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ONW 1 in 2000 Interview

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ONW 1 in 2000: An Interview with Ella           At the beginning of the project, we went through many different ideas. We eventually landed on Ella Hiebert, a dancer, after we were given a suggestion by the teacher. I was the writer of all the interview questions and I finished them quickly because I pretty much wrote down things I wanted to know about dance and Ella's experience with it.           Filming took a few days because our first shot at interviewing had bad lighting and the sound didn't end up working. We were lucky enough to get a mic on the second attempt which allowed the video to have better quality later on. Then on the third day of filming, we shot B-Roll throughout the school.            Getting the perfect voice over was definitely a struggle. I would either talk too fast, or start laughing with the other person in the room with me. Eventually, I just had to redo it at home after listening it over while editing. Editing was the most difficult proc

Watercolor Transfer Prints

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Watercolor Transfer Print          First, I created a new project in Photoshop that had measurements of 8x11. Then, I chose the two projects that I wanted to use. I chose my second photoshop challenge, and my panorama. One had to be in black and white, so I chose the panorama since I knew that it had more white accents, which would allow the watercolors to bleed through later on. I changed the sizes of the images to be 4x6 and placed them on the document with a decent amount of white border around them. Once I finished, I printed them.           Watercoloring was my favorite part of the process, since we were able to talk to others while we painted. There were no constraints to what we painted, which made it more fun since we weren't following a tutorial. I tried to match the color scheme to my photoshop challenge image, but on my panorama I just started to experiment with different colors.           After waiting overnight to allow the watercolors to dry, I moved on to press