movie trailer

Our assignment was to recreate a high school movie trailer with people we know and the technology we were provided, and the movie our group choose was Love, Simon. Our pre-production was the storyboard of the scenes we could do and get some actors. We had a lot of struggles throughout this project, mostly teamwork issues. Despite our issues, we still ended woking together the best we could and finishing the project. Caitlyn was originally the director but eventually, Brooke morphed not more of the director. I was the second lead actor. After tons of time editing, we ended up having a finished product that we liked, even if it wasn't exactly what we were going for. 
What I learned along the way was that it is always best to look at the big picture and most of all, teamwork. You may not always be in a group where the group chemistry is high and you have no drama. We had a TON of drama and almost lost our main actor but in the end, we realized that our grade was more important and we had to finish the project. I also learned that technology is not always cooperative and you have make due with what you have. When some of the most funny clips ended up not recording, we had use extra footage to make it still look finished.  What I would do differently next time is to possibly take on more of a leadership role and step up when the group needs it and speak my mind. If something isn't working, we need to talk to each other about it instead of telling someone else because it will always get back to someone but twisted into a rumor. I liked how my group banded together in the end and worked together despite the drama and that shows maturity. 

vector project

Pre Production 

To start out with this project, I had to choose a picture to vectorize. I ended up choosing a picture of my grandma's dog. I imported the picture, and took it to Adobe Photoshop. In Photoshop, I used the posterize filter to separate the differences in color clearly. This allowed me to make more specific shapes that would eventually make my portrait look better. Then I imported this updated picture into Adobe Illustrator. When I started in Illustrator, I had to make two art boards, both of which would have my picture on it. One of them would have a decreased opacity, and would be the one I trace over to create my vector. The other picture was simply used for reference, and to grab colors for my vector.

Production

The second I started the project, I jumped right in. I decided to outlined the dog and some of his bigger features such as the nose and eyes. I then started making the triangles. This was time consuming but easy and relaxing. I would do a big chunk of triangles then color them by using the eyedropper tool from the original photo. The triangles couldn't be too big but I also didn't want to go so detailed that it lost it's touch. During the making of this project, I got a lot better with the pen tool. Drawing shapes and tracing is much easier for me and I can use the tool with great accuracy. I also had to use my layers a lot, especially in coloring the triangles. You had to do a lot of searching through the hundreds of them in order to get the shape colored. For my final product, I was hoping for a playful sort of unrealistically realistic. I wanted it to look like the dog, but also be creative, out of the box, and even almost unrecognizable. I think I did a good job accomplishing my goal.

Post production

In the end, I am very pleased with my final product. I put in a lot of time and effort in order to get my project finished, and I think it was definitely worth it. If I were to continue to perfect this piece, I might have gone back and made sure my colors were precise and maybe make the triangles a little smaller. This project was very fun and relaxing for me. I liked being able to come into class and sit and make triangles which helped me clear my mind.