Roman Clark's Cool Blogs

        Graphic Design Final       The first project we did that I really enjoyed was the Poster Design project. This project was an advertisement we created for a made up event, that was to take place in the Sprint Center. This project took around a week and a half to do in class. A big challenged I faced was how to make the all the info need, like the time, date, location, etc; all fit into the poster without making the poster seem to crowded. Originally I wanted to use this font that looked cool and fit the theme for my poster, but I switched it after my teacher suggested it, because made some letters and the @ sign look very distorted. Originally in my design I wanted to have a very bright and color poster, but I found this nice picture of Adam Sandler that worked really well with a dark background, so I decided to go with a darker colored theme. Overall I'm happy with my poster design but wish I spent a little more time with blending everything...

    Video Final     Short Film          The last project we did sophomore year was our short film project. For this project we all created our own scripts. Once we took time to create or scripts we presented a short summary of them to the class. We then all went on google classroom to vote for our favorite. I was gone the day we chose groups so I ended up in DJ's group. I wasn't happy with this at first because I wasn't the biggest fan of his story, and I hadn't ever worked with anyone in his group before. A challenge I faced was when both of the days for filming were scheduled before I was there and they were both scheduled for days that I had work. That ended up working out because I wasn't needed for filming because they had all the roles filled and I wouldn't have done anything even if I didn't have work and I went. Since I didn't do much on filming, I worked on a lot of the pre production paperwork stuff, and I also made the grap...

                     Movie Trailer Project        For our Movie Trailer film project we recreated the Napoleon Dynamite Trailer. Cole Bartley played the main character, Napoleon Dynamite; I played his friend who is running for president, Pedro; and the other minor rolls were filled by people in our group and one from another group. In our film I was a co-director and I created the the credit graphics at the end. Holly was co-director and did some of the camera work. Cade did a little of the camera and held the boom mic for a few scenes and played the dad in a scene. Jeremiah did camera work and held the mic when Cade wasn't there. Cole was the main actor in the video and helped plan the scenes out.        We started by planing out our filming with a story board. We wrote down all the scenes and grouped the scenes together based on their location so we were more efficient with the fi...

                  Pre-Production      For my Vector Illustrated Portrait I chose to do my dog. I chose this picture because I thought it was cute and it was a perfect high Rez photo for the project. When I put it into Illistraitor I had to crop it to fit the art board and I had to create a second one so that I had my original right next to it so I could make sure they both lined up. Production       There were a lot of new things I learned in photoshop from this project. I learned how to make multiple art boards and how you can how the photo you're working on right next to the original. I also learned how to can just click on a layer to fill the shape. Last I also learned how to effectively use eye dropper tool. One problem I had was not being able to find some of the triangles andI solved it by going back over everything carefully and making sure that I didn't miss them, and I found the ones I was missing...

Song Chosen We choose "Flossin" by The Backpack Kid because it looked like a video that could be recreated pretty well, but still challenge our abilities. Pre Production Our Pre Production process started with the story board and music sheet. What we know now is that scheduling is very important and that we should have put as much time into that as we did the other stuff. My Role In my group I was the one who was organizing everything and made sure everything was running smoothly. Later on I also became the schedule master guy and was making sure that we all could film at times that line up for all of us. I also for half the project I was the care taker of the camera. I also organized the shots and what we needed to do each day. I learned a lot about the importance of scheduling and how important  making sure everything planned out in advanced is. There are a lot of things I would change when it comes to the approach we took on our project. Like I said before I...

        Pre-Production For my project I wanted to use quotes that were funny, yet I was able to change into a way that showed how I've improved after being in graphic design for so long. For fonts I choose fonts that matched the quotes and had the same kind of feeling as the quotes did.       Production  In this project I learned a lot more from illustrator than I thought I would at first. Main I learn how to important fonts into Illustrator and what website to use while doing it. I also learned how to create a multiple art board project and how to export it with multiple art boards.       I arranged my fonts in way I thought looked fun but still professional. I made sure there was equal spacing in between them and that they were centered correctly.       I feel like working in black and white was a great way to start our projects because we were able to focus on the layout of the quotes, the fonts we choose,...

           For this feature News Story my group decided to interview the National Art Honors Society club, NAHS for short. We chose this club because of how underrepresented they are in the school. Once we found our topic we decided production roles. Kenzi was our director, John was the cinematographer, Lucas was the script supervisor, and I was the editor. Since this was Maicy's first project, she didn't have a role and just learned from us. Maicy knew someone who we could interview from NAHS but we were able to get a second interview from a senior in HAHS, the one seen in the video, and she was able to answer all the questions and it made for a better video.        For this project what I wanted to do differently was to try and make the video seem like the Interviewee was leading the interview. I tried to make it less question and answer, and make it flow more. I feel like this was an improvement from my last videos but there a...