Web bound

Class today was what I had kind of been waiting for. We learned how to design a website using iWeb. I was pretty pumped, I can't lie. I have iWeb on my computer, never used it. Never even thought of using it. I had no idea what it was. I was pumped to learn iWeb though because it's really the last step of making the final project. We've learned photography, we hopefully know how to write, we've learned video editing, so we really have all the tools to polish off the project now.
Our project should be pretty good by the way. Kind of pumped for that too. My favorite kind of writing is the sarcastic, deprecating, dark humor kind of writing. I feel like it really allows the writer to be creative and use his/her mind to its fullest extent. I also feels like it really allows the writer to use a more expanded vocabulary. That's part of the humor of it. If one writes a regular article one really wants to use words that every one is going to understand easily. But with this type of piece the writer can really be more creative with words.

Rally to Restore/ and or Keep Alive Fear/ and or Sanity

Today's assignment was really an awesome one.
We got to make a rally poster for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's rally this weekend. It was cool because we were able to take our budding skills in inDesign and Photoshop and put them to use in a way that was both fun and creative. I tried to have a little fun with it and put in a little comedy, kind of using how Stephen Colbert, on his show, makes fun of Jon Stewart in a somewhat condescending way. I am trying to improve not really my skills, but my understanding and proficiency in inDesign and Photoshop so this was a really helpful exercise.

iMovie

Today in class we had an tutorial on iMovie. It was pretty exciting to be completely honest. I have a Mac and have iMovie, but I had never even thought of using it. The most exciting part about it to me was the fact that you can edit music in it, but it was a lot of other exciting parts to it as well. First of all, it will be useful when making a video for the upcoming project. Second, there are so many features that are fun to use. It's just like you see on television or something. You can fade in video, have transitions (my favorite of which is the map where you can select one city and then another, and it draws a line between the two, just like on the television!), and do a slow dramatic fade out. Also, they have the Ken Burns effect like in the cheesy crime profiles on A&E. All in all, it was a rather exciting class, much better than learning statistics.