Rose e-Communication Blog

In graphic design, we created watercolor transfer prints. Here's how we did it.  First, we chose our favorite project from the year so far, and opened it in Adobe Photoshop. We cropped it to be a bit smaller, and made a black and white copy. This is just so we would have two to chose from, whichever you preferred in the end. Next, we printed them out and cut them so they would have a rim of blank paper about half an inch thick all the way around your project. Then, we took a sheet of watercolor paper, tore it in half, and watercolored them how we saw fit. Once the watercolors dried, we took our picture and spread a thick layer of mod podge onto the ink. You should just barely be able to see your picture through the mod podge. Leave the blank rim around the picture clean, don't coat it so you can hold it. Place the picture, mod podge side down, onto the watercolor. Spread it around and flatten it out a little; does not have to be precise, just starting you off. Next, take...

Overview In the eCommunications video production strand, our most recent project was an interview. For this project, we got to choose if we wanted to be directors. Everyone who wanted to be one volunteered, and then they got to pick who was on their team. I was in a team with Kensie Likes, Annabelle Glasscock, and Holly McCormick was our Director. We went through the process starting with deciding the topic we wanted to focus on. After brainstorming many ideas, we chose to interview Brooke about when she passed out at homecoming pictures. We wrote out about 20 questions we wanted to ask her, and then thought it would be helpful if we had a witness be interviewed too. We chose Alex Pauli, Brooke's date, to give us his point of view. So, we wrote about 15 questions similar to Brooke's, regarding the same topics. Then, we filmed and edited our interviews. Shooting The process of filming our interviews was actually much more difficult than expected. We had to make sure tha...