Digital Portfolio (2019-2020)

Editing Tips and Tricks I first started with a website called The Beat with an article called " 7 Essential Tips and Tricks for Mastering Adobe Premiere Pro" The first tip that they recommended was cherry picking your timeline. This is pretty self explanatory. The second tip was nesting, which is putting your sequences into other sequences. They recommend this because it helps with processing and rendering as well as keeping your timeline clean looking. Third tip is time remapping and speed ramping, which is essentially just a style to make your clips look cleaner. Fourth tip is just a video on motion tracking for folks like me that are kind've spooked out by After Effects. Fifth tip was just about color grading and how it can make your film look incredible. Sixth tip is slow motion, how to make it smooth and when's the right time to use it. The seventh tip was just a video explaining how to animate in the essential graphics panel. I think I'l

Exploration of Ideas At the beginning of the year I knew I wanted to do my own take on Allegory of the Cave. It was one of the first things we read in my World Literature class and while we were reading I could kind've just see scenes coming together in my head and I knew it was a challenge I wanted to take on.  Planning While planning for this I watched a lot of videos and read a few articles discussing the philosophy of the Allegory and honestly gained a lot of critical information I needed for my interpretation of things. Honestly I think my ideas match the same ideals as Plato and Socrates, sort of critiquing the government and how things are handled. I'm not an extremely political person (in fact I'm a moderate) but there are still some really messed up ways the government handles things and I think showing an exaggerated form of it is perfect to exemplify the metaphor. Producing To be honest there hasn't been much production yet. I've learned a lot o