Sharing is Caring

Hello to all of my followers. This week, for class, I am to tell you how to share my blog with people you may know. If you enjoy my blog, you can send the link to a friend of yours that may like the shows that I summarize. You can also post a link to a blog post that I made if you would like. You can read all of my posts and then post on the social network of your choice that you love me and that my blog is “da bomb” or whatever you youngsters say. Basically, if you feel like sharing my stuff, that’s cool. If you don’t feel like it, that’s cool also. Free country, do whatever you want. Well I mean, within reason, let’s not get crazy. You shouldn’t do illegal things. Don’t drive & drive. That’s dumb. I’m rambling. Talk soon. Love you. Oops that was too personal. Bye. Sorry. Love you. Damn it.

GoAnimate

http://bit.ly/12iLqbP

I really did not like this assignment. The software was not user friendly. I make animations in animation software because I’m taking a class for it & this website made it pretty difficult to figure things out. It is hard to edit things compared to software.

BITLY

Here’s a link to my blog: http://bit.ly/1x3zgj7

I’m not too sure what I am supposed to talk about so I’ll wing it. This is a link to my blog. It was created on bitly.com. It is a website that shortens links for you. I think it’s a cool idea because if there is a character limit, this service is a great tool. I see Bitly links on Twitter all the time!

This week’s homework

I did this week’s homework last week on accident so if you’re looking for it, it’s called “The Family Guy Effect.”

Soooo I Posted Next Week’s Homework

Whoops!

I would say that Tumblr would be the best promotional tool for my blog. I use Tumblr all the time and I have noticed that people that use the website love television shows. I see a lot of Bob’s Burgers being blogged about or photosets of the show being posted. I also noticed a lot of Parks and Recreation on Tumblr as well. I just think that it would be beneficial to my blog to be shown on Tumblr. Tumblr people also watch way too much Netflix. I would know, I am one of those people. They watch so much Netflix and they post about it all the time as well.

If some of the people who followed my blog were to use Facebook as a social media tool instead of Tumblr, it may also be beneficial. Some of their close friends might check it out because they posted it so more people would see my blog. I have looked at some peoples’ blogs on Facebook before and I was not close with them but I still checked it out and that is all that matters. They were cool blogs and I am glad that they posted them onto Facebook.

Screencast Assignment

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I chose to do my assignment on a blog called “Project Gregory.” Again, like everyone else says, I hate hearing the sound of my voice when it has been recorded. I had never been to the blog before I did the screen recording so I was not very familiar with it. I do not go on blogs, not because I do not like them, I just don’t. I prefer websites, personally.

The actual recording was not difficult. I actually have a YouTube channel with my roommates where we record ourselves playing video games and upload them to YouTube. I don’t want to brag, but we have 19 subscribers so please don’t ask me for an autograph. But in all seriousness, I have had so much trouble in the past with recording screens and voices so I am a pro by now.

I used QuickTime to record my screen and the garageband app on my iPad to record my voice. I used Final Cut Pro to edit the audio and video together. I enjoy editing, it’s nice until you have to hear your voice a ton of times!

Something cool that a lot of people use screen recording software for is How To videos. I could not live with these videos because it is how I learn probably around 80% of the things that I do not know how to use. I think anybody can benefit from screen recording software, with the How To videos I was talking about before. I think that screen recording software is a very awesome tool.

I am not sure what Professor Bridges meant by “what creative projects could benefit from a screencast.”

I also realized that I was “interesting” probably 15 times and it really bothers me to listen to the video now haha. I do think that the screen casting software assignment could have been used for something better than critiquing a blog. I think we should have played a game or something, I think this assignment begs for people to be bored/boring. That’s just my opinion!

Designing the Header

I found all of these photos on Google Images. I made my header last week for my website. I did not use Pixlr because I made it ahead of time but I have decided to keep it. The header shows all of the television shows that I will be posting summaries of. The shows are in order of the days I will be releasing the recaps. Monday a will have Bob’s Burgers and Family Guy because they air on Sunday night. Tuesday will have 2 Broke Girls and American Dad because they air on Monday night. The rest of the week I will be summarizing one show a week. It was not very easy to make the header because I do not have proper photo editing software. I used Sketchbook Express to make it and the hardest part was splitting the header into seven equal parts. There was no tool in the editing application for me to measure it so it was done by eyeballing it. I had to try to find images that had the shape of a vertical rectangle so they could sort of fit into their respective box. I did the best that I could and used the “fill” tool to fill in the rest of the box with the background color. I am happy with the header because it is simple but it shows you what the blog is about. I think a good place to use photo editing software for me is in a class I am taking. I started taking Animation 2D this semester and it involves a lot of drawing. If I could use this knowledge of photo editing/creating in my animation class, I think it would be very beneficial to me. The part that came easy to me in designing the header was the actual design of it. I did not have a problem coming up with the final design that I wanted to use.