Bouncing Ball Animation Project

SUMMARIZE
The quarter for school ended and now I am in the animation part of e-comm. The bouncing ball project was the first project in photo shop, that I did over the coarse of  the week. First, I  colored the first layer blue for the sky using the fill tool. Then I clicked new layer then used the selection tool to draw a box at the bottom of the page. This was colored green with the filler tool. After that I made a new layer and made a circle using the circle tool.  I was assigned to make a circle using the circle tool on photo shop. I used the gradient tool to make the circle look like a ball and copied that layer 8 more times. I moved each ball down with a farther distends from the previous layers ball and each one got longer as they went down. The second to last layer is pulled up then the last layer is horizontal. Lastly I animated the ball by clicking the timeline tool. I then added the slides and for each slide I clicked the previous ball layer to not be seen and the next too be seen. Finally I copied the slides and reversed them. I deleted the duplicates and set the play time on forever.            

WHAT YOU LEARNED?
 I was introduced to photo shop. In photo shop I learned how to make and add layers. I also learned many different key combinations. I also learned how to make a sun spot on the circle to make it look like a round 3D ball. I did this by using the gradient. I also learned how to use the filler tool, which I used on the blue sky and the green ground.    

WOULD YOU DO DIFFERENT OR SAME NEXT TIME?
If I were to do this project again I would try to make the ball bounce in different places. I could have also made the ball smaller. I think a moving sun would look cool too. Also, I think moving clouds would add a to the back drop.

Social Media posts follow you every were, even to college.

The article, "They loved your GPA, then they saw your Tweets" by Natasha Singer, was about how colleges not only look at your grades but also your social media life. In Brunswick, Maine there is a collage called Bowdoin College. This college is one of many how have admissions officers who check the students social media posts. High school counselors are trying to now help students to make smart chooses on social media. In the article there was a senior who posted disparaging comments on Twitter about her fellow students. This comment caused some colleges denied the students' admission. This has happened to many other students who have posted unnecessary things on social media websites , which is what this article was about.          


What was interesting in this article was that so many collages check social media activity.    "According to the article "of 381 college admissions officer who answered a Kaolin telephone questionnaire this year 31% said they visited the applicants social media," (Singer 1). I also thought that it was interesting that collages can easily regent an applicant because they have so many other applicants who want to go to their collage. Although checking students social media profiles can also be seen as a violation of the students privacy. I do however support the schools who do check the applicants social media profiles. It might lead for much better and more deserving students to get into good collages.  

Handwriting Blog Post

10/7/16

This week in e-communications I learned about different types of handwriting with two different assignments. The first assignment was in Illustrator. For this project I was told to use the rectangle tool to make the letters in my name. I had to start with one long rectangle. The I copied and pasted that rectangle multiple times. Next I shorted, rotated, and lengthened the rectangles. Then I placed them to form the letters in my name. The most challenging part of this assignment was putting the purple background  behind my my letters. My favorite part of this project was making the letters different sizes and lengths. I also enjoyed making the pumpkin that is in the bottom left corner. The pumpkin was made by using the circle/oval tool. Placing the stares around the page as my final touches was fun. I am very pleased with my finished protect, it reminds me of Halloween. 

The second assignment was in my sketch book. On one page of the sketch book I had to have my signature, 10 adjectives the at describe my personality, and my name in at least 3 different fonts. The 10 different adjectives that I used in my project were: curious, musical, bright, imaginative, smart, caring, joyful, artistic, creative, and friendly. The first font type I used was my version of a bubble lettering which is located at the bottom of the page. The type of font that is on the left side of the paper is a version of kid font. The font at the top of the page is my version of a oriental font. The last font style I used was my version of collage font on the right side of the paper. Around each one of the font styles I made it look like the fonts were one banners by outline and coloring inside the out line.