Ava Clayton's Blog

The last few weeks in e-Comm we work on writing and creating our first feature story. We started by watching videos and learning about what it take to write a feature story. Then we picked directors and got into our groups. When we got into our groups we were instructed to pick a subject that did something interesting in our class. Since Jaden, Maleah, and I both participated in this years marching band we decided the Drew would be a perfect topic. Then we wrote 21 questions for Drew and 21 questions for his percussion teacher Mr.Carter. Then we got into filming. First we filmed interviews with both people and then worked for about a week trying to find and film b-roll. The final step in this project was editing which was hard than usual because there was more steps in editing feature story’s than just normal entertainment videos. We had to write and record voiceovers and decide sequencing and many other steps. Overall this project was very different than anything we have done before

Last week in e-Comm we learned about printing processes. We watched videos to learn about the basics and then were asked to write a blog post to check out understanding. Then we started on trying out our own printing process called transfer printing. We started by picking one or two of our favorite projects we have done this year in e-Comm. Then we filled our image and printed them out. The next day we watercolored two different papers to transfer our projects to. After everyone was done with watercolor and all our papers are dry we learned the next step in the printing process. First we added mod podge to the back of our paper that we wanted to transfer to the watercolor. Then we used the squeegee to push out the air bubbles and extra mod podge. After that had dried we used water to rub off the paper and were left with our prints. Overall I think this project was very fun ad not extremely hard but I still learned a lot. This has probably been my favorite project in graphic desig