8/31

Today was a good day.  I learned that all of my video making talent will be used to add sound to a silent movie.  While the artist inside of me believes this to be a sin, I think it could be a little bit fun.  Especially with all the interesting people in our class.  Anyway, I am so glad to learn how to make videos and things, because it turns out that I will be helping out with Student Government's senior memories project (I don't want to use the word yearbook, but it's basically a year book.) Hopefully I can be a little more useful now.

8/27

Premiere is a pretty impressive program.  Of course, the only thing I have to compare it to is Windows Movie Maker, which isn't saying much.  I am pretty excited to get to work on videos, though.  I've made a few for projects and they were always missing something when it came to editing.  I believe the term is polish?  Anyway, that's what was always missing.  Polish, or maybe pizazz.  One or the other.  Hopefully Premiere can change this.

8/24

August term is over.  It's unbelievable, really.  Last year the two weeks dragged on for what seemed like forever, but this year everything is so different.  It seems that time is flying.  When I looked through the pictures we took for our projects, part of me wanted to cry.  I know it's a little pathetic, but I've never felt like I would miss school before, but putting together our postcard and movie poster made me realize something.  The things I took pictures of were some of the things I would miss most.  IMED is going to be a blessing this semester, not only for the knowledge I'll gain, but because I'll be able to make some more memories with the people I value most. Err, I mean, I like putting my face on other people's bodies and stuff.

8/23 (Day 9)

Today we photoshopped ourselves into movie posters.  Supposedly, the movie that you pick reflects some deeper aspect of yourself.  If this is the case, then I am a pregnant teenaged girl.  Hope my friends don't pick up on that and decide to start the verbal abuse.  Anyways, today was a lot of fun and I did learn some stuff about layers and that I look awful in pretty much every picture I take.

Day 8

I think that all media should feature flames and/or explosions in some way.  There is simply nothing cooler than fire.  Oxymorons aside, I think that teaching me how to put fire animations on things was probably not a good idea.  I will be putting it on everything.  Carebears, pictures of Mother Theresa and Gilbert Gottfried riding on the back of My Little Pony... nothing is safe now. 

Day 7

Things are getting difficult at this point. Not too difficult, but pretty difficult. Thankfully there are lots of uses for the program so it's worth the struggle. Or, at least, it's probably best to not waste my time drawing pictures of Jean Claude Van Damme pushing me on a swing set instead of putting a shadow around stuff.

Day 6

Steve Jobs did not found Pixar.  He funded Pixar.  Just a little note.  Today we learned to animate things.  Of course, the first thing I tried to do was to animate a guy falling off of a building and hitting the sidewalk, but I completely failed at it.  Either way, it was worth a shot and I will work towards being able to destroy little stick people until I am an expert at it.

Day Five

I tried making a collage of my favorite comic strip characters today.  Unfortunately, I did something very wrong at some point in time and was ultimately unable to get it to look like I wanted too.  So, after a good two hours and fifteen minutes (but who's counting?) of trying to finish my masterpiece, I decided to reboot my computer.  This proved a very poor decision. The school computer erased the pictures I had used and the rest of the project as well.  Frustrated, I decided to instead make a picture of the sample picture penguins frolicking in the sample tulips.

Day 4

Class is getting more difficult and suddenly I actually have things to do in the evenings.  I need to find the app for this or I will continue to miss posts.  Anyways, we have to make a collage of facebook photos, of which I have very few.  Thankfully, we can use other things, so I guess I'll use adorable puppies for my pictures.  Should be fun.

Day Three

Flowers have to be the greatest thing to ever either evolve or be created.  It doesn't realy matter which, and it's silly to argue about the matter anyhow.  All that matters is that flowers are beautiful. No, they deserve a word better than beautiful, but there just isn't one willing to rise to the occassion.  Thankfully, there are two words that happen to have been willing to embrace the essence of flowers today; My first and last name.  That's right, today I created my name in flowers with Photoshop, and I do believe I will be putting that version of it on everything from now on.

Day 2

Today was ridiculously entertaining.  Probably more entertaining than it should have been, but I'm a sucker for any chance to color something. Photoshop is really a remarkable program.  There was a girl I knew who was always showing me random pictures she had made using it.  It was incredibly annoying. However, it turns out that Photoshop is a pretty useful tool.  I guess I owe her an apology.

Day One

Today my professor had a motorcycle helmet.  Naturally, I asked him if he rode a motorcycle.  He replied that he did not ride a motorcycle and did, in fact, ride a scooter.  Thankfully, he was cool about it and the rest of the class worked out alright. I actually had to embrace all sorts of new web tools and services today, which I have never used before.  Hopefully it will all go smoothly this semester and I won't look like a complete idiot using all this technology stuff.