Digital Media Blog

I decided to make my propaganda based on a logo I made for the previous project. I used a constructivist style with an attractive female to persuade my viewers. This project was one of my favorites and helped me gain a better understanding of Adobe Illustrator.

Keeping it clean and simple. Really happy with how my St. Pete Beach Records one turned out and my font choice on it as well.

I decided to take advantage of this project by making a poster for my band, 6STRING. I made everything out of lyrics from our original song "Heartless". 

I have never coded before in my life, so when I was assigned a project where I had to make a design with only coding, I was a little uneasy. However, with instruction and online tools I was able to put together a well thought out design through Adobe Dreamweaver. Enjoy.

This assignment was very fun but quite time consuming. I have estimated a total of 35 hours working on this animation, but in the end I have a finished product that I am proud of. Enjoy this quick animated fight scene by yours truly.

Based on "Slinky Dog" from Toy Story. Enjoy

 This assignment was probably one of the most intriguing so far. Being able to repair a damaged photo is definitely a good skill to have, and I am glad that I had the opportunity to learn it. Enjoy this time lapsed screen recording that I took as well as a before and after at the end.

This assignment was really exciting as I have never really used photoshop before nor have I shaded forms before. Believe it or not I went to do this assignment on a day that the cage was closed, so I was unable to rent out a tablet and stylus. My peers and I went with it and did the entire assignment with just a mouse. Here are the steps I took. Above you can see my basic outlines of the figures. The arrows indicate the direction of light.  Next I went through and did the basic process of shading using my five custom swatches. Later I go through once again bringing the opacity down to 50% to really get rid of those sharper blends. Finally I use a mixer brush to really blend the different swatches and make it a smoother transition from one to the other. On the right you can also see the different layers I used to keep this process efficient and organized. I have a background layer, a form layer, and a shading layer. Here we have the fini...

Hello. My name is Michael Calandra and I am a first year Film student at the University of Tampa. I was born on August 29th, 2000 (yes, today is my birthday) in St. Petersburg, Florida. I first became interested in film when I bought my first iPad in 7th grade. I downloaded the app “iMovie” for a whopping five dollars and became instantly hooked. I would make videos for every single class assignment that I could think of as opposed to the traditional Powerpoint approach like everyone else. Then came high school. I finally grew out of iMovie and began to work on some more intensive programs such as Final Cut Pro X and Adobe Premiere Pro. My videos started to look more professional and complete and I realized that this would be something that I would love to do for the rest of my life. Throughout high school I kept devoting myself to the TV production program and eventually became certified in both softwares mentioned above. Now comes college. My first class experience in Di...