I'm Afraid of the Dark Documentary

The documentary assignments for the video projects was hard for me to come up with an idea at first. I kept trying to think of the ways I use technology throughout the day, for me that's mostly for school and to watch television and movies online. I couldn't think of anyway to make that interesting until I started thinking about the reason I constantly have a movie or TV show on in the background as I go throughout my day. The reason I do this stems from me being afraid of the dark. I have been since I was a little girl and in the documentary go into more detail of the reasons for this. I choose to use some appropriated footage in the introduction to give an atmosphere that could get people to relate to times they were scared. For this I used the introduction to the show Are You Afraid of the Dark? and the movie Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. To show how this phobia effects me throughout a night and relates to using technology in the form of TV and computer I showed examples of a night in the life of me. I think that this worked well because I was able to give a commentary over the video footage to explain myself.

Growth Cycle

For my own created Scratch project I decided to do an animation that might be a little easier than the game I created first. I drew the visual pictures on my own and used Photoshop to make the different fonts of the letters.

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Apple Picking

For this Scratch project I used a couple of other peoples scripts who had created a bubble popping game. I took the parts of their scripts that I could understand and that worked the way I wanted to and modified it into a game where you catch the falling apples. In the game you have 60 seconds to catch as many falling apples as possible, and when you click on them the graphic will change to a basket of apples when you have succeeded in catching it.

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