That's a wrap!

(Yasalam Mlawan!! Allaaah :P)

Current mood: Acerbic
Current song: In For The Kill - La Roux

So I'm just sitting in the living room, being pathetic. It's the other way around really, I feel proud that I'm keep up with this course; portfolio development. I acquired valuable information regarding a portfolio website as I did lots of research, saw many examples, analyzed them, knew the pros and cons, discovered new things in general.

Video production: I handed in the rough cut of my film: the making-of Quileutilda the quaffing Quapaw. Essentially the film shows the process and the steps taken to create and develop Qtilda (for short), in both Flash animation, Graphic Design.

Speaking of flash, I'm required to not only refine what I did, but start from scratch without actually getting credit for it. Sugar. I'd love to do that if I had the time. And in the Graphic Design class, ms. B said that she liked the banner I designed, but that's not all, I'm also going to work on the merchandise of Quileutida. T-shirts, cups and the usual package.

IELTS mock was a duck soup though I arrived 30+ minutes late. And no not because I have a manner to arrive late, but I thought it starts at 8:45, but it starts at 7:45, so supposedly I was, as a matter of fact, early. Hmph.

Ladies and gentlemen, have a look at the final design:



Worry not, I'll keep updating the blog as frequently as i can.

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Current mood: Hectic
Current song: Bathwater - No Doubt

Coraline was nice. I like the fact that, unlike most 3D films, it focused more on the story rather than aesthetics. It reminded me a bit of Alice in Wonderland. Okay let's talk about how have I been keeping up with school work.

• Portfolio development: I did a presentation showing my 3 designs. Next week I'll talk about which one I opted for to finalize. Plus, talk about the process of creating them while showing this very blog.

• Marketing: Fazal asked us to promote the product we picked. I'm going to to plan a poster soon. it has to be different.
• Arabic Communication: The press conference I was responsible for will be part of the Media Campaign, which is the project the guys are working on these days.
• English Communications: Intensive IELTS revision. Nothing new. Mock exam on Wednesday.
  
• Media studio:
  Video production: rough cut due next thursday, i need to shoot my the IV. Graphic Design: I submitted my banner, and they will get it to the printer. I hope it looks good. Flash Animation: Not satisfied with my work. Period.

I'll try to re-edit some of the posts to include images of the process, but it takes too damn long to upload. I guess I'm overburdened now. This bad luck sure knows how to find its way around things. it just has to kick in somehow.

Expect more soon.

update #?

**Hadn't it been for bloggers sucky image uploading system, I would have included the three versions of my portfolio webdesigns.


Current mood: Liberated (for no at least)
Current song: Say - John Mayer

Phew, we finally did the presentations of our websites. I presented three versions, and I was quite surprised that 50% of the class voted for Design no. 2 to be finalized, as apposed to what I've opted for; that is Design no. 3. Oh well, different people have different opinions right?

Design no. 1 and no. 2 iare attached in previous posts, so I'm just going to include the third design:






How annoying is it when you spend 10+ hours on something and it ends up looking like crap? well this is the case of my soundless Flash animation. Put aside the tutorials we were doing all semester long, I mainly constructed my animation on merely motion and shape tweening and importing images (that I worked on) to the program. THAT'S NOT AS SIMPLE AS IT SOUNDS LIKE, I CAN ASSURE YOU. The final animation shaped up to be far from what I had in mind, and even further from what I've drawn in the storyboard. What I learned is; Never plan anything that you are not 100% capable of doing.

We were also supposed to submit our banner (pull-up) designs as an InDesign file to Ms. Barbra, but something's wrong with the file that we're given... Meh, never ending chain of obstacles.

Enough from the nagging and bragging. I went to watch X-men origins: Wolverine with the guys and it was great. Well, I need to get some rest, because tomorrow doesn't seem to be a short day (Ross, FF, Haircut, Christine, College).