Monthly Archives: March 2017

I Feel Better When I’m Happy

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For my This I Believe project, I spoke about optimism. Here is the video:

The technique that I used in this video was similar to the “Draw My Life” videos I saw on Youtube. It involves drawing out important scenes and people to further show and explain what was being said. I’ve never used this technique before, and I thought that this would be a good way to show myself evolving. It was also great to be able to transition with the paper, and use different colors to represent different things.

One thing you’d notice from my video is the usage of color. I used a lot of marker colors in the drawings, but the main colors were black, blue, orange, and green. The black was a neutral color, meaning what I was drawing in black wasn’t exactly important, or was neither positive or negative. Blue however, was meant to symbolize when I was thinking more negative thoughts. Orange and green were the colors I used for happiness, since they simply reminded me of the sun and the grass.
Another thing I did was change the lighting. When I was talking about a more sad memory, where I was drawing mostly in blue, I lowered the brightness so that the video would have a darker and more gloomy feel to it.
The last effect I added was one of the transitions, where I placed a new piece of paper full of happy thoughts over the previous one, which had sadder thoughts. That was representing me covering the sad things and replacing them with the positive.

Looking at the result, I personally think that my techniques and effects had given the intended effect. I made it obvious at the beginning what the blue and green colors meant, so I’m hoping the audience will catch the meaning.

Mi Rutina de Domingo

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Los domingos normalmente me despierto a las ocho de la mañana. Luego después de treinta minutos, me levanto.

Generalmente, yo me cepillo a las nueve y cinco con mi hermano. En este momento mi madre todavía se duerme.

Si yo no hay mucha tarea, mi hermano y yo vemos Youtube a las nueve y diez en la sala.

Después, a las once de la mañana, mi familia y yo nos desayunamos en el comedor.

A las tres de la tarde, yo siempre almuerzo con mi familia en mi casa.

Casi todos los días, yo leo un libro en la tarde, a las sobre cinco de la tarde.

A las seis de la noche, mi hermano y yo hacemos nuestra tarea. En esta foto estoy escribiendo mis deberes de matemáticas.

Si yo no me quedo en mi casa para cena, tengo que vestirse a las sobre ocho menos diez.

A veces yo ceno con mi madre y mi hermano menor a un centro comercial muy cerca, “Hanshin Arena”, a las ocho de la noche. En esta foto comemos en Coco, una restaurante nosotros vamos con frecuencia.

Generalmente, a las once de la noche, yo me ducho y me lavo mi pelo.

Antes de cepillarme, a las once y veinte, yo me seco y me peino mi pelo.

Finalmente, a las once y media, me acuesto, y casi siempre me duermo a las doce menos cuarto.