Gabriella Magruder's Blog

I am an e-Communication student at Olathe Northwest High school with a talent for graphic design. I have been told by my past Language Arts and Reading Seminar teachers that I am a gifted writer. Currently I apart of Novice Debate and have some experience with civilized arguments and discussions on controversial or socially sensitive topics of discussion. I have been recognized for my talent in graphic design by an e-Commuication teacher specialized in graphic design. I am effective at  asking questions and exploring with new material or programs in order to increase my knowledge on the subject at hand. I am interested in new topics and intellect I am always willing to learn new ways to better myself. I want to continue to develop my skills in digital art and graphic design. I am inspired by the beauty that graphic design is capable of producing and I plan to inspire others in the same way.

The process First we located the ten words we had selected and uploaded onto our blogs last year. After finding the 10 words we created a new photoshop document. Following the steps of another blogpost we placed each word into it's own frame and arranged them in a way that made some sense. Afterwards we applied different frames to the background picture in order to adjust brightness, contrast and other settings. We changed the timing of each frame and applied fade in and fade out to the background image. Lastly we saved the video and uploaded the video to Youtube with our Blogger Google accounts.   What I learned I discovered how to to create a video timeline in Photoshop. I know now how to change the timing of each frame and how to apply certain settings to each frame. For example I can apply fade to the background frame if I want to apply fade in or fade out to a video.   What I plan to do next time Next time I plan to experiment more with each frame. I plan to discover

The Process To begin with we started the  animation by watching a Pixar short. We took notes in class, observing squash and stretch in the tires and in Mike's expression and body. Next we began to add in multiple layers applying the grass and sky layer to each ball layer as well as a black background and text layer. We were then released and allowed to design our own expressions on the ball faces. I added three expressions instead of two. I made one face happy,one face in pain and the last face was surprised. For the finish at the end of the animation I ended a black hole for the ball to fall the ball to bounce into.  What I learned I learned how to use the paint brush tool to change mistakes I've made on layers and objects. I also discovered how I can combine text layers with normal layers. When I make a mistake on the timeline I discovered it was much easier to erase multiple slides than rearranging the order of my layers. What I plan to do next time  Next time I pla