What I did and learned this past month:
So, this month I did a lot of different things. I didn't just focus on a single area of interest like I did in February and March but I just focused on different things. I used Sony Vegas and Photoshop. Early on this month, I was planning to learn about cinemagraphs and I attempted to make one in Photoshop but it didn't turn out well. I also realized there is no point in me making cinemagraphs because it doesn't help me in the endeavor to becoming a youtuber. You can learn about what happened with the cinemagraphs here.
After that disaster, I went on to start my final, final project which is going to a montage. I only made one on it this month, however, because I want to take my time with it plus I needed to start on my English Project. The thing I did in the montage post is just choose the music and set markers there so whenever there is a pop or something intense happening, I can make the gameplay match it. You can check that out here.
Next, I worked on some Sony Vegas things like colour correcting and colour splashing. I did this so not every post I made was repetitive. I wanted to space out my projects that I'm doing so I decided to learn things in Sony Vegas as well. These things will actually be helpful in the future for my Youtube and my montage so I'm not wasting my time while doing this. I also learned other things in Sony Vegas like freeze framing and colour fading and masking. I spread these things out so I wouldn't get bored of Photoshop.
After that, I decided to start my English Project which involves "The cellist of Sarajevo" which is a book based on the real siege of Sarajevo which happened between 1992-1995. This book shows the struggles of survival for all the people living in Sarajevo. There is a final project for English which involves creating something for "The Cellist of Sarajevo" which shows your understanding for the book. I think this is a good idea because I will get double credit for it. I plan to create a sony vegas animation which involves me creating sprites and using them in sony vegas which is something that I have been learning new things about in the past few months. So for atleast 8 days this month, I've been creating sprites for the characters in the book. It all began here where I made the templates for the sprites.
That is everything I did this past month in Independent Studies. I really liked using two different programs so I wouldn't get burned out on them.
What I plan to learn in May:
So this next month I plan to work on my English project and hopefully finish it. For the next few classes, I plan to finish up the sprite creation and hopefully find some backdrops for the video. Then, I plan to create a script for the video and then finally make the sprites move in Sony Vegas. I can't animate everything in Sony Vegas like the arms or the legs because Sony Vegas isn't made for that, but flash is. I can't use Flash though because that's not what this blog is about and it would take much much longer than one month to create an amazing animation in there especially when you're working solo. If somehow, I manage to finish this earlier than expected, I will start working on my montage again which is my final project this year. However, I doubt I will get to that this month because I want to perfect my English project.
One last thing. I know for the past few months, I've only done the minimum amount of posts for the month and hopefully this month will change that. I am taking AP Calculus right now so it's really hard for me to make a post every single day so I've been confined to doing multiple posts over the weekend and posting them throughout the week. However, all the Tuesday and Saturday classes for AP are going to stop on May 9 and I will have so much more time to focus on Independent Studies.
I am also playing badminton on Mondays and Tuesdays for 3 hours so it really does suck but I have managed my time so well that I've been keeping up with all my classes and I'm proud of that. See you next month.
So, this month I did a lot of different things. I didn't just focus on a single area of interest like I did in February and March but I just focused on different things. I used Sony Vegas and Photoshop. Early on this month, I was planning to learn about cinemagraphs and I attempted to make one in Photoshop but it didn't turn out well. I also realized there is no point in me making cinemagraphs because it doesn't help me in the endeavor to becoming a youtuber. You can learn about what happened with the cinemagraphs here.
After that disaster, I went on to start my final, final project which is going to a montage. I only made one on it this month, however, because I want to take my time with it plus I needed to start on my English Project. The thing I did in the montage post is just choose the music and set markers there so whenever there is a pop or something intense happening, I can make the gameplay match it. You can check that out here.
Next, I worked on some Sony Vegas things like colour correcting and colour splashing. I did this so not every post I made was repetitive. I wanted to space out my projects that I'm doing so I decided to learn things in Sony Vegas as well. These things will actually be helpful in the future for my Youtube and my montage so I'm not wasting my time while doing this. I also learned other things in Sony Vegas like freeze framing and colour fading and masking. I spread these things out so I wouldn't get bored of Photoshop.
After that, I decided to start my English Project which involves "The cellist of Sarajevo" which is a book based on the real siege of Sarajevo which happened between 1992-1995. This book shows the struggles of survival for all the people living in Sarajevo. There is a final project for English which involves creating something for "The Cellist of Sarajevo" which shows your understanding for the book. I think this is a good idea because I will get double credit for it. I plan to create a sony vegas animation which involves me creating sprites and using them in sony vegas which is something that I have been learning new things about in the past few months. So for atleast 8 days this month, I've been creating sprites for the characters in the book. It all began here where I made the templates for the sprites.
That is everything I did this past month in Independent Studies. I really liked using two different programs so I wouldn't get burned out on them.
What I plan to learn in May:
So this next month I plan to work on my English project and hopefully finish it. For the next few classes, I plan to finish up the sprite creation and hopefully find some backdrops for the video. Then, I plan to create a script for the video and then finally make the sprites move in Sony Vegas. I can't animate everything in Sony Vegas like the arms or the legs because Sony Vegas isn't made for that, but flash is. I can't use Flash though because that's not what this blog is about and it would take much much longer than one month to create an amazing animation in there especially when you're working solo. If somehow, I manage to finish this earlier than expected, I will start working on my montage again which is my final project this year. However, I doubt I will get to that this month because I want to perfect my English project.
One last thing. I know for the past few months, I've only done the minimum amount of posts for the month and hopefully this month will change that. I am taking AP Calculus right now so it's really hard for me to make a post every single day so I've been confined to doing multiple posts over the weekend and posting them throughout the week. However, all the Tuesday and Saturday classes for AP are going to stop on May 9 and I will have so much more time to focus on Independent Studies.
I am also playing badminton on Mondays and Tuesdays for 3 hours so it really does suck but I have managed my time so well that I've been keeping up with all my classes and I'm proud of that. See you next month.
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