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.