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June 16th
• And so it ends...
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June 13th
• Exam day 5
• Exam to be submitted at end of period today.
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June 12th
• Exam day 4
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June 11th
• Exam day 3
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June 10th
• Exam day 2
• Illustrator file due today.
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June 9th
• Exam day 1
• Flash resume marks returned for most students.
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June 6th
• Flash resumes due today.
• Exam starts on Monday and continues until end of period on Friday, June 13th.
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June 5th
• Flash resumes continued.
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June 4th
• Flash resumes continued.
• Motion guide instructions have been posted on the Downloads page.
• Exam starts next Monday and lasts for 5 days. It will involve neither Flash nor video.
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June 3rd
• Flash resumes continued.
• Exam starts next Monday and lasts for 5 days. It will involve neither Flash nor video.
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June 2nd
• Flash resumes continued
• There is a hardcore group of about 4 students who are asking the exact same question multiple
times every day for over a week now. Once and for all, an "on(release)" handler can only be applied
to a button and NOT to a frame. You can't "release" a frame. You "release" mouse buttons. 99% of
the errors that I have seen so far have been of this type...where you've applied the actionscript to
the frame and not the actual button.
• AAAHHH!!!
• By the way, the answer to May 27th's reference is "The Backyardigans". They sing a song called
BOINGA with Alicia Keys. Congratulations to Valerie Ho. She has won the (non-existent) prize.
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May 30th
• Flash resumes continued
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May 29th
• Flash resumes continued
• Remember that the resumes can be humourous but must still be technically strong.
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May 28
• PONGs were completed and submitted.
• Final Flash assignment was discussed and a few sample were shown
• The examples look more complex than they actually are.
• Final Flash assignment is due end of class next Friday which is June 6, 2008
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May 27
• Almost everything is POINGA here. It's POINGA all POINGA long!
• Be the first to tell me what the previous line is referencing and win a prize.**
• PONG is due tomorrow, Wednesday, May 28th, end of class.
**there may not actually be a prize, but I'll be impressed and isn't that prize enough?
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May 26th
• Knock, knock. Who's there? PONG! PONG who? Just PONG, man. This ain't no knock, knock joke.
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May 23rd
• PONG. Need I say more?
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May 22nd
• Successful completion of simple animation with transport controls (play, stop, goto).
• Building Pong simulation in Flash continued.
• Pong due Wednesday, May 28th, end of class.
• Final Flash assignment due Friday, June 6th, end of class.
• Final exam will be Monday, June 9th through Friday, June 13th.
• PONG assignment
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May 21st
• Demonstration of inserting a sound into an animation.
• Simple animation continued with working play, stop, rewind controls.
• Upon successful completion of above, students are to create a "Pong" simulation movie
complete with full controls, sounds, scoring, etc. Animation must last minimum of 15 seconds and
no longer than 60 seconds.
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May 20th
• Flash demo of Stage, Timeline, Palettes, Tools, Properties Inspector.
• Flash demo of Keyframes, Tweens, Grouping, Symbols, Buttons
• Flash demo of Actionscript: Play();, Stop();, on(release) {}, gotoAndPlay();
• Students attempted to create a simple animation that had working play, stop, and rewind controls.
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May 19th
• Victoria Day - no school.
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May 16th
• Viewing of the cellphone commercials
• Remainder of period spent on Flash sailboat tutorial.
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May 15th
• Editing of commercials continued.
• When edit is complete it is to be submitted to the Drop Box on Louis as a ".DV" video.
• Flash sailboat tutorial.
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May 14th
• Editing of commercials continued.
• When edit is complete it is to be submitted to the Drop Box on Louis as a ".DV" video.
• Next up? Flash interaction.
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May 13th
• Editing of video projects continued.
• Really pleased with them so far. Just about finished.
• Drop dead date will be end of class Friday.
• A new project will begin imminently.
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May 12th
• PD day. No school.
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May 9th
• Editing of video projects continued.
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May 8th
• Editing of video projects continued.
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May 7th
• Editing of video projects continued...most appear to be coming along.
• I'm extending the project by a couple of days because of my absence yesterday and again on
Friday. You should not need more than a couple of extra days.
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May 6th
• Editing of video projects continued.
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May 5th
• Quick demo of iMovie work areas - Viewer, Bin, and Timeline.
• Non-linear editing is cut&paste editing, equivalent to cutting and pasting words in a word
processing application. You can copy, cut, move around, highlight, and format the video just
like you can do the same thing to the words in software such as Micro$oft Word.
• When Chute was in college, he had to edit tape-to-tape (linear editing). What a pain.
• Most groups continuing editing (non-linear)
• Some groups shooting pickups
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May 2nd
• Principal shooting should be done by end of today's period. That means the bulk of your shooting
is to be finished by today. There will almost certainly be pickups required later.
• IT IS NOT FILM AND YOU ARE NOT FILMING! IT IS TAPE AND YOU ARE TAPING!
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May 1st
• 6/7 groups shooting. One group continues to be hamstrung by absences.
• Generally productive day for most groups. Shots are much better in terms of framing.
• IT IS NOT FILM AND YOU ARE NOT FILMING! IT IS TAPE AND YOU ARE TAPING!
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April 30th
• 6/7 groups shooting. Check that, 5/7 groups shooting. One group hamstrung by absences and
the other by being unable to punch out a script.
• Reviewed some footage as it came in via iMovie.
• Watch your headroom (not too much).
• Move the camera to different locations. You are not watching a play.
• IT IS NOT FILM AND YOU ARE NOT FILMING! IT IS TAPE AND YOU ARE TAPING!
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April 29th
• What an eye opening day for me...
• 5/7 groups shooting. Shooting? Yes. Productive? No.
• 1 group giggling when it sees itself on camera...kind of like when they were 8 years old.
• 1 group arguing amongst itself, despite lobbying to choose their own group members. Might I
suggest that one be careful what one wishes for?
• 1 group still trying to punch out a script and storyboard despite having 33% more group members.
• 1 student asserted that s/he is not going to be a "movie-tician"...not 100% sure what that is,
but I'm glad they are not pursuing it. Perhaps "dance-tician" will be more lucrative.
• 1 student mournfully stated that this project was exactly like Media Arts...despite being a different
course, different teacher, different semester, different academic perspective, different topic,
different students, different procedures, different expectations, different concept, different marking
criteria, and different groups...but otherwise EXACTLY THE SAME!
• Very close to pulling the plug on this assignment for some groups, make them eat the zero, and
then move on to something else. Too bad really. This has traditionally been a project favourite
amongst your demographic. But, every class is different.
• Principal shooting is to be finished by the end of Friday's class. Good luck.
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April 28th
• Scripts and storyboards continued.
• 5/7 groups have been authorized to shoot starting tomorrow.
• Viewed Hot Docs documentary "Kids + Money".
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April 25th
• Scripts and storyboards continued...put it in high gear please. Don't worry about specific music
selections at this point...just get a general idea. You need to be out shooting now.
• 3 groups finished and are now authorized to go out shooting.
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April 24th
• Scripts and storyboards continued...put it in high gear please.
• 2 groups finished and are now authorized to go out shooting.
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April 23rd
• Scripts and storyboard work today.
• Groups must have a complete and properly formatted script before shooting can begin.
• 1 of 7 groups has had their script approved as of end of class today.
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April 22nd
• Script formatting of one of the two Apple commercials on the downloads page completed
• Creation of scripts for group commercial production commenced in earnest
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April 21st
• Discussed commercial scripts and storyboards
• Viewed presentation of storyboards with real world examples
• Students are to create a script in the proper format for either of the two Apple commercials
on the downloads page
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April 18th
• Continued with story treatments which were to be submitted by the end of class
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April 17th
• Stragglers completed and submitted their fixed camera shot assignment
• Students were broken into groups to create treatments for their commercial assignment
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April 16th
• Distributed video production assignment
• 3 treatments for a cellphone commercial were assigned
• Students completed and submitted the camera shot assignment from April 15th
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April 15th
• Viewed a couple of remaining videos
• Presentation on standard camera shots (XLS, LS, MLS, MS, MCU, CU, XCU, M2S, OS)
• Small assignment: Go to www.apple.com/trailers and find an example of each of the above
shots in the various movie trailers. Use several movies to find the shots. Take a screen shot
(Shift+Command+3 or Shift+Command+4) and place the picture in an Illustrator document
with a label of what each shot is. An example is on the Downloads page.
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April 14th
• First 20 minutes were used to finish off the cutting, folding, and assembly of CD/DVD cases
• Remainder of class was used to view some television commercials and related videos in
preparation for our video unit
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April 11th
• Students madly rush to complete their package designs which are due today. No extensions.
• Many students have had their jobs printed and can now complete the folding and assembly.
• The final printed box does not need to be handed in today although that is ideal. The .PSD and
and .JPG files are what you MUST submit. I will print the remaining boxes and you can fold them
on Monday for submission.
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April 10th
• Continued design work in Photoshop for package design
• Printing of packages has begun
• Files (both PSD and JPG) are due on Friday, April 11th (that's tomorrow).
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April 9th
• Continued design work in Photoshop for package design
• Printing of packages has begun
• A "PDF" file is no longer required...instead a "JPG" version is required.
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April 8th
• Continued design work in Photoshop for package design.
• Some test printing
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April 7th
• Continued design work in Photoshop for package design.
• Some test printing
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April 4th
• Continued design work in Photoshop for package design.
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April 3rd
• Demonstration of some layer effects, i.e., drop shadows, glows,
• Demonstration of some filter effects.
• What else? Continued design work in Photoshop for package design.
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April 2nd
• Continued design work in Photoshop for package design.
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April 1st
• Continued design work in Photoshop for package design.
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March 31st
• Continued design work in Photoshop for package design.
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March 28th
• Continued design work in Photoshop for package design.
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March 27th
• EQAO Literacy Test - No class
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March 26th
• CAD designs in AI are overdue. If you have not submitted it, get on it NOW.
• Some students had to print and fold their design to make it clear that it does, in fact, work.
• Continued design work in Photoshop for CD case.
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March 25th
• Discussed the marking scheme for package design assignment. All students given copy.
• Demonstrated how to insert package .ai file into Photoshop on a separate layer for removal later.
• Continued design work in Photoshop for CD case.
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March 20th
• Package outline design continued and should be complete by the end of today's class
• Submission of the Illustrator file to Chute will be done on Tuesday.
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March 19th
• Package outline design continued
• Test print the completed outline to test if it works.
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March 18th
• Began creation of package outline in Illustrator
• See examples on the handout circulating around the class
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March 17th
• Began discussing our second major unit "Package Design".
• Discussed how packaging is often created using a single piece of material.
• Looked at student examples of package designs.
• Started to create a rough outline of a package design for a standard sized DVD.
• HOMEWORK - Begin thinking of ideas for your own package (CD/DVD/VideoGame/Software).
/--INSERT MARCH BREAK HERE
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March 7th
• Finished previous work with selections and layers in Photoshop
• These are critical skills if you want to effectively use the software. Practice at home if you can.
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March 6th
• Demonstrated concept of layers in Photoshop
• Students finished previous work with selections
• Download "Office" and "Arms Folded Man" from Downloads page. Using selection techniques along
with layers, place the man behind the desk making sure his legs are visible under the desk. Then
put arms folded man into the poolhall photo but behind some tables and in front of others.
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March 5th
• Effectively a snow day.
• Those present worked on the Photoshop work from the previous couple of days.
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March 4th
• Finished the tire, suits, fence, and glasses guy (Buddy).
• Extracted the skeleton and placed him in the pool hall picture.
• Put the kitty in the driver's seat of a car so he looks like he's driving around, a la Toonces.
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March 3rd
• Played "Real Photo or Manipulated Photo" for fabulous cash and prizes (class score: 8/12)
• Demonstrated basic Photoshop selection tools. Know them:
Rectangular and Elliptical Marquee
Lasso and Polygonal Lasso
Magic Wand
Quick Mask
• Students practised using some photographs on the TGJ20 downloads page
tire.jpg --> create duplicates of the hub cap (elliptical marquee)
suits.jpg --> pull men out and place into another background color (magic wand)
fence.jpg --> extract only the fence (polygonal lasso)
glasses.jpg --> extract man and place in another background (QuickMask)
• Remember: Shift adds to selection and Option subtracts from selection
• Selections are the most important tools in Photoshop
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February 29th
• Late start day (on a Friday? What?)
• Completed business card project DUE END OF CLASS TODAY! Yippee!!
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February 28th
• Formatting of business card project continues
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February 27th
• Demonstration of grouping, scaling, crop marks, 1-ups, 10-ups
• Printing continues. Printing these files takes a LONG TIME! This is normal. BE PATIENT!
• Formatting of project continues
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February 26th
• Printing of Comps continues
• Formatting project for submission has begun (see samples)
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February 25th
• Printing of Comps has begun
• Look at the examples to see format of assignment
• Final product due Friday end of class
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February 22nd
• Explanation of proper address format for CANADA
• Demonstration of grouping objects
• Demonstration of scaling objects
• Demonstration of 1-up with crop marks
• Demonstration of 8-up with crop marks
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February 21st
• Business card composites continued
• 2 of 3 comps should be completed by now
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February 20th
• Business card composites continued
• Traditional style comp should be done by now. DO NOT MAKE IT MORE COMPLEX THAN IT IS
SUPPOSED TO BE. Traditional cards are really simple.
• Many of you are producing modern cards that are closer to traditional style that a truly
contemporary style. Many of you seem to be afraid to try something a bit outrageous. The idea
behind the contemporary card is that it be memorable. This card represents your whole image.
Make it something that people cannot forget.
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February 19th
• Business card composites continued
• Brief demonstration of removing backgrounds from JPEGs. I don't want to get into too much
Photoshop at this point. Our next project will focus more on that software package.
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February 18th
• Family Day - no school
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February 15th
• Demonstrated importing bitmapped images into Illustrator
• www.speedysigns.com is a good website for help finding logo illustrations
• Business card composites continued
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February 14th
• Demonstrated Apple Remote Desktop and how teacher can and will be watching remotely.
• Demonstrated Illustrator job box setup using Transform palette and rulers
• Demonstrated some of the popular tools in Illustrator
• Demonstrated some properties of objects in Illustrator (stroke, fill, weight, etc).
• Students began creating their business card composites in Illustrator
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February 13th
• Viewed Andrew Mundi Principles of Design presentation
• Introduction to Vector and Bitmapped graphics
• Introduction to Adobe Illustrator
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February 12th
• Returned Principles of Design homework. If this assignment had not been submitted you received
a mark of zero.
• Started to create thumbnail ideas (4 x each style =12). This should be finished for homework.
• Some students completed drawing their job boxes for submission.
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February 11th
• Principles of Design homework assignment was collected at beginning of class.
• Print Production Process handout distributed and explained.
• Students briefly examined some "professional" and "student-made" business cards.
• Types of business card styles handout distributed and explained.
• Business card project outline distributed and explained.
• HOMEWORK - Students are to think of a few types of businesses for which they would like to
produce business cards.
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February 8th
• Principles of Design presentation. Available for download on the downloads page.
• Students not finished job boxes completed them.
• HOMEWORK - Find an example of each Principle of Design discussed in the presentation.
They are "Balance", "Contrast", "Rhythm", "Emphasis", "Unity". Find the examples in magazines and
cut out each item. Attach a single paragraph explanation of how your example specifically
demonstrates the principle. DUE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11th, beginning of class.
• Starting Monday, class is back in Room 105A. We will still be using 105C on an as-needed basis.
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February 7th
• No buses today...Tsk, tsk, tsk. So walk, for crying out Pete's sake. I did(n't).
• Job box technical drawings continued and completed
• Bring in one or two regular magazines...one that has advertising for regular products, i.e., Rolling
Stone, People, Cosmopolitan, US, Vogue, Road&Track, Time...you get the idea.
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February 6th
• School closed for snow day.
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February 5th
• Introduction to basic drafting tools (T-square, set-square, scale (bench-rule))
• Demonstration of how to set up a sheet for technical drawing by hand
• Assigned 3 job box drawings:
160mm x 90mm with 10mm grid, 150mm x 100mm with 5mm grid, 120mm x 90mm with 2mm
grid
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February 4th
• Distributed and discussed the course outline
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