Maleah Boyd's Blog

     For my self portrait video I decided to film a dance team morning practice. In the video they were reviewing new flag choreography we had just learned. I chose to incorporate the dance team because dance is a huge part of my life. I have been dancing from such a young age and it's something that I love to do. A lot of people already know that I dance but they don't actually see what practice is like. Another self-portrait that I enjoyed was Alex Pauli's, he played The Office theme song on the piano. At first it started off at a normal pace and then it kept getting faster and faster and I was really impressed.  The piece captured my attention the whole time and when it came to an end I wanted to keep watching it.      On my self-portrait I really couldn't control the lighting because I was in the school gym. But I thought it turned out pretty good under the circumstances. While filming I made sure to walk around and to record everyone to get a...

For this project, we started off by creating a fake product. Once we had done this, we had to create other aspects to help advertise this product. So, after we had decided our product, we started on the actual graphics that would help to sell it. The graphics we were required to make included a 3D representation of our product, two web banners, a commercial, a logo and other graphic design images, and a website. All of these served a slightly different purpose in our advertising, but they were all important. This project definitely had its ups and downs for our groups, so we had to improvise our ideas a little bit. Our group worked very well to complete our own work on time, so then we could help our teammates later on if they needed it. This is what I believe made our team so successful; we were not afraid to share our ideas and help one another.  Finally, after about two months of working on this project with many ups and downs, our group was finally ready to pitch our...

           Our final project in ecomm was to design a website kind of like before. The difference is this one was this one was already made and we couldn't change it to make it like we want. We worked in Dreamweaver and followed a bunch of steps to create it.           First we had to open a folder that was already made with files that was to help us create this website. Then I watched a video of Mr. Olson doing the project because it was confusing doing it by yourself. The steps we had to follow involved changing the settings of the already made website to format it to a different style. We also had to link two pages together to show a before and after.      This project was really fun. I did have to start over four times though because it wouldn't save right or didn't save at all. By the fourth time I was a pro at creating this website. Down below are screenshots of the before and after o...

In e-Comm we took a personality test to identify our traits. It was about 60 questions and at the end you got certain letters with a percentage that told you what your personality was and how much you are of it. The letters I got were ESFP. In the pictures below shows you what the letters mean with the percentages and the definition of ESFP.  When I read both of these I thought they were pretty accurate. After reading I also looked back at situations or my life in general to how this applies to me. I like talking to people and working with others sometimes to a certain extent. That's why I feel like Extravert is 62% and the 38% that's left is Introvert because sometimes I rather be alone and enjoy time by myself.  After researching more about ESFP I came across the core values. I especially thought the first paragrapgh described me. One of my favorite hobbies, activities, and sport to do is dance. I've been dancing since I was in kindergarten. Dance...

For this project we were told to have a person move to point A to B. Through this we had to create a story about what was happening. Our story is about a girl who is lost and is trying to find her correct classroom. While doing this we used the rules we learned from the previous project to capture a good video. We use long shots, medium shots, and a panoramic shot to show the adventure throughout the school. For the AB Sequence I was on a team of four and I portrayed the actor. We all collaborated together to come up with some great ideas. Overall this project was really fun and editing this video was so much easier than before. I actually knew how to use Premiere Pro this time.

      For this project we were told to create a project on How To Print. The first step was to pictures of the scenes we were going to shoot and put them on a storyboard and show the teacher.  But even before that we had to learn about  photography. We learned about the rule of thirds the 180 degree rule and the 6 different shots of photography. After we created the storyboard and Mrs. Zimmerli gave us tips on how to make the scenes better.       Next we had to actually record the scenes. For the project my partner, Ava, was the actor and I was executive producer and director. We both had a hard time coming up with on how to start the video. As you can see we figured it out in the first scene in the video above. We also had to shoot the scenes out of order because there were other groups recording too. It took us about 45 minutes to finish recording.      After we recorded we had to learn how to use...

          Overview             In e-Comm we made a website. Mr. Olson made video for us to follow along with while making our website. We were instructed to make a home page with a side bar, and a projects page similar to the home page also with a side bar.  In the side bar we added links to the home/projects page, the ONW website, e-Comm website and our blog. On the projects page we added our favorite projects that we have done this semester. What I Learned Overall in this week I learned a lot. I learned a new program, Dreamweaver, that I had never used before. In Dreamweaver we learned about all the different tools you can use to make a website. After making the basics of a website we learned how to add photos and videos from our projects. When we finished we learned how to design our website and then take a screen shot of it. While making the website I learned all about the different...