I chose this assignment because music plays a big part in my life. If I’m not listening to music, then I am producing my own. Album artwork can do wonders for artists, even if no one has ever heard of them before. As long as the artwork looks amazing, people are going to give your music a listen, based off curiosity.

My first task was to find the title of my band/group by clicking the link.  The name that came up was South Sutton Meeting House. I found it comical, but it worked. Next, I clicked another link, where I had to scroll to the bottom and pick the last four to five words of the last quote. The title of my first album was called, “Go On Again”. Finally, it was time to choose the album art for the cover. I had to select the third image from the flickr link. Thankfully, all of the choices seemed to work for me, and I knew instantly how I wanted to arrange my cover. I resized the image to make it look like an actual album cover. Settled on a font for the band name and gave it a nice blue coating. For the title, I chose a different font and kept it white. Overall, it turned out pretty clean, and I am happy with the results.

This assignment was fun, but this was not my first attempt at making an album cover. I used to practice making cover art for my instrumental songs using Photoshop. My skills are decent, but I am still learning how to use the program because it has a lot to offer.

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Here is my first attempt at making a gif. After some researching, I came across an article in WIRED magazine about easily creating a gif from a youtube clip. It was THAT easy! All I had to do was find my clip on youtube, then type in “gif” at the beginning of the url. A gif creator window popped up and it was smooth sailing from there. It took me a couple tries to get the timing right, but I thought it came out pretty decent.

The scene I chose was from the movie “300″. There were many fight scenes throughout the movie, but this one in particular was with Astinos and his best friend Stelios joining forces in battle. I really enjoyed the visual effects displayed in this movie, especially in the battle scenes.

I chose to make a gif from one of the beginning scenes from one of my favorite movies of all time-Hot Rod!  It’s a rather goofy movie about young and ambitious stuntman Rod Kimble’s aspirations and struggles to become a world-renowned stuntman.  In this scene, Rod is attempting to jump a swimming pool using a dirtbike.  What makes the scene so hilarious to me is the amount of buildup (music, preparation, the fact that a girl he is crushing on is there to see his stunt) which ultimately results in a failed jump for Rod.

Making the gif was fairly easy once I was able to find a gift creating website.  I created the gif from a Youtube video via MakeaGif, and simply embedded it into my post after saving it onto my computer.

The above GIF I made is a clip from a scene of Big Brother 16. Of all reality TV shows, this has to be one of my favorite. I am what some can call a Big Brother “Superfan”. I watch this show summer after summer, and have the joys of watching it with my mom and sister. If you are not familiar with this show, it is about contestants from all over that get chosen to live in a house all summer (if they can make it that far) battling each other to get to the finale, to get a shot at winning $500,000. Throughout the show, there are twists and turns that make the show interesting and to keep the contestants on their toes at all times. Contestants are always to “Expect the unexpected”.

The scene I chose was from an episode where they decided to have a little party amongst themselves, which ended up turning into a house dance party. As I watch the live shows, live feeds, and after dark shows, I have seen how stressful and home sick the contestants can get; therefore finding a point in time where each contestant enjoys each other’s company, I thought was a powerful moment in the Big Brother house. Then I came across the entire house dancing away, not worrying about game play for the time being, I felt as if it was the perfect moment to capture that the reality TV show does not always have to be stressful, and game play set aside, they come together as a family and have fun.

How I created my GIF: Honestly, I was baffled for a good while on what to do because I always see them on Pinterest (my online addiction at finding everything I want, but can’t have at the click of a button), but could never figure out how to do them. Not wanting to download anything to my computer because I seem to have bad luck with viruses…I decided to google it and try out different websites, starting with the number 1 result, www.makeagif.com . I went through different videos, and was not too happy on how the end product turned out because I could not necessarily make it “my own” by adding little details that I ended up doing in the end. Three or four websites later, I came across www.giflike.com and also tried it out with different videos just to see how in depth of editing I could do, and I liked what the site allowed me to do. I then chose the video I did, Big Brother Dance party, and went through the video and decided the frames that I liked the most and used them together to create my dancing GIF. After cutting the video, to the short time frame, I decided to add a little caption of “Dance like no one is watching” because I felt as if it described the GIF perfectly.

Just a little side note: Next time, I may want to try and create a GIF from a collection of still frames to see what I can come up with on my own, not just using a clip from a scene from a movie, show, etc. (I like trying different things out, and if I have more time towards the end of the week, I may even post another up to my blog to compare the differences between the two GIFs!)

The purpose of this post is to create an example for  VisualAssignments1335 .

Me and Bae just got married! We got our jackets custom designed by my favorite couture designer in Paris. I love him so much. When, he looks into my eyes, I know we’re meant to be together forever.

i love this picture of me. it truly shows the happiness i was feeling. it captured my happy-go-lucky personality that i don’t normally show in a picture. this particular day was eventful. i was on my way to the Bacon Festival. although bacon excites me, that wasn’t the reason for my happiness. the days prior to this picture had been such an emotional experience for me. within that experience, i realized the love i had for someone special. (that’s so corny, right?) it took me some time to come to that realization, but it’s real.

xoxo,

princess krizzy

oh, by the way; i used my instacollage app to create the mirror effect and edited it the lighting through instagram.