My first impression of HTML was pretty good, I kind of got it and it was kind of entertaining to watch the way it went onto the page just from putting all those different codes and stuff like that. When I used code academy I didn’t like it as much as I liked HTML, I don’t know why but I just found it a lot easier to do, it seemed less complicated, but I just need to keep practicing code academy and i’m sure I will get the hang of it just like HTML. I would like to learn more about HTML, or use it more in this class, thats something I do like doing and it really interests me. For the Art Fields contest I am entering for photography, I have an idea of what I want to do but I don’t have the picture yet. I have the picture that I entered into the state fair art show but I would like to enter something different so my idea I that I want to go to this place near where I live, at the beach and theres the wall type thing that you can sit on facing the beach so I want to get like two of my friends sitting on it laughing or either turned around facing the beach and have them over to the side and also get the ocean and sand in the picture, I just have the picture in my head and I feel like it will look really good. If those pictures end up not turning out the way I expect them to then i’m going to use the same picture from the state fair or I could go and look through other photos I took when taking pictures for the state fair but the only thing with that is that its all of the beach and just the plain beach and I just wanted something somewhat different this time. I can’t really enter anything other than photography because i’m really not artistic so I don’t do well with designing and creating good things on illustrator so that’s not really an option for me.

I think my favorite of all the kinetic typography projects was Julia’s because I liked the way she had her words and the animation pictures too. I really liked the song . I also liked how Kayla did hers because of the wolf constantly moving and also the way she had the stars twinkling in the background throughout the whole song, I thought that was really neat. Honestly seeing everyone else’s made me feel horrible about mine because theirs was so out there and had so much going on and great songs and mine was so simple and no animation just words and also the song I picked was “happy birthday” because it was a song I though wouldn’t be hard since I barely knew how to use after effects in the first place but I know I need one for my portfolio next year so at some point i’m going to make a better one. I didn’t learn to much this week on my poster contest project because I didn’t start until later in the week because I thought i was going to have more time to go out and take pictures but it ended up being due friday so I had to go ahead and use something that I already had. What I originally had planned was to go this weekend and get some pictures of my nieces playing around together and laughing so I could use that to be to be like you can make a difference by loving everyone or something along the lines of that but I didn’t get a chance so I ended up using a picture of my little cousin that I already had and tried to blur the background out and just have him smiling where you could see “you can make a difference” and also added a quote at the bottom that says “in a gentle way, you can shake the world” that I really liked. I didn’t use any tutorials but I tried out different fonts to see which ones looked better on the poster and with the words I was using. I looked at most of the winning posters to get an idea of what would be good to use. My meaning behind my poster is that you can make a difference by raising your kids to be nice and kind people.

The kinetic type projects are done and i had felt really good about mine just because i had finally figured out how to do somethings in after effects but after seeing everyone go i don’t feel so good about it. mine is so simple and looks NOTHING like other peoples. I don’t necessarily want to redo it because i did what i knew how to do, i don’t know how to do all the different things they did. I’m happy i got it done because i needed a grade and even though it isn’t as pretty and great like others i still got it done and won’t get a zero for it. The only other thing is, is that everyone is showing theirs and i don’t want this to effect my grade but i can’t show mine to everyone because its so dull and not as good as anybody else’s and i would just rather Mrs. D see mine for herself. The you can make a difference project seems like it is going to be a fun project. I already have a few ideas, i want to take a picture and add words to the picture and i already have an idea for what i want my picture to look like but the thing is i have to take it outside of schools because i want kids to be involved and i don’t really want the background to be a school setting. I doubt my poster will be worthy of $1000 but i can definitely try because that would be great. I don’t want to something that has already been entered like anything similar but i love kids and i feel like a picture of little kids helping one another would be a great idea. people always aren’t as nice anymore but kids helping each other to make a difference would be a great idea i think. For the Artfields Jr. and B & C High School Art show i will probably enter a picture i’ve taken, i really like pictures of the beach and the ocean because i feel like that is a very artistic place to take pictures and a pretty scenery. So i will probably end up entering something of the beach.