The next big milestone on the Fellows calendar is the presentations we will give to the school next Friday. Naturally, since the final product of my project will be a video series, I wanted to have a QR code in my presentation for students to scan if they were interested. I quickly realized that if I wanted students to see my Youtube channel, I should have my channel ready to be looked at. And thus began the mad dash to make my channel presentable. I first found information from some of my favorite Youtube channels. I chose to model my logo and banner after the styles of other documentary/educational channels, like Watcher, Abstract, and Fern. I noticed that these channels typically had their name in the banner with some background image, and a profile picture that was the first letter in their title. Once I had my concept in mind, I found a royalty free photo of a Greek temple that had the right composition, color scheme, and general vibe. I uploaded this photo into my drawing app, found a font I liked for the text, and created a logo. I chose to make my logo resemble a Greek column, which seemed like an easily recognizable symbol for ancient Greece. I also chose to vaguely shape my column like the letter A, the first letter in Academia. I ended up using this logo as my profile picture, and used all of these images to update my Youtube channel. I also updated this blog to better match the identity of my channel. Finally, I added a link to my Youtube channel so that subscribers could find this website easily. I am overall very happy with how everything turned out, and I think it sets the tone for my channel well. 

My project has been coming along smoothly. I had my Winter Work Review this past Wednesday, and in preparation, I put together my approximate timeline for the next few months. For some reason, when I made my slide show, I thought that senior classes ended in April, not May. Luckily, this mistake only gives me more time to accomplish the most time consuming stage of my process, but I'll get to that in a bit. First, I plan to begin filming over the long weekend, and to continue over the months of January and February (if necessary). From past experience, the filming portion shouldn't actually take too long, so I will hopefully have all of my videos recorded within a month. This is made a lot easier by the fact that my set is right in my dining room, giving me easy access. After filming wraps, I will move onto the stage that I predict will be the most time consuming: the editing. I plan to use Adobe Premiere Pro over the months of February, March, and April. All of the videos should be fully edited by the beginning of May, but I should have time if needed to continue editing into May. The last phase of my project will take place in May, when I will upload all of my videos onto Youtube and write the research paper that will synthesize all of the research I have done over the past 6 months. I can't believe this project is already over halfway over, but I am so excited to be creative while I finish making my videos!