of my pivot animation using Windows Movie Maker 2.6. This was my first time using window movie maker, but it was fairly easy to use. My only challenges were finding proper sound effects to go along with some of the movements and compressing my file so that I could add the sound effects into the audio layer.

Pivot Animation

During this animation project, I learned how to make a short animation using the Pivot software. Since this was my first time using this software, one challenge that I had was that I had no clue how to make this figure move. I could do simple movements of the limbs and head, but I didn't know how to get the figure to go anywhere. And when I finally did , the movements did not flow which made the animation look unrealistic.

Now that I've  finally become adjusted to using pivot, this new skill could be applied to make more animations for entertainment or even advertisement.

11-15 Learning Reflections Blog

This is my name banner, my first Photoshop assignment.


Last week, I learned how to use the Photoshop software. My first assignment was to create a name banner. At first, this was challenging because found that every little unintentional thing I did caused something else to happen. This especially happened when I used the magnetic lasso tool. Eventually, however, I got the concept of some of  the many tools Photoshop has to offer, and my assignment became fun to do.

11-8 Learning Reflection

     When I learned that I would be creating a web page, I was very nervous. I'd never done anything like this before. However, once I finally got a good grasp on the concepts, and understood everything, it was quite simple. I enjoyed making my page, and seeing my work progress.

Learning Reflections 10-17

 

This past week, my group and I worked on our research and presentations. This experience taught me
how important communication is when dealing with other people. I thought that being a team leader would be easy, however, it was a lot of work to keep up with my own assignment and make sure that the other members of my team were doing their assignments.I didn't want to come off as a dictator but I wanted my teammates to take me seriously.  Some of my team members cooperated, others didn't do much. This showed me that patience is key as well as organization and focus on the task at hand.

9/27 Learning Reflection

 This week, I learned how to add an RSS feed and a podcast. I figured it would be easy at first, but I did have to deal with some challenges. Not every website I tried allowed me to as the gadget. After much trial and error, I was finally able to add an NFL RSS feed. When I tried to create my podcast, I thought that I would just be as simple as recording and uploading. However, it wasn't. For me, the whole process s took over a day, but when I finally learned what and how to do it, I was successful

Blog Post #5: What I Know About Blogging

I have never designed a website, so I really don't know much about it. My aunt does, however. After watching how she creates them, I know that it is important to have a home screen that catches the person's attention, but isn't too busy. It should be properly organized and have clear navigation. I hope to learn how to properly create a front end website that will be useful. In life, this could benefit my when being searched by possible employers.

Welcome Message

Blog Post #4: Netiquette

Netiquette-  the correct or acceptable way of communicating on the internet.
Good netiquette is important because everything we do on the internet never goes away. It is necessary to maintain a decent reputation for yourself. Places where good netiquette is necessary world be social media, blogging , and /or other public sites.
I think I have good netiquette because I've never done anything inappropriate, or done anything that could possibly be use against me.

Blog Post #3:Digital Footprint

A Digital Footprint  is the the trail you leave after interactions on web.
It if in fact important to have a positive digital footprint . A positive digital footprint is important because it is a way for others to truly get an idea for the type of person you are.( i.e. people in any professional field you want to work in.) After searching myself, I found articles that I didn't even know that I was in. I can improve my digital footprint adding positive things about my self and other things I attend and interact with.
It  matter who you associate yourself with online because people who are a bad influence can effect you.  This could impact you because potential employers tend top get certain impressions about you off what they see from someone you interact with.

Blog Post #2

Academic Integrity- the moral and ethical code/standards that each academic student should follow.
Plagarism- Using someone else's work or ideas as your own

Academic integrity is important bcause it keeps each student accountable for their own work.

By plagiarizing, you can miss out on a chance to learn for your self and get good grasps of  certain concepts. Some of the consequences of plagiarism include detention, a failing grade, suspension, expulsion, a guitly conscience & a bad reputation.

Blog Post #1

 A blog is a personal site where you can post and  share whatever you want with whoever you want. I follow  some of the blogs of some of my friends from photo journalism class last year. Blogging can be used to support the learning proceess in our class by elxplaining and giving a more detailed explaination. It can also include refrences, and can allow conversation.

While everyone was on a hunt for bugs, I took the literal approach. This has the pattern of the ground, and captures a photograph of "bugs".

Macro Lense

I took this photograph using the Macro Lense. I used an ISO of 200, because it was bright outside, and I uses the still used the plant mode because of the fact that I was taking a close up and I wanted the background to be blurred out.

School Spirit

I took this photo graph to demonstrate school spirit. However, Luis, is the only one who is truly showing school spirit because he is facing the camera, and has a smile on his face. I used an ISO of 800, because the two boys were in a dark place.

Light Box

This waas my first time using the light box. I tried to use the Rule of Thirds composition, but the lighting on the side of the tennis ball ruins the effect. i used the tennis ball because I knew that the color would especially stand out up against the black.