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Sometimes it takes a while to figure out what you want to do in your life, and that’s OK. I certainly took the scenic route to get where I am. 
I am a part-time multimedia student with a love for animals and old iron. A career in veterinary medicine was out of the question (I don’t do well with blood!) and even thought I am a third-generation mechanic, that wasn’t something I wanted to do for a living. I took a year off after high school to gain experience in the workforce. One year turned into seven…but here we are. 
My love of photography comes from not finding the perfect shot taken by someone else. Lots of people enjoy taking pictures, but to get the exact shot that I wanted, I had to get it myself. If my trusty Canon T7 could talk, it would have a few stories to tell. From railroads to airplanes, kitties to horses, you’ll find me behind the lens on my adventures.

       -Student, Photographer, Railfan, Equestrian, Gearhead
By Molly Engelman

P1-About Me – Jake Burton

Hi, I’m Jake!

I’m a second year student at LCC. Initially I was pursuing an Associates of Arts Oregon Transfer degree here, with plans of transferring to another college in the future to pursue a degree in film study, but those plans changed recently. After the wonderful experience that was Jan Halvorsen’s ‘Drawing for Media’ class, along with many failed attempts at snagging one of Lane’s Film Arts classes, it has come to my attention that pursuing a career in animation may be preferable. Cartoons and video games always have and always will hold a special place in my heart, and I think it may be my goal to put myself within the industry of one or the other. The reason I say “I think” is because I am not yet certain if animation is the route for me. I am using this class, along with another to figure that out. The other class is called ‘Digital Design Tools’, and it seems to be primarily about learning how to use digital art programs such as Photoshop and Illustrator. Even if I discover that the media arts industry isn’t for me, at least that class will help me broaden my range of artistic capabilities. I’ve never been a particularly gifted artist, but I’d like to believe that expanding my skills and knowledge through various art (and media arts) classes will eventually help me find my outlet.

TL;DR, I’m at LCC to get better at art and figure out if want to pursue a career in it.

By: Jake Burton

P6 Final Project.

The difficult parts came when I started to edit the video. I first put all the clips in Premiere and edited them how I wanted but realized that it the video came out to be 3 minutes and 11 seconds. So I started to shave off some parts there we are walking or standing and speed up the driving sequences. Another frustrating part was at the very beginning and very end. When we were filming the beginning, I kept on messing up my lines and we were spending too much time on that one scene so I decided that I would just try to fix it in post but the final edit doesn’t sound too good in my opinion. I also had to rush the very end too because of time constraints so it looks and sounds very rushed. I did have fun editing though, my favorite arts of the video are when I edited one audio track over different shots. All in all I think my video would have been much more smooth and overall better if I didn’t have the time limit but I’m glad I could make it work within the 3 minutes.

The final

Wow was this frustrating. Adobe decided that on the day this was due, I needed an older version of my project without a lot of major edits. After fighting with it for quite a while, I resorted to working with what I had, so while this isn’t what I had planned originally it all turn out alright.

I find myself humming a lot of sea shanties at work these days, and I blame the Assassins’ Creed franchise for that entirely, so I thought it would be fun to take what I’ve learned from Audacity and see if I could bring one of these to life. I chose the song “Leave her Johnny” because it is one of the more flowing songs in my rotation and I figured it would sound beautiful on my flute. While trying to looking up the original version of the song, I found many different versions each with their own slightly different lyrics. This made it difficult to come up with a sound place to credit, so what I ended up doing was taking different versus from different versions to make my own version that tries to show the overall story the song tells.

“Leave her Johnny” is a song whose origin isn’t known, but can be traced back to the Ireland area in the early 1900’s. This isn’t a break up song, but rather a song sailors would sing towards the end of the voyage as they where getting ready to leave the sea and/or boat. Some versions tell of terrible working conditions, some sing about the joys of leaving the sea for land, while some seem to be convincing Johnny to leave the ship because their journey is over.

Overall, I hope you feel the same sense of wonder and contentment I do when listening to this song.

Here are a couple of articles if you want to read about what little information we have about this song.

https://www.classical-music.com/features/articles/leave-her-johnny-lyrics/

https://secondhandsongs.com/work/134240/all#nav-entity

And here are other versions sung, if you would like to listen.

P6 – Final Video

I really struggled to think of something to do for this video. I also ended up just not all that excited to work on it. Some of the stuff that happens in the video, like the picture flying away, wasn’t planed but I decided to run with it anyway. The comments about the cat in the rug story are referring to an actual event that happened with my roommates when we where moving. They ended up transporting my cat via a rug without their knowledge. He is perfectly fine and was not harmed at all. Most all the talking done by me, except for the beginning video, was done as voice overs. I want to thank my roommate Eli for his help holding the camera for the one shot I needed of myself and for providing his voice.

~By Jazlin Sobel