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On of the projects that I am most proud of would have to be my American Icon project. I am proud of this project because I made it my own, by taking a picture of myself, and also being a little creative and adding in other portraits that were made by my Icon, Frida Kahlo. I also am proud of my writing I had a little biography on Frida, and then I had a story about me ,after that I added why she was my icon and why I chose to use her in my project. I fit so much information onto one page so I think that was a good thing. I really liked that project, I was able to take something that I like and make a piece of art.

The way that I did all of this was by first doing a lot of research on my icon. I looked her up on the web, I got a book about her in the library, and I also got a movie on her. After I did all of that I started writing my paper, I had to do a lot of drafts for this project, and I also had to get them critiqued by people to help my writing get better. For my art piece the first thing I had to do was take a photo of myself working on art that I had made, after that I had to brainstorm on what I was going to do to that photo to make it creative.I took photos of artwork that Frida Kahlo and i meshed them together on photo shop and took that picture I took of myself and put it on top of the other pictures so it was a mix of her art and we doing my art.

Another project that I worked on and I am very, very proud of would have to be the water quality project. I mad a video in this project, it was very hard and I spent a lot of time on it. I am proud that I was patient and I was able to do all of the work I had to do on this project in order to finish it ans have a great product in the end. Plus by making this video I am sharing with people what I learned through going out and doing tests and a lot of research. I ended up making an informative video, and I am most definitely proud of that.

I had to do a lot of work to get to my final product, when I first started I did a lot of research of things I can use for my project. I had to make a lot of drafts for my video storyboard. It was good that I did this, I had to get my work critiqued by many people in my class not only by my peers but also my teacher Randy. The critiquing process is very good for anything that has to do with writing,because then you can do many drafts of your work, helping your product be the best it can be. After this whole process I had interviewed people like a doctor, and a surf shop owner, to get their input into my video. I also took a lot of pictures at the beach clean up as well as some footage of the beach cleanup. I made my video on Final cut pro it was very difficult to work on a program I was not familiar with but, i learned and I was patient so that was good. I had to stay after school hours to make this video great I even came to school on the weekends, I was very dedicated to this project an how my final product would come out.

Link to the project page, and my video
http://www.mediasavesthebeach.org/