Katie Conleys Blog

Pre-Production The First thing I had to do when it came to making my animation was coming up with a story and drawing the idea on a storyboard. I used the storyboard to visually see what I had to put into my animation to make sense. I think he hardest part about that process was figuring out what my plot was going to be. I had not very many ideas but after thinking for a very long time I decided that I would animate a story about a ghost that cannot walk through walls. Production The production was the most difficult part after all. I animated each scene individually and I out it onto Adobe Premier in order to put all of my clips together. I decided to first draw all of my scenes and characters in photoshop which took about two days. Then I out the photoshop files into After effect. Animating all of the things took the rest of the time. I found it very difficult to work with the puppet pin tool when I was editing the part where the ghosts hit the wall. Other than that it wen...

Young Author Publishes their Third Book Before the Start of Sophomore Year Olathe Northwest sophomore Lylena Estabine published her third book ever this past July. LyLena has been writing since fifth grade. In fifth grade she was a part of a special program that pushed students to read and write LyLena said,“ I believe that's where I got my start in writing.” LyLena first book was called Lose Cursed Secrets of the School. After that LyLena has published On the Bridge and A Special Kind of Magic. LyLenas most recent book is a dystopian novel about a boy named Colt and the struggles he faces in his world. LyLena said she got her inspiration for the book from hr everyday life“ I was really inspired by the two sides of the american conflict and turmoil,”,Estabine said. LyLena published this book by herself which means she has to do all of the marketing for it and all of the selling on her own. LyLena is currently working on her new book, but she does not necessarily want to...

Pre Production The first thing did as a group was decide who we wanted to interview. We decided to interview LyLena Estabine since she is our age and has already written three different books. After we figured that out we thought we would interview her freshman English teacher as well to add to the story. We created one storyboard which planned out where we were going to shoot. Then we came up with our twenty-one interview questions which were fairly easy to come up with since she has done a lot in life. We also planned out which days we were going to film and edit. Production I was the director and was in charge of the camera. It was really difficult to film because we did not have audio for awhile and we could not figure out how to get audio. So he had to enlist the help of Mr.Cooper and we just did not have the mic plugged into the right place. So we were a day behind because it took us an entire class period to figure out our technical issues. When we filmed the whole th...