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Pirate Problems

This is an animation I made using Adobe After Effects. I made this project about a single character and making his story unique and entertaining.  The process put into making this was a very long one. It included drawing the characters and scene. After that I scanned them into the computer, putting them into Photoshop and cleaning them up and improving the look of them. Last I brought in the images into Adobe After Effects and animated the pictures into this video on the right. How to clean up drawn images and make them sharp for the animation is one big thing I learned while creating this animation. I also learned how to put different compositions in After Effects together for them to be rendered as one video. This project turned out very well and I found it to be very entertaining. If I had to do it again though I would most likely change the walk cycle of the purple octopus and make him walk a little bit faster. The rest of the way I did this animation I would keep the same

Blood and Legos

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Blood Drive This is a news report over the ONW blood drive on Nov. 14 2014 that I edited and filmed with my video team of Kit Walters and Victoria Scarduzio . I had to make sure to capture important story telling shots about the ONW blood drive, we chose to follow sophomore Olivia Contractor.  There was no tripod use so all of the shots were shot in a particular stance to make them as steady as possible. Once we were done filming we brought it back to edit, using a very import editing technique called JNL edits. A JNL edit is where you see the subject speaking before they are heard in the video.  That new technique was the most important thing that I learned from this news report process. After seeing the shots and how it turned out, most likely if I did it again I would ask Olivia more questions and do my best to make steadier shots. The rest I would do the exact same because the video turned out quite well. In conclusion I learned a lot about the importance of sound byt