Script for Final Project

I grew up in the Southwest corner of Connecticut, surrounded by trees and housing developments. Hot summer days were spent in an inflatable pool or running through a sprinkler, anything to cool off. The closest body of water near my house is a lake, and the nearest shoreline is Long Island Sound, forty-five minutes away. Without my parents, I don't think I would ever love the ocean as much as I do now.
Every year, my family takes a week or two off to go on a beach vacation in Maine. My parents have been going there, and renting the same cottage, since my older sister was a baby, so it's something I've grown up with and have come to depend upon all of my life. The little cottage, with a pointed roof and pathway down to the beach, is so familiar that it feels like it's our cottage we're going to, and not just one rented out for a weeklong span; especially not one that other families share in the weeks before and after my family's vacation.
A few times during the week my family takes a twenty minute walk to the end of the beach to a restaurant called Spinney's. My favorite restaurant, it sits right on the beach with it's windows opening out to the water. Next door to Spinney's is Percy's, the beach convenience store. Most afternoons we'd walk down there for a break from the sun and for some ice cream.
One of the major drawbacks of Maine, however, is the freezing ocean temperatures. It is so cold that you must brave the water and can only stay in for a long amount of time if your body gets numb fast enough. Because of this, you find other ways to have fun: sand castle building contests, going for walks and collecting seashells and sanddollars, or my favorite-just laying out, either reading or relaxing. I have countless sanddollars, pictures, memories, and sunburns from these vacations.
It's getting harder to find a time when all of my family is free to go to Maine, so it becomes much more appreciated over time. This year may be the last year that everyone is able to go together, as everyone is getting older and having more responsibilities during the summer. I am lucky enough to go a school on the water, so I'm now able to enjoy beach days with friends a lot more easily then had I been living in Connecticut. There's something very relaxing and beautiful about the ocean, and it'll always be one of my favorite things.

Final

I really enjoyed working on the final project. The hardest thing was picking the topic of my essay, and also finding music to use in the background. I had learned how to use Audacity from the music sound slides, so it was not hard to figure out how to mix the two tracks of my voice recording and the music. It was also easy to do since I have a Mac, and was able to record my voice on Garageband and then export it right into iTunes. It was fun gathering all the photographs together, and then figuring out which ones should actually be used in the slide show and in what order. I think that the timing with the pictures came out really well.

This project was a very difficult assignment to do. We were required to make Bibi cards in Quark and InDesign. It was challenging to find the right fonts, and to make sure that everything lined up with the original card. This was especially difficult when making the mailing lines for the front of the card, since there were so many. I did my project in InDesign first, and then when I did it in Quark I felt that it was much easier, but this could be partially due to the fact that I had already done one and knew more of what I had to do.
The most time-consuming thing was finding what fonts to use. I do not think I got all of the font exactly right, but I picked very similar substitutions. It was very rewarding to finish this product, especially to see how all of the hard work paid off, and to see how the final product came out and how close it resembled the original.

Current Topic: Getty Images

Getty Images is considered to be a pioneer in visual media. Founded in 1995 by Mark Getty and Jonathon Klein, the Seattle-based company is the first company to license imagery online. There are two types of images available, editorial and creative. Editorial images include live-coverage photos of new, sports, and entertainment events from around the globe. Contemporary stock photography, illustration, and archival images fall under the creative images category.
The site is used by businesses, media, and creative teams alike. Businesses use industry-specific images for consumer brands and government markets. The media, such as bloggers, newspapers, broadcasters, and film and television producers will turn to the site for editorial images. Also, conceptual images are used by advertisers, free-lancers, and in-house creative teams. There are about seventy million still images, thirty thousand hours of stock film, and both instrumental and lyrical music accessible through Getty Images.
There are several different types of licensing available. There is rights-managed: use by use basis, royalty free: image can be used multiple times for multiple projects, creative subscription: use up to fifty images per day, editorial basis: use by use, comping and previews use: products used for free if only used for a test or a preview and is not licensed for use in the final project. All rights are non-transferrable and only for the person who purchased them. The pricing for images usually depends on the size of the project and the people entitled to use it. The pricing for music depends on the user, use, media, formant, and usage of rights that were granted.


Example of a Music Page











Sources:
http://company.gettyimages.com
http://www.gettyimages.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getty_Images

Jack's Mannequin Sound Slides

This project was difficult to do since I had never composed a newsletter before. I wasn't sure what exactly should be in the newsletter, so I covered a lot of information and wanted to make it appear like it was a yearly newsletter for the customers of this whale watch. I also wanted the newsletter to stand out, so if someone saw it on a table they would want to pick it up and read it. I used blues because it would remind people of the ocean, and I included a lot of pictures so the reader wouldn't be put off by a piece of paper that just looked like it just had a bunch of words on it. I really liked how the design of the newsletter was already set up through the template, but in a way I also wish I could have had more say in changing the template so that some pictures could be bigger.