Hey! I’m Ethan Watkins! I am in XLab at One Stone. I love art, books, space, youtube and editing. Editing has always been a passion of mine that recently became very prominent in my life recently. I love making friends and just being nice in general. Editing was one of the biggest parts of my T-popper, and I feel like it just keeps growing. The reason that I have really started to be pushed to edit is because of Two Birds.
During my time at One Stone, I started going to an after pi activity called Flight School. This was really exciting for me because I have always loved using the Adobe programs and I thought that it would be a great experience for me to learn how to use them further to my ability. I learned that I was also the most interested in Adobe Premiere Pro, and I thought that since Covid-19 is a thing, I have more time at home to learn. I learned a lot of editing techniques that I actually used in one of my youtube videos. This video shows off a lot of editing techniques I learned. I feel like I was really able to get creative with my video and I really got excited because without One Stone I wouldn’t have discovered that my passion for editing is actually really big. It has also helped me gain more subscribers on my youtube channel because I can now make my videos more engaging and entertaining. This overall has helped me make stuff that people love, and that’s what makes me happy! I feel like this is doing good for people because I am inspiring and I feel like I am helping people grow channels and making people happy. I also feel like i'm doing good by making people happy.
The way that Two Birds has pushed me is by telling me to try new things, even when I don’t think I would like it. I’m so grateful for One Stone, because if I never found it, I probably would not have loved editing as much as I do now! Being good to me means to make people happy, and help people out. My artifact is really reflective of that because when I made it, I meant for it to entertain and bring joy. I also received a lot of help and gave feedback while working on it. This experience reflects on how much I feel like people don’t push themselves enough. I feel like people have started to give up way too fast and that makes it so they never try anything new. In my project I tried to do something new, and now I have a new passion. I just want to make people happy, and to inspire people to try. That’s why I feel like I'm doing good for people. This artifact can inspire people to do good through making people happy and teaching people. I learned that when I make something people enjoy, it’s really inspiring to them. I feel like this makes me really happy. This can inspire people to teach and make people happy. I have learned that I have a real passion for editing and making people happy. I feel like over the next ten weeks that I would want to incorporate adobe software into my work that I do. I am really excited to see how much I will change over the next ten weeks!
