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This final project was so intriguing to me. I have never thought I had the capabilities to make anything of worth in the film world.  I also never thought I would enjoy it. I was pleasantly surprised at the outcome during this project. We were asked to choose one of the adventures our classmates drew out for us in the previous project about the 2 adventures and document ourselves experiencing that feeling. My feeling was joy and I tried to represent it in a light hearted manner. Using a guitar medley instead of a deep orchestral background tune which I saw repeatedly throughout the class.  I took a more open ended adventure that allowed me to have more freedom to decide where to shoot the video. Learning the camera techniques and seeing the power of angle and speed etc. was fascinating. With this being my first time to make a video it was also my first time using Premiere Pro. Initially intimidating I caught on pretty quickly.

During this project we were asked to think of two adventures one that we have previously gone on and one that was new to us that would bring on the feelings of either wonder, delight, joy, or solitude.  I chose to represent a bike riding trip to walnut creek Metropolitan Park which is one that I’ve been on before as well as the Radha Mahav Dham Peacock sanctuary in south Austin which I had not been to. The first being an adventure of solitude and the second being an adventure of wonder. I loved the way we did this project because it allowed us to go out doors and see parts of Austin we loved seeing previously or wanted to see. Beyond the locations themselves we were asked to create a sort of souvenir for the other kids in the class that shows our adventure to go on. We were asked to choose between stickers pins and badges. I chose pins because I’ve always thought they were super cute and it would’ve been a good way to represent the adventures I wanted the class to go on. I wanted to make the design of the pens something abstractly representative of the adventure they were going on because I wanted it to be a pin that they would want to use and not just have an obvious object regarding the adventure on it. I love the way that these turned out because their pins that I would personally put on my backpack and love to have. This part of the project was mainly the packaging and souvenirs themselves that you created. I wanted to keep it light and I represented that in the way I designed my work. For the Rhada Mahav Dham Peacock Adventure I used a lot of color. While the Metropolitan Bike Trail I used more earthy colors because that adventure was more to become connected with yourself and nature.

During this project we were asked to pick out and pack a bag for a series of walking adventure throughout Austin. It was mainly to show what our bag and its contents indicates about ourselves as an explorer. We chose a bag and packed it and then put it on display for the class to see. This showed myself that I’m a crazy over thinker and packer. That I have colorful belongings and that I tend to go the sporty route. I had to pari down about half the stuff I originally packed because it wouldn’t all fit and I had to be practical. The last step was to document the bag and contents on a 17×22 poster. This project also helped us learn the technicalities behind photographing objects for display. Editing photos in photoshop as well.