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AutoCAD Tutorial-Beginner Drawing 2D Basics Exercise 01

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Exercise 01: Pixilation

For our first exercise, Pat, Kristen, and I explored stop motion animation/pixilation. Due to our time constraint, we thought of doing this simple animation that merely involved things around us. Our resulting piece shows the “construction” of a phone using only our hands and a piece of paper.

Through this exercise, we quickly learned the endless creative possibilities of this technique. The technique also forced us to focus on composition as we were capturing each frame.

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Exercise One: Framing & Screen Dynamics

Our first exercise for the class is shooting a couple of basic film shots. The video shown above is my attempt at panning, zooming, and tilting with the camera, as well as looking at how to frame my shots. It was a good refresher on what I’ve already learned in high school, and was good practice for techniques I haven’t quite developed. I particularly had trouble with smoothly zooming in with my camera and using my tripod to smoothly tilt and pan.

At this stage during the course, I was thinking about focusing my Project 1 on colours during “Golden Hour,” and that has what led me to shooting outside around sunset time. During this time, I tried to familiarize myself with the type of lighting I can get at this hour, what camera settings I should be on, and gauging how much time exactly I can play with before the environment goes completely dark. I ran out of time for some of my shots and realized it’s a very narrow timeframe to be playing with!

As with most projects, I’m expecting filming my Project 1 will take more than a couple of days to shoot because of this short timeframe.

Overall, I am happy with how the shots turned out—the Golden Hour was the perfect time to get these cool silhouettes and shapes. I especially loved how the light fell on objects and people; everything looked moody and fantastic.

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Después de la Carnival

I was always the first awake. My hands massaged the sleep out my eyes and my sunglasses hung for dear life across the side of my face. After realigning the cheap frame I stirred the girl beside me. I didn't know here name but I remember meeting her somewhere between the funnel cake and the bottle of Port. She wouldn't budge. My phone was dead. The cloud cover was thick and I didn't need a watch to tell me that it was too damn early. I rolled up on my heels and rose to my feet, my head being the last thing to follow as it was heavy with last night's revelry. I shouldn't have stood so fast, gravity was not being kind and I slumped down over the railing, my chest hitting metal and my arms dangling over the side. It took my eyes much to many moments but I began to realize that we were up high. Bodies were strewn on the sidewalk below, looked like a massacre. I placed my palms firmly on the railing and pushed back so that I'd plop back on my ass and not forward into the pavement a couple stories below. Every movement was an ordeal. An uncanny weight had sunk into my extremities. Did I eat anything last night besides funnel cake?