Rough Draft

To be honest, I had an idea for this audio project of explaining one aspect of myself in clear and straight answer of my hobbies in writing. I felt a simple straight to the point approach would be the way to talk about my story. There wasn’t a lot of focus put on any special effects or little things that would make it pop. It was just a lot of preparation and keeping the voice good and clear for the listener.

First off was to write a well thought out script for me to say. This was critical since I had only 1 to 3 mins of me explaining this story. As I wrote my script, I narrowed the topic down to three things. The first was the introduction, bringing up about my writing hobby and how I explain to people when I write stories online. The second was a quick nod on what the website that I publish my stories on, wattpad. I didn’t plan to have a report on what is was, just a brief summary.

The next part was something I knew would be very critical to this story. I explained what I’ve gained from Wattpad such as a large number of people reading, a good amount of votes or likes on the book, and the comments that came with it. I ended that final part of the story to encourage anyone listening to try it out as it can be fun, rewarding, and most of all productive.

As I finished writing up the script, I finally decided it was time to record myself reading it. I keep my tone between informative to excited and encouraging as I got to the end. I made sure the environment was calm and quiet and drank some water before I record myself.

Once I finish running through my line in the right tone, I stop and adjust the bar to make sure my voice is audible for people to hear clearly.

 

 

Raw Footage

Audition Tutorial

 

 

Final Draft

After looking at some pointers from my lovely peers in my group, I see I wasn’t far off from improving. Nevertheless, it didn’t mean there wasn’t a lot of work put in to make this chart that displayed two of my great hobbies along with my initials at the top in a cubic shape. I took a look and see what needed to be done. The short solution is to redo some of the drawings from paintbrush into pen and resizing and positioning the walls. I would like to lend a hand and lead on a journey of how I improved my logo one step at a time.

The first thing I took care of was the squares. They didn’t line up properly and didn’t have a size that fit with the rest. It took me some time to figure out how long they are despite they are on an angle. I decided it be best to turn the two walls from rectangle into squares and scale down the length and angle until it matches it up perfectly. It really wasn’t easy to do as the program kept locking the part into the wrong place.

Next, I decided to give all of my drawn objects an overhaul, starting with the music note. I used the pen tool and created a straight outline of the note and then adjust the curves to make it more round than flat. Next was my initials which are all redone in pen too and made sure it angles well with the cube and fits in the frame. Finally, the game controller was saved for last and it took a lot of work in. With the pen tool, I was able to draw a sleeker image of the controller and created curves on the handles before giving it a little decoration with the buttons and joy stick.

Once I stepped back, it felt good to see the way it came out. It came out better than I imagined.

Logo rough draft

The following image is a logo for my blog. It’s supposed to tell about my hobbies and interests that center around me. It took some time to setting it up and drawing the images on hand.

I decided its best to make the image by starting off three squares, using the rectangular tool. Once I made my rectangles, I used the direct selection tool to scale the size and adjust the corners to form three squares into one three-dimensional cube. This part of the process was a bit tedious as I had to make the squares line up into one solid cube and not look cluttered and a mess. I also changed the colors of the outline from black to a orange color and made it as my choice for secondary color.

 Not all three of the squares had the same size and gave them different shades of blue, going from bright to dark tones of blue to emphasize the 3D look. I then added a another set of three, but smaller squares and place them on top as the proper background for the images.

Next, I decided to work on the top square by sketching out a 3-D image of my two initials using the brush tool and made each letter either yellow or orange. The left square was a game controller with a wire running to a wall, all drawn with the brush tool and using two kinds of silver to create the base of the controller. Then, I added in some decorative things such as colorful buttons and a joystick.

For the square on the right, I decided to sketch out a music note to show my appreciation for music and art. I tried to add in a book, but it was tough to pull off an image that can fit onto the square.