Missing work!!!

Dear CyberARTS year two students who work so hard...

Please refer to the previous two posts - particularly the one about OCAD. I had asked you all to post about your three areas of interest that you wished to explore. This was to be done BEFORE the trip.
As well, upon your return, you were to post some of the most inspiring work you found in your favourite department area.
Only 3 people in the entire class actually did this assignment.
I'm very disappointed.

Due tomorrow is your ten best photos in the drop off folder AND posted on your blog.

If the OCAD trip response isn't posted by MONDAY at the beginning of class - you will receive a ZERO. No exceptions.

Oh and please be sure to include photos of the work you liked the best!!!

Thank you to those who did the assignment.

Ms. Silverman

Post and drop off your 10 best photos

Based on the photos you took on our field trip and/or others you take after signing out a camera, select your best 10 - they could be of anything - portraits, landscapes, close-ups, street photography etc.
I'm looking for 10 great photos that apply some of the rules and tools of composition.

You may choose to shoot 10 photos of one subject (a photo collection) or you can choose to submit a variety that will demonstrate a range of skills.

Either way I am looking for good clean photo editing (adjustments - white with detail, black with detail), dynamic compositions, interesting perspectives and camera angles and wow factor!

DUE FRIDAY MAY 9, 2014

FIELD TRIP PREP

PART 1 - OCAD U
On Friday May 2nd we will be going to OCAD for their annual student grad exhibition. The building is huge and is littered with many programs and departments. Before we go please do the following research:

1. Go to the website http://www.ocadu.ca/ and click on academic programs to find the undergraduate programs within the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Design and Bachelor of Fine Arts

2. Explore the ones that seem interesting to you. Narrow it down to 3 areas that interest you the most to research. Learn about the areas of study within that program and be able to explain it in your own words.

3. In a blog post, write briefly about each of the three areas you'd like to explore. YOU MUST do this BEFORE FRIDAY!!!

4. ON FRIDAY - You should arrive at OCAD knowing which areas of study you'd like to check out. We only have 2 hours there, so use your time wisely. Visit each of the three areas you've researched. Take a few photos of the things you find the most interesting or inspiring and make some notes about what excites you about what you've seen. (BE SURE TO WRITE DOWN THE NAMES OF THE ARTISTS SO YOU CAN CREDIT THEIR WORK!!!!)

5. For homework - Due: Monday - Choose either the ONE area that interested you the most and post a few photos that demonstrate some of the things you found inspiring. Discuss what you found interesting and inspiring OR write about 2 or 3 areas and what you found interesting about each.

Do any of these programs seem like something you'd like to study further? If so, why? If not, why not?


PART 2 - Street Photography and/or Portrait Photography

After OCAD

Check out these websites for inspiration.
http://www.street-photographers.com/
http://torontostreet.hardmonochrome.com/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/14/the-beauty-of-street-photography/
http://erickimphotography.com/blog/


On the history of street photography


And then there's portrait photography - Plan B (interior portraits using window light and graphic interiors of the building)
http://portraitinspiration.com/famous-portrait-photographers/
http://www.lightstalking.com/22-portraits-make-wonderful-use-natural-window-light

http://camerasim.com/apps/camera-simulator/

Motion Typography Assignment

Using the design process, as we do for EVERYTHING we do in this class the FIRST step is

1. Understanding your goal

Objective: Based upon a poem, song, speech or movie/tv scene you will be creating a typographic animation using Flash or After Effects and possibly Illustrator and Photoshop.

This should be between 15-30 seconds and should demonstrate your understanding of the 12 principles of animation. See handout for more parameters and specific requirements.

2. Research
The next step in creating your kinetic typography is research. Begin your research by watching The Child by Antoine Bardou-Jacquet and then searching for great examples of motion typography.



Find ONE that you think demonstrates at least 8 principles of animation and post it on your blog by embedding in a blog post. Write down (can be jot notes) the timecode and describe each of the principles of animation that you've identified. For example, at 0:58:21 (58 seconds and 21 frames - if you can see frames in the timecode) there is a great examples of exaggeration when the word STOP comes flying towards the viewer and grows extremely large.

Due Monday by the end of class.

3. Pick a Source
With your research complete, pick a source (video, poem, song, speech etc.) that would result in a 15-30 second animation. Make this choice quickly and stick to it. There is no time to waste, so make your choice by Monday March 3rd at the latest!

4. Pick a font

5. Storyboard. 
You need to plan our how you will be laying out your type and how you will be animating it to match the content and atmosphere and timing of your source.

6. Create.
Finally, you will create your background(s) and your type animations in Flash or After Effects.


After Effects Instructional Videos
http://www.videocopilot.net/basic/

BONUS MARK OPPORTUNITY
Also, as you begin planning, if there is something you want to do that you don't know how to do, please search for a tutorial online. If you share your new technique in a blog post and also show others how to do it, you will receive bonus marks.

Animating Type and Importing Sound

Animating Type in Flash

Importing Sound in Flash

Working with sound  Sound by weird Australian guy pretending to be Texan. Weird, but informative.

Some free sounds below

findsound.com
flashkit.com

Also freesound.org


To EDIT sound in Flash you can follow these instructions, however, for more precision, use Garage Band or Audacity to edit the sound to the exact in and out point that you want.
EDITING SOUND IN FLASH

Assessing your bouncing ball classic tween

How do I know I've achieved a "realistic" animation of a bouncing ball?

1. Layers are labelled accurately
2. Symbols have been created for both the ball and the shadow (graphics)
3. Ball has accurate squash when falling and rising and stretch when hitting the ground
4. Shadow moves with the ball, starts light and large when ball is high and gets darker and smaller when closer.
5. Easing in and easing out for both ball and shadow.
6. There should be 5 keyframes for both the ball and shadow - Start, Stretch, Squash, Stretch (copied frames from 1st stretch) and End (copied frames from Start).

When you are satisfied with your result, please submit your .fla file AND exported .swf file with your name in the file name. Name_ball_classictween.fla
Put both in your drop off folder in year one.

Motion Tweens

Now that you have learned some basics about creating classic tweens, using keyframes and some basic shortcuts in flash, it's time for motion tweens.

Watch these two videos - part I and part 2 to learn about what motion tweens can do, then watch the motion tween with monkeys video.

Create a short animation using a graphic symbol you create (or you can use an image like the one of Psy) to practice using motion tweens. Use at least 4 of the 8 different techniques used in the monkey video in your animation.
Make it quick and simple - we'll be moving on tomorrow. Save it in your folder.
I'm not looking for fancy, just that you understand motion tweens.


1. Basic motion tween: Gangnam style  Part I

and Part 2: make Psy dance

2. Motion tween with monkeys