I'm working on the comic right now...and let's just say it's not turning out the way I want it to. It's just drawing out the story--simple enough, right? Nope. Not at all. This comic is seriously harder than it looks. I'm literally sitting here wondering how to piece out the scenes together, and then figuring out how to create character. To make it even more difficult, I've got to make three separate comics for each story (Cain and Abel, Charles and Adam, and Cal and Aaron). I'm thinking of intentionally reusing the same characters to make the parallels even more obvious (and easier to follow). Now back to the drawing board. Literally.
Okay, so maybe I am a little bit obsessed with adding hyperlinks to the text. I don't know. It just seems a lot more "professional" that way? Almost like a real website! I just spent the past thirty minutes playing around on this website, adding a ton of random hyperlinks to make navigating this website a lot easier. Either way, it's pretty satisfying to watch the white text turn orange to indicate that somebody can click on it, and it will take them to a different page.
Oh, and I love adding the drop boxes under each "tab." I feel like it makes everything seem less cluttered--like everything is organized into little neat categories so that people can find things more easily. I think I like to keep everything organized on a page because of personal experience. It can be pretty frustrating when I'm trying to do research, and there's a great website with all the information, but I can't find what I want or need quickly because everything seems to be everywhere. My main goal in creating this website is to not only inform the viewers, but to also make it easy for them to get the information they need--informative and to the point. It just makes everything much easier to access and read. At this point, the website still has a lot of blanks, but it's all coming together! The pages with more information on it look amazing! I can't wait to see the final result. This is going to be great. :] So, I've been playing around with the settings on Weebly, and I think I'm finally getting the hang of using it. I just recently added hyperlinks to all our blog posts so that it'd be easier to access without having it show up on our main bar. And I figured out how to add drop boxes! This website is coming along pretty well, now that we're starting to get used to the formatting.
Something I still have issues with is the Powerpoint requirement. Don't get me wrong; I'm fine with making a Powerpoint. The only issue I have with it is uploading it onto this site. I don't really want it to be a mere document that people have to download to view. I'm still working on how to make it appear like an interactive slideshow on the website, but if I can't figure it out, I might resort to just separating each slideshow into separate jpg files and uploading them as images/pictures instead. It'll still work (not as cool), but at least it'll work better with the aesthetics and the page won't look so blank with just a Powerpoint to download... So, we finally had our second meeting for the project. We were really productive today The best part: FILMING.
When I first got there, Jin and Ayesha were in the front of the house, already planning out the scene for the interview with "John Steinbeck" (Raed). From the moment of my arrival, everything already started out exciting (I accidentally let Ayesha's dog (BOBA!) out). Raed was already seated in the living room, with this serious expression on his face, as if he were already in character. Overall, the interview scene seemed genuine. Filming the trailer. Although I wasn't in the video, it was definitely the most entertaining moment of the day. Instead of acting, I was their photographer and researcher. I drew references of the movie trailer so we could reproduce our own version of the movie; by doing this, we were able to have some credibility to our work, and still play around and add our own style to it (as demonstrated in the Cal and Aaron's fight scene). Besides being the researcher, I was the behind-the-scenes photographer, taking pictures of the characters in action as they played out their parts. The most interesting part of watching them act out the scene was when we had to film Cal and Aaron in the same scene. Because they were twins, we decided to let Raed play both parts. Of course, it was difficult to film two Raed's in the same scene, so we had to split up the camera to make it look like there was two of him at once. And I had to hold Boba back several times to keep him from interrupting the filming. Today was a satisfying day. We've got everything officially mapped out, I got to play around with the formatting of this website, and we're pretty much on our way to completing this page! So we had our first official meeting after school at my house today. We basically decided on how we were going to respond to each component of the project without having a large amount of text. We wanted to answer each "prompt" creatively by using comics, videos, and drawings instead of essays and paragraphs.
It's pretty interesting how we got everything planned out. I like how we're planning to reproduce the trailer from the original East of Eden movie (1955), starring James Dean. And I love how we're incorporating multi-media into the project so that it's not a bunch of boring text. I can't wait to see how this project turns out. |
Jennifer Ly
Jennifer loves reading books, doing art (oil painting, sketching, anything really...), playing piano, and eating :] ArchivesCategoriesOther Blogs
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