- . Reflect on your mastery presentation plans. How are they progressing? How did your first practice go?
- What do you still need to do to be fully prepared to present in two weeks?
- Reflect on your internship for this week. What did you do? What did you learn? How do you feel about it?
- Reflect on anything else you worked on this week!
My mastery presentation plans were all messy up until about the day before i presented. I did not realize it would all come up so fast but it did. My first practice was horrible because I did not have anything ready. My second practice got interrupted and i had to stop and my last practice ended up being my real mastery. I needed a lot to be prepared but thankfully the last week of me working on my mastery everything came together and was not so messed up anymore. My mastery is over now and it was not as bad as I thought it was going to be for so long. I have stopped going to my internship because I was too behind on my work and had to cut back on going to my internship as much as I had been going. I did not get to do anything at my internship this week but the weeks before it are usually the same thing. I go back and forth between working different things at the office from the back to the front office so it is always a different thing there which is why it always is so interesting. Today is the last day for all work and this is the last thing I need to finish. We have to keep coming to school until next Thursday which kind of sucks because there will be no more work to get done. It is crazy to think the whole year has flow by and now we are about to graduate. I will miss this even though it is not the career I plan to pursue it was a great experience and I am glad to know that this is an option for me if i ever change my mind.
1. Reflect on everything you worked on this week for your senior mastery in school and outside of school.
2. Reflect on your internship for this week. What did you do? What did you learn? How do you feel about it?
3. What new web design things have your recently learned while working on your site?
4. Reflect on your spring break.
This week I interned 3 days because I came to school Monday to finish my annotated bibs and then left for my internship after. I worked on my portfolio cover and my invitations. They were both due this week and I made sure I got them done so it would not affect my grade like some things did last quarter when I was interning and forgetting to turn things in. Like most weeks my intern is pretty much the same now. I have learned how to use and how most of the machines at the printing port work. Sometimes they let me help and run them and sometimes they let me watch just to observe and understand something new. It is pretty funny how I used to feel like my internship was boring but now it is kind of cool to go. I will actually miss learning new things if I am being honest. I have learned about Muse a lot because I started using muse on the computer my mom bought me so I can publish my website through paying for adobe muse which also means I get to work on my website at home if I can not be at school when things are due. I like designing my website on muse because it is much easier than dreamweaver which is what I used last year. it is pretty and I feel like it mirrors who I am a lot. My sprint break honestly was not great. This spring break was probably the worst one I have had. I worked two jobs, one morning and one afternoon every day during spring break while my best friend went to Florida and was too tired every night from working I could not do anything. The only upside about my spring break was the money I made during it.
1. Reflect on everything you worked on this week for your senior mastery in school and outside of school.
2. Reflect on your internship for this week. What did you do? What did you learn? How do you feel about it?
3. What new web design things have your recently learned?
4. Third quarter is ending very soon. How are you doing in all your other classes? What are you hoping for for the rest of your senior year of high school?
This week I mainly have worked on my piece for the B&C Art Show. I have also been working on my website. I had been using Muse but that was not working right for some reason so I am trying to use wordpress now. I finally figured out how to customize it so I am hoping I can get it figured out and working right. I am always doing and learning new things at my internship. I am working on different machines or helping in the office. I never just sit there all day long doing only one thing. That is one thing I like so much about it. At first I did not like it as much because I was a little bored but once I started figuring out how to do things on my own it got a lot better. I have learned a few new things on the web. I have been looking for different sites to do my website on so I have seen a few different things. I just started wordpress which is a website maker that is all online so I am sure I will learn a few things throughout making my website. The fact that the quarter is ending has me very stressed out. My grades are not where I want them to do and it is making me feel very bad. I am not used to having such a low grade and now I need to get it fixed before Friday. I plan on keeping my grades up, and doing better for the rest of my senior year because I do not like being this stressed over my classes.
1. Reflect on everything you worked on this week for your senior mastery in school and outside of school.
2. Reflect on your internship for this week. What did you do? What did you learn? How do you feel about it?
3. What is the most useful thing you have learned from your research for your annotated bibs?
4. What have you accomplished with the design of your professional website? Logo? Page layout?
This week i did not really get a chance to work much on my senior mastery because I interned Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I was out of school Friday so the only day I was there was Tuesday and I was working on other things that I needed to get caught up on. I really need to work on more cards for my mastery, my portfolio cover, and then of course my website that needs to be uploaded to present my mastery. As usual I just get tossed around everywhere at my internship. I sometimes stay in this small room and help run two machines that I cant even pronounce their names. One is a new envelope machine, and the other is the digital machine for all their printing work. I sometimes stay inside with the precut room instead of working on all the machines and help them cut. And sometimes they just show me around and let me watch them run something so that I can learn how to do it on my own. I like that I am not just doing one thing there but that I am learning how to do everyones job that works there. The most useful thing I have learned from almost all of my research are all the new things about landscape photography that I did not know before. I have always liked taking pictures of just natural things outside but I did not know all the techniques, the ways, or even the best cameras, or lenses to use for that type of photography. My logo and page layout are designed on my website. I need to add more to each of the pages though.
1. Reflect on everything you worked on this week for your senior mastery in school and outside of school.
2. Reflect on your internship for this week. What did you do? What did you learn? How do you feel about it?
3. What are you working on for the B & C Art Show?
4. What have you accomplished with the design of your professional website?
Inside school I have been working on my website that everything in my mastery is going to be uploaded too. We will use these websites when we present our senior masteries so it needs to look good, work good, and be professional. I started on mine a few weeks ago, and I am using muse. I like it a lot because it was really easy for me to get the hang of and I like that. At my internship I am always doing something different each day. I am always being moved around so that I can learn new things, and how to use each machine that is in there. At first I was a little weird about my internship but it is not as bad as I originally felt about it. I am getting a lot of hours so I really like that. I may not need to out down so many research and other hours because I think I am going to have enough at my internship. For the B & C art show I wanted to go out and take new photography so that I could have something new to put in it but it didn’t happen because I had just been so busy so I ended up going with an old piece that I did not enter last year. When I started on my website a few weeks ago, I went ahead and added my home, portfolio, about, and contact page. I added tabs for each page on each page so i could maneuver back and forth on the pages. I went ahead and started organizing and adding my work to the portfolio page but on the other pages I just was not sure what I wanted to go on each so that is something that I have to continue working on.
1. Reflect on everything you worked on this week for your senior mastery in school and outside of school.
2. Reflect on your internship for this week. What did you do? What did you learn? How do you feel about it so far?
3.Describe the piece you are entering into the Art Fields Show.
4. What plans do you have for Valentine’s Day for a special someone or for your family members?
This week I worked on my website for the progress check that is due next Wednesday. I looked through all my cards this week too because I put the ones I like the best on my website in the portfolio tab. This week at my internship I learned how to run multiple machines and soon enough I will probably be running these machines on my own as part of my intern work. I was shadowing people and seeing what each person at the company does but now that I have seen, I am learning how to do what they do on my own. It is pretty neat because I feel that by the time I leave my internship that I could apply for any of the jobs there because I will have learnt how to do everything already. I have not yet decided what I want to enter into Art Fields. I always do photography but I have not really went out and taken anything good or new this year because I was focusing on my cards for my mastery instead of the photography idea I had in the beginning. I am thinking one day this weekend I am going to go out and just take a bunch of pictures and then come in Monday and look through them and pick form those. I know if I just take a whole bunch that I will find something I like. I am really excited for Valentines Day because My boyfriend and I booked our tickets to the movies early so we are going Wednesday at 4:20 because he has to work 7 and I offered to go in and take my friends shift since he was going to be at work Valentines night. So I still get to enjoy Valentines Day and make some money.
1. Reflect on everything you worked on this week for your senior mastery in school and outside of school.
2. Reflect on your internship for this week. What did you do? What did you learn? How do you feel about it so far?
3. What did you learn while reading for your annotated bibs # 7 & 8?
This week I worked on my infographic because it is due on the 7th. I ended up deciding to do it for my moms work. She works for a nursing agency so I found a lot of information on it. I feel that it turned out pretty good. I sent it to my mom for her to see and she really liked it. I have been coming up with ideas for my cards for my mastery. I need to start designing more. I have a decent amount but there are so many holiday ones and I need more variety. I figured out what I wanted to do for my portfolio cover though and I am excited to see how it is going to look in 3D and in the end. I have started learning how to work the machines at my internship. I have worked with this thing called a binder where the printing place has a book that they are making for one of their clients and they run the book through the binder to bind it together where you can write things on the bind of the book instead of it just being flat. I also learned how to use this other machine and I can not remember the name of it but it is where you put these big sheets of paper of about 300 on it and it straightens the papers out and makes sure they are even so that you can move them over to the cutting machine. I watched the machine that outs like the little wholes in the papers that hotels give you to put in your car when you are staying there. Theres not much to do for that machine but watch and its pretty boring but its neat to know how its made. I learned a decent amount of stuff from my bibs this week. I really enjoyed the websites I used for my bibs. All in all it has been a pretty decent week.
1. Reflect on your first semester grades and accomplishments.
2. Reflect on everything you worked on this week for your senior mastery in school and outside of school.
3. Reflect on your internship for this week. What did you do? What did you learn? How do you feel about it so far?
4. What topic did you chose for your infographic and why?
5. Discuss how the designing progress of your infographic is going?
My first semester grades were okay but not what I really wanted them to be. My grade in this class was great but my prob and stats grade really needed and cold have been better. I was taking three pace classes with horry georgetown and I had a B and two C’s and I was really upset about the C’s but those classes I really tried and had a hard time in. I have been working on ideas for the infographic along with my cover portfolio for my senior mastery. I actually started thinking about what I am going to do for my website this year. I have some really good ideas and I actually sort of enjoyed making my website last year before everything got deleted. I started my internship this week. I went Monday and Wednesday. I got to see the printing side of what graphic designers make. I have helped cut proofs, and learned how to run a machine called the zxeox or something like that. I don’t really enjoy the printing side but I guess it is good to learn that side.I know that if I really don’t like it that I could probably look and search for a different place to intern but I have decided I am not going to do that. I would feel bad leaving them like that. I am sure what I am learning will be helpful in the future sometime.I still have not figured out what I want to do for my infographic. I have Illustrator up with the right measurements for it but I just cant think of anything I want to do. I will figure it out soon. I will probably google and research something to do next week.
1. Reflect on everything you worked on this week for your senior mastery in school and outside of school.
2. Where will you be interning and what day will you begin in January?
3. What is your all time favorite design, art, or photography blog, and why?.
4. Who is your favorite graphic designer, artist, or photographer, and why?
5. Share the best thing you learned this week that was not assigned to you to learn.
I worked on a new card for my typography this week. I created a card and used my typography projects wording as the cover of the card I created. I still have to find a place to intern at. I had wanted to intern with someone who did photography when I was doing my photography mastery but now that I have changed it I want to change the type of person to intern with. I have not been able to find anyone that does things like making cards to intern with but I may just find an graphic designer and do it with them instead. I am hoping to find someone soon so that I can start as soon as possible because I do not want to get stuck not having enough hours. My all time favorite design is probably one of my christmas cards I designed. This green one that says “Cheers” on it. I just like the way it turned out and I was really happy and proud of it honestly. Truthfully I do not really follow any graphic designers, artists, or photographers so I would not be able to name who my favorite one is. I see photography on social media but I never really pay attention to who the person is that is doing it or posting it. This week I actually learned this new thing in photoshop. I never use photoshop but I wanted to design a card and then have it printed out with some wording on the inside for me to be able to give out so I did that. I learned how to create the layer in photoshop and add the words and have it printed out on the other side so to make the card have the cover page and also wording of my own on the inside.
1. Reflect on everything you worked on this week for your senior mastery in school and outside of school.
2. How is your internship agreement coming along?
3. What quote did you choose for your typography poster and why did you chose it?
5. Share the best thing you learned this week that was not assigned to you to learn.
This week I worked on changing my mastery to the card making thing instead of the landscape photography thing I was planning to do. I worked on some more cards and finished making my christmas card changes. I really need to figure my internship information out. I had wanted to intern with a photographer for extra help on my mastery but now that I have changed my mastery I would like to intern with someone or a company that is similar to what I am doing with my cards now. I want to do that because I want to be able to make sure I am learning new things and bettering myself at making these cards so that in my mastery I can show that. Im guessing I will continue looking for someone who does graphic design to intern with but I was also looking for a company around here who maybe makes their own cards and sells them but I have not found many. I found one and emailed them last week and have not heard back yet. I have not chosen a quote for my final yet but right after I finish this blog I am going to go and pick one out and probably get started on my final so that I can just go ahead and get it out of the way. I have never really worked on a typography but it does not seem like it will be too hard. I feel like this is something I will probably enjoy working on. This Friday I missed school to go visit Columbia College and it was great. I have had my heart set on going to USC for over a year now because I wanted to major there in speech pathology and Columbia College does not have the graduate program for that major but after visiting Columbia I decided that is the school I want to go to. I want to go there and then I can transfer to a graduate school later but I think that is something I learned. I learned that a big school is not the best choice for me. I like where I do not just feel like a number to people.