Photo Portfolio Part 1: Sophomore Year College, Video and Photography Class.

Austin Tothen
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My Last Blog for this School year is for my Graphic Design e-com Class.
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In Graphic Design this year i have three projects that really stuck with me the first one and my favorite one would have to be the last one which was the Logo one for myself. this project was really easy and i wanted a challenge for this project so i actually made over 12 different completed models in illustrator before the first week of working on them. i was really fun because i had the ability to do whatever i wanted with it and that gave me freedom to do what i wanted.

 The second Project that i think was fun is the Greeting cards that we had to make. what we did with this project was make a fancy font on a piece of paper and move it to the computer and make a greeting card with it. i actually had a lot of fun making this project because it was fairly simple and i was able to make it look really good. i also enjoyed making a weird one so mine says "You're not normal".

                                                   

Last but not least my third favorite assignment was the Avent Advertising one. so what we had to do was make a poster, post card, and a ticket for a band that is playing at the sprint center. i chose to do one for Thomas Rhett who is a Country Music singer. i really liked this project because i got to do research on Thomas Rhett and became a big fan of his.














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Throughout the Year i had to work really hard when we were first starting and it was hard i would practice the different Adobe Programs in other classes trying to get used to it, but when i finally did get used to it it became way to easy so i had the chance to relax and make more things throughout the year besides what i had to make. I honestly really had fun making all the things in class and the class really helped me in creative ways.













Strengths In Graphic Design: I Picked up the different programs really fast and i was able to create things fast and that really saved me time if there was something else that i wanted to do besides the normal things that were assigned in class.

Weaknesses In Graphic Design: The hardest things in Graphic Design were coming up with new ideas and keeping myself busy. when you get things done quickly it makes it hard to stay working all the time while in class. Also it can be really challenging to come up with new and special things. 

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Conclusion to Sophomore year
The Best things in Graphic Design were being able to create things that i wanted and the relaxation of the class itself. I Personally had a lot of fun in this class and i wish that i could come back to it but i really want to do Journalism so that is what i will be doing instead of the Graphic Design classes in the e-Com Program but i will definitely miss being in Graphic Design. I just want to say Thank You!!! To Mrs. Beaudoin for being a great teacher throughout my sophomore year in high school so Thank You!!!


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Behance Link for my other work!!!----- https://www.behance.net/austintoth9220

Austin Tothen




This is my second to last Blog of my Soft-more year. this blog will be about the last assignment i had to do in my Entertainment e-Com class.


So let me just say that Entertainment is the worst class known to man in the e-Com program. i hated it and so did my group while making this video. The story of the video was a kid (who i was the actor for) who got bullied and sucked at Baseball that was his favorite sport. one day after being rejected by the high school team another student offered to train him after being bullied some more the main character met his mentor on the field and trained really hard and eventually made it on the team. when he got on the team he started to head home when a car driven by a former bully hit and killed him making his hard work and dreams go to waist. after the mentor found out he decided to take his place and become the person that the main character wanted to be.


it was really hard we had actors quit and just not show up  it was windy so the sound quality was really bad and we had to change the story due to a time crunch.

Austin Tothen




This assignment was actually really easy.

For this assignment in Graphic Design we created greeting cards using calligraphy. So basically what we did was find a font we wanted to "Copy" onto a IRL piece of paper, then we have to take a picture of the paper and send it to ourselves, download it onto the computer, and then make the letters in adobe illustrator. After you finish that you put it in adobe indesign and print it.

The hardest part of this project was figuring out what font you want to "Copy" on my second one i actually didn't copy any fonts I just made my own. over all i don't know what to say i think that this was the easiest thing i've done in e-Com.

Austin Tothen







This assignment was really fun to make I was in a group of three making a trailer for the movie Napoleon Dynamite. this was a really fun experience probably one of the most fun projects I've ever had in e-Com. Luckily I wasn't the director this time I was the camera guy and that was really fun mainly because didn't have to make hard devotions. while making this video we went into spring break which is were we had the most struggle because I wasn't available the whole time. you see my brother decided to pay us a surprise visit so I couldn't go to the places I needed to film. Luckily my team pulled through and got some sense done. after my brother finally left I went over an filmed the rest of the video. when it all comes down to it the real thing that pulled us through was our manager Addie. she was the best director and pulled through when we deeded her. if I was the manager for this project it would have gone up in flames. thats all I really have to say about this project.

Austin Tothen






https://www.behance.net/gallery/76626311/ADOBE-Illustrator-DOGO
My Dogo Project


This project from a far looked really hard, but it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be the assignment was pretty easy Probably because i did a dog instead of a human, But still it was really fun and i had a good time making it i did run into a littler trouble when i was trying to color it because doing fur is really annoying. So i went with more of a cartoon look and used one color besides shading to do the fur.

I finished this assignment really fast and had a few days to try another project that didn't go so well it was a triangles project were you do the same thing as the other one but just with triangles and that wasn't fun and i regret trying it, it didn't even turn out good.

Video Music video :Crappier

Austin Tothen







Now when i was making this project i thought it was going to be very easy, boy was i mistaken. well we started off with me being the manager, "that was fun" anyway i was the manager so i was in charge of everyone and had to make sure that they were doing their jobs it went easy at first, we were doing the story board we were figuring out what song we wanted, and had a good time assigning the jobs for the people in the group, but then i had to go on multiple trips out of class for my swim team and i had to go to KU for testing for Dyslexia and Dysgraphia which i have confirmed to have both of those things. anyway back to the important thing when i got back our group was in chaos the person responsible for the actors and props didnt have those things done and the person in charge of the paperwork for the scenes and stuff didnt have that done yet, now i was gone for three days the only one who was doing his job was Beric which was find pictures to help with the story board and most of his job was to help while filming and to communicate with us  if he thought something should be changed and confer with me about things. when i got back we had to film ASAP and we did we got like one scene done in a weeks time because the two people that were supposed to film at home didn't and the actors were getting impatient with our sheduals that were consistently changing because our team didnt do what they were supposed to do and it was torcher for me because i was the manager and i had to deal with everything going wrong and i wanted to quite but i couldn't so i pounded down on them, HARD and i fixed what deeded to be done with Beric and we finally filmed two more meager scenes out of the four that we needed but we had to get rid of a major part in the video which was supposed to be a dog but we couldnt do that because it would take to long so the video doesnt even make much sense, (Sorry i couldn't control my group and be a better manager).





I am to blame for missing class and for not being a harder manager and i am sorry that the video was not good and that the group was in chaos and that the final product was bad. I have no excuses. : l

Austin Tothen






Typography Project
Graphic Design






Pre-Project


     When we started this assignment we had to figure out what to type i mean you can't do a typography projects without any type. so what we all did was find quotes for this assignment now it was really easy for me because i like hearing really funny quotes or really true quotes and so i had some already picked out (BTW i finished this assignment really early) but a lot of my classmates had some truble finding the ten they needed. we had to get ten but we only used 4 of them.



Poduction


When i started working on this project it wasn't hard to figure out what i wanted to do, Oh yeah on another note we had to pick out different fonts to use. anyways when we started i knew pretty much what i wanted to do i did have some issues though. when i started i started in color but we were supposed to do it in black and white with no grays or opacity changes so i had to go back through and rearrange things to fit with the black and white which was a little annoying but i got through it.



Final

(Ignore the blue circle in the first one i couldn't get rid of it :l )

(Black and white copy)

Post production

When i finished my first copy of this i was really early by a few days so i went in and added a little more details that weren't in there before also i added more things to adjust the colors from the original black and white. looking at it now when i'm writing this i really think i did well if i had to change anything it would probably be the enterprise A at the bottom of the forth one i could have added more details but for the most part i tried my hardest and i think i did well.

Soft-more Year E-comm

Austin Tothen




          This year has been very eventful in e-comm. if you didn't know I'm in the Graphic design and Video classes in e-comm so I have to make a log post for those classes so I'm killing two birds with one stone by posting one overall blog on this semester so far. so without further adoooo lets get into my first semester this year.




Graphic Design

So I'm going to start with graphic design since that is the class I'm working on this in. So when I first entered this class I was very hesitant because I didn't really know if this is what I really wanted to do and to be honest I still am having some regrets, only because it's more difficult than I thought it would be, but even though it hard its still one of the funnest classes I've had this year and it gets easier the longer you do it for.

Projects
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The first few projects we made in this class were fairly simple because they were In photoshop and photoshop was really easy if you look at my old posts then you will see some of those projects or if you go to my Behance account which ill link at the bottom of this paragraph you can see some of them, the second part of this semester was really hard mainly because it was in Ai witch is not my fortay and is really hard to get a grasp of at first. but over time it got easier.

My hardest assignment would have to had been the fall season one which was very time consuming and really annoying to do in Ai my hardest Ps one was probably the poster one were I had to use like 10 different pictures and make them fit but I kept on forgetting to take more pictures so I had to use pictures from year prier then this year.

("Man In Blue")

The most fun projects were Probably one of the fist ones we ever did I called it "Man In Blue" here is the picture of it




https://www.behance.net/austintoth9220

(Just Cmd C, Cmd V)




Here is my final that I did I think it was really fun to make this mainly because I had fun rain over what was going on with it I got to make my own thing.




The Final was to make a info graphic about a topic I chose D&D  (Dungeons And Dragons) personally I love Dungeons and Dragons and play it all the time so it was really fun looking up all the information and finding out new things about this game that I really liked. if I had to do something different was take my time a bit more to be honest I didn't put as much effort into this compared to most people in my class I feel like it was a little rushed. also the picture on my character sheet it was supposed to look like this. anyways this assignment was really fun to do and was one of if not my favorite project this year.







All and all Ive liked my graphic design class this semester but I still don't know what I'm going to do next year.

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Video

Now its Time to talk about video so this class I will admit its one of my favorite classes this year sorry GD teacher, Anyways this class is really fun mainly because as a student we don't get much freedom to do what we want but that's not true in this class.


Projects
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 For the most part the projects in this class were more annoying. just trying to get all the stuff together and trying to fix little things also i'm an introvert and i'm not good at getting out of my comfort zone which was probably the hardest thing that i've had to go through this year. now the first project went really wrong because i had to edit the video on my phone the next project that i did sucked too mainly because i didn't get the film i really needed. For the final which i'm still working on is probably the easiest project that i've worked on all year. but there is one thing wrong... MR.COOPER MADE ME AN ANCHOR!!! I was sitting minding my own business i had been through the training for the tech part of the film and Mr. Cooper says "Hey Michael what are you doing?" he looks at the board and sees that only girls are anchors and decides i get to be one and now i'm a sports anchor. sports! sports! i don't know anything about sports!!!... anyways Videos not that bad. (Jk Mr. Cooper Thanks for giving me the opertunity)
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AustinTothen








     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlLV1y7yTL0&feature=youtu.be

Here is the link for the video ( Just Copy and Paste) (Ctr C Ctr P)



So fo this assignment there is not much to say about it basically what we had to do was a feature story. the feature story I decided to do was the musical preference on Shalie Lundy. This was harder then I thought it would be. I had a lot of struggles when I was making this video and I had to go back and edit it a lot after words. the first thing was getting good b roll which was difficult because I didn't know what to do for listening to music so thats not the best thing in the video. the second and probably the biggest thing that I didn't get to fix was the voice over when I was making it I fell sick and I lost my voice so I couldn't get many lines of narration in there. but even though a lot of thing didn't go my way it was still pretty fun to make.

Pressure Ink Printers

Austin Tothen

Different Types Of Printing

     Relief Printing

     When you are relief printing basically what you do is cut out or carve out a drawing that you want to print; typically with wood or a hard substance. After you have cut out the picture you want to press ink into the peace of wood. After you have ink equally spread out on the wood then you place a peace of paper on it and press lightly on the paper with something that has a flat surface.

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Intaglio Printing

     Intaglio Printing is were you take a sheet of metal and make really small  sketches in it by scraping it with different tools. The different tools do different things some make large scrapes and some make really small one that help with small details. With intaglio printing you need to pay close attention to details because the way it comes out you can see it very clearly and it is easy to see the mistakes. Anyways after you sketched your picture out you clean it off a lot of times and make sure its smooth and shiny. after you have the mettle done you apply ink onto it and place paper on it then use a machine to apply a lot of pressure on it.

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Lithography  Printing

     With this kind of printing there is a very long process in doing it first you need a specific stone that can absorb water and oils (you can use lime stone). What you want to do is draw you picture on the stone once you do that layer the stone with specific chemicals and do that over and over again, then apply water and grease over and over again then add a chemical that can separate water and ink and then apply ink and place paper on it and yep you guessed it press hard and there you go you did it.

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  (This is what I kind of looked like.)

       I personally have done some Relief printing in the past. when I was in 8th or 7th grade I was in an art class and we took these weird things that felt like erasers and we carved out images and took ink and lathered it on them afterword's we put it on paper and for our final project we printed them on clay boxes we had to make when the clay was still wet and we burned them after words making a glaze like paint of then box with the design on them mine was broken in the kennel because it wasn't properly glued together so I only took home one side of it I wish I had a picture but sadly I don't. if I had to do another kind of print like these I would defiantly do another Relief print but this wood this time.

Austin Tothen

Panorama Project

My Panorama Project was very difficult in many aspects of the creation so don't hate on it too much please and thank you. Anyways this is my Panorama of things. Step 1. take pictures step 2. put them in photoshop. step 3. do the thing ( make it look good).

Pictures
The hardest part of this project was probably taking pictures. The pictures were hard to take because you didn't really have much to go off of you had to come up with your own ideas and figure it out your own way. If you cant tell already it was really hard for me to come up with the ideas and take pictures of things actually more then half of these photos are ones that i found of my phone that i had taken before this project. The base number of photos we had to have was 10 pictures which made it even harder to do. so most of mine are just random photos that i somehow fit together. I think.



Creation
When i was originally was making this i had no clue what i was going to do but as is was going through this i just kinda messed with it until i got an outcome that i liked. there are some things that probably could have been better now when i look at it. so if you want me to fix some stuff im looking for things to change so just tell me. basically i had to make these pictures fit together so that it didnt look like a different picture and make it seamless. i really like what i did with the trees and the sunrise on a beach and the streets connected with the dog in the middle and now thats not my dog its a friends. any who the things that i think that could have done better with the Enterprise but i didnt really know hot to do the lighting for it honestly i really just put it in there so add more pictures because ten is a lot for the amount of pictures to take by our selves that dont have people.

AustinTothen

POP ART PROJECT

     POP art Challenge!!! Pop art is a art stile that isn't very popular any more but it is really cool basically you take a picture and you photoshop it to were it looks like it is abstract or a comic or a drawing and its really cool. honestly when I started I had no clue what I was going to do it was really hard to cut out the person and put stuff in that made sense in the workshop now I did figure something out that worked so I do indeed hope that you like it.

(Here is the final product)

 
Process
     This project really showed me how I can use my emajination and how to use filters so amplify the effect of my project. so when I was making this project I really wanted to try to do it my own way so I think did that but is wasn't easy to get there. when I first started I couldn't figure out what to do. everything I tried I failed at and I really had no idea what i was going to do. I want to say about three days before I had to finish the assignment I had no idea what I was going to do but then me and my friend were talking about the windows logo and then I got an idea to do windows and It worked really well.


   



     Things I wanted to do

     What I really wanted to do at first was thoughs presidential pictures were there are only like two colors implemented into it but that didn't work. then I wanted to make the person different colors or look like a painting but it just didn't look good with the coloring. but I think I did good with what I did.



Hoped you liked it

     I hope you like it so I used the brush in the background I used shapes to fill in the white and coloring and I used the cutout filter in the photoshop filters this is like the 5th try of me trying to make this so hopefully it's good enough.

     Hello everyone so I had to take a photo of a man and a land scape and make something like the photo you see up above. yes look at my beautiful creations. any ways this project was really mainly because I got to do my own thing and not have to do it step by step like other projects and it felt good to discover things on my own. So thats all I really have to say about this but yeah I enjoyed it.



     The first picture was the main one that I did and the one I really tried on so I used a few filters and cut out his background and his shirt. when I first started on this project I had I good Idea of what to do because I did something like this in my photography class and too I already had an idea of what to do. the more Ideas I had the more challenging it got because I really wanted to do all the ideas. but I think the ideas I used were worth it.












This second one was just a test one and I didn't put much work into it I basically just did the same thing but used a different picture and color. so I don't have much to talk about, but I hope you like this project.

  

Austin Tothen

Another Photoshop Tutorial Day in GD

Ok so we are doing more photoshop in e-Com and its pretty fun but a little boring to be honest id rather use illustrator to make like a logo or something. any ways the photoshop was pretty easy and I got it done really fast probably because I use things that are harder to use that aren't photoshop in my free time at home sometimes so when I use photoshop it is so much easier to me compared to what I usually use. at one point I had to use paint to do a photoshop design thing. 

     honestly I turned out pretty good here look

yeah that was on paint which was a pain in the but.

anyways it was fun and I really hope I get to do more in the future.


here are all the photos that i ended up photoshopping

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I made the text like this to take up space so it looks like I have been doing more over the summer.

     Oh Boii its been so long since I've done one of these so bear with me if what I say doesn't make any sense at all. So this year is my second year of e-Com at ONW and I chose to be in the Graphic Design class which has been pretty fun so far. this class is one of if not the most fun and interactive class I have this year.

Any ways we all know why I do these things in my blog and that is to discuss projects that I have recently done in e-Com. the most resent thing that I have done is a Photoshop project which honestly was probably the most fun I've had in this class this year so far, thats not just because its the first project weave done. mainly because I love messing with photoshop and adobe things.

I have always wanted and wondered how to use photoshop at its full potential. I've always been interested in doing stuff like that and e-Com has given me that opportunity and I have really been having a lot of fun with it, and if I can get a job in the future for it I will be the happiest person alive.

So lets talk more aboot the project. the project was taking photos that were taken and fixing them by removing thing to make them better, changing backgrounds getting rid of little thing that ruin the pictures so we watch tutorials and things to help us get used to photoshop and to be honest that really helped now I know how to do so much more things that I didn't know how to do.

THANKS E-COM!

Michael Lovelady

E9 Experience 4th Quarter

     So my e-Com final was interesting and fun. my team and I had to create a business and a product to sell in our business. so we started in animation were we had to create and add and a product design that was really tricky and I fell sick wile we were working on it so I wasn't able to finish my part, but it turned out fine because some one els in my group was working on the same thing. 

     While we were working on the product we decided that we would make a language interpreter or LI. LI got a lot of upgrades and changes as we thought of new things that it could do. our company was called Em-brace Global. we decided the name for it because we wanted our product to be a thing that brings the world together. that is why we chose to go towards a heart touching style.

     The project itself is that when we were finished with the product and the adds and the website we would try so sell it to some sharks. so we also had to work on a presentation and try to come up with things that people would ask about the product so that was fun and a little tiering.

     So after we finished the animation section we had to create a advertisement for a TV add witch was probably one of the easier things we did. shout out to Mrs. Zimmerli for being one of the best film teachers no offense Mr. Cooper but I haven't had you as a teacher "YET". so the ad was pretty easy to come up with an idea but making that idea come true was the hardest part of that. part of the product.

     After the video portion is were the fun really started to begin with graphic design and web. at first there was a big deduction on what to do for the logo but after a while it became clear. we all decided to keep the idea of the earth. 

So all and all my E9 experience was pretty good fun hard and really gave me more of a purpose in what i want to do in the future.
     

WEB EDITOR

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Such "FUN" stuff wed design... Yeah... "FUN" 

Not really web design is long annoying and precise. I really don't like it and most people don't. So while i was working on this project i messed up really badly and changed the things in the same place and i had to go into the coding delete the coding for all that stuff and then redo more then half the page it turned put how they wanted it i think, so it can't be that bad.

Honestly i really don't like web design its not bad and can be fun but if you mess up even once it can ruin the whole thing.

FINISHED PRODUCT

("ITS NOT THAT BAD")
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HOW WELL DO YOU WORK WITH OTHERS?

We had to take a test to see what kind of animal you are based on how well you work with others. there are 4 different animals you can be. A LION, A OTTER, A GOLDEN RETRIEVER, AND A BEAVER.

I got OTTER

As an Otter i work well with others in a playful manner, i get what needs to be done in the most fun way possible and i'm extremely spontaneous about my decisions.

This test i think was really accurate, honestly when i'm working in a group i will work hard but  not to hard were i can have some fun along the way.

So yeah i'm an OTTER...

AustinTothen

LOGO

Logos are some of the most important thing when it comes to business, its the customers first interaction with the company. so it is very important. i was tasked to make my own logo so that is what i did.

THE PROCESS

the process of making a logo is not very hard if you have an idea of what you want, first you pick a shape depending on what your logo is for. then you makes you logo (in black and white). mess around with it to make sure thats what you want and then just color it but make sure it fits.

THE FINAL PRODUCT

FINAL

This was my final outcome, it took a bit to figure out what to do with is and find out what colors fit but in the end i thought it came out really well.

LOGO PLACEMENT

PLACEMENT

finding a place to put it on is probably the hardest part, so i didn't really try but this is what it could look like.


WHO AM I
I had to take a test on who am i and what am i like. heres my results,