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.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
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.
Next, create a simple image that emphasises the use of this tool, post it, and describe your experience of the process.
Monday, September 10, 2012
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.
Friday, June 8, 2012
The LIST!!!
1. DIY lighting video tutorial - post and discuss
2. Special FX video tutorial - post and discuss
3. 3 point lighting videos - post your trial video of white backdrop, black backdrop 3 point lighting, black backdrop film noir lighting and green screen lighting. For bonus marks, take the green screen shot and drop in a new background and post that!
4. Videos through the decades - post your research
5. 27 tips for movie posters - research 3 posters and critique
PLUS:
6. Your 18 blog postings - guess what. To avoid you posting totally unthought out garbage (not that you would) I will include the first 3 posts as part of your 18. That means the rest better be great and creative! Post at least 3 postings from each of the 4 categories. That gives you an extra 3 from any category.
1. New technology/tips and tricks (If you found and used something for your poster, you can add that!)
2. The Daily Create
3. Life observation
4. Artistic Inspiration
see the handout for more info!
Oh, and the 5th category is wildcard.
And:
7. Your music video - with all the trimmings (pre-production paperwork, the video and the post-production report: see the assignment)
8. Your music video poster - with a written artist statement explaining your design in connection to the theme/emotion of the song)
AND FINALLY!
9. Your culminating portfolio. with artist statements. To present to the class.
That's it.
Regarding your culminating portfolio. Please make sure you have 3 full artist statements that include concept and visual meaning, design process, technical information and your opinion. These three can be submitted to me separately. All 12 images/pieces you select for your electronic portfolio must have the following information:
Title, Objective of work (ie. Music video produced to visually express the emotion and mood of the song), format/medium, year produced.
:)
2. Special FX video tutorial - post and discuss
3. 3 point lighting videos - post your trial video of white backdrop, black backdrop 3 point lighting, black backdrop film noir lighting and green screen lighting. For bonus marks, take the green screen shot and drop in a new background and post that!
4. Videos through the decades - post your research
5. 27 tips for movie posters - research 3 posters and critique
PLUS:
6. Your 18 blog postings - guess what. To avoid you posting totally unthought out garbage (not that you would) I will include the first 3 posts as part of your 18. That means the rest better be great and creative! Post at least 3 postings from each of the 4 categories. That gives you an extra 3 from any category.
1. New technology/tips and tricks (If you found and used something for your poster, you can add that!)
2. The Daily Create
3. Life observation
4. Artistic Inspiration
see the handout for more info!
Oh, and the 5th category is wildcard.
And:
7. Your music video - with all the trimmings (pre-production paperwork, the video and the post-production report: see the assignment)
8. Your music video poster - with a written artist statement explaining your design in connection to the theme/emotion of the song)
AND FINALLY!
9. Your culminating portfolio. with artist statements. To present to the class.
That's it.
Regarding your culminating portfolio. Please make sure you have 3 full artist statements that include concept and visual meaning, design process, technical information and your opinion. These three can be submitted to me separately. All 12 images/pieces you select for your electronic portfolio must have the following information:
Title, Objective of work (ie. Music video produced to visually express the emotion and mood of the song), format/medium, year produced.
:)
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Culminating Portfolio
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/
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/
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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