My Digital Story !

The assignment was to gather photos/memories about a memory of something or someone in the past & tell a story. We were instructed to make a Digital Story on iMovie with effects to make it more interesting catching the viewers eye.

        My story was about my best friend Stephanie Nacho Bueno. Basically my digital story is saying how much she means to me. How she has always been there for me no matter the issue. Nacho and I have been through plenty so i chose our friendship to represent.

       I chose the images i did because we hardly take photos sense we both don't enjoy taking many. The photos I do have are from events we spent together, like Halloween, her Birthday or any days we found some what important.

       The fact that i can turn to her and talk to her about anything made it easy for me to put this together. I think its cool that she been around since the third grade and she's still here.

      My work on the Digital Story came out decent but if I took my time and worked harder it would have came out even better. I enjoyed this assignment because it allowed me to have fun with it just like the other projects. It wasn't has difficult as the others which is probably why i liked it so much. But i did have some difficult because for some reason I couldn't add my voice to the story. My experience with Digital Media was cool but again i think i could have toyed with it more making my project way awesome. In the future this type of work might help me because i might look into for college and take it up.

Photographic Truth

For this assignment we was to pick a meaningful topic and add ourselves in the image so it looks as though we were originally in the photo. The steps I took was to gather images from my topic, then take pictures of myself positioning them perfectly with the original images. The point of the project is to make it seem like the images you created were the real deal photos and making your viewers second guess or think you was part of the event, giving the meaning of Photographic Truth.

My book was based all around Malcolm X and events he spoke on to his death. To make myself look perfect in the photo, i change the emotions in my face to my body gestures. Every photo had to be alined to match the original photos. The tools I used as the Skew, the magic wand etc. Sense the photographs were gray I had to change photos gray also, so i used the Gray Scale.

I chose to make Malcolm X my theme because I felt he was an important person & idol. Fighting discrimination against him and fighting for what he believed in. Trying to get the Nation of Islam's words out. Also as a minister reaching out to people. Adding my photographs to the Malcolm X photos altered them in a of me observing and paying homage. 

Something I learned from working on photographic truth is how position images to blend in with another. Making any old event seem like I was actually there. Out of all the projects Photographic Truth was one that interested me. It was a little difficult because trying to get my photograph to go perfect wasn't going well. I also didn't use my time wisely making it hard to work on it has much as i should of to get it right. What i'd do differently is basically everything from setting up my pictures to how I took them and placed them.     

My epic fail to complete my Triptych assignment /:

   So for my Graphic computer class we was assigned to create a lyrical triptych. We were told to choose a song of our choice and make the triptych go along with song. Then go on google, pick and choose photos that would link together perfectly. For example you could create a face by taking a pair of eyes from one photo and lips from another and then adding whatever lyrics you chosen.
    I didn't have enough time to complete my triptych but the song of my choice was Rock Star from Nickleback. The first triptych that i attempted to complete was basically people outside of a club with the thought of setting better aspects in their life, living it better then they imagined. The mood that i was trying to go for was cool and kick ass, like showing what living la vida loca should be. I attempted to use a couple tools from Adobe Photoshop but i can't remember their names. One tool made it so that you could be able to tilt the object into the perfect shape or make it designed to go perfectly with the rest of the photo. Another was basically cutting and pasting what i want to m triptych. One more that i could remember was having to change the the size of the photo, having to play around with it to make it look realistic on the layout. 
      My experience in working with Adobe Photoshop this year was alright but i feel as if Im limited at doing many things mainly because of the amount of days i was not present. I like Photoshop but its not for me AT ALL. I feel as if i was highly unsuccessful in making my lyrical triptych because i wasn't into it. But i think the project rocked in my mind (: What i'd do if i was assigned this project again would be to come after school and ask questions that would make me successful or at least able to complete the project. And make sure Im present when directions are being given.  
                                                       

Check Check it out :P

My classroom was assigned to create a magazine cover about ourselves. It had to contain what one of our interest are or where ever we see ourselves doing in the future. We was to choose a logo that went perfectly with the idea of the magazine. Also set it up with a picture of ourselves and details of whatever it is you chose to be. 

In my magazine cover I decided to create myself as a bartender. The reasoning for this was because Im really interested in becoming a bartender in the future. The logo I chose was Rollingstone. I figured it suited what i wanted to be & it was a perfect image for it all. We was told that we needed to apply affects to make the magazine more realistic, make it more eye-catching. We was to add information & interesting facts on the topic. Basically make it amazing.  

My magazine cover shows me coming out of a elevator, making it seem like i was going to a secret hidden club. I think it kind of works out with what I'm trying to get across but not as well has it should. My magazine shows little images to make the club look awesome, like it's the place to be (:

My body language was kind of awkward, and i think the colors goes well with the magazine cover. I probably could have done a better job but things happen. To improve the magazine cover I feel as if i should have went about it differently, with the way i dressed, the background, my body language, and there could have been props making it easier to get the idea across. But either than that, it's decent. 

Funmilayo & i

so I'm sitting in Graphic Design class with Julie Funmilayo Bamisile (: she's one of the lamest best people in the world! She has straight hair, she's far-sighted & wears glasses, she's right handed & she can count up to 12. She also bullies Anta which i allow because Anta's a easy annoying target. (just kidding . . sometimes) Anyways Funmilayo's favorite color is blue. On the Tyra show they had someone to come in & talk about colors you wear and what it defines. It mentioned if a person is wearing blue they're boring, mind you Funmilayo is wearing blue today, BORING ASS PERSON. But she sits next to me every time we get into third period so i have to deal with it . . Well hope you enjoyed getting to know my Funmilayo, bye :D

whassup with Handsome ?

Hello fellow bloggers (: my name is Michelly l. Morales & I'm currently attending Hope High in the Arts community. This would be my third year making me a junior. My interest in life is to learn many languages and travel around the world. I'd love to move away from my hometown in Rhode Island to LA, California. As of now i view myself being a dentist just because it seems like an easy job, but i really see myself being a bartender, fire WOMEN & or a US History teacher. I'll know i have reached my pursuit of happiness when i am a happy owner of a beautiful Mustang and a sexy motorcycle. In the future i would like to have a tattoo but i want to make sure it means something to me. Im into sports but i don't have a favorite. I don't know where i'd be without my ipod (: Last but not least the best thing man made is pizza lunchables, i cant tell you how many of those i can scarf down in one day! well enjoy !