GO LEAFS GO

Toronto Maple Leafs top of the League

So this picture just shows that leafs can make it to the top of the league. So there could be a good chance that they can finally make it to playoffs or even better win the Stanley Cup :) That would make my year! I know there is a lot of people who dislike the leafs now or make fun of me for it but I don't care. I am a fan that won't back down! They are 11th on the list now but its only the beginning!!

Bark of the Forest

Bark of the Forest. Etobicoke, Ontario

Rocks of the Path

Rocks of the Path. Etobicoke, Ontario

That One Place, That One Memory

Do you ever want that one place that you can escape to and for once you can feel at peace with no worries, problems and remember who you really are? I have yet to find that peaceful place I can visit to whenever I feel stressed or down but I have visited some places that have made me feel exactly that. For an example, Rest Bay, Porthcawl, South Wales. A seaside my family go to at least once when we visit. It's not a trip to Wales if we haven't been to that particular beach. When we drive up and I begin to see the rocks that remind me of climbing on when I was a child trying to find interesting sea creatures that were left behind in the tide or when I would smell the sea air or see those waves that reminded me of the fun days swimming there,  I feel complete. It's weird how one beach can make me feel that way but at this beach there is so much history in my family for generations. My mom had holidays there when she was a child and my Nana also did and so on. I remember all those day trips with the family there were we set up our umbrella, beach chairs, blankets beside a area with a a big puddle of left over water when the tide went out, and awesome rock area to climb. Oh being a kid again, when you can spend hours playing in your own imagination.When I walk along the water line with my shoes sinking in the sand and watching the waves just lets me think all my problems away. No city noises or crowds of people just the sound of the waves and the wind blowing. This kind of moment I call peaceful. Just wish you can have more of those peaceful moments in life.  This is year I also enjoyed taking pictures and found enjoyment. I am not a professional photographer or have a fancy expensive camera but I can see my pictures being beautiful. Rest Bay, Porthcawl, South Wales is on my top ten lists of peaceful places to visit. 

I also remember this one moment where I met a girl. I was really young so it surprises me I still remember that one moment. It's just a flash of it but every time I go there I am reminded of that mement. I tell that story every time I visit there whoever is with me. I wonder if anyone has noticed I mention it every time or its just not as interesting to them as it is to me so they forget. But I will never forget it. The tide was in and when the tide was fully in, there was no sand to walk on so you stand on some rocks and watch the waves. I remember standing on this one rock and I was throwing in pebbles into the water when this girl came up beside me. I remember her telling me her name was Jenna and we became best friends instantly. You know when you are young and you could make best friends in a second with meeting them. It was one of those moments. The last thing I can see in that flash of memory is us throwing pebbles into the sea. Why does that moment make me smile every time I visit there and it reminds me of it? I really don't know but it's a memory that I know that will always make me smile no matter what. It must of been special to be a memory that I haven't forgotten about and never will.

Rocks of the Sea

Rest Bay, Porthcawl, South Wales

time to make mistakes

When I was traveling back to Canada from Wales, on the plane they had Twilight: Eclipse on. If you have seen it, the part where they have their graduating ceremony the girl makes a speech. She mentions in her speech that this is the time to make mistakes. Right now in my life I am scared about the future and what is going to happen. I worry about this program I am in, if this is a mistake and I worry about if I am going to be able to perform for my internship or possible future job. When I heard that one line it made me think that I am allowed to make mistakes. Maybe this course is not for me so its a mistake to learn from. Now I will have a better idea what I like or what I am good at. I can take that and use it to help make future decisions. Even when I was choosing a course to take at college I still had no idea what I wanted to do as a career. Believe it or not I still don't know what I want to do. It scares me because I don't know what my next move should be. Should I move forward and take a big step or wait and see if anything pops up. In the next couple of months I might have to make big choices that can change my life. Its frightens me to death because I am not positive on what I want in life. I know I want a job that makes me happy, a husband and family, a nice home in a nice community. But those are the easy things to know what you want in life it's the specific that's hard. Where to live, what job to have and who to marry. How do you know you are making the right choices. All I want is something to fall into place and tell me I am going the right direction. But also it's not like I am 30 years old with kids and stuck. I am young, I can live in this country and then if I decide it's not what I want I can move somewhere else. I have time to stay in school and continue my education. I have time to find that right job and the right person. I have time to make mistakes!!

First Year Projects

Here are some projects I did in my first year in the Multimedia Design and Production Technician program which is based on the Interactive Media and the Internet of today. Majority of them were created using Adobe Flash CS4. I also use Adobe programs such as, Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4, Adobe Illustrator CS4 and Adobe Fireworks CS4. Just getting into Adobe CS5 which was just released in April 2010. I don't have any of my website projects using Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 because I feel I don't have a good project in it that I want to share yet. One day I will though but not from first year.  This will give people an idea what I do in this program.

This project was done in Adobe Flash CS4. We had to pick either an artist or photographer and create a Flash Photo Site based on them and their work. This was done on a friend of mine who started off photography as a hobby and now is enrolled in a Photography course. I would like this project to be better then it is but the time I had to work on it I was not able to complete everything I wanted.


http://jennahooper.com/Classes/w10/120/FINAL/photoSite.html

This project was also done in Adobe Flash CS4. We had to pick either an Album Cover, DVD Cover or Game Cover and make it interactive. I choose the Mario Party 8 for the Wii because I enjoy playing the game but also because the characters are well known and it has many soundtracks to use for the sound. Again I would of liked to added a lot more interactive things to this project but this is what I have. This has sound.

http://jennahooper.com/Classes/w10/120/InteraticeCover.html

This project was also done in Flash CS4. We had to a Digital Video Clock by filming images or objects that have the number 0 to 9 and it was to give you the time that was on your computer of the hours, minutes and seconds. Using Adobe Illustrator CS4 I took famous paintings and did a clip mask to have the painting inserted in the text number. So when you are viewing it look closely for the famous paintings and see if you recognize most of them.

http://jennahooper.com/Classes/w10/410/video-clock.html

This project also was done in Flash Adobe CS4 but also used Adobe Photoshop CS4. We had to take this Trunk Monkey Commercial Video and encode it to work in Flash. We also had to design a way to present it. I put the video in an image of a TV and had other images surrounding it to make it like an advertisement but on the Internet. Make sure to watch the actual commercial because it will make you laugh. This has sound.

http://jennahooper.com/Classes/f09/222/monkey.html

This project was done in Flash Adobe CS4 but also used Adobe Photoshop CS4. We had to encode a video and make a frame for it in Flash and a video controller for it. Mine is a Lego Matrix video and the video controller isn't working perfectly but it was the best I could do. This has sound.


http://jennahooper.com/Classes/w10/410/Video%20Controller/video.html

This project isn't one of my bests for the design but it was done in Adobe Flash CS4 and I also used Adobe Photoshop CS4. We had to pick a place that people travel to and make a mini Flash website for the information of the place. I picked London England not only because it is one of my favorite cities I have traveled to but people do like to travel to England who like history.

http://jennahooper.com/Classes/w10/120/TravelSite.html

This project was the first step to the final project. I used Adobe Fireworks CS4 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 to create these designs.We had to brainstorm a design for a restaurant called Saffron and create a Flash website on the design chosen. All three of my designs are different and have no similarity. The first one is for a classy and professional luxurious restaurant. The second one is for a modern restaurant even though majority of people's opinions were it looked like a design for a Chinese restaurant. The third design is for the young generation bringing more entertainment to the restaurant. The first one is the one that I ended up doing for the final project. Majority of people gravitated towards it more. My favorite part of the first design is the Logo.

 

These two designs were only a small part of the Sketchbook Project. I used  Adobe Illustrator CS4 for this project. This part of the project we had to do some of our own Sketches for the Media. The Roxy Effect is similar to the Clothing Brand Roxy but it's suppose to be like the next generation of it. I drew the heart on myself and using the programs font for the text. The Pink Floyd design could be a design for a new album for the band. In class we were learning Illustrator and I randomly designed the traingle and thought it could be used for this. I picked Pink Floyd because the use triangles in most of there album covers or posters. For example the Dark Side of the Moon.