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