My favorite project of the semester for me has to be our last one. I liked using premiere because it was a mix of audio, pictures, and short clips. I really enjoyed shooting short clips of my dogs, they were super cute and fun to do.

During this course I learned a lot of different things and I feel like if I needed to do something similar in the future it would help me to have these experiences. Even just for fun making little videos I think I’d like to continue to do. It was a lot of different types of tools to figure out and was confusing at first but I think what I’ve taken from it can help me do similar things later on.

I currently want to become a elementary teacher. I think some of the things we learned like communicating in writing to keep people engaged. I think the skills I learned can be used as fun ways to keep kids engaged and make things fun.

I think I would’ve liked if the adobe lessons built more on one another.

I mainly looked at other YouTube videos for help on specific problems I had with adobe.

I added numbers to cue it was a different clip of walking Rosie, but I still can’t get the black boarders of the clips to go away it’s just not doing it for some reason.

My idea was to show a video of practicing leash training with Rosie, but it kind of turned into just the main focus. I only had a minute or so but I took a lot of videos. Rosie’s not good at being photogenic. I thought a neat slow mo of Rosie running would be a good intro. It’s kinda funny and she seriously runs so much so fast all the time. All. The. Time. I also wanted a title so after all the video I’d picked I thought it was really just a fun day with Rosie. I showed my other dog Tango as well he usually comes with if we’re going to the park but if we’re doing training he doesn’t always, that’s why he isn’t always there. I had a dip to black transition for all video transitions except the ones where I was walking Rosie down the same strip of sidewalk. After I’d pieced together all the video I started recording. I’m not good at recording myself speaking but I tried to do it so it aligned with the video and would be easier to edit if I needed to. I also added some music in the background (https://freesound.org/people/Drumartist/sounds/512674/). I ended it with a cute little video of Rosie in the flowers. One thing I did have issues with was the clips of me walking Rosie I couldn’t scale to fill the screen it just wasn’t working so I’m not sure what happened.

This is my rough storyboard I think I’ll have more figured out when I get all my footage. I was trying to do more of walking on the leash by the sidewalk but a creepy guy showed up and followed me so my friend came to my rescue and we played with the dogs instead… p.s. please ignore my baby talk to the dogs.

Put vid of Rosie running with like an intro title

Videos of both dogs at the park 

Narration talking about how I’m trying to get better leash training for Rosie

“I usually walk down this way”, video of sidewalk

“I have treat in my hand and we walk, every couple steps of her staying by my side and looking occasionally up for me she gets a treat”, video of me doing this

More video of rosie and I walking

“We do this for a bit and then take a break at the park”, video of the dogs having a good time

“I usually bring Tango as well”, video of him 

“He’s wanting my attention now”, video of him begging

“Then I play with them a bit before we head home” couple videos of them being goofs

Video of us going in the gate home

I kept the music quietly playing in the background and shortened the audio, I had completely forgotten about the time in the instructions.

For the audition project I decided to do a sort of explaining a list of things I wanted to train my dog while we’re all stuck at home. It relates to my blog topic because it relates to dog training. When I’d first got Rosie and was working on potty training I listened to a podcast about dog training. That’s kind of what I thought of while doing this project. I’m not all that great at presenting or talking about something but I tried to pick a couple things I knew I was practicing with Rosie. I used a song from Internet Archive called “Emma Wallace”. The dog barking in the beginning is Rosie and my other dog Tango. I made my brother ring the doorbell to get them to start barking. I used the fade and adjusted the volume of the sounds. I also cut out the majority of “ums” and similar things. Some challenges I had for this project was mainly, I have a cold so recording was a little more difficult because my throat is sore but I have the brain fog from being sick.  

Here’s the audios I recorded to potentially use for my project. I don’t exactly know what story I want to tell but I know I want it to relate to the dogs. So I have some recordings of weird sounds they make or that they respond to.

These are my audition tutorials, I didn’t have a third person for the vox pop one so I recorded my dog sniffing the microphone + me explaining. Here’s the link to my sound cloud profile, https://soundcloud.com/user-11323831

For my logo final I decided to make a logo for my blog. I have an outline of my dog, Rosies, face as the  center of the design, it’s significant because it’s not just an outline of a dog it’s my dog and it’s what my blogs kind of all about. The words “Dog Days” are significant because it’s the name of my blog and what I want to kind of be the main tag of it. I have the words and Rosie’s face outline in a circle so I thought it would be a fun touch to add a little hook at the top to make the whole logo look like a dog tag. I think it brings it together as a dog centered blog and makes it more significant than just being a circle. For my final I added some color, I decided on a rosy pink because, well, my dogs name is Rosie. I also copied the words I already put on there and changed the color to a different hue of the color I’d originally chosen and placed it behind the black lettering to make a sort of shadow. I changed the order of the layers so the pink words were behind the black. Using the arrange > send back doesn’t work for this because then the pink words would be behind everything and then you wouldn’t be able to see them. Keeping the colors similar helped keep it a simple look and helped it kind of blend together and match.  I also did the same thing for my dogs face outline.