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Creating My Own Documentary
Assigned a final project, I now get to create my own mini documentary about any topic of my choosing. With so much to choose from, I wanted to do some final research before narrowing down some topic ideas. The Bare Bones Camera Course for Film and Video by Tom Schroeppel Chapter Seven: Lighting In this…
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Continuity: Creating A Tutorial
This week, I will be going over everything I learned involving continuity editing, defined by Adobe as using “a variety of classic film editing techniques to blend multiple camera shots — some taken at different times or even different locations — into a seamless, consistent narrative” (What is continuity editing in film?). In an effort…
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The Place I Love Most: A Photoessay
Every year I have the chance to visit my grandparents in the beautiful island of Puerto Rico. Visiting every year, I have grown to become more and more comfortable here. While I often took these visits for granted in the past, I recently went and captured so many great memories. These images reflect some of…
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Editing A Video Montage
To create a video montage, I first wanted to understand both pre and post-production to the best of my ability before starting the project. While my previous blog post covered all kinds of information regarding pre-production, this post will cover post-production: my challenges, the editing process, and my overall thoughts on creating this project. The…
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How Behavioral Economics Shapes the Things We Click, Buy, and Love
Brands today have unlocked new ways of engaging newer audiences and luring them into buying products that they’ve never seen before. How do they do it? Well, besides the power of social media, the power of behavioral economics has constantly been proven to persuade customers into buying newer products! Behavioral economics studies how people actually…
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Montages: What To Know!
The Bare Bones Camera Course for Film and Video, Tom Schroeppel Chapter One: Basics In the opening chapter, Schroeppel lays out the essential building blocks of filmmaking—exposure, lenses, and depth of field. He compares the camera to the human eye, showing how it can move beyond simple observation to become a tool for storytelling. I…
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Designing Emotion: How Design Adds Value in the Experience Economy
In an economy where consumers increasingly pay for experiences rather than just goods or services, design has quietly become one of the most powerful value creators. Designers, now, can be seen as architects of value, not just aesthetics. Design creates value through emotional connection. Don Norman’s ideas of emotional design helps explain why: great experiences…
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Production: What I’ve Learned
Every time I get into a new project, there is always something new to learn about the production process. Not every project is the same, and some may have to be done differently than others – which is okay!! I’ve done some research on recording and editing audio for my upcoming podcast, Let’s Have a…
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Seeing the Future: How Design Fiction Turns Stories into Visual Worlds
Designers are constantly asked to imagine the future — sleeker products, smarter systems, faster solutions. But imagination alone isn’t enough; it needs form, context, and meaning. That’s where design fiction comes in. Design fiction blends storytelling with design practice, using narrative and visual artifacts to make speculative futures feel real enough to explore. Instead of…
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A Trip to LA: How Digital Pictures Tell a Story
We all know the classic saying, “pictures are worth a thousand words”. But have you ever thought about how true the saying actually is? Taking pictures on my digital camera has become one of my favorite hobbies recently. The pictures on my camera range from beautiful scenery to pictures of my friends and family. My…
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Module One: Getting Started
As a semi-beginner editor of both video and audio, I want to make sure I know everything I need to know to create my own content. In this module, lots of research was done on sound itself, and I was able to better understand how podcasts are first created! Understanding Sound The Bare Bones Camera…
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From Swipe to Shelter: Using Customer Journey Maps to Improve the Adoption Process
Adopting a pet is much more than a transaction — it’s an emotional journey. What if we treated that journey with the same empathy and design thinking used in UX? A customer (or user) journey map helps us narrate someone’s path, see their motivations, frustrations, and “aha” moments. What are Journey Maps?! A journey map,…
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Ideation Techniques, and How I Use Them
Ideation is a crucial part of the design thinking process, allowing designers to generate a wide range of possible solutions for user problems (Interaction Design Foundation). In this exercise, I explored ideation techniques to address six POV statements related to iMovie, CapCut, and Instagram. My approach focused on using at least two different ideation techniques…
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Understanding the POVs of App Users
No one usually thinks to dive deep into popular apps’ ratings and reviews on the app store. So that’s exactly what I did 🙂 Digging into these reviews, I realized how much this user feedback can actually teach us about defining design problems. This project walked me through that process, from collecting raw comments to…
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Creating Personas To Better Understand Users
When moving along the design thinking process, many designers turn to creating ‘personas’ to help better understand their potential users. Defined by the Interaction Design Foundation, “Personas are fictional characters, which you create based upon your research to represent the different user types that might use your service, product, site, or brand in a similar way,”…
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Reviewing Empathic Research Methods
One thing I’ve learned in design and media is that empathy isn’t just about being “nice” or “understanding.” It’s about actually putting yourself in someone else’s shoes so you can design things that work for them—not just what you think they need. And honestly, that’s harder than it sounds. That’s why empathy research is such…
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Scrolling with Feelings: What Instagram vs. Pinterest Teaches Us about UX/UI
As an avid social media user, have you ever thought about why you enjoy your favorite apps? Is it accessibility? It’s features? The visually-appealing layouts? These ideas heavily relate to User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI), with UX relating to one’s emotional experience and attitudes relating to a product or service, and UI referring…
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Design Sprints: A New Experience
I just recently learned about design thinking, an innovative way of thinking about user experience. Now, when I first heard the term design sprint for an assignment, I’ll admit I felt a little intimidated. The idea of compressing brainstorming, problem-solving, and prototyping into such a short amount of time sounded like a challenge. But once…
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What Even is Design Thinking?!
Once a complete stranger to the world of design thinking, I did a bit of research to familiarize myself with this new term. I am inviting you to watch this Ted Talk of Tim Brown, the godfather of design thinking. The CEO of IDEO talks about the difference between design and design thinking, and just…
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“Style Files” – How I Created a Short Video Series for the First Time
In the span of seven weeks, I created my own mini video series called “Style Files”; consisting of three ten-minute videos, each covering a timeless fashion piece. Explaining their histories, how they’re typically styled, and who wore them best, this series aims to inform my viewers on how these pieces survived through history. How Did…
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Writing for Social Media
How writing for interactive media can differ from platform to platform. When posting on social media, how would you describe the way you caption your posts or talk to your audiences? Is it conversation-like? Serious? This may also depend on the social media platform you use. To give examples, I drafted three posts on three…
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AI: Blessing or a Curse?
Using AI to create a blog entry. How personal can it get?
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Digital Media is Killing the Fashion Industry
Digital media has forever impacted how fashion magazines are viewed. How can print survive in today’s digital age?
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Finishing Up A Dream Project
Creating Style Files has been nothing but a breeze. With a few work-related hiccups along the way, Style Files is officially completed! When creating this series, I was a bit nervous with going outside of my comfort zone. I mean, isn’t everyone?! I was a bit nervous to actually sit in front of my camera and actually film, even…
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Ready to Launch! In 5… 4…
After such a useful and productive project management experience, I couldn’t be more ready to launch my mini series. This week, we focused on post-production! Editing has become one of my favorite things to do, so focusing on this task wasn’t difficult at all. After spending hours of researching the software Capcut, I couldn’t be more…
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Putting the Pieces Together
It’s officially one of my favorite parts of a production project: finally gathering the pieces to put everything together! This week, I’ve gathered lots of materials to help my post-production process go by smoothly. Creating my scripts beforehand heavily helped with this, as I knew which images or music to grab for editing! Keeping up…
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Pre-Production: Finally Setting Up Shop!
I’ve never been so excited to begin a project as much as this one. With this project, I am aiming to be as prepared and organized as I can be, something I’ve never tried before with previous projects. Through this course, I have learned that being prepared with everything beforehand can only benefit you! Any…
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Project Management… Let’s Try It Again!
After figuring out my final idea last week, I’ve never been more excited for a project. The next step into this exciting idea is organizing my thoughts and tasks into one place. Although I want to hurry and begin the production of this project, project management is one of the most crucial steps in making…
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“Style Files”: Creating A Video Series Proposal
Upon joining my new Content Creation class, I was assigned to think of my “Dream Project”; something I’ve been longing to create that must be created in just 140 hours (20 hours a week). When initially thinking of my idea, I began to think a bit broad. My first initial idea was creating a video…