Practicing sequencing shots for video journalism. Great practice! This was filmed with a Canon T3i and compiled and rendered in Adobe Premiere. My models are the lovely Kayli McIlrath and Amanda Wallis.
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How to Make a Sandwich (One Shot)
My assignment for this video was to shoot a 30 second narrative with no retakes, no re-ordering and no editing, outside of compiling and adding audio. It’s a combination of video footage and stop-motion photography. The discrepancies of focus, white balance, frame rate, and pixel ratio between the stop motion photos and the video sequences are issues that I’ll need to address on future assignments. Certainly not the most polished thing you’ve ever seen, but it was fun! The music is Silk Shoes from Freeplay, and my lovely star is my roommate, Amanda...
Read MoreA Date with a Disney Character
If you had the chance to go on a date with a Disney character, who would you choose and why? Rachel Racicot and I asked students at Brigham Young University – Idaho which dream dame or fantasy fellow they would like to make a connection with. Two particular characters turned out to be popular heartthrobs–can you guess who? I did the interviewing and editing, and Rachel Racicot helped with the filming after I set up the...
Read MoreMe in 60 Seconds
The introductory project for Multimedia Journalism was a one-minute video bio. All of the images that aren’t OF me were created by me. I used WeVideo to put the project together.
Read MoreA Game for Two Animated Splash Page
As part of the wedding design package I worked on for my sister, I started designing a wedding website. This is the splash page! I really got my hands dirty with CSS3 to pull off the animations and various other effects. See it in...
Read MoreInk Realms
As a creative writer and an illustrator, I enjoy commissioning other artists to draw characters for me. I’ve been collecting art for several years now, and I’ve lost quite a bit to hard drive crashes. I decided I wanted to have an online gallery to show off the pieces I’ve curated. I built the home page and a template for the gallery pages in HTML 5, and used PHP to create and generate the pages on the server. All of the styling is CSS3. I plan to further enhance this site with a Jquery lightbox feature and some more elaborate CSS3 effects when time permits. I created the logo, favicon, the background image, and the illustration on the index page. All of the other images were made for me by various other artists and are displayed here with permission. View the site...
Read MoreHouse of Rau
For this project, each person in my Creating online Media Class wrote down their names, their favorite kind of food, and a hex color on a slip of paper. Those slips were placed into a hat and we each drew one. With the information provided, we had to use HTML5 and CSS3 to design a restaurant website with a home page with an animated slideshow and three asides, social media buttons, a favicon, a menu page with at least 25 items, a logo, and three “dummy” links in the navigation bar. My slip bore the name “Bethany Rau,” “Japanese” and “#FCE979,” a pale yellow color. As part of the assignment I had to select a real restaurant site to emulate. Since I had to design for a Japanese restaurant, I chose to emulate the site of Kobe Japanese Steakhouse. The most time -consuming element of this project was researching items for the menu! I can count the number of times I’ve been to a Japanese restaurant on one hand, so I didn’t know what would be normal to include on a menu. I didn’t want to just guess, so I spent hours researching popular Japanese dishes, sushi, bubble teas, sake and pricing. Research aside, the next trickiest element to deal with was coding the animated slideshow. It is non-interactive, unfortunately, since I could only use CSS3 to set it up. I was one of the first to get my slideshow working, so I spent a lot of time helping my classmates troubleshoot theirs. I was happy to help, but it made for a long weekend of coding! Now that I’ve mastered CSS3 a little better and I’m starting to learn Javascript, I’d love to go back and polish up this site. It was a great learning experience and I’d love to try taking it even further! For now, you can view the current version of the site live at www.pixel-inklings.callyanncreates.com/310/p2/ The five photos I used for the slideshow were taken from the internet and are used here in accordance with the fair use in education act for academic assessment purposes...
Read MoreCreating Online Media Final Exam – Babyface
For the final exam in my Creating Online Media class, I was provided with the images, names, genders, and some saccharine quotes for a number of fictional babies and tasked with creating a site called “babyface.” I decided to really be ambitious and design my layout to mimic the facebook profile layout at the time (circa December 2012). I used HTML 5 to create an index page and a template, and PHP to generate and populate the actual pages on my server. I used CSS3 with the templates to create the general look of a facebook profile page with each child’s “profile” photo, a cover photo, a spot for their quote, and a friend grid that would link to all of the other babies’ pages. I had to fiddle with the PHP to ensure that none of the babies would show up in their own friend grid, and I also included some code to change the background color to correlate with the gender of each baby. View the site live! All of the photos used in this site (excluding the favicon) were taken from the internet and are used here in accordance with the fair use in education act for academic assessment purposes...
Read MoreSupermoon Sunset
As the sun set on the evening of June 22, I was greeted by two astronomical marvels. The first was the advent of the June 2013 supermoon, which the photos, unfortunately, don’t do justice. However, it paled in comparison to the sunset that erupted on the other side of the sky. I could not BELIEVE the colors. The first shot is the true to life version, and the second I took after setting my white balance to tungsten to get bluer hues. ...
Read MoreSkyview High School Presents SPAMALOT
This past weekend I had the opportunity to visit my sister in Boise, where she is doing her student teaching with Skyview High School’s theater department. I brought a production kit along with me to do a representative profile video exploring the significance of art programs in public schools. Between interviews and shooting B-roll, I took the chance to snap a few photos of these hilarious and talented students. Consider this a “sneak peek” of the upcoming video, and enjoy! ...
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