Maleah Boyd's Blog

     For the Nature Man project we had to use all the skills we learned in Adobe Photoshop to create a better version of the original picture. He's called Nature Man because some pictures that were already provided for us in the server had to do with nature. The pictures consisted of roots, a cliff, trees and water. I restarted several times creating Nature Man because I didn't like what I had come up with. My first creation was horrible. I think I didn't like it because the only pictures I had used the ones provided and nature doesn't interest me. The second time I was going for a blue theme. The suit was going to be many different shades of blues mixed together. That didn't work out because the jacket looked too fake and it wouldn't blend very well.  For the third time the picture above is what I came up with.    After trying to go with a blue theme I changed my mind and decided to go with purple since it's my favorite color. But I knew I couldn...

                                                       In ecomm we learned how to use Photoshop to edit images. We had to watch tutorials on how to edit the pictures and to know which tool to use for certain skills. The first picture was easy and we just had to crop something out of the background. As the tutorials continued it got harder and harder. There were times when we had to remove spots on a wall, fix the position of a logo, take logos out and fix blemishes. The hardest editing project was putting 3 pictures together to make it almost like a collage. Overall I think this project was very challenging and it defiantly tested my patience. A lot of the time I had to start over because I missed a step of something went wrong. Now that I know how to use Photoshop editing other pictures in the future will be lots of fun.

     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.