Magazine Cover Practice - Galata Tower, Turkey

 Today I worked on Magazine Cover Conventions!! 

These are the notes I did in class to help me learn and be able to name different conventions and their effectiveness on the audience. I learned about the different ones such as barcodes, feature articles, and my favorite one, PUFFS!! I mean how fun is that word to say! Afterwards, we went to in-design to be able to practice and work with building our own magazine cover. 

I did a rough design of the different ideas for my magazine cover like what each coverline would say! See bellow:

Finally now I could start on the actual creation process. This was super fun for me because I enjoy traveling a lot and being creative. This project was a blend of the two and I was able to easily come up with fun coverline ideas based on the destination I choose which was Galata Tower in Turkey. The image I used was one I personally took, and I wanted to do it justice with this project! Although easy in theory, there were definitely struggles I had while trying to put all of these parts together. In-design is not the easiest to work with and I struggled with simple things such as changing text color and being able to set a fill, or background for my text. I used different conventions like a puff to show what good food that this area is known for like the "San Sebastian". The coverlines also help grab the audiences attention by saying that Turkey is a blend of Asian and European History!!  

This is my completed magazine cover on Galata Tower, Turkey! 

Overall, I am pretty happy with how my project came out. While I do not plan on submitting a magazine cover for my portfolio project I plan on doing the short film intro, the knowledge and practice I gained from this assignment is very useful! 

Video Editing Practice - Pineapple Whip

 My Pineapple Whip Video Editing Project:

Pineapple Whip Completed Practice🍍

THIS PROJECT WAS SO HARD. 

We did this assignment over 2 class periods and worked until the bell rang BOTH DAYS. We had to go through Premiere Pro videos to understand how to use the app and then we had to create our own clip using B-roll and interview footage. I struggled so much at the beginning of this project. Thankfully I had friends that have used the premiere pro workspace before and videos that explained how to organize the space and make it easier to use. I honestly do not know what I would have done if I had to do this project by myself. In the beginning adjusting the clips was repetitive and very particular. Trying to only grab a small part of the video and having to rewatch the clip 100x to get the part I wanted made me LOOSE MY MIND. I definitely learned a lot about patience on this project because I am super happy with the result of my work. 

I loved doing this in the end because it was very creative and definitely helped me gain experience for my portfolio project because I want to do my opener on premiere pro. I am prepared to take everything I learned as a bases for further projects to build and expand on my knowledge of working with footage and editing it which I think will really help me be successful in this class!

Camera Work Reflection - Practice Filmography

  Camera Movements:

  For this project we worked in a group of 4 and we had to create a filmography showcasing 7 different camera movements. Our experience went generally smooth with only a few hiccups but we finished quickly due to our well thought out plan. The learning process for the camera movements was pretty tricky. We had to redo certain parts of our film so many times because the movement was not perfectly smooth. UHG! 

    As our group was originally planning this story, we actually had very good communication, surprising right? I KNOW!! I was presently surprised that we could all come together and finish the project so effectively. Learning was a big part of our process though. My classmates and I are definitely not perfect but it was fun to experiment. We tried a bunch of different camera movements before finding the perfect one for each scene to emphasize the message that we were trying to portray. In the future, I think we should pay more attention to the distinction of the shots we are filming. As a group we struggled with defining a clear line between some shots, and in certain parts of the story the shots blended into each other      

Here is a snippet from our Camera Movement Film!!

Camera Shots/Angles:

    In contrast of the camera movement project, the camera angle project was super tedious. My partner and I had to create a story based on a non living character, and use different shots to convey a story. We chose to do a story in honor of the month of September being dedicated to suicide prevention. The learning process of these shots was pretty simple. The shots were easy to take and pretty fun to experiment with when trying to pick which angle for each scene should be used. However, the taking of the shots was a huge pain. We had to take the shots OVER and OVER again to capture the perfect angle. 

    The patience we had to have during this project definitely taught me to be more careful when taking angle shots so I do not accidentally shoot something that looks like something else. For example, we had to retake a static shot because it resembled too closely to a mid shot. If we had to repeat this project, I would take more time in perfecting the shots the first time so we did not have to go back and take them again because we messed up the first time. 

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Background of Me!

 

HEYY! My name is Laila and I am currently a sophomore studying in Florida. I was born and raised here but my parents are from different backgrounds, my mom being European and my dad being Arab. Besides school and academic's, which can be A LOT sometimes, my free time is composed of traveling, working out, and competitively swimming, and I love mixing all 3 together! So far media studies appears like it will be a very interesting class. I very much enjoy the creative freedom we have with the blog posts and love how we can openly express our own opinions on certain subjects. From the portfolio process I hope to gain experience in the writing and publishing field as it interests me. Additionally, by the end of this class I would love to have my own blog page that reflects on me as a student and person!