Media Workshop: Audio/Visual Operations
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NOTE: Projects are listed from most recent to least recent!
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EXTRA CREDIT:
For extra credit you can redo ANY assignment for a better grade. You can redo AS MANY ASSIGNMENTS as you like. All extra credit is due TUESDAY, December 5.
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Media Workshop PROJECT #6 (final project):
PRESENTATION ON PROJECT #5 + YOUR ARTISTIC PROCESS
In Powerpoint, make a presentation on the data you visualized and your final product (the final design). You will give the class a presentation using Powerpoint. In your Powerpoint presentation, show us images and information you have researched about your topic, explain your artistic process, show versions of the final design in process, and include the final design.
DUE: Thursday December 7, last day of class.
You will give your presentation to the class that day and you will TURN IN to me your FINAL POWERPOINT DOCUMENT.
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Media Workshop PROJECT #5: Researching +visualizing data about a particular topic
PLEASE NOTE:
Your grade will based on NOT ONLY your final design, but ALSO your del.icio.us links and tags on your topic! (i.e., how interesting are they, how well are they tagged, etc.)
PART 3
Due: Thursday, November 30
Visualize the data (images, facts) that you have collected from the various sites by making some sort of design out of it.
Print out your design AND have it up on your screen ready to project for critique. On the back of your printed out design to turn in, write your name AND your del.icio.us web site address (e.g. mine is http://del.icio.us/kirstenrae).
SAVE various VERSIONS of the design so you can do the final assignment (ABOVE).
SPECIFICATIONS:
-You MUST use Illustrator (hint: you could live trace images you find online) as well as Photoshop. Your final product must be in Illustrator.
-SIZE and scale of the final design is open. No smaller than 8″ x 8″
PART 2
Due: Tuesday, November 14
Link to 10 or more fact and image filled sites about your topic on your del.icio.us site. Make detailed comments and create FIVE or more related tags. Think of yourself as a reporter as you research this topic!
For example, if your topic is “pro-anorexia websites,” your tags might be:
-ana
-thinspiration
-anorexia
-bulimia
-recovery
I will be checking your del.icio.us site and tags!
PART 1
Due: Thursday, November 9
Choose a SPECIFIC, fascinating topic that keeps you up late at night surfing the web in your free time. It could be about a social phenomenon or a current event, or a topic that is big on the web right now. For example, I have been researching pro-anorexia websites.
Type up a proposal that explains what your topic is and what you might do with it (see below). You will have to begin PART 2 of this assignment in order to do PART 1.
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Media Workshop PROJECT #4: Online Social Bookmarking
1. Create a del.icio.us site at
Del.icio.us is a RAW open source social bookmarking software.
Check out mine:
READ
and
2. Bookmark at least 20 interesting web sites related to design for Thursday. These can be web sites for individual designers, design firms, guerilla sites, sites about design history etc. Please no more than FIVE graffitti sites and no more than FIVE font sites.
3. Tag and annotate each site. Be prepared to present each bookmark in front of the class at my computer.
ABOUT TAGS:
Don’t use more than one word in your tags.
Also remember, tags are case sensitive.
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Media Workshop PROJECT #3: Found Text
***IMPORTANT***
THREE components to this project DUE next week!
DUE Tuesday October 24
PART 1:
Your 10 best found text PHOTOGRAPHS on your Flickr FREE account
and
PART 2:
Six sketchbook pages of found text (pasted in)
DUE: Thursday October 26
PART 3:
AN 8 1/2 x 11 composition that COMBINES your photographed found text, your scanned found text. No text from Illustrator necessary.
Details below:
FOUND TEXT
PART 1:
Take out a digital camera from the Photo Cage in the Fine Arts Building.
Take photographs of text EVERYWHERE around town. Take 50-100 photographs.
Get a Flickr Pro account.
Upload your photographs to Flickr from IPhoto.
Be prepared to show at least 10 of your BEST found text photographs in class from your Flickr site.
PART 2:
(do simultaneously)
Collect ANY tyoe of text/type from ANY source(s) and paste it into SIX pages of your sketchbook. This includes garbage, design, advertisements, flyers, letters, writing, emails, etc.
Choose a page or part of a page and scan it in.
PART 3:
Create a composition that COMBINES your photographed found text, your scanned found text, and text from Illustrator.
REMEMBER:
-Work in CMYK mode in Photoshop & in Illustrator
-Flatten your image before you bring it to Illustrator (save as new version & as a TIFF file).
-Have your 100% size done by the time you bring the image into Illustrator (so you don’t have to resize in Illustrator)
-Also have any raster effects done by the time you bring the image into Illustrator
-Put image on its own layer in Illustrator
-Save the Illustrator file as a TIFF file when done
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Media Workshop PROJECT #2
DUE THURSDAY OCTOBER 12
FOR THIS PROJECT,
1. Watch Surplus in class.
2. Scan or take photographs of a page or pages from your sketchbook.
3. Use some or ALL of the images into to make a 8 1/2” x 11 composition in Photoshop that talks about the idea of surplus (surplus of ANYTHING) and that responds or relates to the film.
Besides using your sketchbook as a sources, you MUST include text generated digitally in Photoshop.
You MAY also include:
-found text
-photographs
-drawings
IMPORTANT:
AGAIN, YOU DON’T NEED TO PRINT THIS OUT. Bring the project to me on a CD or Flash USB Drive. Also have the project open on your computer when you get to class.
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READ
The Economist wrote about global warming this week!
http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7852924
Also Vanity Fair: (ooh, the Queen of England is nervous!)
http://www.gnn.tv/articles/2242/While_Washington_Slept
NOTE TO DIGITAL IMAGING class:
Get your Flickr.com account now!
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Media Workshop SKETCHBOOK PROJECT #1
DUE TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 26
For this you need a hard back, 9” x 12” or larger sketchbook, a glue stick, and good scissors (and packing or scotch tape if you like).
Fill 8 or more pages with the following:
Page 1-2 “nature” stuff from outside: grass, leaves, anything you find
Page 3-4 found stuff, papers, labels, garbage, etc.
Page 5-6 text: handwritten by you, letters, newspaper, anything
Pages 7-8 marks & shapes made by “mistake”: coffee cup ring, make-up smudge etc.
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Digital Imaging PROJECT #1
DUE TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 19
Merge some or ALL of the high resolution images you collected that relate or respond to The Day after Tomorrow into ONE 8 1/2” x 11 collage in Photoshop.
Show that you understand:
resolution (DPI)
document set-up
document saving
selecting
erasing
blur tool
You MUST include: text, photographs, AND diagrams or drawings
Most importantly, make something interesting!
IMPORTANT:
YOU DON’T NEED TO PRINT THIS OUT. Bring the project to me on a CD or Flash USB Drive. Also have the project open on your computer when you get to class.
REMEMBER
There are no restrictions on what types of images you choose, but all of the images must be about a similar topic in the film, for example: water, snow, disaster relief in a water emergency (think the tsumami in Asia or Hurricane Katrina), global warming, family trying to survive in environmental crisis involving the weather, survival of the fittest, the role race/ethnicity plays in an environmental crisis involving the weather, etc.
Introduction to Digital Imaging Technology & Computer Literacy
for Graphic Design (Audio/Visual Operations)
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Digital Imaging PROJECT #1 preliminary assignment
DUE Thursday September 7
IN CLASS: View the beginning of the film The Day after Tomorrow.
OUTSIDE OF CLASS:
Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
Collect 5 high resolution images that relate or respond to The Day after Tomorrow. (go to Google Images, search only for “large” images). Bring the images in digital form to class on Thursday September 7, or email the urls where you found each of the images to yourself, so you can pull the images onto your desktop in class. CHOOSE YOUR IMAGES BEFORE CLASS (NO CHOOSING IMAGES DURING CLASS).
There are no restrictions on what types of images you choose, but all of the images must be about a similar topic in the film, for example: water, snow, disaster relief in a water emergency (think the tsumami in Asia or Hurricane Katrina), global warming, family trying to survive in environmental crisis involving the weather, survival of the fittest, the role race/ethnicity plays in an environmental crisis involving the weather, etc. Choose general images, NOT images from the film OR from other films. Best idea: USE YOUR OWN IMAGES. Come to class prepared to work with these images!
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