Digital Arts - Reflection

                                      In today's post I am going to describe my first experience at                                         Digital Arts Module

I was very happy when I saw that along EAP classes I will also have Digital Arts and Media classes, because art in general is something that I am interested in and I thought that I was going to learn a lot from this module and I did. I have learnt lots of helpful things.

What I really liked about this module were the tasks that we were asked to do. They were different from the tasks from other modules; for example at the first week we had to capture the sequence using our phone cameras. It definitely broke the standard type of school tasks, which usually are focusing on writing, while tasks from Digital Arts were more focused on the individuality and creativity. Other than capturing a sequence we were also asked to take a picture of ourselves for our WIX sites, which again was a pleasant difference from the standard homework.

One of the two main things that we had to do was to create a blog and a website. Through the 1st term of Digital Art we were shown many great ways to make sure that the blog and website will be created properly. So many useful tips were displayed to us and I have definitely made use out of them. I am really proud of the work that I have put into my blog and the website.

Thanks to this module I have discovered many helpful softwares like Windows Movie Maker, which helped me with creating my final project, but also WIX, which allowed me to create my own website, where I posted the final result of my project. Unsplash was another useful page that was shown to me during my Digital Arts classes, it allows you to use the pictures on your website or a page without worrying about copyrights.

Overall Digital Arts Module turned out to be a great life experience that I had a pleasure to be joining in. I learnt a lot and I will definitely make use out of the knowledge that I have been given during this module in the next term of my studies.

Feedback & Changes on my website

 In today's post I am going to show the result of the poll that I have posted on my website. The aim of the poll was to show me what should I change in my website.

When it came to my HOME page people in general agreed that this page does not need any changes. I was really happy with it. 

On the other hand my CONTACT page received mixed reviews, that made me think about applying some changes to it. I have decided to add mailbox that will directly email my mailbox without the need of displaying my persona email. 

I have chosen one of the contact forms and then customize it. I was very pleased when I saw the final results of my editing. I looks tidy and clear.

The final results:

Reflection on my Final Project.

 BLUE JASMINE VIDEO REVIEW - REFLECTION

(blue jasmine cast picture)

In today's post I am going to write about my opinion on the work that I have put to create video review of the film Blue Jasmine.

The video review is available to watch on my page:

Kajetan Pewniak Wix Website

The video review can be watched here:

Blue Jasmine - Video Review

After watching my video review I came to the conclusion that I have done a good job. I think that the review itself has everything that proper review should have. I wrote a script for 1000 words.

I have included multimedias, which I think that play enormous role in the video reviews. Those are the things that keep the viewer interested. I added couple of fragments from the movie, so that the viewer could see what I am talking about; for example when it came describing how great acting from Cate Blnachett was I included some fragments to show the viewer a piece of her acting performance from the movie. Other than that I included a photo of Cate Blanchett with her Oscar Award while I was speaking of that event and the achievements of that film. While talking about the soundtrack in the movie I have added the picture of King Oliver and Louis Armstrong as well.

I was happy with the editing too. I spent many hours cropping my clips to make them look good and the final product was pretty satisfying.

Though I think the video review is not that bad I was not pleased with the way that I was speaking. I was very stressed when I started recording myself I did not feel confident with doing so; I started to forget lines from the script so I had to re-do some of the shots. Also due to the stress I mispronounced some of the words and watching the review after posting it on the page I realize that and I was kind of embarrassed about that

But overall it was a great experience; it was my first video review that I have ever done and I think that I have succeeded in it.

Creating Sign Off Project on Windows Movie Maker

 The time has come,

In today's post I am going to describe the process of creating my sign off project with the help of Windows Movie Maker,

In my previous post I have shown the script that I have written for my video review. The next thing I had to do was to record myself with the help of my phone: iPhone 7 which allowed me to record myself in the quality of 1080 pixels (Full HD). I have recorded myself about 40 times and after that I have picked the ones that I felt are the most professional, even though I was stressed in every each of them.

After recording myself I have transferred the best clips to my computer via google drive.

The next step was to open Windows Movie Maker and paste all the clips of me talking but also the clips from the film itself. Because I had that idea to make those clips mingling with each other.

I really liked the colours in my recordings so I have decided not to customize them and leave them just the way they looked. When it came to clips of film on the other hand I have decided to customize them.

I used the same technique to every next clip from the film. I transformed the framing by clicking ''Transform'' and have chosen the frame with the blurry background created by the first second of the fragment with the main clip located in the middle. 

By transforming the frame of the clip I have gained the space under the clip for a reference to let the viewer know the original source of the clip. I have created a text and decided to display it in the font of Arial and the size 19

Later on I decided to change my own recording a little bit. When it came to the clip of me talking about the Film I decided to display the poster of it. It made my recording look way much professional and detailed. 

I used the same technique when it came to the music/soundtrack side of the film. Unfortunately the software only allowed me to add one picture for free and the first idea was to add the picture of King Oliver on the left and Louis Armstrong on the right but I searched the internet and found a picture of them both which allowed me to keep my idea of showing them both.

One of the sides that I have also described in my review were the achievements of the film. Again with the help of adding pictures onto my recordings I was able to show the picture of Cate Blanchett wining the Oscar for her role while talking about the whole event. Any form of extra multi medias makes the project less boring and more interesting; it does catch the attention of the potential viewer

The last step was to encode the whole video; combine into one.

I have saved the video review in the quality of 720p (HD Quality) and then post it on my WIX site.