PSA

Jamal's Digital movie

                                           Digital Story Reflection

         During the 2^nd quarter we had 3 projects, this one is called a digital story. We needed to create a digital story meaning a video about something important to us, but the video has to be 1 minute long. The video couldn’t be plain, it had to make sense and give a message to the person that was viewing it. We also had to write a script, so our video and script had to go together. Lots of hard work but this was probably my favorite project and I can honestly say that I like the way my digital story came out.

         My digital story was about what family meant to me. I went to my dad and told him about my project and he gave me a bunch of photo albums. After looking at the photo albums and reading my script over and over again, I finally found the perfect pictures. Majority of my pictures were different pictures of my family and I that were taken professionally. I chose the photos I chose because they were just the perfect pictures; it shows us happy and basically loving each other.

         I chose to talk about my family because they are everything to me. I thought it was a good thing to do because my family does everything for me and I thought it would be nice to tell the world what they mean to me. This story is significant to me because it shows me and everyone else what I have and what I can call my family. I had lots of ideas to do this about but it was just so important to me to do this. This project expresses me and how I feel about my family.

         I think I did really well on this project. Looking at the rubric I feel that I completed it to the best of my ability. Digital media was very fun for me I learned a lot of computer

Skills that I can use at home. I will probably use Photoshop while I’m home because majority of our projects were based on that.

         

Photographic Truth

lyrical triptych

Lyrical Triptych

            A lyrical triptych! Kay it may sound hard but after your done reading my reflection you will change your mind. We had to take a song that we like and basically describe it using photos in 3 different panels. We had to make sure the photos were a sensible description of the lyrics. I did a lot of different things and took a lot of different steps to create each panel.

            My triptych is a sad one. I choose to use the song “let me love you” by Mario. First I went to Gettyimages.com and I was just downloading different photos to my computer that I felt described my song, then I was working on the first panel so I chose a picture of a female crying because in the first verse I picked out of the song was talking about being hurt and knowing things that put you through so much pain. Be sure to understand that we only had to pick three verses from the song and we weren’t doing the whole song. After that that I placed a t-shirt with a lipstick stain on the collar behind her and I feathered it, meaning I made it look for as if it was fading away, also I laced a woman and a man lying together and I did the same thing by feathering it. In my second panel I have a picture of a male and a female lying in bed together but on different sides of the bed as if they’ve been fighting and while they’re laying in the bed, they both are dreaming of another ma and women besides their spouse and the pictures that are floating above their head as the dream were feathered and I used my adjustments and my filter to make it look like a sketchy dream. Panel 3 is very simple but yet it makes a good ending. I have a couple holding a heart shaped pretzel and above the pretzel I have two pictures of a couple having a good time.

            I created my images for my panels by using a lot of feathering and lowering the opacity, which is very similar to feathering but this makes the pictures kind of fade and feathering makes it dreamy around the edges. It wasn’t easy; I had to d a lot of deleting and replacing. I was reaching for a warm mod, like maybe something just very smooth and relaxing but at the same time something that makes you wonder how did the person that went through this really feel. As I went along a lot of things changed with the mood because at first I was just going to have couples just crying and a whole bunch of broken hearts but then I realized I didn’t want that and that I wanted to make it seem like this person found love at the end.

            This project was very fun and helped me learn a lot about adobe Photoshop. Working with adobe Photoshop was an experience and kind of like a journey. Overall I liked it because now I can go home and make my own stuff because I know what I am doing. I think I did well on this project and that I probably didn’t earn a 4 but maybe a 3.i think this project was very successful. If I could change anything I would change nothing because I really liked how it came out and I like how I overlooked it and just did things as I went along.

jamal's on the cover of vibe magazine

Hey blogger fam...... view my new magazine that i designed in graphic design and photo....hope yhu like it i worked really hard......and be sure to leave a comment...thanks and ill be back soon showing of my next peice of art

Hello my name is Jamal Roberts and I am going to tell you how I ended up on the cover o vibe magazine. I actually made this magazine myself in a graphic design and photo class. We learned a lot about Photoshop and how to make something so little into a amazing piece of art, and I plan to tell you all about it. First, we had to select a magazine that we wanted to be on and then we had to open two pages in Photoshop and use all our different tools [lasso tool. Magic wand, text box, etc.] and boy was it confusing, but I did it. I chose to be on the cover of vibe magazine because I think it really expresses me. Then we was told to edit the original photo to make it our own, so step by step I am going to tell you what I did.

My magazine cover is very expressive. It has a brick background and I am posing with one foot up against the wall. My theme colors were gold, white, and a goldish-brown. My magazine also has a lot of different headlines; they are mostly about musicians because I love music. This magazine is very catchy due to the way the colors, the headlines and pictures were put together.

During this project I was basically trying to express myself and show everyone how much hip-hop means to me. I think I gave that away because one of my headlines said, “ How hip-hop influences me”. I chose them theme colors because you really don’t see many magazines that color and also because I love the color gold and any color that are like a gold blend. I think I got the message I was trying to get across because if you don’t know me very well, you can look at that magazine cover and figure me out pretty well.

I really enjoyed this project and I fell like I took it very seriously. I fell that I did really well and that all my ideas were a success because when it was finished I didn’t have any regrets about anything. Although I didn’t have any regrets I still think I could’ve made it more professional but I decided to make it my own. Well I did the best I can and I am proud of what I did and I look forward to the next project.