Rain's Year in GCT

Year end reflection:
It's unbelievable how quickly the year has passed, yet I've learned a lot of useful things that I know will come in handy in the future. In the beginning of the year, I didn't even know how to use the cameras properly and took the most boring photos ever, but now I know all these different settings and techniques and even different ways to stand for taking better angled shots. I've also learned how to take those great photos and enhance them even further in Photoshop, where I did all sorts of neat things like bend text, fix colours, and add cool effects. Furthermore, I learned the art of good typography, which is something I've become quite interested in and will for sure put to use in the future. We've played with iMovie a lot, editing footage to make it look like we're talking to ourselves, having pictures transition to the beat of a song, and so on. Without a doubt, the whole year has just been such a colourful experience, and I hadn't realized just how much I've learned until I looked back at it all. I have absolutely no regrets in having chosen GCT as one of my classes this year.

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Rain's I Have a Dream Presentation

http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-1415835342

I'm totally not late
1. The big message of the speech was racial equality; that beneath everyone's skin, no matter what colour, everyone was made equal, and should be treated so. Everyone deserves to be accepted, respected, and given rights and freedoms.
The slide/part of the speech that I found really important was "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character." because imagining four small, innocent children that have hopes to one day be accepted for what they hold inside, rather than be judged by their race, touched me. These children of his represent the future, and represent hope to him as a father.
2. I played with the size, colours, spacing between letters, spacing between lines, and tried all sorts of creative ways to place words to make my slides look interesting.
3. Since I plan to become an artist in the future, I'll definitely be using fonts creatively to create art that will, I hope, have impacting messages with eye catching typography. Also to use for school projects.
4. The most difficult part for me was that it was just so tedious having to put in the words to the ENTIRE speech and fix them up slide after slide after slide. 
5. If I remember, I just went to file, save & send, and had it converted into a video. I had the help of people around, but you can't always rely on others. When in doubt, google it.
6. I would change this assignment by making some slides more unique and bold. I felt like at some point the slides got really repetitive and dull.

Categories: crain, I have a dream, Martin Luther King

Rain's Photoshop Elements Assignment

I admit, I had no idea what I was doing half the time but I enjoyed playing around with photoshop elements. I think I made a lot of good edits but also a lot of lazy ones. I had a lot of trouble with certain things but now I'm getting the hang of it and I think I'll keep on playing around with this program on my own free time. (or at least until my free trial for elements 12 expires hahaha.)

Categories: crain, photoshop elements

Rain's (not late) Camera Project

Categories: crain, The Camera

Rain Cahigas's A Day in my

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Rain's Final Stop Motion: Little Butterfly Boy

And here is my final stop motion video! I was hoping to make it a lot longer than the first but that didn't happen. The camera did stay still, though, and things went a lot more smoother and consistent. I found this version to look a lot more interesting and clean. I'm very satisfied with it. The music is Prelude No. 21 by Chris Zabsriskie.

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Rain's Stop Motion Animation

This is the first draft of my stop motion animation called Little Butterfly Boy. I had a lot of difficulties with trying to get my camera to stay still, and everything looks way too shaky and inconsistent. It shows a young boy who towards the end disappears into what I tried to make look like a bunch of little butterflies. I've made and noticed a lot of errors and I'd do it all over again to improve it; I'd make it longer, add a few things, and make it much neater and steadier.

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Rain's First Stop Motion Animation

For my first stop motion animation I got a wooden model hand and made a paper butterfly fly into it using a piece of copper wire. After it closed and opened again, the butterfly had become little flowers, also just made of construction paper. I thought the idea was clever and I did a smooth job with the animation, but it was rather short and kind of dull. I'll do something a little more interesting and colourful next time.

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Rain Cahigas's Skate Park Presentation

I struggled with getting it to upload but it finally worked!

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Rain's Shots and Angles Assignment

Rain's Shots and Angles Powerpoint from spmath

Categories: crain, shots and angles