My Year In GCT

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Reflection:
To be honest, I had a lot of fun in GCT this year, it's one of my favorite classes. I learned a lot of things that I could use in the future and I made new friends. If it weren't for this class I wouldn't know how to use the camera properly and know the different settings. One thing I really enjoyed doing in this class was taking pictures, like when we went to the skate park and the fall walk. Because of this course I realized that I'm actually interested in taking pictures :) Another thing that I had fun doing was the stop motion, before I always wonder how they do the motion stop and how much effort it takes to make one and now I can proudly say that I made one! I'm also thankful of this class because I finally learned how to use the Mac and make movies in iMovie. I'm really glad that I was chosen to be in this course because all of the things I learned will be useful in the future. Yes, there was a lot of struggles too but it was all worth it in the end. Also, thank you Mr. Harbeck for making it a fun and enjoyable class :)

Categories: my year in gct, nkamilah

Kamilah's I Have A Dream - Martin Luther King Jr.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.

Reflections:

1. The message in MLK's speech is about all the segregation, prejudice and racism that is happening. It was his dream for everyone to be equal and to be free from all racial injustice. He wanted everyone to treat each other the same and not judge people by their race or the color of their skin. For me the most important slide was - "I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice."

2. The creative use of fonts in my presentation are the choice of font, text size, contrast, line spacing and colors. I made sure that the important words stood out in every slide. 

3. I plan to use what I learned in this assignment for any other presentations that I will do in the future. I will make sure that my presentation will keep the audience engaged and not be bored. I will also use the 5 tips for better typography to improve my presentation.

4. For me, the most difficult part was breaking down the speech into different slides because it was very time consuming. I also had difficulties when we have to convert the power point into a wmv because it takes so long to load. Another part where I had difficulties was that I have to change some of the fonts and sizes of the text when I work on my power point at school because I have a different version of power point at home and because of that some of the text in the slides didn't show up.

5. In order to convert my power point into a wmv I clicked file and then save as and chose the wmv instead of jpeg and then I uploaded it to YouTube. It was easy to convert but it takes a really long time.

6. In my opinion I wouldn't really change this assignment because to be honest it was fun to play around with the fonts and I really enjoyed it but it takes a lot of time to finish this and a lot of effort. I just wish that the programs we used were much faster. 

Categories: 9-04, I have a dream, MLK, nkamilah, playing with fonts

Kamilah Namit's Playing with iMovie

Categories: imovie, nkamilah, snap to beat

Kamilah`s Photoshop Elements Assignment

Doing this project was really exciting, fun and a  new learning experience to me. To be honest I`m not a fan of any photo editing software because I always get so confused because there were so many tools you could use. But after watching the videos I started learning a lot and was able to make the edits I wanted to. I guess at times it could get frustrating because whenever I did something wrong I don`t know how to put it back so I had to start from scratch. Overall, it was a great learning experience and I enjoyed doing random edits.

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Kamilah Namit's Photo Essay "A Day In My Life"

Categories: 9-04, a day in my life, nkamilah, photo essay

Kamilah and Vina's Final Stop Motion: The Sleep Over

Final Draft:

This is our final stop motion video. We took more photos this time and made sure that the title won't take up half of the video. Making this video is a lot more easier that the first one. As you can see, the rough draft is a bit different than the final one that's because we did it at different locations. They aren't very similar from each other but the same idea. We also added scenes to the storyboard because the first one was a bit short.






Rough Draft:

Categories: dvina, nkamilah, stop motion

Kamilah and Vina`s Stop Motion: The Sleep Over

This is mine and Kamilah`s first draft on our stop motion. At first it was very stressful because we had a hard time planing what we`re going to be doing. In the end we chose to have stuffed toys as our subject and it was a difficult to make them stand up while we were taking the pictures. It took us a while doing this because even though we had the pictures, we had a hard time making the video because of the software we were using.

Categories: dvina, nkamilah, stop motion

Kamilah Namit's The Camera

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Kamilah's First Stop Motion Animation

This was my first attempt at making a stop motion. At first, I was having difficulties planning what I was going to do because there were so many possibilities but at the end I ended up doing something that is related to music. I took less than fifty photos. The most difficult thing about this project was making sure that the camera doesn't move. I had to it for a couple of times because the camera wasn't steady. What I would do differently next time is that keep the camera lock in place and work in a brighter room. One thing I did good is that my idea was clear on what I was trying to do. Another one is I was able to do it smoothly.

Categories: first stop motion, nkamilah

Kamilah Namit's Skatepark Presentation

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Kamilah Namit's Shot and Angles PowerPoint

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