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The nature of my logo being such simple shapes and colors means that minimalism is the best way to go when making business cards. My logo is also slightly creepy, so I figured that the lack of visual information adds to the mystique of it. It makes the cards look like something that would be handed to someone in a movie to call a secret organization.

 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF_fu1wcT0Y This video explains how to generate pages in InDesign, something that I think will be useful as the basis of this program. I don't totally understand the layout of the pages you generate or the importance of it, but I have a feeling it won't be too hard to learn. This video also explains layers, which I am already famliar with having worked with Adobe products before. It was cool learning about in this video and in class how you can make a preset that you can use to affect all objects marked with that preset, or turn objects into that preset. For example, having a text preset that makes it red and underlined. It reminds me of how you can use styles on Google Docs to affect text with presets, which is something I use a lot. 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPpPr3tTDTI Both our teacher and the guy in this video recommended we set the workspace too Essentials Classic, which I appreciate. It's cool how you can have the pages set

For this project, I wanted to insert myself into the Five Nights At Freddy movie somehow. I decided to make it look like I was in the animatronic suit used by William Afton, or Springtrap. I found a good image that I could insert my face into online. I took a few pictures where I splashed some water on my face and tried to look deranged. Removing my face from my own picture was easy enough. I struggled with removing the face of the actor but eventually managed to by using dark painting. Because the shadows didn't look quite right, I used more dark painting at various levels of opacity to recreate shadows.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKFZjRV7L_Q  The guy in the video made a point to explain the history tab, which I haven't seen or used before. I want to try it, because I figure it will give me more control then just constantly using command+z. I am worried that it is going to be annoying and hard to use though. I think it was interesting that he made a point of saying that there you can monetize your ability to photoshop. Our Digital Media teacher also made a mention of this, I wasn't aware it was actually lucrative business. 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz_dGT0YRxA In this video she explained generative fill, and showed an example of how to turn a baby stroller into a dog. I think I will try to avoid using this tool whenever I can because of it's basis in unethical A.I., but I might have to do more research. I appreciated her pointing out how to pin the bar into position, the way the bar always moved around is a bit annoying. 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B

     Without knowing the context, my first thought is that the girl in this photo looks vulnerable. This does not look like someone strong, and it doesn't even look like someone without fear. That's what makes it interesting, because there IS strength in this girl. I think it comes from how she stares, dead on, looking right at you. This is a person that looks like they might be scared and uneasy, someone without any real power, but the strength of this picture comes from how she puts this vulnerability on display any refuses to move. It feels like someone who will not move no matter what you do.    With context, we learn this this is a girl named Anastasia who is an activist for LGBT rights in Russia. This makes what we glean from just the photo even more powerful. This person obviously can't put up an image that will make her look as strong as the prejudice that exists in Russia, and especially the prejudice that exists all across the world. What makes her powerful then i

1.  https://www.instagram.com/p/BBfl1R3CiSr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== This guy is very funny, but I'm very impressed with how he edited himself in this photo. With all the glitter, I can't imagine how many edits it must have taken, along with the bruise effect he put on himself.  He may have just extended the photo slightly longer to the side and then added more glitter, which I imagine would be easier. 2. https://www.instagram.com/p/BZyr9r7BNTm/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== I like the vibe of this photo, the colors and people in the background is something I would probably want to replicate for my Somewhere project. I might take out the goofiness part of it though, and try to make it look like I was seriously in there. 3. There was really no photoshop in this, but I just like how he said "I like his face." I like his face too. 4.  As an amateur filmmaker and amateur actor, I really enjoyed and respected pretty