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Fire pit explosion

For this project we were to take the skills we learned in the previous project to create an explosion of our own. I picked to do a fire pit explosion. We had to add all the SFX effects that we added last week, which were smoke, fire, the explosion, dust, smoke, and debris. First, I picked all the elements I wanted to put in my explosion. Then, I resized them so they would fit into the fire pit. I set key frames, so after the fire exploded the debris would follow later. I did this because during an explosion it doesn't all happen at once. You have the explosion, the fire, the debris, then the smoke. I learned how to use matte to make the edges not look so harsh and how to set key frames accordingly. I would keep the order in which everything exploded. Next time I would try and add more "glow" in the background to make it look more realistic. In general I liked how this project turned and I also liked the process of putting this project together.

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Weekly Blog 10/28/17

They story I watched was a little boy who received a special Christmas, It all started when a little boy took his moms phone and posted a video of himself on his moms Facebook. He then later appeared on Ellen and was interviewed by Ryan Seacrest and Kris Jenner. He shocked people with his knowledge on dinosaurs. The anchors brought his toys on the show so he could show them what he knows. The anchors gave them their full attention and that to me made watching this story better. A lot of background information was given as the anchors asked him the 5 W's. I personally feel they did a good job with the interview. I will take the skill of really interacting and engaging with people for further interviews.Also, adding more background information to set the scene.

Weekly Blog 11/3/17

I read about Deshaun Watson's injury . I liked how the reporter was quick the point, so I knew right away that DeshaunWatson tore his ACL. I also liked how he incorporated a tweet to break up some of the text. I think the reporter could have added a little more information in the first paragraph like telling us how he tore it and if he would be out for the entire season. I will take away from this article how the writer incorporated tweets into the article breakup the text. I also will try to give the information right off the bat so the reader knows what the article is about right away.

My Name Animation!

This is my name animation. I first made a text layer and typed my name. Then, I made a copy of the text and added an effect to it. I made a lot of copies of my name and on each copy erased a little each time. I erased from right to left. I had to make sure to hide the previous layer so I could keep erasing. After my name was fully erased, I went up to window, then timeline and clicked frame animation. After that, I went to the "secret menu" and selected make frames from layers. I selected all the frames then put the frames in reverse. That's it!

Haley McCormick

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