For the final
project, I want to record the process I prepare for going back to Changchun, my
hometown in China. I get this idea since it is coming to summer vacation soon
and I will go back to home soon. For preparation, I have a list of thinks to
buy, as presents to my friends and my family. In addition, I am also going to
write a wish list, when I am going back, there are a lot of things I want to
do, I want to eat some traditional Chinese food, hot top, dumplings and other
delicious food. And I will take the taxi! I can take the taxi wherever and it
is really cheaper than here, I think it will be cool! In addition, I going to shopping
with my mom and maybe I will cook for them on weekends. Actually, I plan to do many things during the summer vacation, maybe I will have a travel too. But I just be too excited when I think about this, so maybe I cannot organize these agenda well now. But whatever, I will follow my heart and enjoy my holiday!
In order to complete this final project, firstly, I collect many photos that I may use to present my preparation and my wish list. Some of the pictures are taken by me and some of them are from the Internet since I cannot access them now. To present the Ipad I buy for my cousin, I use the photoshop because I like the style which I learn from the class to separate the object from its background, and in my opinion, Apples's product are really adaptable to this style, make it simple but delicate. When I make the procedure of going back to home, I used to want to use a taking off airplane and a dropping off airplane to present, but when I apply it, I just find that it will take a long time and it cannot show how far away from here to my home, which means it cannot tell my audience how long is this trip, it is too abstract. Therefore, instead of the action of airplane, I use a tellurian to present this distance. Since the tellurian can rotate and present a line from Columbus to Shanghai, these characters make this video more vivid and interesting, people can easily feel the distance. As for the text I type on the video, I just add some animations on them, shining and beautiful, they can also reflect my mood, I like these things very much and I cannot wait to experience them. Shining means desire, so I add some shining to show how eager I am. For the travel part, I use the photoshop again to make a map between two cities, it seems normal since I do not have the ability to make it more attractive, and sorry for that. I just choose two pictures to present the cities respectively. As for the music on the background, I use a peaceful one because I think when talking about going back home, I heart is sweet, not very excited, just feel happy, so I use a piece of warm music and I hope my audience can feel my slight happy and sweet when they are listening to the music. I hope they can like it.
After I finish my project, I am really happy and satisfy with that. Although it is a little simple and not abundant enough, I use all my heart to to this and everything in it is my wish and I choose them after serious consideration, so at least my attitude is good~In addition, compared to my previous project, this final project is well developed and improved. However, it still have some problems. Firstly, the music, its length is not suitable to the video, when the video finishes, the music just suddenly stops which makes me unhappy and makes the video not perfect. Secondly, for the travel part, I used to consider to make the line on the map move from Changchun, my hometown to Beijing, it can be much more interesting, but it is really complicated and I failed. It is a pity I think, and I will practice more to make it possible next time. Except these two shortcomings, I really enjoy my artwork and I hope that others will enjoy it too.
In this semester, my biggest failure is Micro Project 2. Here are some reasons. For one thing, I am not satisfied with the pictures I took, I only took the pictures which could reflect the position, however, I can make it more vivid by taking some more pictures about my facial expression in order to show my mood through the process of finding the classroom, which can make my statement more convinced. For another thing, I did not do well in making the layout. Since it was the first time I use photoshop, I could not use it very well to achieve the goal. To be more specific, I did not get rid of traditional map, it is still obvious which means I am not very creative. From this failure, I learn many things. Firstly, in some situations, pictures are good ways to make explanations easier and show people's mood directly. Then I know that sometimes it is hard to get some traditional idea out of our brains, when we do something, we may remind of traditional way immediately. However, sometimes we should leave tradition, and be creative, only in this way, we can grow and develop.
As for the most successful project I made, I think it is Micro Project 5 because I think in this project, I really use many skills on it. I used iMovie, Garage, I took pictures, videos and considered the objects carefully. In my opinion, I did it well and it satisfied all the requirements, the objects I presented really simplify our life and I also added Chinese culture in it, which I really like. The development of Chinese word can directly reflect the importance of siplification, so I think it is very suitable. From this success, I learn that everything around our life is meaningful and present something. We need to use our heart to experience our life and we will gain much knowledge and feelings.
If I can redo one project, I want to redo Micro Project 4 because I did not do very well for this project. Since I cannot take the video during my work time, I took the videos in a hurry and the quality of those videos were not very good. In addition, some videos were not continuous and some were missing. Moreover, the width of videos are not very suitable either. So I want to redo it in a way thai is not hurry and I can make it better. I will use a digital camera to take the videos and I will ask managers for permission to take the videos and in this way, I can make the procedure continuous and record the process of my work step by step.
For this project, my action word is simplify and the object I chose is my hands. Because I think from ancient to current, people use their hands and intelligence to create wealth and build their happy life. Hands are magic, especially simplify our life. We use hands to control the machine, write down the rules and express ourselves which can make our life easily and efficiently. In this project, I present some actions that using my hands to simplify my life, my hands can use the calculator, write the formula and Chinese word, which are essential in our life, and also bring convenience to our life. In addition, I just want to claim that people use brain to invent the machine and rules to make life simple, but they need to use hands to do the actions and control the machines. So hands are important to simplify our life. http://youtu.be/BQzHGA0tWSY
