Tennis

Yes, it's that time of year again...
   TENNIS SEASON!

They are making cuts this year, for the very first time -- because since our rainy Washington weather there's limited amount of court use.

I played last year for the first time and the only experience I've had with it is...Playing Badmitton with my dad in the backyard, when I was in grade school (every now and then during the summer). Y'know the basics...Forehand, overhead and i've got a pretty strong backhand!

So that's all good. . . So a week went by and everyone got a piece of paper saying whether we made it or not. This is what my note said . . . .

My Favorite Zen Garden Example

HoriZental by CLÉMENT ‘FASTCLEMMY’ HARDOUIN, France

Well, for the website I noticed its title was 'Zen Garden' so I wanted to get like a plant nursery like landscape or plants as the background. With a "asian" like style, because well, "zen" is an asian word meaning calm-like. 

And I found this one that seemed decent enough and even better! Instead of your usual scrolling up and down it goes from right to left! 

My GarageBand Project

• COMPOSITION

           - It's like a original sample of music.

• TRACK

           - It's a disc that contains data (songs, movie clips, etc..)

• MIDI

           - Stores and sends data through electronic musical instruments.

• SONG

           - Arrangement for voices, performed by singing.

• RHYTHM

           - Movement to the beat of music.

• TIMBRE

           - Sound that can tell the difference between sounds.

• PITCH

           - The loudness or softness of sound - song, voice, noise, etc..

• ARRANGING

           - Put in order. 

• MIXING

           - Blend/Combining your song.

• KEY 

           - In tune/harmony.

• TEMPO

           - Speed.

• AUTOMATING 

           - To operate on it's own automatically (on its own).

• LOOPS

           - Adding another instrument.

• RECORDING

           - Documenting.

• EDITING

           - Analyze & Rewrite

• NOTATION

           - Code


My Audio Composition

What I did: I went into Garageband and played around with the sounds and also recorded some stuff of my own.

What I learned: Well, I have used this a little in the past and so it was just a chance to brush up on some skills in Garageband.

Final

Top 3 favorite Indv. Project

• KJ's Final Project

I liked KJ's final project because while I was looking through it I noticed his work is pretty amazing! It has a nice detailed look and professional. -- Outlining it in black makes it "pop out!"

• Sydney's Final Project

Sydney's final project was also really nice. I get where she was coming from, just wanting to learn new techniques on her own then trying it out, and having the end results come out Great! I like how she caught the duck in motion.

• Nate's Final Project

This is Nate's I was really impressed with how he used Photoshop to lower the cars. To me just looking at the before and after, that there was a lot to have been done.

Top 3 favorite blogs

• http://taylor64.edublogs.org/

Taylor's blog stood out to me because it's not like any other blog...It has COLOR not all plain and dull.

• http://tylerthecreator.edublogs.org/

I like Jesse's blog! It's cool in a kind of creepy way, but still cool. As the background it's a blue face with green-ish eyes. It's all over the page -- so it's "always watching you.."

• http://a1234567878.edublogs.org/

I really like Adarrah's blog she described everything she did in detail and the page looked really organized, as well.

Final Project

What are you going to do?

• To finish up this semester I will focus on photography.

What are you hoping to learn?

• I actually hope to gain more skills and learning experiences in the particular field. 
• Chase Jarvis - Photographer
• My Inspiration!

What will you create?

• I will redo/make better 6 photos that I can enter at the Washington State Photo Contest.

What is the final product?

• I will have 6 photos printed and framed for the contest.

What I actually did

• I added more photos to my Flickr account because I haven't added new work in months! (I could use some feedback! Also, please tell your friends!) I've also been taking pictures trying to decide what 6 pictures I should enter in the contest -- very hard decision.

What I actually learned

• I have added at least 30 new pictures here -- tell me what you think! 

My Video

Plot Line

Storyboard

I learned that it is important piece of making a video is the outlines. 

Like Pixar they all sketch out all their movies exactly how it will happen in the movie. - To help them become more organized. 

Although, I didn't actually get to get hands on with a video camera, I'd someday like to

try panning and the zolly effect etc... 

My Presentation

1. Just showing text and hearing voice, not seeing the person*

- Timed slide and voice ? 

- colored text

- no bullet points

     2.  Dick Hardt 

- he's talking & he shows the visual things he talks about

- doesn't have image and text on the same slide (text on one slide, image the following one) 

ex: "I like to read this" (shows magazines/books) and keeps it up for a second at the most, then skips to the next thing. - We don't need it up for more than 2 seconds because it's just one image/short phrase that we can "absorb" in a short amount of time.

 < Mindmap





< Storyboard

PowerPoint Master Slide

                               

My Outline

My Presentation

First, for this presentation I started off watching video clips and took notes on the different ways of how to do a powerpoint presentation. Made an outline of the slides for my powerpoint using the skills I learned.

I LEARNED that you shouldn't have words and text on the same slide because it can get crazy and overwhleming.. For my presentation I planned to have just pictures and say the text.