Abigail Good

Steam Boat Willie Animation  The scope of this project is to show the progress of 2D animation. Through the drawings to the full video. This was on of the first animation by disney. To this day the "Steam Boat Willie" animation is widely known. This animation shows a lot of the basic animation principles because it was basically the first impactful video animation! This shows several principles like follow through when Mickey spins the wheel his arms keep spinning. Along with squash and stretch when he whistles his cheeks squash in and stretch out and his legs squash up and down as he bounces. The story being told in this animation is a mouse steering this ship while whistling while he works. It was told by 2D animation and hundreds of drawings. I would like to apply the fluidity of the character to my work because Mickey looks so life like. We have learned to makes his joints move with out his whole arm moving to make it look even more realistic. The creator did an ama...

What is Graphic Design  Graphic design is giving somebody something to remember. Making somebody want to buy a book to put it face out on their shelf because it made them feel something. Graphic designers really need to understand what goes on in people brains. What makes us bye, choose, and anything in-between. A job of a design is to catch someones eye, intrigue them. Make logos, labels, packaging,  appealing so that  way our whole world isn't boring.   I as a graphic designer student am so interested on how they create book covers, boxes, and logos. Even buildings and statues. The amount of thinking that goes behind these designs without recognition just blows my mind. Before Ecomm I would have never been able to tell you that color theory was such a large part of designs and that designers had to think so hard about what would grab the consumers attention. Now that I am aware of all the thought processes that goes behind the designs I am even more involve...

Video             In the video section of our 4th quarter project I was one of the actors and I edited my own version. We used my house and my puppy Rusty. Our goal for the commercial was to pull on your heart strings by making you feel sympathetic to a young boy who doesn't have any friends except his dog, but now he can talk to his dog with the woof collar and be the best owner he can be! Everyone in my group was an actor and made their own version. We had a blast making our video plus we had quite a view bloopers.   Animation        In the animation section of our project  I was in charge of designing on the product in the program Sketchup.  I really enjoy animation and making things in Sketchup. I had some struggle dealing with all the circles, but i learned a lot of new techniques and short cuts because of it.  I would say I could have maybe added a texture on the collar to make it look more real...

     My groups product is a color that makes your best friend talk! the concept for our commercial was the heart strings method. We wanted to pull the attention from the now adults who could relate to Logan in this commercial. The sad music and playful pup were added because we were hoping to add the sad and happy factors in the clip. We tried to talk about our product and company as much as possible but that became more difficult then originally thought. I also think that we could have done a little bit better job of transitioning from certain scenes and also making sure the audio is okay and everyone can hear the audio.

       During this quarter of video I learned how to use Final Cut Pro and all the short cut keys that make is easier to use. Like command B is the blade tool and command I is import and command E is export. I also learned what the six shot system was and how to frame all of the six shots. The hardest ones to frame are the close up, extra closeup, and the over the shoulder shot.  I also learned how to work in a group and spread the work out evenly so that everyone has a fair amount of work so that everyone did a part so that the video got done by the due date. In the future I can use my group working skills in whatever strand I choose to go in because no matter what I do I will always have to work with people, and communicate my ideas and what I am envisioning in my head so that the people I am taking to can see what I am seeing.   

In this project I worked in a group of four to create a chase scene that had a good story line with several "paragraphs". I learned how to manage my time with a group and how to spread out the work evenly so not only one person is doing everything. In my next project I will make sure to have the actors do the full action each time we film so we don't have as many scenes to retake as we did this project. Next time I will also map out what we want our film to look like so that way everyone is on the same page and none of us are confused. The collaboration was different in this project because they was more people, so there was a lot more ideas to bounce of of. Also we had to work harder to get a good solid idea that we all agree on. To improve collaboration in the next project I will make sure to listen to everybody's ideas and try and manage my time better with the filming. 

                 In this project we had to show two separate actions with a location change in-between. In this project I learned how to select music to match my video so that they had the same sort of mood.  I also learned how to frame different shots to get different views that aren't in the 6 shot sequence. In my next project I will try to get more creative with my shots to show other angles. I also will try to make the video less choppy so it flows smoother to the viewer. To make this video we had to collaborate to make sure all of the shots were framed correctly and that we didn't have any jump cuts and that we had all the requirements for the project.