Career Cruising

Career Cruising 

After looking at my list of suggested jobs on Career Cruising, I was very pleased to see that many of these careers fell into the E-communication realm. My second career recommendation was an artist. I was also interested in being a special affects technician, an art director, or an art therapist.The job I felt most suited me was an art director. I liked this career because it is very broad and there are many different paths within this, you can work in video, or in magazines. To peruse this career I would focus on video and graphic design. I feel like I would most likely work for a magazine, but I still have time to work out the specifics. I would need to at least get a bachelors in graphic design, visual arts, new media, or photography. I think I would go through the graphic design route of things because it has always interested me. Ive bought about working for buzz feed in the past as well.

10 Words

For this sneak peak into animation, our assignment was to create a video of 10 words that described yourselves. At first it was difficult to come up with them for myself so I asked my family and friends. For my first word I chose extroverted. I chose this word because there have been many times in my life where I had to really put myself out there! Because of this I feel like I've inevitably became extroverted and can adapt to my surrounds and just be myself. For my second word I chose cheerleader, this is one of the more straight forward ones. I am a cheerleader here at northwest! For my third word I chose strong. I chose this word because I have had to overcome a lot of dark things in my life, and because of this I have become very strong and intolerant to the little things. For my fourth word I chose hungry, I know this is kind of silly but its true! I am never full. For my fifth word I chose over thinker, this word applies to me because I always second guess myself  in everything I do, and I frequently ask questions just to make sure I'm doing it right. For my sixth word I chose caring. I care about everyone, and I have a way with making even people that have done me wrong look good, because I am considerate in a very different way. I feel my disabled sister really contributed to this trait. My seventh word is clumsy because I always find a way to be a klutz and end up hurting myself! For my eighth word I decided to go with creative because I always have an idea and an envision for every project I do. For my ninth word I chose good. I know this one is pretty straight forward as well, but it applies to me. I don't lie to my mom, I'd rather be alone on Saturday night watching Netflix than going out and partying. Last and definitely not least, my tenth word was excitable because I am so fascinated my everything. If I were to do this again I think I would keep the general brightness and variation in fonts, but I would love to dabble in different types of animating, not just changing sizing and rotation.

SKETCH UP HOUSE

At first I didn't think I was going to like working with sketch up because I am very perticular about how I like things done. I can get very frustrated when I work with programs I am not comfortable with but surprisingly, by the end of this project I was very comfortable with it! I would not mind working with it again, but it probably wouldn't be my first choice. I would like to play around with it a little bit, but I really enjoyed creating the house overall. I learned how to make slight adjustments to make something more you're style. For example, I moved the window placement on the garage because felt it looked a little out of place in the picture. I also made the stabilizing beam by the front door. If I were to do this again I would focus more-so on getting accurate measurements.

Here is my group and I working.

Sidewalk Chalk
We chose the main theme and idea of our chalk drawing to be the earth. It symbolizes travel and seeing the world. I chose my main symbol to be an elephant because not only do I love elephants and my grandmother loves them, they symbolize strength. I have been through quite an abundance of things in my life already to make me be strong. I also just very much admire elephants, and I enjoy to buy clothing from a brand called Ivory Ella that gives some of their proceeds to save the elephants.

This is all of the groups coming up with their plans.

We chose a very particular layout for our design, we made the main theme be the world but we set up all of our individual designs to represent places around the world, making it look like an actual globe. My elephant was Africa, an ant was Asia and another ant was America and Canada.

Another girl in my group had ballet shoes that represented Mexico, and there was another gentleman in my group that drew this beautiful design that represented South America. I feel like this lay out really let all of us combine our ideas without completely losing the individuality of this project. Overall I feel like this project was a success! If I could go back and redo it the only thing I would do differently is to chose a less complex design because with chalk you lose the preciseness that you would have with a finer tip, and with chalk on cement it is quite difficult to put in those small details.