Abbey Heller's Blog

This year I have been given more experience and direction with technology specifically the DSLRs. I learned most of what I know about them from when we--Mallory and me--worked on Behind the Season: Band 2016. It was and still is important for me to know how to use the DSLRs because they are the cameras that I will use next year for the band documentary, our class short film, and any other projects I want to do or are assigned. With all technology, Mallory and I had many problems when doing the band documentary, but most of the problems and, challenges were because we didn’t know how to use the cameras at first. Since we were thrown into the deep end first semester with the band documentary we definitely had many weaknesses at first, but over the year it helped--for me at least--find out what I loved and helped me improve what I wasn’t very good at last year. I have improved exponentially in my technical skills from last year and have learned more about cameras, editing, and story th...

The band DVDs are here!  The DVDs for the 2016 Behind the Season: Band are officially here! If you want one and you haven't ordered one yet it is not too late. Just print out the order form down below, fill out all the information, deliver it to the main office and tell them it is for e-Comm, and we will get it to you as soon as possible.  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwPKsd2yEAg8dy1yamNuSmEyd1U/view?usp=sharing

Phoenix Beat Sheet Opening Image: The movie starts with showing a woman, who we later come to know as Lene Winter, driving a car. She is stopped at a road block and a male officer comes up and asks where she's coming from and then to see her passport. It is then that we see that she is not alone in the car. Sitting next to her is another person with bloody bandages wrapped around their face. The officer asks to see the person's face. Lene then gets out of the car and tells the man she has come from the camps and asks him to leave her be. The officer doesn't let up until the woman unwraps her face which the audience does not see. He steps back from the car seeming a little unsettled and tells the rest of the officers to let them pass. Then the title slide is shown. Theme stated: The main theme is never clearly stated but one is the darkness to light or vice versa. This theme is first hinted at the title screen when the headlights of Lene's car fills the scre...

 These pictures are from my new responsive photo composition site. This site it includes 12 photo composition rules with pictures showing them and definitions of the rule. The responsive part of this is that you will be able to use it on any device and not have to zoom in or out to see important features on my site. To make this site you need to put code in that makes the widths change on different devices.

This is my original picture before I made it up into the ONW website  This is my ONW mock up

On this project we had to make most of the website in Photoshop which was very hard for me because I am not in graphic design and I'm not good in Photoshop so I ran into some problems when making the past, present, and future graphic. Some of the problems I had was with the animation and cutting it into different parts. Then when I went it put it all together in dreamweaver it moved everything but eventually I got it to work and then didn't have any major problems after that. In Photoshop I learned how to make animations and have each part fade out at different times. Here is a link to my website.

Over this semester we had five videos, which were the procedure video where we were showing where to find a place or what to do in a certain place for incoming freshmen. The second video we did this semester was the sound project where we did our first interview over a topic we did this summer. The third video we made was the hobby video where we interviewed a person in the class over something they do in their free time and then did b-roll for the first time. The last video we did was making our first ONW NOW with a group in the class. In this project we put everything we have learned throughout video both years and made a 6 news segments and 2 sport segments. Some key events where on the second project, the sound project, where I had interviewed Whitney the day before using her SD card and then coming into class the next day finding out that she was not here. So I had to use footage from Alyssa that she did the day before also and had to edit a story about Emily. The second proble...