Brogan's Blog

4th Quarter Project  For our end of the year project we had to create a product and a company. To go along with this we also had to make a website, commercial, logo, animations, and advertisements. for our product we chose the Warp Watch, a watch that also you to travel through time to fix your mistakes. I learned a lot of stuff along the way such as imbedding logos into SketchUp, and how to change the CSS designs in dreamweaver. some feedback that we got was that our website was to bland, to fix that we went back and aded more shades of blue to the webpage. My opinion of my work work in quarter four is that I did a pretty good job of collaborating with my group, and coming up with ideas that we all liked. I also think this project has improved my time management and collaboration skills.  How Did I Use My Time Some of the activities I completed during my class time were the banner, the 3d design, and the scripts for our presentation. At times that i finished...

Overview For this project we took a pre-made HTML and applied a bunch of CSS rules. Some of these rules include font style, family, margin spacing, color, and line hight. We also linked the original to the page we added all the styles to. This was a great project to get us familiar with editing CSS styles. Contrast  We created bold titles so it would contrast and draw your eye to it. We also added color to important text like the title so it would stick out. Alignment   We made the text left align because it makes it easier to read and it looks really clean and organized. It also would look really off if we made this page center aligned. Repetition We have repetition in the color of the title and link because it shows up in the dogs fur color. This really helps everything look unified and connected. Conclusion This was a very well put together project that got us even more familiar with dream weaver. It also helped us figure out locations of CSS sty...

INTP For my personality type I got INTP (Introvert, iNtuitive, Thinking, Perceiving). What all that means is I often get lost in my own thoughts and make spontaneous decisions and like a flexible schedule. They also seek to understand and find explanations. Some activities INTP's like would be reading, art, or any sort of cultural activities.   How Does it Describe Me I think the INTP personality type describes me pretty well. Trait like they get lost in thought and seek explanation describe me very well. While on the other hand traits like neglecting decor and appropriate clothing do not describe me. Did It Help You Understand Yourself It didn't really help me understand myself because I already knew a lot of these things about myself. But it did give me some career categories such as math and science. How Do You Work In Groups In groups I am usually that helps people understand the concepts. I also keep everybody on track to make sure it gets done ...

What We Learned  Throughout this project we leaned a great many things about filming and editing. One of the biggest things we learned is you have to get all your shots with natural lighting done on the same day because one day it may be cloudy then sunny on the next. I also learned how to use a bunch of new audio and visual transitions. How We Did It For this video to be interesting we had to include a bunch of different movements and shots. Some of these movement were walking, running, and even tripping. Some unique camera shots we use were close up shots of the feet and shots from an elevated level. This really pushed us to be creative so we could make an entertaining video. Reflection  Overall thought this was a great and fun project. It gave us the chance to practice our camera techniques and get us more familiar with Adobe Premier. It also gave us a chance to be more collaborative and use teamwork. This was a really awesome project and i would not change o...

Creative Process It all started with a story board where we through down our most basic ideas on paper. The story board showed what types of shots they would be and where they would take place. Then we went out and shots stills which we latter turned into a slide show. After that we shot the video clips, I acted and Drew filmed. And finally we took the clips into Premier and sequenced and edited them. What We Learned  We learned a lot of things but probably the most important was the rule of thirds and how to line up the shots. Without out this our whole project would just look weird and off. Another thing we learned was how to do basic editing in Premier such as cutting our clips, sequencing them, and how to insert audio.  Overview and Thoughts  I thought this project was fun and educational and a great intro to film. I honestly couldn't find anything I would do to make this project better. Overall I really liked this project and thought i...

Overview For our e-Comm portfolio project we had to make a web page about ourselves and some of the projects we have worked on throughout the year. The home page included a elevator pitch and a few links. On the project page we put several of our projects and the blog post that went with those.  What Did I Learn I learned a ton of things about Dreamweaver during this project. One of  the many things I learned was how to embed links and how you could get them to open in different tabs. Another thing I leaned was how to customize your background and text color to make the page your own and give it personality. Overall it was a great learning experience and gave me a basic understanding of dreamweaver.  How Did It Go It went pretty smoothly most of the time but there were a few small difficulties. One of these difficulties was the side bar moving to the bottom of the screen. I fixed this by moving the sidebar div back to its correct spot under the main d...

Overview  For our project we were given the task of making an house in Sketchup. We had to pick a house from housplans.com that was at least 500 square feet. Then we would have to recreate that house in Sketchup and it had to look somewhat similar to the one you chose. What We Did  So we started out with a simple cube the size of our houses dimensions. Then we added stuff such as the roof, steps, and porches. After that we did more detailed things like windows and railing. Then one of the final things we did was add the textures to our house to make it realistic and unique. We also had to find two of our own textures of the web to make our house even more unique. Outcome  Overall I think this was a very good project and a great learning experience. By makeing a house in Sketchup it alowed us to get used to Sketchups tools and physics. I now know way more about Sketchup and how it works than i did a couple weekes ago. In the end this was...