Rachel Deodato

My Magazine Story For my magazine story I decided to interview my friend, Sarina Vito, about her journey fighting and surviving Leukemia. Sarina is currently a student here at High Point University and continues to inspire others with her story. In my magazine I plan on sharing Sarina's  story and how her struggles have only made her stronger.  I also plan on talking about where and what Sarina is doing today and her every day life at HPU. Lastly, I want to include awareness for Leukemia and want to inspire others to help and get involved in finding a cure.  The Layout  Regarding the layout of my magazine I learned how the placement of images and texts really affect one another. I had to experiment with placing my images and texts around in order to have my text somewhat relate to the image. Since I do not have any content written for the story yet, I used the "Fill with Placeholder Text" in order to better visualize the layout. I definitely plan on adding mor...

Overview In this newest rough draft of my audio story I made a lot more improvements. I improved my blog by adding animated text. These animations consisted of titles, quotes, and important points that I wanted to emphasize to the viewers. I was also able to replace pointless images with title frames throughout the audio story to improve the quality. As I continue to work on my audio story I plan to add more animations to the images and the transitions between the images to create a more appealing video.  What I Learned While working on my audio story, I had no idea how to add text and animate text when working in Adobe Premier. After watching the youtube video "How to Animate a Title", I quickly learned how and became a pro at creating titles and animating them. Although I mainly focused on my titles moving from left to right or up and down, in the future I plan to use the opacity tool in order to make the titles fade in and out of the frame.

The Image  For this assighment I gained inspiration from my favorite place, my bed! The decorative pillows that are placed on my bed consist of all my favorite colors, which made this project visually pleasing for myself. I based each color I used on one of my pillows. However, I didn't get to use all the pillows since we could only choose three main colors or swatches.  Swatches When I was creating the swatches it was more difficult than I expected. Choosing the first round of colors, as seen in the first column to the left going down, took some time because I had to experiment with different hues in order to find the color that best matched the pillow I was using as my inspiration. However, the difficult part was creating faded colors, as seen in the next two columns, that weren't to drastic of a change from the first color. In order to create this faded effect I had to lower the tint percentages in each box more and more as I made my way to the right. Namepla...

The Animatic This was my first time working with Adobe Premiere CC 2017, besides working with in class projects. The purpose of premiere is to create visuals for certain clips of audio, such as a still image video. I have recently learned about how important visuals and audio can be to a project. Visualization has the power of communicating with the viewer about the topic, which is especially important to those who may speak another language or have impaired hearing. Audio and sound effects helps viewers of impaired vision understand what is going on in the project as well. When working with Adobe Premiere I definitely struggled a lot throughout creating my project. Unfortunately, I could not figure out how to add text to my images. This frustrated me because I had a lot of creative ideas that would emphasize important points that I was trying to reach. I had ideas such as adding bullet points of the interviews plan of action and the reasoning they choose the shark or bear. Howe...

The Five Compositional Elements  I recently have bought the iphone XR which has one of the best camera qualities I have ever seen. Now, when I take pictures with my phone and add filter apps such as VSCO, Instagram, and Snapchat, somedays I really feel as if I am a "talented" photographer because of how well the pictures come out. The use of high quality phone cameras and editing apps can make a picture taken with little effort seem as it was professionally taken. Compositional elements of how a photo is taken has the same effect on photos. The way the camera is positioned and the background surrounding of images has a large impact on how a photo looks to the naked eye. For example, when a photo with a symmetric background is compared to a photo with a messy background, the photo with the symmetric is much more appealing. Compositional elements include negative space, symmetry, layering, angels, framing, lines, shapes, and the rule of thirds. In this blog, you will see fiv...

My Audio Story  A question often asked as an ice breaker growing up was wether or not it would be safer to fight off a bear or a shark. This would create heated conversations and would bring up very knowledgeable points, however there is no right or wrong answer. There are scientific statistics that may show us which one may be the smarter choice, but people still have their opinions. I interviewed students and experts in order to introduce ideas to the audience, enabling them to create their own opinions and theories. 

My Poster  For my movie poster I imitated the infamous movie poster from the movie Mama Mia. In the original movie poster the background was an ocean that was blurred to make it appear as if the ocean was sparkling. In my movie poster, I used an image of light blue glitter to imitate the ocean in the original movie poster. In the original movie poster it had main actress, Amanda Seyfried, in her wedding dress from the wedding scene in the movie. Instead of using the image of actress Seyfried, I replaced her with an image of myself from prom. For my title and the rest of the text, I tried to copy the same font, however could not find the exact one. This project was very challenging in that it was hard to imitate the exact tools that was used to create the original movie poster. This was my first time creating my own movie poster from scratch using photoshop. While creating my movie poster, I learned that it takes a lot of creativity and effort to create a poster from scratch....