Brogan's Blog

Pre-Production I started by selecting a picture to use for my portrait. I selected a close up of my face because it was the only viable photo I had of myself. I choses to do the low poly portrait because I really liked how it looked.I then made two art boards, one for reference, and one to to make my vector portrait on. I also turned the grid on and made sure the pen strokes snapped to it so I could start to make the triangles. Production Making the triangles wasn't hard at all it was just very time consuming and tedious. Same with filling them it just took time. I learned that you need to have all of your layers organized or it quickly becomes a mess. I chose a greenish blue color for my background because it went good with the colors used in my portrait. Post-Production    Overall I was really pleased with the outcome of my vector portrait. I do wish I could find a way to make my eyes look more natural though. If I ever do this project again in the future I would ...

What Song and Why We choose to do Why do You Feel So Down by Declan Mckenna. We chose this song because everyone liked it, and it had pretty straight forward format to follow. The theme we wanted to portray was a retro exercise video. Production    We started by completing the beat sheet for our video to get the shots straight. We then planned out dates to film, these date got changed quite often because of the weather. We chose to film at union station because of the backdrop of Kansas City. We then moved onto editing after we finished filming. We had to create a bunch of different transitions for our video, we also had to mess with the saturation levels to make the video look like the original. Overall this process went very smoothly even though the weather got in our way.  My Roll     I did a lot of the pre production such as the beat sheet and figuring out what type of shots we would use. I also filmed the video and did some of the...

Pre-Production For my project I was looking for light hearted quotes that weren't to serious. I then chose fonts to go with the most important words it the quotes to add more meaning to the words. I chose simplistic and clean fonts for the more neutral words and statements. Production One of the things I learned from this project was how to distort and manipulate fonts. I also had to create outlines for the text in order to fine tune it and make it visible for others to view without downloading the font. I preferred working in black and white because I liked the simplistic look and it mad everything seem really balanced. Post Production  Overall Im pretty impressed with the outcome. My favorite quote I did was  "Imagination is more important than knowledge'' - Albert Einstein, I really like the colors and the rocket graphic I mad. I do think some of the quotes would have looked better if they were just left in black and white.

Overview  This semester we focused on convergence media. It was really interesting to see how it all works and to create convergence pieces of our own. Here is some of my work from this semester. Advanced Feature Story For this project, we had to make a feature news piece that was timely and relevant to ONW. My group chose to do our video about finals. We interviewed three students and asked them their opinions on finals. This project took about two weeks to complete. One of the challenges we faced was to adjust all the audio clips so they weren't too loud or too quiet. One of the most important things we learned is that the use of nat noise can make a huge difference in a feature news piece. Some of the feedback we got was the lack of transitions, so we went back and added video, and audio transitions to make the video seem smoother. Overall I was really impressed with the outcome of this project and thought me and my group did a really good job.    ...

Infographic We are currently working on an infographic project in graphic design. I chose to do my infographic over Destin, Florida. We started off by sketching our infographics and graphics. This was a little challenging for me since I am awful at drawing. After sketching everything out we made color swatches in Illustrator. We then started working on creating our graphics in illustrator. We used several tools such as the pen tool to trace images. Mrs Beaudoin gave me many tips to perfect the pen tool and work efficiently with it. So far I have only finished my graphics which took about three weeks including all the planning and sketching, but I think they have turned out pretty well. Overall I think this is a very good project to get us more comfortable with illustrator. Collage      For this project we had to take a bunch of images and blend them together to make a collage. I chose to use some picture I took while in South Dakota. I learned how to use he erase...

For my groups ONW Now video we had to make a news piece. We chose to do our piece on the underclassmen play "And Then There Were None"; a very interesting murder mystery. We started by brain storming questions to ask some of the cast members. Then we interviewed them and collected B-roll of the play. After that we started editing the piece. We use the lower thirds specific to ONW Now for consistency. We also had to change the audio levels to make sure certain parts weren't too loud or too quite. I was responsible for creating the voice over for video. I also played a big part in editing. Overall I thought this project was a success and went pretty well, but I do think if we had more time we could have made it a lot better. I thought this was a great project to get us introduced to one of the several strands of video next year .

News Story: https://docs.google.com/a/students.olatheschools.com/document/d/1eD0dNKpxJI-cJORjMyw6UNbOCLkzu_Zxcv9TVVMs2xs/edit For my news story I chose to convert my finals feature piece into a news piece. I used the inverted pyramid by putting the most important info towards the top and extra info at the bottom. I also used the interview clips in a way that they seem more factual. I didn't really like writing a news piece a much as I thought I would. In my opinion a feature piece allows for  more freedom. I still need to work on staying away from opinions and making the piece more factual. What I would do the same next is put all the important information at the beginning. Overall I thought this was a good writing assignment to introduce us to News