Introduction to Multimedia
Spring 2025
Software: Adobe Animate
I animated the emotion “sadness”. I wanted to show sadness through something that takes a while to make that can be destroyed in seconds. I made a flower growing and then in a second it is destroyed and dies. One of the hardest parts of sadness is how quickly something can change and be over. I was also inspired by how careless some people are with nature. I used Adobe Animate with shape and classic tweens, as well as drawings of each stage of the flower.
This is my second ever animation and I am animating the emotion “sadness”. I used a bright background that fades to dark blue as in the feeling of sadness when it comes on. I also used a bright colored ball bouncing happily and then something bad, or more literally the red, angry spike, punctures it and kills its brightness and fun. Then I fade everything out.
I animated a sunrise and sunset and the moon coming up and going down.
“A Day in Nature”
Spring 2025
Edited with Audacity
I used Audacity to set a scene of someone in the forest starting a fire after a day of rain. I used bird noises as they always chirp before the rain, then rain noises, and then after it clears the fire noises. I also added an owl to simulate nighttime and music to set the scene. I used ambiance reverbs on the music and owl, and added fading in and out to each sound. I adjusted some sound levels and used layering and mixing to the music and fire starting to make everything sound complete.
Sounds used:
“Distant.mp3” by Lightning Traveler. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Feb 23, 2025. Free Music Archive. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/lightning-traveler/origin-1/distantmp3-1/
“bird chirps3.wav” by keweldog. Creative Commons 0. April 2nd, 2013. Freesound.org. https://freesound.org/people/keweldog/sounds/182796/?
“raining_inside” by Gustavo_C. Creative Commons 0. November 19th, 2024. Freesound.org. https://freesound.org/people/Gustavo_C/sounds/768871/
“Fire being started and crackling.wav” by SavReese. Creative Commons 0. October 29th, 2021. Freesound.org. https://freesound.org/people/SavReese/sounds/595483/
“Gallant.Alabama.BarredOwl.wav” by JPBILLINGSLEYJR. Creative Commons 0. April 25th, 2019. Freesound.org. https://freesound.org/people/JPBILLINGSLEYJR/sounds/467414/
I added ambiance reverbs to the music and the owl, I changed some volumes, and I added fading in and out to the beginning and end of the music, birds, rain, fire, and owl.
This is my audio project so far. I did the whole thing by accident but oh well. I am making a scene of someone in the forest starting a fire after the rain cleared. I used some background music and bird, rain, fire starting, and owl sound effects.
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/lightning-traveler/origin-1/distantmp3-1
https://freesound.org/people/JPBILLINGSLEYJR/sounds/467414
https://freesound.org/people/SavReese/sounds/595483
“At the Rave”
Spring 2025
Made with Photoshop
I made this image inspired by the picture of the jumping ferret. He looks like he is having fun and what better place then a rave in the forest. I added him to the dance floor on fire and other animal friends and people around him. I wanted to explore as many parts of Photoshop as possible in this image including gradient filters, patterns, stamps, and more to give it a party-like look.
I used the following images:
“Jumping Black-footed Ferret” by USFWS Mountain-Prairie. Attribution 2.0 Generic. WikiMedia Commons. 24 January 2006. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jumping_Black-footed_Ferret_%285244105513%29.jpg
“Fire Dancer: Harrisburg, Pa” by Anthony Topper. Attribution (CC BY 2.0). Flickr. September 11, 2006. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ice5nake/240462265
“White flowers” by Alvesgaspar. Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. WikiMedia Commons. 20 April 2013. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White_flowers_b.jpg
I composited together an image of a ferret in a dance circle in a forest rave. I saw that the ferret was having fun and knew he would have been in the center of a dance circle. His dance moves are so great he is literally on fire and everyone is so in shock that all they can do is stand by and admire. This is the vibes I feel during forest raves.
Here are the links to my source images:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ice5nake/240462265
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jumping_Black-footed_Ferret_%285244105513%29.jpg
This is my composition that I created in Photoshop which I am new to. I chose to use the shape tool and the paint brush to make a black cat with green eyes in the night with the moon and the stars.
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