Year Three Tech

Thursday will be your last day to work on your movie trailer mash-up. A reminder that your final project will need to be exported from imovie to be viewed on your blog.

Also, I will need to see your imovie project to see your fantastic editing work. Please drop this into the drop folder with your name in the file name. Name_movietrailer.

Please post both the original trailer for the movie AND your finished altered movie trailer with your artist statement.

Your artist statement MUST include the following:

Please write an in depth description beginning with your decision about which movie trailer to use. Describe how the mood change was achieved using both sound and visuals. Compare the original trailer to your altered trailer and discuss the impact you were aiming for by making the choices you did. Describe your choice of clips to use based on content, as well as the order in which you chose to arrange them. Also, comment on the music you chose and why the piece contributes to the shift in mood from the original trailer. You should be including any sound fx and voiceover as well, and commenting on the pairing of the music, fx and voiceover with certain scenes.
Please remember to write clearly and professionally. Edit first!!

I will be evaluating your written statement based on the following:

Knowledge/Understanding: evidence of knowledge and understanding of the program used and how the choices you made impact the viewer's emotional response.

Thinking/Inquiry: evidence of creative thinking in the pairing of sound and image, order of clips and choice of music, fx and voiceover

Communication: clear, well-written, professional. Evidence of care and editing before publishing the post.

Year 1 Tech Blog Post #2

For this week's blog post you will need to find three example of logos--each one must be of a different type: either typographic, abstract, pictographic, or combinations of these.

1) Begin by describing the logo using terms you have learned from your lessons on the Elements and Principles of design.

2) Now that you have described the logo, explain what you think the designer was trying to express with the choices s/he made.

3) Based on your analysis, who do you think is the target audience of the logo design?

Animated gif to web page - Year 4 Tech

1024x768 is the minimum standard screen size that we design for on the web. Design your web page layout in Photoshop - recommended dimension of 900x600 pixels to fit ever so neatly in a browser window. Then you can use Dreamweaver or hand coding (if you dare) to create your "index.html" file.

Put your youtube links here!

Copy and paste the URL for the video footage you want to use into a comment at the bottom of this post.

Year 3 Tech Blog Post - #2

If you haven't already posted your spinning object photo, I will give you until Friday, September 14th to post both that one and blog post #2. After that, I'll consider it a missed assignment and mark it with a zero!

To recap - Blog post #1 was to take a photograph of an object that is spinning, either frozen motion or blur and post it on your blog.

Blog post #2 is a freebie (a post you were asked to do anyway!).
Please post some links you found to conceptual art videos or photographs or otherwise... that serve as inspiration for our Spring Sensations video art project. Write a brief description about each one to accompany it. That's it!
We'll resume next week with blog assignments.

Conceptual Video Art - some thoughts for Year 3 Tech

EXISTENCE A TIMELAPSE PROJECT from Michael Shainblum on Vimeo.

Behind The Lapse from Michael Shainblum on Vimeo.

'The Planets' video accompanies the El Paso Symphony Orchestra. Please read this article as part of your research for this project.

Now read the concert review.

chiral | projection artwork | MOCA Taipei 2010 from Robert Seidel on Vimeo.

Year 4 Tech - Posting your InfoGraphic

Please post your infographic on your blog with a brief but informative written statement that includes the following:
Explain how your design choices help to express the career you are highlighting. Describe your choices of line, shape, colour, textures, value, and use of space as it relates to your design decisions - both to create a poster with visual impact as well as one that expresses your career of choice.
Also, comment on design principles such as unity, rhythm, balance and emphasis - particularly the choices you made in terms of font, size, contrast/variety and colour scheme. How did you emphasize certain pieces of information in order to create an infographic that has a clearly defined visual hierarchy.

Once you have completed this task, you may begin working on the IWDRM assignment.

Year 1 Tech Blog Assignment #1

Find one tutorial on an Adobe Illustrator CS* tool and describe how that tool can be used. Do a very short review of the tutorial. Was it helpful? If so, how? What could have been improved?

Next, create a simple image that emphasises the use of this tool, post it, and describe your experience of the process.

Welcome to CyberARTS @ Lakeshore C.I.

This is your first assignment on your blog Year ones. Add the CyberARTS @ LCI logo to your blog and make a blog list with this blog up at the top. Then add your URL as a comment at the bottom of this post.