November 29-December 3

On Monday I finished my Prezi! Here is the link: https://prezi.com/secure/3bd6a9e3e08be38bc43215818c69ee125641f717/

On Tuesday I presented my Prezi and proofed names for the portrait section of the yearbook. Mr. Wrigley wanted me to add more to my Prezi so I began to do that. On Wednesday I finished my Prezi completely! Today Claire and I took some pictures of Kala Studens and Student Street. The snow looked really interesting on the tables!
This week was very uneventful. I really hope that more happens next week because I am getting quite bored! We would like to do a creative assignment that involves making a video and putting it on Youtube, and seeing how many views we are able to get. We have yet to figure out what we would be able to do for it, though. We got this inspiration from the video I showed the class called "I Hope This Gets To You". It DID end up reaching her, by the way. She loved it!

That is all for today, I am hoping I will have much more to write about next week!

November 22-26

This week was pretty easy going. On Monday I worked a lot on Table Of Contents/ Student Life title page spread. On Tuesday, I watched Alyssa do a really great photoshoot! I also worked on my spread but I am finished for now, as the pictures must be spread out throughout the year, not just the first few months. On Wednesday, I did a really artistic photoshoot with Claire. We wrote words on our stomach (mine was Peace, hers was Freedom) and took some really great pictures. They turned out very well! On Thursday I edited photos. Photoshop was being extremely slow and kept freezing! It was ever so aggravating! I also found my memory stick, it has been in my pencil case for months! I transferred all my Com Tech/Yearbook stuff to it as backup, which was a great feeling! Today, which is Friday I began to make a new Prezi presentation that is due next Friday. The theme is careers in Communication Technology, I chose magazine editor. I got a really good start on it today, and will continue working on it throughout next week.

November 15-18

This week was not very eventful. I began the page for Table of Contents and Student Life title page. We also figured out the order each category would go into and which spreads would go under each category. Our main goal for the yearbook this year is for it to be organized because we noticed that a lot of the previous yearbooks were very unorganized (Halloween was at the very back, AFTER Christmas). We took some pictures of the Christmas box and canned food drive and edited a spread that Mr. Wrigley created. Friday was a P.D. day. Other than that, it was quite an uneventful week. Hopefully next week I get a very good start on my newest spread.

November 8-12

On Monday, I had a photoshoot with Alyssa which turned out very well. Tuesday I had to redo my East/West spread after Mr. Wrigley critiqued it. It looks quite a bit better now, I will post the JPEG image here. I also began trying out Prezi, which is very difficult to get the hang of.

On Wednesday I finished re-doing the spread.

I also got my midterm mark which is a 94%! I am very happy with that mark and I hope to raise it to a 96% by finals. Thursday was the most productive day of the week. I got the hang of Prezi (almost) and added a lot to my first Prezi Presentation. I also learned how to cartoonize pictures for title pages, and how to apply filters in Photoshop. I applied 'Poster Edges', the edge thickness was set to 10, the edge intensity at 2 and posterization at 0. On Friday I cartoonized more photos, and worked on my Prezi more. Also, I have exported my random spirit idea into a JPEG and will post it here.

Nov 1-5

This week was so productive! On Monday I began fiddling around with the clone tool in Photoshop, and ended up with a great success! I've always liked this picture I took of Mackie at the Duathalon but I found that the two people in the back really took away from the picture. I had to crop most of the man in the orange shirt out because I could not seem to clone the house right but other than that, it worked spendidly!

On Tuesday I worked on my East West spread and began the body copy. By Wednesday I was almost finished the body copy! I also began working on a cool project.

On Thursday I finished my project and will post it here next week after I export it as a JPEG, it was my first ever time playing around with the feather tool in Adobe InDesgin. I also finished my body copy and had to make a lot of changes to the spread but was almost finished!

On Friday I FINISHED EAST WEST SPREAD!!!! It will be posted here!

We also learned about Prezi, this website where you can make presentations. It looks like it will be very nifty and handy to have while doing seminars!