News Report Project

News Report Project

        For this assignment, my group and I reported on the Olathe Northwest Dance team. We talked to Maleah Boyd, a student on the dance team, and she answered our questions over the dance team experience. We started by listing ideas of what we could report on. After a lot of thinking, we finally decided that we should interview someone from the dance team. Originally, we planned to interview Maleah and the dance teacher. We spent a while typing out interview questions, however we never got a response from the dance teacher on the interview so we could never interview her. We then spent a few days trying to record the interview. This proved to be a lot more difficult then we thought due to locations around a school being loud.
        I helped with making the interview questions and helped operate the camera. I learned a lot about the interview process, as I had never interviewed someone before for a video. My group made sure to communicate when we were gone and what footage we needed to record. Someone always took leadership when needed, and the whole process went a lot better then everyone initially thought.
        Next time, I would like to get better B-roll and do a better voice over. Though I would keep the editing similar. I thought I edited my piece fairly well. Next time I will also know the best places to record an interview where it is as quiet as possible. I thought this project went pretty well.

Watercolor Transfer Printing Process Project

Watercolor Transfer Printing Process Project

Steps

        First, we printed out our projects we wanted to transfer. We made sure to horizontally flip each picture so they would look right when they were transferred. In order to make the transfer print look right, we made sure to have some white space around the picture when we cut it out. 

        Second, we used water colors to paint a cold press watercolor piece of paper. This painting should look abstract, as it will allow the final print to stand out.

        We then used a brush to paint mod podge on the front of our picture, which we then carefully placed, face down, on top of the water color painting. We then used a squeegee to carefully press out some of the creases. 

        after the mod podge had some time to settle, we used water to remove the paper from our original original image. A lot of work is required to fully remove the paper, and you have to be very careful or the image may rip. After all of the paper is removed, you should see your image on the water coloring, with the water coloring showing through your picture. A clear layer is then applied to make the image look better. 

Personal Experience

        Throughout the whole project I was skeptical that my transfer print would look any good. I did not enjoy taking off the original paper, as that required physical effort, which I don't often use. Though my final transfer print looked a lot better then I thought it would. I had trouble not tearing some of the edges. Overall I did enjoy the project.