Over the past couple of weeks, my Digital Media class made epic movies for Fair Housing Napa Valley. In this project, we needed to convey a message about how fair housing is a real problem in our society today and there is help if you or a loved one is experiencing this I felt like my team for this project really understood how to collaborate with one another in a team. Everything we did throughout this project went relatively smoothly. Everyone would take turns speaking their ideas and listening while we figured out what we want to say with this film. We would sit down and figure out the storyboard and everyone pitched in and added their suggestions. At first, a couple of us has completely different ideas about what to do, but in the end, we combined both ideas and I believe we are all happy with how our movies turned out. None of us went off doing other things during filming or work time. When anyone needed help or didn’t understand something we would help them. For example, in our movie, we had to include a “bird’s eye view” shot which is a shot taken from a higher viewpoint. I am rather short, therefore it was very challenging to hold the camera and see what I was filming that high, so one of my taller team members stepped in and helped me. In this project, we got one week to film and another to edit. During that last week of editing, everyone was scrambling to finish their film before the deadline. My team did our best to keep each other on track and provide feedback when we were individually editing our movies. In the end, everyone finished and I think all the movies turned out relatively well.
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On March 31st, Gia Peralta came to our Bio Fitness class. She talked about many things, most of which were along the lines of what it is like to be an epidemiologist for the CDC. While she was here, she showed the class the slides she used for one of her presentations on a case she worked on. In those slides, you could really see the process they used for that particular case. If you break down that process in steps and compare them to the hero’s journey, you can see a lot that could relate to both. For example, her case was broken up into: something happens, trial and error in figuring out what is happening, figuring out how to stop and prevent it, then actually doing whatever needs to be done to stop and prevent it. These steps can be summed up in hero’s journey terms as Crisis, Call to Adventure, Trials, Result and Resolution.
The Crisis would be the time when all the people were being affected. The Call to Adventure would be when those people went to receive medical attention and the CDC got involved. The Trials would be when the CDC tries to figure out what is happening to these people, how did they get this, how to cure it, and how to prevent it. The Result is the final diagnosis and a plan in motion that is preventing it from spreading. And last, but not least, Resolution is how to prevent this from happening again and keeping the public healthy. In photoshop One of the many skills you need to know how to use is how to add and transform text. Here I will show you how to add the text, change the color, and change the font. Step 1: Add the text Once you have a background, click on the “T” in the bottom of the options on the left of your screen. Once you click on it, put the mouse somewhere and drag to fill the area that your text will be in. Your screen should look something like this. Step 2: Write what you want to say Click inside the text box so you see a blinking line that indicates where your text will be and you can start typing. You can write more than one word but here I just wrote “Hello”. Step 3: Change the color Once you write whatever you want to write, highlight the text. Now go to the box on your right with the text information and click on the “color”. They have many options for where you can choose your color. Just click on the place on the screen where your desired color is and your text should now be that color. Step 4: Change the font Highlight your text again and click on the words at the top on the text information box, a long list of possible fonts should appear. When you scroll over the ones with the word “sample” it should change your font so you can view what it will look like. Once you find a font you like, click on it and it will change the font. Step 5: And there you go!
Now that you have your text written in the color and font you want, go to the very right of the options at the top of your screen. You should see an “X” and a check mark, click on the check mark (if you click on the “X” it will delete what you have written). And there you go!
My name is Averi Dropping I am a student at the flagship New Tech High School. Today in Digital Media we learned about different types of learning styles. There is a Supporter, Promoter, Analyzer, and Controller. You can find out which one you are by seeing how formal and dominate you are from 1-10. Then based on where you land within the quadrants you cans see what category of that type you are (see the graph). According to the graph, I am a Analyzing Controller. This means that I am very particular and I tend to take charge of the group. I placed myself at an eight in formal and 7 in dominate.
When you are working with me, an analyzing controller, I would suggest you get all your work done, if you don’t want to make me stress out. I would also suggest you actually do the work you were assigned. For my oceanography art and research project my team mate, Gillian, and I made two separate paintings. I did a healthy coral reef and she did a dead coral reef after it had been affected by ocean acidification. For my final art piece, I painted a flourishing coral reef with sea animals around it. I covered the canvas with bright colors and made it full of plants and sea life. Our audience is the students in Napa Valley. They have not yet viewed our piece, due to it being a video. I will be putting the video up on here soon. This is my final watercolor painting: This is a simplified diagram of how ocean acidification works:
Due to a delay with receiving our materials I am currently not finished with my painting. At the moment I only have the base done but I still want to go in and add more detail, such as shadows and texture.
The process we are using for our art piece started with getting the materials. Next we watercolor paint the two canvases with the first one being a healthy flourishing reef and the second being the result of the long term damages of ocean acidification. After we have finished the paintings we will film us pouring a dark substance onto a pane of plexiglass that will be in front of the healthy coral reef painting. It is nice how the development of the paintings and the how they are turning out exceeded our expectations. I am hoping the audience will understand the overall message we are trying to convey with the art and how we are affecting global warming which as a side effect is triggering the ocean to become more acidic. We are incorporating our two focus points with population size and noticing the decrease of coral in the second painting compared to the first, and human relationships with ecosystems and seeing how we are at the root of this detrimental problem in our oceans. At the beginning of our oceanography project we had to choose two focus standards. The standards I chose were Population Size and Human Relationships with Ecosystems.
We are using Population Size by looking at the amount of healthy and the amount of bleached coral. We are also looking at how many other species are being harmed my ocean acidification. We are using Human Relationships with Ecosystems by looking at how we are influencing and tangled up this nation wide problem. The art piece my team would like to create for our Oceanography project will be a big watercolour painting of a coral reef or a underwater scene. It would be behind a sheet of glass or plastic which we would pour a brown or black substance onto. We will then pull the painting out from behind the poured on sheet of glass and show the audience how the ocean is being affected with this. We are going to videotape this process and show it as performance art.
The materials we need for this are: a large watercolour canvas, a sheet of glass or plastic the same size as the canvas, watercolour paint, corn starch, masking fluid, and round brushes ranging in size. Once we have all the supplies, it should only take us a couple weeks to finish the paintings and then we can start videotaping and editing. We would like to persuade the audience to help slow climate change and be more conscientious about how their actions can affect ocean acidification. We will do this by either performing a persuasive poem with our art or hitting them with the cold hard facts of the effects of climate change. Our topic for the Oceanography project is Climate Change and how it affects the ocean. The subtopic we chose to cover is ocean acidification, and the causes and consequences of climate change. This is detrimental because as our world heats up (roughly 1.4 degrees fahrenheit in the last century) heat waves and droughts will occur much more often and at higher levels as our seas will rise. As Carbon Dioxide is released from our atmosphere, the ocean’s pH levels will decrease. This topic is of importance because as this continues to happen the sea life and plants will soon die off.
We want to reach our community, classmates and administration in order to bring awareness to Napa County and help our environment. We want them to understand that the changes they can make in their daily lives can slow global warming and help save our oceans and the earth. Sources: earthobservatory.nasa.gov (global warming information) climatekids.nasa.gov (global warming information) |
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