Snowflake Personal Bog Post

In animation, we recently created a snowflake project. In this project, we had to create multiple snowflakes and then animate them falling outside of a window. This project was not very easy for me actually. There was a lot of work to be put into it and honestly I'm really not the best at animation. But to start this project, we had to create 6 different snowflakes using some kind of cutting tool. This was actually one of the easiest and most fun parts of this. So after we made our 2d snowflakes, we had to make them 3d which was also pretty easy. Then we created a window and made it transparent, just like a window. Then, we had to set up our 3 point lighting so it complimented everything just right. next, came the hardest part, which was animating them so that they actually fell and looked realistic. We had to duplicate them so that there were 18 or so and then use key frames to make them fall and keep them repeating. Although it doesn't sound like a lot, there was still a lot more work put into everything and it took a while to make. Overall I'm happy with how it turned out, although there are defiantly things i would change to make it better, but at least i know for next time.

Music Video Personal Blog Post

In video, our most recent project was to create a music video with our group. We had to pick a song and watch the video for the song and other must videos similar to it for inspiration. After we did that, we had to decide if we were going to recreate the original video. or go off our own ideas. My group and i decided to just go off our own ideas. We chose the song "Company" by Justin Bieber. There was  a ton of pre-production things that had to be done first. We had to write a beat sheet, schedule time and dates that worked for everyone, create storyboards and a lot more. I think there was a little too much involved in the preproduction that just was not necessary. For example, we had to do a blog post before we filmed and i really done feel like that made sense to do before the filming because we already had a lot on our plates and that just added un needed weight in my opinion. But after we finally finished the pre-production stuff, we finally got to the filming. I was unable to film at for the first time when they filmed at the park, but i helped later when we filmed at school. I learned a lot through this project, like that pre-production takes a long time so you have the manage you're time very wisely. I also got to experience my first entertainment project and that was super fun. I think that editing was the hardest part because we all had different ideas and did not always agree with each other but in the end we made it work and compromised where needed. But overall, i think this project went well and I'm excited to continue with entertainment.