Gabriella Magruder's Blog

The 4th quarter project was to create a product, present the product and sell the idea of the product to the audience. This was to be done using graphics, a commercial, a fake  business and a website. The entire project including the website, graphics, commercial and animation took up almost the entire 4ht quarter. Creating the graphics and 2-d animation was probably the most difficult part of the project and took up the most time. A part of that time was spent before and after school. During that time I learned some ways to edit a video that I didn't know how to do before including how to add certain effects and change the size of a video clip. During the practice round of presenting the only feed back I was given was to add music during parts of the commercial that were too quite. I added the music that my team wanted for the commercial and added details that were suggested to our website such as our product functions. Looking back I think I could have done better with the comm

Our Company name was S.S.D which stands for science,style and design. We agreed on the name after coming up with the idea for Multibandz. The product our company was selling was Multibandz, a headband that could change color and patterns to match your clothing. After coming up our slogan we decided the headband should have a variety of functions in order to market the product to everyone. We decided the headband should prevent odors caused by sweat and have the headband be made of a material that would keep someone cool while exercising. With the material and functions of the product we could market Multibandz everyone and our slogan, "Icy...so you'll look fresh" made more sense. We started by creating several different ideas including a "chill pill" and a headband that would change color to match your mood. During this group project I learned how to add visual effects to videos including lighting, sound and how to move or resize a video clip. I also le

So far our team has finished the graphics, the commercial and a majority of the website. I made the company graphic and the 2-d animation. So far our team has worked to together successfully. The only idea I can think of to improve our team is to communicate with each other.