Draft Audio Story

 

Since my blog is mostly about traveling, so for this Audio story assignment, I planned to talk about my experience of visiting Australia with my family during last Christmas holiday. The reason I want to make this my topic is I love traveling so much and I used to live in Perth when I was little, so Perth is always my second home with all my family members. I would love to share my story of traveling back to Perth with my classmates and hopefully you guys will like it and want to travel to Perth too!

First of all, I interviewed my boyfriend two questions about the trip with me and my family to Australia and then I collected all the audio recordings of myself and him into a folder. I added all my recording files and placed each recording on its own track on adobe audition. I changed the position of my recordings to put them together by using the move tool at the top toolbar. I deleted some of my recordings by using the razor tool next to the move tool, but for the small part, I just used the move tool to drag the last bit of the clip inward. When this part is finished, I realized my recording is too short, so I decided to record myself a little more. When I’m done with the recording, I clicked on “mute” button on the left side of my recording track to listen to only one track each time, which is my new recording. I used the razor tool to remove my pauses and some unnecessary words such as “hum” “so” to make it sound better. After editing all my recording into the right position, I could finally add the music to my recording.

I found my music on http://www.orangefreesounds.com”, since we are not allowed to download copyrighted music, I found this website where we could download music for free and it is also permitted for other uses. After I am done choosing the music I want to use, I added the music file to my project, dragged the music to a new track. I then moved the music to the beginning of my project, so that I could hear the music before my recording starts. In order to make sure that my sound effects could blend well with my other recordings, I adjusted the volume by moving the yellow line down to make it lighter. Later on I realized I need to change the effect of the sound to make it blend in better, therefore, I faded the sound by clicking the top left square and made an arc to make the sound go lighter. I also did this at the beginning of the music.

In conclusion, I really enjoyed doing this project, the audio tutorial is very helpful, I kept on going back to the tutorial videos to check if I’m doing right. The most challenging part of making this audio draft was to adjust the sound and the volume. Because I did my recordings at different time, my voice sounds different, therefore I had to keep moving the yellow line up and down to make sure my voice sounds the same. I am so proud of myself for making this and hope you guys like it!

Raw Audio Footage

 

 

 

For this Audio assignment, I am planning to talk about my experience of visiting Australia with my family during last christmas holiday. The reason I want to make this my topic is I love to travel and I used to live in Perth when I was little, so Perth is my second home with all my family members. I would love to share my story of traveling back to Perth with my classmates and hopefully they will like it and want to travel to Perth too!

Audition Tutorials

Final Logo Project

 

I always wanted to have my own ice cream shop since I was a little girl. Therefore, for this logo process, I decided to design a unique logo for my own ice cream shop. The ice cream on the left represents the purpose of the shop and the texts on the right is creative since scoop could mean “scoop of ice cream”, so it is easier for consumers to understand. the logo is colorful and lovely but not too complicated, the combination of the pink heart and blue texts gives customers a sweet and warm effect, so it may attract more customers. I searched ice cream shop logo on google images, and it gave me many ideas of how to create my own logo. From my point of view, my logo effectively represents my topic and function of the shop and it also has my own name in it.

For the process of making this logo draft, first of all, I set my logo sketch drawing as background so I can clearly see the shape and texts of the logo, I clicked tool and selected pen on top of the left corner to sketch the shape. I sketched the shape and texts of the logo so it would look exact the same to my original logo sketch. After that, I removed my background and left my sketch along on illustrator. After these steps, I used marker and pen tool to adjust the shape and line a little bit clearer. I also adjusted the positions and curves of the logos to make it look better. For the apple on top of the ice cream, I just simply used the shape tool. And after I finished with the shapes and words, I made sure that they are all closed shapes so I could use the tool paint to color them. One of the difficulties I encountered making this logo is that it was pretty hard to use my laptop to sketch the shape, so the logo isn’t detailed enough. It took me a long time to sketch the shape of my logo because I want the size and text could be exactly the same to my original design, therefore, I adjusted a lot and did it for few times.

After reading through the feedback from the members in my group, I found the suggestions very helpful for me to improve my Logo Design Project. I received suggestions such as to remove the purple heart after the word “Scoop” and redesign the light blue line to form a heart shape around the text, to change the background color, to modify the font of the text to create a stronger visual effect. For example, to “Bold” the text in order to create a thicker line for the words, and strengthen the contrast between the background and graphic pictures. I made some changes according to the comments. Firstly, I did a new logo sketch draft based on all the suggestions I received, I took a picture of it in order to sketch it on illustrator. After I am done, I inserted this picture as background on illustrator, I sketched the new shape of the logo. I changed the ice cream border over my text to a heart shape and removed the small purple heart altogether to make the logo bigger to attract more audiences. At the same time, I decided to strengthen the contrast between my background and graphic pictures, because right now my background seems a bit empty as the background color is a simple white color, so I want to paint it with some other colors in order to create a contrast to my logo. Therefore, I used the color tool to insert pink into my heart to make it brighter. I tried to make my texts bold in order to create a bigger contract, I used the text tool and changed the character and text. However, the heavy black color was too dark and thick to match my design, therefore, I didn’t change the font of the text. I used more colors into my logo to make it brighter and more colorful. In my opinion, it is always good to play around some colors and to make contrast in order to give the audiences more visual effects and to make the logo more appealing to gain attentions. For these two logo designs, I avoided small text and greatly different proportions. I didn’t use any images for this logo, and I made sure this logo could work in both large and small sizes.

In conclusion, I had so much fun creating this logo design project. I always wanted to have my own logo and now I have made it! In the meantime, I learned how to use illustrator to create the logo. It was very hard to sketch the shape, adjust the line, and to redesign the logo and decide what color to use, but I did it based on the useful suggestions from my classmates and what I have learned in the illustrator tutorials. Pretty sure I will be using my illustrator skills again to create more fun stuff in the future!

Logo Design

I always wanted to have my own ice cream shop since I was a little girl. Therefore, for this logo process, I decided to design a unique logo for my own ice cream shop. The ice cream on the left represents the purpose of the shop and the texts on the right is creative since scoop could mean “scoop of ice cream”, so it is easier for consumers to understand. the logo is colorful and lovely but not too complicated, so it may attract more customers. I searched ice cream shop logo on google images, and it gave me many ideas of how to create my own logo. From my point of view, my logo effectively represents my topic and function of the shop and it also has my own name in it.

In order to make this logo, first of all, I set my logo sketch drawing as background so I can clearly see the shape and text of the logo, I clicked tool and selected pen on top of the left corner to sketch the shape. I sketched the shape and texts based on the background so the logo could look exact the same to my original logo sketch. After that, I removed my background and left my sketch along on illustrator. After these steps, I used marker and pen tool to adjust the shape and line a little bit clearer. I avoided small text and greatly different proportions for this logo design. And I didn’t use any images for this logo. I made sure this logo could work in both large and small sizes. In addition, I adjusted the positions and curves of the logos to make it look better. For the apple on top of the ice cream, I just simply used the shape tool. And after I finished with the shapes and words, I made sure that they are all closed shapes so I could use the tool paint to color them.

One of the difficulties I encountered making this logo is that it was pretty hard to use my laptop to sketch the shape, so the logo isn’t detailed enough. It took me a long time to sketch the shape of my logo because I want the size and text could be exactly the same to my original design, therefore, I adjusted a lot and did it many times.

In conclusion, I had so much fun creating this logo design project. I always wanted to have my own logo and now I have made it! In the meantime, I learned how to use illustrator to create the logo. It was very hard to sketch the shape and adjust the line, but I did it based on what I have learned in the illustrator tutorials.

Logo Sketch

I always wanted to have my own ice cream shop since I was a little girl. Therefore I decided to design a unique logo for my ice cream shop. The ice cream on the left represents the purpose of the shop and the texts on the right is creative since scoop could mean “scoop of ice cream”, so it is easier for consumers to understand. the logo is colorful and lovely but not too complicated, so it may attract more customers.

Illustrator Tutorial