As part of your culminating activity for this class, you must establish yourself in an online community as a cyberARTist. There are numerous professional-looking, yet free, online websites that allow you to present your work with brief descriptions (artist statements). It's time to get busy folks. Start now by searching for the online portfolio site that's right for you. Keep in mind, you will want to have one that includes video.
Your site should include a minimum of 12 pieces from both art and tech, however at least 7 must be from the tech classes. They can also be from the past three years of your cyberARTS classes.
The music video you are currently working on must be included, along with the promotional poster you are creating to go with it.
Requirements:
Easy to use (as a viewer)
Must display your work in a clean and professional format
Must have a space for text (your artist statements)
Must have contact information
You must also link to a facebook page (not your personal one, but a facebook page for your artwork) or other secondary social networking site
You must accurately tag and categorize your site (ie. illustration, design, fine art, multimedia etc.) based on the work you are displaying
Here are a few sites to get you started:
Note that some of them have immediate access to job postings (something to think about for your careers assignment!)
http://carbonmade.com/
http://www.behance.net/
http://www.weebly.com/
http://www.krop.com/
http://www.coroflot.com (I don't think this one has video, but it does have a design jobs section)
Try this one to add video too:
http://shownd.com/
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Music Video Assignment: Addendum
Your music video assignment, once completed with your individually written reports will also require a wee bit of marketing.
Your assignment (see handout) is to create a large promotional poster to advertise the release of the album or song by the artist you chose. You will be required to create an original image, either a graphic that is created on the computer (Illustrator or Photoshop) or an original photograph, or a combination. However, since this is a large poster, you must make sure that you are working with an appropriate resolution for your end product, which must be printable in CMYK colour mode.
Here is an article on image resolution to refresh your memory or give you a more in depth look at image resolution.
Here is an article on colour modes from adobe. Here is another from a graphic design perspective
Keep in mind, you will have no problem creating an image using the D3100 that can be printed up to 11x14" at 300 p.p.i, however the D50s will only allow printing up to 12x8" at 300 p.p.i. It is often stated that one can print at 240 p.p.i, however professionals still always use 300.
While you may feel that you don't need to read these articles, please do, as the information covered in them will be on the final exam. I will be reviewing this ahead of time, but make sure you read the articles and take notes, summarizing the key information. We will review it in class next week.
Links to articles on good poster design
Posterdesigners
This one is quite good and gives 27 tips on good poster design
ASSIGNMENT: For a research assignment, find 3 posters you think are really well designed and using the 27 tips from the 3rd article, critique the posters designs.
Your assignment (see handout) is to create a large promotional poster to advertise the release of the album or song by the artist you chose. You will be required to create an original image, either a graphic that is created on the computer (Illustrator or Photoshop) or an original photograph, or a combination. However, since this is a large poster, you must make sure that you are working with an appropriate resolution for your end product, which must be printable in CMYK colour mode.
Here is an article on image resolution to refresh your memory or give you a more in depth look at image resolution.
Here is an article on colour modes from adobe. Here is another from a graphic design perspective
Keep in mind, you will have no problem creating an image using the D3100 that can be printed up to 11x14" at 300 p.p.i, however the D50s will only allow printing up to 12x8" at 300 p.p.i. It is often stated that one can print at 240 p.p.i, however professionals still always use 300.
While you may feel that you don't need to read these articles, please do, as the information covered in them will be on the final exam. I will be reviewing this ahead of time, but make sure you read the articles and take notes, summarizing the key information. We will review it in class next week.
Links to articles on good poster design
Posterdesigners
This one is quite good and gives 27 tips on good poster design
ASSIGNMENT: For a research assignment, find 3 posters you think are really well designed and using the 27 tips from the 3rd article, critique the posters designs.
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