Music Video

Flossing Music Video

Song Choice

For the music video project, my group chose the song, Flossin, by Russel Horning. Commonly known as backpack kid. The song was produced by DJ Suede and was released in November 2017. The song is based around Backpack Kid's famous dance, called the Floss. It has a lighthearted and energetic theme.

Process

During pre-production, we had to do the project sheet, lyric sheet, and storyboard. I did the storyboard while others did the project sheet and lyric sheet. When creating the storyboard, I had to sketch each shot and describe the shot type. The struggling began after pre-production. Our film schedule constantly fluctuated and someone always canceled last minute. Filming was very poorly planned. We were never able to finish filming sadly. While filming, I was an actor. I also helped Andrew plan the shot. As for post-production, most of the editing was done by Andrew.

My Role

For the most part, I was an actor for the video. I also helped here and there with other things like pre-production and filming.

What I Would Do Same/Differently

I wish my group had chosen a music video that centralized around one person so it wouldn't matter if someone couldn't make it to film.

Conclusion

In conclusion, it's very important to make sure you have an open schedule before agreeing to be an actor/actress in videos. If people keep canceling filming, it will affect everyone in the team.

Vector Portrait

Pre-Production

When deciding on the photo of myself to use, I didn't have many to choose from. I ended up reusing the same photo I took for the pop art project. I airdropped it to my computer, put it in photoshop, cropped it to 8 inches by 10 inches, exported it, then put it in adobe illustrator. I had two artboards in illustrator, one for the original image, and one for the vector portrait.

Production

This project taught me how to customize my grid so I could create poly vector portraits. What I did was create a bunch of random triangles, and I tried to put bigger triangles in less detailed areas and more smaller triangles in detailed areas, such as ears, eyes, mouth, etc. Then I colored it in using the eye dropper tool, so the colors would be very close to the original image.

Post-Production

I am pleased with the final poly vector portrait. The portrait resembles me quite well. Without looking at the original image, I'm sure most people that know me could guess that it's me. Also, the colors look nice together. The only thing I wish looked better are the eyes. It's very hard making good eyes out of triangles.

Typography Project

Pre-Production

The pre-production process consisted of nothing more than searching google for quotes. To find quotes, I just googled quotes from certain historical figures and presidents. Some examples of people would be Leonardo da Vinci, Gandhi, George Washington, etc. When I was choosing quotes, I made sure it was a quote that I related to or agreed with.

Production

When I was creating the typographies in Illustrator, I learned that it's good to use two or three fonts. It's also good to put emphasis on the more important words by increasing the font size, making it bold, or using a font that stands out. I prefer making colored typographies because it's a lot less boring to look at. Colors can also be used to put emphasis on words. In one of my typographies, it says "...bad one." Since I wanted to give these words a negative connotation, I colored them red, because the color red is often associated with bad.

Final Production

I really like how my typographies turned out. I think the fonts, font sizes, positioning, and colors all work very well with each other. The only thing I don't like is the lack of graphics/borders. I added a simple border on my first typography and I put in a few simple graphics in another one but I feel like I should've used more.