3:6:9 Video Written Response

Once you have exported your 3:6:9 videos, each person in your group MUST post it on your blog and write the following:

1. What are the strengths/weaknesses of your video?
2. How did the soundtrack impact the emotional experience of your video?
3. What editing decisions did you make that worked with the soundtrack?
4. How did the pace and choice of transitions assist in creating a mood or emotional experience in your video?
5. Briefly discuss your experience in working in a group to create this video.

Please post your video and add your written response by Monday January 12th, 2015.

Year Four - Visual Identity Requirements

Year Four – Visual Identity requirements.

Please post the following on your blog.

1.     Logo – in colour AND black and white – must be re-sizable!!!

2.     Stationary – includes business card, envelope and letter head

3.     Flyer – a promotional flyer that includes all your contact information, logo and some teasers – a glimpse into your style/some imagery

4.     Animated logo

5.     Two more visual or audio pieces of promotional marketing material.

Could be a website, web banner, clothing, poster, magazine ad, video ad, audio ad, etc.

What to write about when posting on your blog:

Answer the following questions in paragraph form.

1. Please identify the nature and personality of your company. What do you do and what is your style/personality as a creative business?
2. Explain your design choices in terms of the logo (colour, line quality and type, shape etc.) stationary and animated logo and how these design choices support your company’s nature and personality.
3. Explain why you chose to use the specific additional marketing pieces you did and how that also compliments your creative business and personality.

How to present all of the components on a 13x19 page.

Consider the principles of design when choosing your layout. Separate each component in some way. Create a natural eye flow (movement) from one piece to the next and choose a focal point.
Consider visual hierarchy and emphasis.

At the bottom left write the following:

CyberARTS program

Your name - CyberARTS Year Four student - Branding and Visual Identity Assignment.

The purpose of this assignment was to create a visual identity for myself in my chosen creative career area. My company ______________ does/is/creates..... (what's the nature of your business?). My colour scheme and design helps identify the ________________ personality of my business/company.

Basically explain what you did in your first sentences from your blog post.

This MUST be printed by your presentation date - either Jan. 19th or 20th 2015.

You will be marked on presentation, professionalism and completion, both on your blog post and on the printed component.

Here are some samples below from the Applied Arts Expo

Shooting Video - Year One

SHOT TYPES

Please use this site as a reference for the information we went over in class about shot types, camera angles, composition, headroom, looking room, leading room etc.

http://www.mediacollege.com/video/shots/

INSPIRATION

Here is Steve Carty's website. Take a look at moving pictures to see some of the video portraits and videos I showed in class.

http://www.stevecarty.com/

Digital Surrealism - Year One

Before you begin this, please make sure that you have posted your finished "Black and White + One" photograph on your blog with a written statement explaining your procedure - steps you took to complete the image.

Surrealism

Surrealism is an artistic movement that was founded in the early 1920s. It's influences include Sigmund Freud (famous psychoanalyst who was fascinated by the subconscious mind and dreams). "Surrealism style uses visual imagery from the subconscious mind to create art without the intention of logical comprehensibility." In other words, it doesn't make sense in the real world, only the surreal world. Surrealism includes an element of surprise and uses unlikely juxtapositions and blends dream and reality.

Please research Surrealism in Art and/or photography and create a prezi presentation that includes the following: (Please post your finished presentation on your blog by Thursday, January 16, 2014. Ready to present please!)

1. What is Surrealism? (In your own words please!)

2. Pick one Surrealist artist and:

• briefly discuss their view on surrealism
• the years they produced art (or birth-death)
• and what their interests were as artists--subjects they addressed, issues they focused on
• were they part of other artistic movements?

3. Show 8 examples of Surrealist art by the artist you have selected.

Please pick one artist each so that we can cover all of them. Or, you might find one on your own.

The names that are crossed out have been taken.

• Max Ernst
• Andre Breton
• Man Ray
• Maurice Tabard
• Dorothea Tanning
• Salvador Dali
• Rene Magritte
• Joan Miró
• Marcel Duchamp
•  Giorgio de Chirico
• Leonora Carrington
• Alberto Giacometti
• Hieronymus Bosch
• Yves Tanguy
• MC Escher
• Erik Johansson (modern day photographer)
• Jerry Uelsmann (modern photographer who worked with negatives to create surrealist photos)
• Dada (the movement)
• Zev Hoover

Additionally, the following artists have been selected

• Marcel Caram
• Jim Warren
• Logan Zillmer
• Samy Charmaine

4. Please include any and ALL links that you have used to find your information. Please do not copy and paste directly from these links!! That's called plagiarism and it's a big fat NO-NO!

5. You can include a reference list at the end of your presentation, but you MUST embed a minimum of 3 links (they could be videos, audio interviews or just other websites with more information) into your prezi presentation.

6. Make the presentation surreal, but make sure we can clearly see and identify the artist's works, as well as the text that answers the questions above.

Photoshop - 10 things everyone needs to know

Adobe TV is a great source to find videos on just about anything related to Adobe Creative Suite software. Please feel free to browse it on your own. You will need to find a "how-to" video on either youtube or Adobe TV to share on your blog before the holiday break. You might want to browse through it as you are learning more about Photoshop. For this blog assignment - find a tutorial or how-to video, WATCH IT and write a brief synopsis (1 paragraph or less) that tells us what the tutorial is about, whether or not it was helpful and how you might be able to use it in the future. Also provide us with the link! Title this blog post - Software Tutorial - (whatever the topic is).

CLICK HERE for the video on 10 things about Photoshop with Terry White.

Make sure you really understand how to use masks and selective adjustments for your Black and White + One photo.

PHOTOSHOP Black and White Experimenting

Using three or more of your best and most dramatic photos from the garden (or anything - perhaps you've taken some award-winning photos this year for the yearbook, or for personal use - but please, only photos taken with a DSLR!!), experiment with some of the techniques shown in the videos to convert your image to black and white to achieve the most dramatic effects with a good tonal range.

REMEMBER - you need to be able to see detail in the blacks and the whites and a good range in between.

Black and White techniques:

1. Channels - Using the Channels palette, see which of the three channels in RGB mode looks the best. If one of the them looks like a great starting point, then use it.

2. Channel Mixer - experiment with the channel mixer from the adjustment layers

3. Gradient Map - experiment with the gradient map (try making your own gradient)

4. Black and White adjustment layer - experiment with making your own presets and mixing the various colour filters. Notice what happens when you add red vs. subtract red and how that impacts the tones in the black and white image, depending on the colour in the original.

Decide on ONE of your colour images and make THREE different versions of it in black and white using THREE different techniques. Make a note of how you achieved the effect you did - because you'll be posting it on your blog!

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Submit your three images as psd files (so I can see your work) in the Yearbook - CyberARTS - Year One - Photoshop BW 1 folder (NAME IN FILE NAME - e.g. name_bw_chanmix.psd)

2. Post each of the three on your blog (you'll need to save them as jpgs first) and describe the techniques you used - step by step. This will help you remember what you did and also provide you and others with a reference point to go back to.

3 images in black and white DUE in folder AND posted: Tuesday November 25, 2014

Math Posters - submit

Please hand in your math posters as both .ai files AND pdf folders.

Make sure your name is in the file name!!!!!

Please put them in the CyberARTS folder found in the Yearbook folder.
Find Year One and a folder called Math posters.

Please only put your final posters in the folder.

Thanks!