3rd December (Gavin's class)

Today i done my talk, I passed.

Last week of November

Gavin's class - we continued to prepare our talks, 

Ewan's class - we continued with the project, discussing ideas and made a start on our storyboard. Making a rough draft.

weeks beginning...

2nd Nov - we continued discussing our new project and done a little bit research about it, looked at design briefs and watched a documentary about plasticine.

9th Nov - We made plasticine models on Tuesday and flip books on Friday, my flip book was a UFO landing on the moon, after we finished the flip book we put them onto imovie and made them into an animation. 

16th Nov - We practised still motion, my group made a backdrop and made our figures dance and get eaten by a shark, we then transfered our pictures onto the mac.

Gavin's class -  we prepared for our presentations, I'm doing mines on UFO's :-)

on Friday we finished off our storyboard so we can make an animation.

26th October

John's class - we discussed what our new project was going to be about ( give racism the red card ) 

Gavin's class - we got split up into our groups and went to film our short movie called 'The Chase'  it was fun.

Ewan's class - we looked into animation and its history, starting a flip book with no more than 40 frames that we are going to produce.

Final week of project 1

Brian's class - We finished off our websites, included the podcast we done in john's class about our given dance group. We got sent home on thursday because Gavin wasn't in but we managed to keep everything up to scratch.

9th October

John's class - made our group podcast about our topic we were given, this involved gathering pictures and describing them, we each took a turn at talking.. It was a good laugh. 

Brian's class - we continued with our product making ( I'm making a poster informing people about the dance show bounce performing at the MacRobert centre in Stirling. We also followed up on last weeks html class and designed the web page that will front our web page.

Gavin's class - we finished off our reports that Gavin gave us to do about Linkin Park's music video, then discussed media language ( camera angles, lighting etc ) and made a storyboard about a short film we will be doing in our groups called The Chase. 

15th december

Today we continued to make our set for our show racism the red card animation. We have covered all our props and  finished the characters, I measured all the props so now we are ready to film, me and Abbie made the backdrop by wetting 2 pieces of A2 paper and dotting different colours all over to make it look like a crowd at a football game. 

8th December (Johns class)

Today we continued to make our set for our show racism the red card animation. We have covered all our props and  finished the characters, I measured all the props so now we are ready to film :-) 

model animation

model animation is a form of stop motion designed to merge with live action footage to create the illusion of real-world fantasy sequence. 

rotoscoping

Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over live-action film movement, frame by frame. for use in animated films. 

27th November

We each wrote down ideas for an animation and read them out to each other, we decided to pick Adams idea and to go with Asylum seekers/myth busting, we also made a start with our storyboard.

17th November

Angie demonstrated how to make the armatures out of zinc, we then made our own, she also told us how to use Polymorph and how to put it onto our armature. 

Johns Class

On Tuesday we made a set with little plastic models and moved them a tiny bit between every picture to create a 20 second animation.

wordpress

This is another blogging website that lets you keep track of and share anything you want, it can also be customized to suit your needs. 

blogger

A blog is like a diary or a place to share thoughts, experience, stories, ideas etc. Our class uses blogspot to remind ourselves what we have been doing throughout the course. 

BBC

This is another home page that lets you edit the information on it. e.g if you live in Glasgow, Fife, Dunblane or anywhere in the world you can change the weather to suit you your area. You can also change the news, radio, entertainment etc.

Google

Google is one of the websites that lets you change the layout of its home page, e.g. if you like to travel, you can set the home page to have a menu for bus or train times here is a picture of a personal home page on google.

computer-generated imagery (CGI)

CGI is the application of the field of computer graphics ( 3D ) to special effects in films/t.v programs/ commercials etc.
click here to watch

Stop motion

this is where still objects appear to move, the object is moved a very small amount between each frame and when played back at normal speed looks like the object is moving. 
click here to watch a stop motion video

Flip Book

this is a book with a series of pictures so that when you flick through every page quickly it looks like the pictures move to create a small animation. 

Praxinoscope

This was just a better version of the zoetrope, it still had the band of pictures/photographs placed on the inner cylinder but instead of having to look through the slits, there was a mirror placed in the middle to reflect the pictures on the inside.

Zoetrope

This is a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides, below the slits on the inside of the cylinder is a band with a sequence of pictures/photographs, as the cylinder spins the person looks through the slits and it looks like the pictures are moving.

Magic Lantern

This was invented in 1671, the images were painted on glass plates and with an oil lamp and a lens they could be projected onto a suitable screen.  

Thaumatrope

This is a type of animation, it's when you attach a disk or card with a picture on each side to a piece of string and twirl it really quick to combine the two pictures to make it look like one picture. 

yahoo video is another video sharing website which allows people to upload, share, rate and watch their favourite music videos.

You tube is a video sharing website where people can upload and share videos with the world. You don't have to be registered to watch the videos but you have to be registered to upload them. It is the most popular way to watch your favourite videos online. 

Photobucket

Photoshop is another photo sharing website, it lets you upload pictures and share them with friends and family. Its a more creative way of sharing photos as you can have black and white shots or still shots etc.

Flickr is an online photo sharing website where you can upload pictures and share them with family, friends and even the world! you can also cut, crop, and edit your pictures. You can upload pictures from your phone or from your desktop.

Text edit

Text edit - this allows us to change the writing, colour, width, height, layout etc on a web page. It starts like this: 

(html)

(head)

(/head)

(body)

(/body)

(/html)

Today i started to make a front page for my EPK and learned how to put pictures and paragraphs onto my page in text edit. 

Today we learned how to use HTML and make active links.

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, it is used for changing your blogs appearance for example: Colour, font, size. You can also underline, change the background colour and put a border around your text. 

Active links - An active link is where you click on the link and it takes you straight to the website instead of having to type the web address in. for example:   google

HTML and active links

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Today I used i photo and photoshop, it lets you edit your pictures and change the colour, size etc. It also lets you cut, copy and erase parts you don't like.