For my tech project I made a video on how to create a sample on FL Studio. In the first quarter I created a beat on Fl studio. This was my favorite project. I expanded upon this by learning how to sample in my free time. I took one of my favorite songs then found the tempo of the song. I then singled out the part of the song by using a plug in called slicex. After this I had to delete the everything else in the song. That is how to sample. 

For my reflection piece I did a video on how to use a Smore Flyer. Smore is a website that really helped me out during this year in various projects. It's really easy to get all your information up on the flyer while looking visually appealing. I really do like all the options that Smore offers while creating a flyer. The technology I used to create my reflection video is TechSmith which records your screen and audio. During my rough draft I was a dummy and I hadn't realized that it was recording my audio. I had just wrote out my explanations in the text boxes and when I looked back at the video I heard everyone talking. So that was a lesson that I learned... to pay more attention. My final draft I took that into consideration, went to a quieter place and tried recording there. The mic is really sensitive and I wish it didn't. But overall, TechSmith is a cool extension that I can use in the future and I'm happy that I got to work with it now.  

Before I started this project I barely knew anything about coding. At first I had actually tried another software but I had no luck and then tried game maker. Things such as coding seemed to be hard but it was actually really easy and fast. Things I learned were that of how to make sprites and set instructions for them to act on. I found that every single action needed a command to work and this helped me have a small peak at those people that devote their lives to making video games. Even sound needed to be created as there was none if you did not add it. A small mistake would cause the game to stop working and would require you to check where you made the mistake. These mistakes are the ones that make glitches in the large games that we see around. I also learned how to convert files from one format to another in order to make the game work. At the end I found that to be able to publish the game on different software you had to pay but there was one format that worked which was for windows.