Final project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2LDv-Q7NKM&feature=plcp


      Finally, I finish the final project. The process, with many difficulties, is very hard. But I have overcome them one by one. Although it is 4:28 am now, I feel a great sense of achievement.
      Like I mentioned in the last blog, it is a hard job to decide what should I do for the final project. Because "you can do anything you want unless it is illegal" means a very big range. Images, sound and videos are all fine for this project. So many things came to my mind at first, I even had the idea to make a film! But then I realized some of them are just my imaginations. I cut some of my ideas and went back to rethink our past projects. I found that I was still interested in the "special ability" project, so I decided to redo this one as my final project through a video. Because video is a combination of images and sound, it is the best way to tell a story through a video. And I have never made a video before, it is also a challenge for me.
      When I start to work on the project, I first think of which ability is my favorite if I can have it in real life. Destroy the universe? Dominate earth? Be a bank(with unlimited money)?,no. These are too big. I just need something small but significant. I found the ability I look for from an article on a Chinese magazine some days later. The article is called "10 things a person should do in his life", which is about dreams. Every one have his dreams, so do I. Since I can get a special ability in this project, why don't I make my dreams come true by the ability?  Finally I found the best ability to me for my dreams, also I think it is the best one for anyone's dreams. "Teleportation". I can get everywhere I want at any time by this ability free.
      The biggest difficulties appeared in the process of making the project. I don't use imovie as my tool because I have to do my work in library and I am an apple black(The people who hate apple). I use photoshop and ulead videostudio and formatfactory this time. I took a picture of myself and take my outline out from the whole picture by photoshop. Then I download 5 videos from youtube which are all related to my dreams. I convert them from mp4 to mpg by formatfactory. Then I combine myself to the videos in ulead. The final work is just like all of my dreams come true by the ability of teleportation. It sounds easy to do the work by my description in this way. But the process is really hard, I have no knowledge of these softwares at all at first. It takes a long time to figure out the problems.
       When I finally finish the project, I feel a great sense of achievement. Making a video is hard in my mind in the past. But now I feel like it is not that hard as I thought before. I am 100% satisfied with the project! Although someone may think it is bored, I put a lot of effort into it and tried my best to think and practice. I think it is enough because I have learned much from this project and this class. I am very happy with it!
 

Final project brainstorming

    When first saw the instructions of the final project, I thought it must be a easy work because there are  not may  constraints and we can do whatever we want, images, sounds or videos. But after few days careful thought, I found it seems not that easy as I first thought. Because no limitation means I can do everything I like in my mind, which is very hard to decide. I need to choose a direction first.
     Finally I decide to try something new, that is, to do the final project as a video. And I will choose the topic from mp5. First I really like the project because I truly  feel like I become the character in the animation through photoshop with his special ability, secondly I chose to get a ability which is not useful in real life just because I love the one who has it, so this time I will find something I am really interested in and try to get some new abilities in real life.
     I believe this will be a wonderful experience for me because this is the first time I try to make a real video and edit it.

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  It is a good experience to read this article because I also have the same feeling as the author when I first met a blind person who I need to communicate with. It was just awkward at first because I was afraid of using wrong words or something which is inappropriate to a blind person. But then I feel there are almost no difference between normal people and them, they are very kind to others and very curious to the world. We have a good talking that day which impressed me very much. In this article, I can easily understand the author's feeling in the whole article, also his angry on the relationship between his wife and the blind person, though I have no wife:/. And I think the cathedral part is really a very good idea, language is weak sometime, especially to blind people. I will try to help them draw something in the future if I have the chance with them again. And another thing I would like to say is, dinner is always a good way to make you get close to somebody.

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origin

                                                                               folded

      I choose fold as my action word because I think it is interesting. Usually we use the word fold on some soft objects like paper. And in common sense , we cannot fold somthing hard. So the limitation offers me the oppotunities to do some interesting work with photoshop.
      I choose my cup as my day-to-day basis. When I see the assignment asks me to find something I use everyday but do not give much thought to,   I look around all the stuff on my table and choose the cup. Accurately I use the cup around every 30 minutes for water, it is so important to me but I usually not pay much attention to it.
      First I take a picture of my cup and put it into photoshop. I divide the cup into 5 parts and create 5 new layers for them. For each part, I use distort tool from edit-transform to change it from rectangle to parellelogram. That is the way I get my final work. It is not obvious to tell the cup is folded but I think the way I go through is right, I just need to learn more tools and be more skillful.  But I like my work and I gain much from the process.

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  The first character came to my mind when I saw the assignment is Archer, which is from an animation called fate/stay night. He is my favorite male character in all the virtual characters from all the animations I have watched. I like the way he behaved and I am encouraged by his growth experience so much, btw I also like his girlfriend:P.

  And I think the coooooolest thing on him is his hougu, which is also called "Noble Phantasm" in the animation. It is like the weapon of the servant(Archer) and it is also a symbol of hero. The name of the hougu of Archer is called "Unlimited blade works".  Archer has the ability to make the imaginations in his mind become real swords which relies on the sword shell of King Arthur in his body. And when he maxes this ability, an natural barrier made by swords will be created by him. There are also a part of words for him to sing when he uses his hougu.

I am the bone of my sword

Steel is my body,and fire is my blood

I have created over a thoustand blades

Unknown to Death

Nor known to Life

Have withstood pain to create many weapon

Yet,those hands will never hold anything

So as I pray,unlimited blade works

I am crazy about the words above and his hougu. So if I have the chance to be another man, I will choose to be Archer so that I can also use this hougu. That is why my work is about unlimited blade works. I just put myself on ohio stadium( honestly I do not like this one to be the barrier but I cannot find a place wider than this in campus) and copy many swords from the animation. The black one is what I summon and it is also one of the two main weapons of Archer. I like my work; it looks nice and the stadium looks like a real battleground expect my bad pose..And I would put the incantation into the image if there is more space for me to use.

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  I really do not enjoy such a long speech. I feel tired to listen to a people you do not know anything about and try to understand his words sentence by sentence. They grow up in different environment and they have different life experience, so the students cannot understand his speech or advise at all.  If anyone says he knows what the author tries to explain and he gets help from the author' words. Then I can say that he even does not know himself and what is really helpful to him. The experience you get from failure will make you grow up, but these words won't. It is a waste of time to listen to a elder's life experience.
  But  his topic is not bored, I agree that life will become more and more flat and people will be more and more tired as the time goes by. Like the lyrics from "You only live once"(Suicide Silence) said"You only live once so just go fucking nuts", well it is a joke..So it is important to keep your passion on something and keep a good mood. For me, I will always stay in the second dimension( the world of Japanese animation) no matter if the life is hard or very hard. I believe the characters and plots will cure me from the pollution world.  And I think every one have to find something he is interested and let it relax your life. This is water and what your life will be is up to you

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  I am a big fan of basketball game on computer and I also like to play basketball with my friends in reality. So in picture 1and2 I just combine the real basketball court with my computer, I think this couldn't be better to represent my identity. In addition, there is a defect that I cannnot choose OSU basketball team in the famous basketball games. So I put a OSU basketball logo in each picture to make it look like a game, you can also see loading bar, the scores and a pause button in the pictures.

  I hope the viewers would be interested in my idea and intend to play the game if it is a real game. But if you engage in deep thought, you may find the world we live is also a big game and we may be controled to walk, to ear and to study by somebody, like the god by a little controller. Because the universe is too big and humans are too small and we still have lots of unknown today. That is the significance of image3. The white controller stands for the administrator of the earth.