We have been working on a project to create a product that doesn't have to be realistic, but we have to make the logo and the item to present it as if we were on shark tank. This project took us about a total of eight weeks since we had to get all the animations down and make sure our recording was correct, this process to much longer than it needed to but it was fun either way. Many of the challenges were time constraints, this was because we could only make our ad 30 seconds long and we had so much we wanted to put in there, but sadly it wasn't going to work. A big thing that I learned through out this project was that things won't always work like they are supposed to and that you will need to find away around that to meet your deadline, and that was a very tricky thing. One big portion of feedback that we received was about our website, we need to add some more things to it, but other then that we didn't hear much else. Since we got that we added a lot more to the FAQs and we made some jokes with the website to make it more relatable and funny. I think that everyone in my group did an amazing job on the project and since we all worked so hard I am really happy with the outcome.
For most of class I had the opportunity to work on the animated ad and the animated web banner, mainly because I love to animate and I'm decent at it. When I finished my work I usually went over to my other teammates and helped them if they were struggling and we found ways to make everything better in the project. While I was outside of class I looked for certain ads on T.V. or I looked in magazines or whatever I could find to see how professional companies made their ads so that they could spread the word about their products. I have many strengths when it comes to computers themselves, but the parts of what you do on the computers is a bit different, I am only really good with animation and I'm not even able to do that very well. A really big part of my strength is my ability to focus in a really loud environment, which allowed me to work well in the classroom even when my classmates were being very loud. One of my biggest weaknesses is graphic design, I am not very good with logos and many other parts. The other weakness that I have is that I am not really able to still for long after working and so I check what else I can add to a picture and I end up adding to much detail. I could definitely improve with video as well so that I could make better scenes and put everything together properly. A big thing that want to be able to do is edit videos with a green screen better so that I can make the background show whatever I want it to show.
