EMI IS NOW AN INSTAGRAM INFLUENCER

 Hey all!!! :D Hope you super awesome blog readers are having the most amazing spring break of ALL time right now! I know I am! I started it off with a crazy ass sleepover, spent the next couple of days locking in on this project and for AICE Global, and ending it off with a nice and breezy State MPA Jazz Band performance :]

oh also i'm in new york

wait before i yap look at my art

IM GENUINELY SO PROUD

otto lookin super cool and sinister

EMI IS IN NEW YORK? EMI IS IN NEW YORK

Yes! This is my 3rd time visiting the Big Apple but this time around it isn't for like a week ANDD WE'RE IN THE BRONX!! THEEEEE BRONXXXXX we've never been before and so far I would say we had a pretty nice experience despite what I've heard about this place in the past. Very different vibe from Manhattan but I'm still really loving it :] My mom, brother and I only pulled up here for a quick lil side quest, that being a really cool campus tour at Fordham University since my brother is maybe probably going to grad school there! Very prestige! My bloodline is filled with academic warriors!! Including myself even though I'm like that one video of IShowSpeed every single quarter! I still get straight A's and B+'s though! Star student!!! BAAHAHHAHAHA

how bro be actin all semester but still

 gets impeccable grades (that's me I am bro)

Before I start, I'd like to show off some super awesome pics I took during the tour with my lovely Canon Rebel T7 :] OMG I NEED TO CHARGE IT THANK YOU EMI I LOVE YOU EMI NO PROBLEM EMI MWAHMWAHMWAHWAMHWA

This university was EXQUISITE. Even though I'm probably not going to go to Fordham anytime in my life, it was still an amazing time and opportunity seeing such a beautiful campus that's been around for so long :] Some nice adventures today! NOW WE BAWL. 

BLAWG I GOT STUFFS TO UPDATE YOU ON!! 

EMI IS NOW AN INSTAGRAM INFLUENCER: THE MAKING OF OUR FIRST SOCIAL MEDIA POST!!

Starting my page was absolutely one of the most euphoric experiences in my entire life. I like made something really cool and posted about it, and and and you're telling me we're doing this for SCHOOL? CAMBRIDGE I LOVE YOU

As you may recall, I started planning out my entire page about a week ago on March 10th to really make my entire posting career for like the next 3 weeks a PIECE OF CAKE and holy guacamole I am so glad I did that because I feel so much more lighter and much more certain and relaxed about my page and what I'm going to do with it :] I know myself and I know that I am a creative PERFECTIONIST at heart so this page will literally probably have the best branding and art direction I could have ever squeezed out of my soul. And as of right now, I proving my point right! So far, so pretty good! Before I left for NYC, I sat myself down for like a good 2 hours and drew my most favorite piece of Otto artwork so far, that being the thumbnail I embedded a couple minutes ago up there.

 

I created this piece with the intention of making it our profile picture but once I sent the set up page to my group, Joaquin thought the pfp wasn't as professional looking and said that I should make it Otto's crappy pentagram instead, but since we all agreed that the art I made was super cool, I went ahead and made it the very first post! Promo art as a nice lil introduction! WAHOO!!! As for the profile pic, I opened FireAlpaca on my computer, got my mouse, and drew the best "pentagram" I could with my one hand :] I'd have to say, it was definitely a much better fit making that our pfp so thanks Joaquin! :DD                                                                                                                                                                                                       I'm really glad we made this change because that really meant I had a lot less work to do. The original plan was to use the drawing as the profile picture, then making a whole other drawing as the actual promo art which would have taken tons more time!! The art I made of Otto was definitely absolutely for sure meant to be promo art given how gnarly it is so yay everything does indeed happen for a reason I love the universe cambridge you should love the universe too :D We should all love the universe!!! YAYYYYYYYY!!!! Down below I'll put some supa awesome pictures of my art processes so you English lads could be all like "wowee this emi valdivia is super duper cool and talented we should give her an A+++++++++++ on her exam wowwww I am totally not writing this sentence to fill up this empty void of the page lol lmao WHAT are you talking about bro you are CRAAAAAZZYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Another thing I'd like to mention before I shove my art down your throat! The promo art was drawn on paper! What I did to make it look extra profesh and 1000x gnarlier was mess around a bit with the camera settings on my phone to get the exact look I wanted! The difference is HUGE man I am so happy we invented technology I love this computer I sometimes love my phone guys life is beautiful

Joaquin's "pentagram!" I based my version off of this :]

Our supa awesome profile pic! :] I love Otto's crappy pentagram

Raw shot of promo art

Grilled and ready to eat up shot of promo art!

Soon after making all these things, I combined all them together into one super awesome Instagram page!! WAHOOO!!!! YAYYYYYYY!! SHE DID IT EVERYBODY! EMI IS NOW AN INSTAGRAM INFLUENCER!! I was super stoked to start this, but at the same time I was like "woah wait lol what do I put as my username, what do I put as my bio, what do I put in the description of my first post?? GAH!!!"                                                                                                                          When it comes to making things like Instagram posts I always tend to overthink how to caption them. Once more I am a creative perfectionist at heart so this was a challenge for me! To help, I stalked a bit of last year's A-level blogs and went through some of their social media pages for inspiration on what to put on my own, and I'm happy to say it really helped! I followed a teeny tiny bit of a format, by first stating what our film is about and stating that it was all a project for AICE Media, buttt at the same time I put my own flare into it! Like always! Man I love when I do that!! If you look at that beautiful image I embedded up there, that is what I ended up with :] Guys have I ever mentioned how much I love this class

Then it was time for the real deal...making my first post ever! Thanks to the lovely Past Emi who planned out her entire page, I already knew what my goal was, and that was to post some promo art revealing our short film's title! The drawing part was easy since I already had it done so really all I needed to do was go into Canva, find a nice font, slap it on there, and boom bam! Post! 

lol it wasn't that easy

Sooo I thought Canva was the way to go but finding a good font that matched the kooky, weird, occult, eerie vibe of our film was pretty dang hard! I scrolled and scrolled and scrolled and scrolleedddddd down the fonts list to find something decent and I did end up with something! But it wasn't quite right...both my group and I thought it definitely could be sharper! I always imagined my short film title to be super dupa sharp and eerie looking and yeah I wanted it to make a statement basically saying "YO THIS MOVIE IS CRAY CRAY AND KINDA MAYBE A LIL BIT SPOOKY!!" From Canva, I ended up with two versions of the same image, one with the title and "SPRING 2026" underneath it to tease the release and another with just the title. The one I ended up sending to my group though for feedback was the only title version cause something didn't quite feel right about the first version and I trust Emi intuition :D Down here I'll put all the two results I ended up with after working on Canva! 

Canva version #1

Canva version #2

These looked too soft! Too friendly! Change was needed! I began then looking for other Canva fonts that had sharper edges but after like 15 more minutes of scrolling something in me was like, "yo emi you gotta get out of Canva and surf the web for some cooler fonts" and then I was like "yes!!! ur so right, something in me!!" So I got straight to it, went on Google, literally searched up "scary fonts" and got a nice result on https://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=110! The font I chose was the first one, called Ghastly Panic and I thought it looked SO GNARLY.

 

Ghastly Panic was literally was the exact look I was searching for and matched the vibe of our film perfectly! Luckily the font was downloadable and free to use so I pressed the pretty grey button to save it onto my computer! Thing was though! I was confused for a good amount of time BAHAHHAHA. I never really downloaded a font before since for all the media projects I've done in the past I've usually resorted to Canva, so this whole process was definitely something new to me and it took me a couple re-downloads, some Canva checks, and a few searches that ended up actually being useful! The overall result I got when searching "uhh lol uhhh how do I use downloaded fonts" was "go to Photoshop and you should see it there :D" and then BOOM KABAMMM BOOM POW EVERYTHING CLICKED!

 Since my school county is the goat (sometimes), I was able to download Photoshop through Adobe Creative Cloud for free! WAHOO! I then began downloading and waited a couple minutes and yay there I was on the lovely software for the first time! I was immediately highkeyeuninely a little overwhelmed from just how much buttons and other stuffs were there but luckily my task was super simple! I just had to press the amazing "T" button, look for my downloaded font, and BOOM!!!! 

It took me like 7 tries and then some to get it done all the way

LMFAOOOO 

It's important to trust the process guys :D One day I will be an Adobe master. Wait no not even an Adobe master nahhhhh THE Adobe Master. Search up my name on Google one day in like 2050 everybody, you will see Emi Valdivia and underneath it will say "THE ADOBE MASTER" and then you'll be all like woaahhhhh she's so cool woaahhh can she sign my face waaoooohhhhhhhhhh

I ended up with something pretty cool :] I'm proud of myself for figuring all this out

Down below is the full on result + the actual Instagram post! I teased both parts of this image before, pretty cool seeing it all put together isn't that right ;D

BOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM

BOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM

Alrighty amigos, that'll be it for today's post :] I'm currently at the airport and my flight got delayed by like 2 hours so I'll be here a bit working on some more stuffs for the social media and blogging while I'm at it! This is SO awesome, I had so much work to do at the beginning of this break and now that it's ending, I got a heck of a ton out of the way and now feel so much better and ready to tackle the last quarter of my junior year :] Just 2 more months and I reach the big leagues everybody! 

Bai bai sayonara blog :D See you all very soon in the next post!