As the year ends we are close to presenting our final project for the year! For my senior capstone I decided to be a bit more creative with myself. I chose to do special effects makeup (sfx), because of my capstone I believe it allowed me to demonstrate of what I am capable of doing and also I believe it’s a fun way of being creative. What I did for project was make two videos, one of the process and the other of all the final looks. Each look took me about an hour and half to create. In the video everything is sped up so it wouldn’t be a long video when someone is watching it. I created three different looks but similar at the same time, they were all horror and gore. The first one I created was a scary clown and I used my brother as the model for it. The second look I created was a torn off face and the last look I created was monster with scary teeth. Both those I created on myself. From creating this project I learned that there is another side of just using regular makeup, there is also other ways to be creative and that hopefully this can inspire others to try something different.

Capstone proposal

  For senior project, our  main a focus was on the African root connection because this club is  create a school family for the student through learning about our African cultural roots and this club have every aspect of Africaness also we had non -African student who want learn about  African Cultures. Africa is broadly divided in to five as regions but were focsed on two regions the East and west African coutries history and culturies.

 Many SLABeeber students have prejudices about life in Africa.  They believe people from Africa wear long dresses and all African immigrants cover their heads.   

SLABeeber students from Africa have been asked questions like “Why do you cover your head?”, “Why don’t you speak English”, “Do you wear clothes in Africa” and called names like “African Booty Scratcher” and told “Go back to Africa!” and “If you took off your hijab, you’d be pretty”.  The best way to help people understand African culture is to teach them about it. With our African Culture Club, we helped students learn about African cultural clothing and food. We planned activities like attending educational presentations and cooking African food.

Our club helped students learn how to make injera, a local African flatbread. Students at SLABeeber now have a better understanding of African culture because we taught them the reasons behind the food we eat and the clothes we wear.  The club members were so surprised to learn why we cover the heads. Our club members know to understand the traditions of Africa.

My Senior Capstone is a meaningful photography portfolio that brings together components from our community and neighborhood, as well as familiar aspects to the overall students body. By doing this for my capstone project, I will be engaged in a topic of interest, and, mainly, delving into the entrepreneurial aspect of photography as a skill. By the end, I hope to have learned basic knowledge of photography as an art and as a career. This project will enable me to start, if ever, a career in photography. In the beginning of the thinking process,  I was thinking that I would just read and study into photography to write my paper, and put together pictures to show in an exhibit. Now, I now think that maybe a portfolio would be a better representation of myself in my project, because I am not a very outspoken and “out-there” type of person, so getting together what I would need for a large photography exhibit would require certain things that is difficult for me to muster. Pertaining to what I previously said and many of the other hiccups along the way, you can guess that I had many different ideas for my capstone, but what I decided on in this final project really is the best thing I could do for myself - for a capstone, and for my future in photography. Below is the online portfolio that has the same pictures as the physical portfolio.

Online Portfolio: https://msmith884.wixsite.com/photomercy