Magagascar Recut

For my most recent project I had to change a movies theme by creating a new movie trailer with content from either the movie trailer or the movie itself. For my project I chose to do Madagascar 2 Escape to Africa and change it from a comedy into a National Geographic documentary. I chose to do this because at first I couldn't think of an idea but saw a lot of people changing movies drastically like from a Disney movie into a horror film or a horror film into a romance, so I decided to not change mine as severely.

Here is the original trailer to Madagascar 2 Escape to Africa.

This is my recut trailer of Madagascar 2 Escape to Africa with clips taken from the movie.

I feel the music I used fit perfectly as it was from Lion King and needed no editing to fit the clips I used. I used some sound effects that I found on youtube or the ones found in iLife and iMovie. One of the challenges I found while working on this project was figuring out a way to get the National Geographic logo in the bottom right of the video. I tried using an image but the middle was not transparent so I had to look for another alternative, afterwards I found a font where the O looks very similar to the logo. The font I used is called Gears of Peace. In the end I am very happy with the finished project and am looking forward to posting and telling you about my final project.

Kevan C

Greetings, you know me from Yearbook class last semester. I enjoy doing work but often do not get work done in class. I joined Cyberarts in Grade 9 and have continued with it till now. I like the computer half of Cyberarts more than the visual art half because I am better at it. I am experienced in all Photoshop CS4, Illustrator CS4, Indesign CS4, Flash CS4 and Dreamweaver. I do not enjoy blogging but I will do it if I must.

Website Portfolio

While working on my website culminating I was looking for a good, clean already coded portfolio layout. While searching I found one on this site. I really like this layout because it has clickable thumbnails which then enlarge on the same page.

I believe this was a quick and efficient way to show both my art and my tech portfolio because it is friendly for all web viewers and is easy for viewers to work. To re-code this for my site it was very easy because all I needed to do was delete their picture names and put mine in. Although this design uses CSS and Javascript it was very easy to put the script into my html page.

Overall I really liked my choice with this portfolio and believe it looks very professional.

Exit Through The Giftshop

Recently our class went on a class trip to see "Exit Through the Gift Shop". The film is about an odd french shopkeeper and film maker and his journey through the crazy world that is street art. Thierry Guetta is the amateur film maker who films everything he sees. When he was visiting his cousins house he found his cousin was the legendary Invader because he found him making his characters in the basement.

After meeting and becoming friends with all the other famous street artist Thierry still hadn't met one, Banksy. He was determined he would meet him. After finally meeting and becoming friends with him Banksy tells Thierry he should try street art for himself. This gives him a passion and he instantly starts to think of ideas. From here on in his life gets pretty hectic but has spectacular results.

"The films a story of what happened when this guy tried to make a documentary about me, but he was actually a lot more interesting than I am. So now the film is kinda about him." -Banksy

Websites Good/Bad

Website design and layout is a key for the internet. Sometimes users will only look at your website for 10 seconds and if they don't find what they want they'll leave. It is important to know users do NOT read they SCAN.  I chose two websites which are both about World of Warcraft. One is the games site, and the other is a news site which posts daily news about the game and leaks. 

The first website I chose to talk about is 

WorldofWarcraft.com. I believe this is a bad site. I think this because  the interface is not 

organized and is very cluttered with multiple drop down windows and links. Also the  site has a picture to Starcraft II but it has nothing to do with WoW so it is very confusing. Also there is little whitespace. I believe this website is bad for these following reasons.

The second website I am reviewing is MMO-Champion.com. I believe this is a good website 

because it has 6 simple titled navigation buttons and the main page is constantly being updated. It is also uses whitespace very well having space along the top and on either side of the advertisement, this keeps the screen very clean. Users barely have to think while navigating this site. This is because it has few links and the link it has are well labeled and easy to find. This website uses almost all of the principals of website design. 

Old Man Logan

Over the summer I started my comic book collection. Every week a new comic would come out and I would make sure I'd get it before it was sold out. I started with only three comics: Deadpool, Old Man Logan, and Avengers. Out of those three I like Old Man Logan the most. I liked it the most because I have always like wolverine, the story was amazing, and the art was fantastic (a little on the gory side).

The writer and artist of this comic are absolutely amazing. Mark Millar the author has has also written Kick-Ass. Steve McNiven is the penciler for this comic and has worked with Millar on other projects. I think these two should be partners for all their work because this series was absolutely amazing.

My favourite piece of cover art out of this series was from Wolverine #71. I liked this one the most because it shows the rough brutal side of Wolverine. I like how the bullets are radiating their heat. I also like how realistic the smoke looks which I find is one of the hardest things to draw well.

The comic world is very odd. There are many jobs need for one single comic. There are the writers, pencillers, colorists, letterers, inkers, and cover artists. I think working in comics would be very exciting. Not only would you get to work on comics of characters you read as a kid, but you also get to meet the current legends of comics.

For those interested in seeing how gory this comic really is click here

Rubiks Cube

Last Christmas I got a Rubiks cube. Originally I thought it would be near impossible to solve, but then I thought maybe youtube would have some video tutorials. After watching a few of the videos I realized that the rubiks cube isn't just a neat puzzle, it's a whole science. They use algorithms to be able to do it without even looking. After finding a video that wasn't so complex I wrote down the steps and I could solve it almost 100% of the time. After being able to do it so easily I just tucked it away and only recently pulled it back out to realize I only remember how to get the first two tiers.

I have yet to memorize the final steps because they all depend on what it looks like and will always be different. Once I master the 3x3x3 cube I am sure I will move on to the 5x5x5.