This week was meant to be the actual week for presenting our work to the class, the aims of this is to get opinions from our peers about our presentation. This would enable us to go back and make any changes in our work.
However after mention in the previous week, we had decided as a group to change the images that we had been using, as we had began to upload our work onto the Knights Park Mac Suit, the system (Adobe Flash) had began to act up. We started by importing each image individually onto the stage however after importing a series of images the Flash player would not recognize some of the images we were trying to import. The software would suspect a corruption and automatically turn off.
Then we had noticed the mac had started to slow down and freeze, leading us to restart the mac again and it left us with missing work, which we had to start again. This kept on occurring three or four times eventually we had to ask for help from the technician to assist us with the software. He tried ways to upload the pictures into the timeline. He then tried to convert some of the images into photoshop by saving it as a photoshop file, but even he experienced difficulty, he eventually realized how temperamental Adobe flash is and could not help us.
This caused a great deal of stress and frustration within the group and even myself, as we had dedicated time and effort to the project, for us to loose all our presentation work so close to the deadline was a disappointment for us. This unfortunately lead to us not being able to present our project to the rest of the class as we had lost the materials for it because of the corrupted software at Knights Park.
Thursday, 13 May 2010
Week 11-Student Presentation Week
This week was in my opinion the most stressful week for myself and for the group. During the session we were informed that the presentations were to be pushed back for the following week. We decided it would be ideal to show our tutor our final presentation movie, as it would give us some feedback from a tutors point of view, and maybe encourage us to change some areas in the presentation to achieve a better outcome.
After we showed the tutor of presentation, he thought it would be best for us to change the images we had been using for our movie which we had originally started with. Our tutor thought we were delivering the wrong message out by using the images at the time. So after careful thought and consideration we decided to shoot the images for the movie again, in order to put out the correct message across.
This was a long and last minute process which took a bit of time, however we wanted to deliver the correct information and create a good presentation to the rest of the class. we had began to rethink about our use of images and came up with different ways to develop a better message across to the audience.
Problems Encounters:
With the rush of taking new images for the movie it was difficult to agree on the correct image for the message, as a group we had difficulty agreeing on the correct image to us. We also had reconsidered the use of Adobe Flash as our main software, we thought it would be best to use final cut pro as it is slightly more easier to use than flash. However as it was soon reaching the deadline we could not change our software because Flash was mentioned in our proposal.
After we showed the tutor of presentation, he thought it would be best for us to change the images we had been using for our movie which we had originally started with. Our tutor thought we were delivering the wrong message out by using the images at the time. So after careful thought and consideration we decided to shoot the images for the movie again, in order to put out the correct message across.
This was a long and last minute process which took a bit of time, however we wanted to deliver the correct information and create a good presentation to the rest of the class. we had began to rethink about our use of images and came up with different ways to develop a better message across to the audience.
Problems Encounters:
With the rush of taking new images for the movie it was difficult to agree on the correct image for the message, as a group we had difficulty agreeing on the correct image to us. We also had reconsidered the use of Adobe Flash as our main software, we thought it would be best to use final cut pro as it is slightly more easier to use than flash. However as it was soon reaching the deadline we could not change our software because Flash was mentioned in our proposal.
Week 10- Project Development
During this week we get together and spend as much time as we can to complete the presentation, we gathered as much information about domestic violence as possibly, and have tired to include as much detail in flash player to finally complete our presentation and prepare any last minute materials for the presentation day.
Problems Encountered:
Time management became a difficulty since most members from the group had other deadlines from half fields subjects.
Problems Encountered:
Time management became a difficulty since most members from the group had other deadlines from half fields subjects.
Week 9- Student Enrichment Week
This week was student enrichment week, so most of the group work required was produced outside university during our personal hours. We met up twice together as a group to establish ways in which we can improve our presentation.
We included a script for each member to say aloud to the class about domestic violence.We began to research what to include in the script, we wanted to produce an effect presentation on domestic violence, to make the class aware of the dangers and how many women suffer from domestic violence in silence. After intense research from book, and websites we began to highlight key terms we could use in the presentation.
Problems Encountered:
Whilst looking at websites and books we understood the amount of organizations there are for women suffering against domestic violence. We wanted to make sure the message we are delivering was not an add for domestic violence campaign, only to raise awareness of the particular kind of abuse.
We included a script for each member to say aloud to the class about domestic violence.We began to research what to include in the script, we wanted to produce an effect presentation on domestic violence, to make the class aware of the dangers and how many women suffer from domestic violence in silence. After intense research from book, and websites we began to highlight key terms we could use in the presentation.
Problems Encountered:
Whilst looking at websites and books we understood the amount of organizations there are for women suffering against domestic violence. We wanted to make sure the message we are delivering was not an add for domestic violence campaign, only to raise awareness of the particular kind of abuse.
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Week 8- Project Development
During this week, we continued editing our images on photoshop, after uploading them onto flash by importing the files on the timeline. The purpose of flash was to create a stop motion movie, with the guidance of our tutor he suggest Flash would be a suitable software to use.
However this did come with its difficulties, when working as a group using the software without the assistance of the tutor or IT technician was confusing at times. The software was easily understood in the workshop, however at times we were stuck on motion tweening. Using the online handbook we were able to teach our self how to use each icon including motion tweening.
We also started to research the correct sound we wanted to include in our presentation, the aim was to find a music piece which linked with the theme of domestic violence, for example the part of the movie were the female would experience physical abuse the sound would become more upbeat and aggressive.
Problems Encountered:
As a group of three it was difficult to get in contact with each other at times outside university hours, due to some members having personal reasons and having part time jobs.
However this did come with its difficulties, when working as a group using the software without the assistance of the tutor or IT technician was confusing at times. The software was easily understood in the workshop, however at times we were stuck on motion tweening. Using the online handbook we were able to teach our self how to use each icon including motion tweening.
We also started to research the correct sound we wanted to include in our presentation, the aim was to find a music piece which linked with the theme of domestic violence, for example the part of the movie were the female would experience physical abuse the sound would become more upbeat and aggressive.
Problems Encountered:
As a group of three it was difficult to get in contact with each other at times outside university hours, due to some members having personal reasons and having part time jobs.
Week 7- Absent
Due to the amount of work from my other half field subject, I was unable to attend week sevens workshop. However I was able to further my own individual research on motion tweening, this would be beneficial for me as i did struggle a bit when it came to motion tweening.
I was able to research the following websites and books to help me increase my knowledge on motion tweening.
Books Used:
Flash Web Design,Indianapolis, Ind, [Great Britain: New Riders,2000
Macromedia Flash 8, Berkeley, Calif: Peachpit, 2006
Websites Visited:
http://www.entheosweb.com/Flash/motion_tween.asp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUgNhESiPRM
Group Update: We Have taken the Images and are editing them on photoshop, adjusting and retouching some of the images may need.
I was able to research the following websites and books to help me increase my knowledge on motion tweening.
Books Used:
Flash Web Design,Indianapolis, Ind, [Great Britain: New Riders,2000
Macromedia Flash 8, Berkeley, Calif: Peachpit, 2006
Websites Visited:
http://www.entheosweb.com/Flash/motion_tween.asp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUgNhESiPRM
Group Update: We Have taken the Images and are editing them on photoshop, adjusting and retouching some of the images may need.
Week 6- Continue Working with Flash MX timeline
Week 6, is very similar to the previous week, however we began to work with importing sound and integrating audio into flash. The idea is to help add special effects to the presentation on domestic violence.
I was able to import mp3 into my library, very similar to importing images to flash, when the sound is imported , it will be available as a choice from the library or from the sound panel. I had designed to Import music to create a special effect to relate with the theme of domestic violence.
Problems Encountered: Understanding of timeline at first, the whole concept of uploading sound was tricky for me at first, at the choice of selecting the appropriate sound to link with our theme of domestic violence took a bit of research, and group decision.
Group Update: At the moment as a group we have taken our images to make our movie. Overall we took around 150 images, using three of us in the movie. Myself and Rebecca acting out as male and female and Aneeka capturing the images using an SLR camera.
I was able to import mp3 into my library, very similar to importing images to flash, when the sound is imported , it will be available as a choice from the library or from the sound panel. I had designed to Import music to create a special effect to relate with the theme of domestic violence.
Problems Encountered: Understanding of timeline at first, the whole concept of uploading sound was tricky for me at first, at the choice of selecting the appropriate sound to link with our theme of domestic violence took a bit of research, and group decision.
Group Update: At the moment as a group we have taken our images to make our movie. Overall we took around 150 images, using three of us in the movie. Myself and Rebecca acting out as male and female and Aneeka capturing the images using an SLR camera.
Week 5-Working with Flash MX timeline
Throughout week 5 we continued working with Flash in more depth, using the timeline and learning all the different types of keyframes i.e
- Blank keyframes, no artwork on the Stage at that frame
- Clear Keyframes, erases the keyframe from the Timeline and removes all content from the stage
- And how to remove keyframes, simply select insert>Remove Frames
We then began to come to terms with frame by frame animations using texts to form a words framing the letters one by one. this enabled me to possibly use it for the final group presentation of domestic violence. Moving on to another key element used in Flash is Motion Tweening. This was the last area covered was motion tweening, the main function for tweening is to establish a start a starting and ending frame for an animation. I put this into practice by creating a square shaped animation and created it as a keyframe on frame 15. And moved the same square drawing onto the end of the stage. As a result when later previewing the image the square moves due the transition within the timeline.
Group Update: We managed to hand in our group proposal here is a copy of it below.
1st Submission of Introduction to Digital Media animation project
Company name - Flash Productions
Movie type - Stop motion movie/animation
Puppets, people or objects – People and objects will be used to construct this narrative.
The concept – Domestic violence
The theme – cartoon villains and damsels in distress; using masks to represent the feelings, creating hopefully a fairly thought provoking animation.
The reason for incorporating disguises - The emotions of the characters are shown through a non conventional way.
Target audience – Ranging from teenagers to adults (This type of abuse statistically seems to be more common with adults). In the animation age will not be a focal point when portraying the message because of the fact that literally anyone of any age can be at the receiving end of such abuse.
1. A couple looking at each other (focus on each face; zoomed in shots) Prior to a dispute that escalates in to something unexpected.
2. Male – His facial expression dramatically changing
3. A shot of his fist; gradual zooming in and then a ‘Bang’ in a bubble
4. Then shots of the females face after impact
5. Focus on how the impact affected her and where she ends up; hand on her face where she was hit and her on the floor. The feel and mood of the caption should speak for itself, in terms of being able to express a particular emotion.
6. Newspaper cut outs – spelling out the message word by word/letter by letter – this is so the movie does not come across as giving importance to domestic violence.
7. Point/message/aim – building awareness concerning a fairly controversial issue many people are faced with, and may be faced with
8. Closing sequence after the issue of domestic violence has been addressed – company name
This creates a relationship between the movie maker and the targeted audience. The movie will bring attention to a hidden unfortunate type of common abuse. It should effectively create a link between those who are affected or are aware of someone who is affected by domestic violence. When a general awareness is circulated in a type of media like this it usually gets some sort of recognition depending on the ways in which it is structured, made, and created.
Using irony to portray such a serious message is also very important in this stop motion movie. Such an important amount of information has to be delivered perfectly in a short space of time. A short sharp message highlights the concept while not dragging on so the audience do not get bored and lose interest.
1. Role participants are playing: -
· 1) Abuser – costume/makeup/theme – Masks to play a theme; the joker from batman
· 2) Abused – costume/makeup/theme – A sad animated character or no mask; no mask would include dramatic effect exaggerated makeup to really reinforce the abuse and bringing attention to the extremity of it through the victim.
2. The programmes and effects that we plan to incorporate in to the stop motion animation: -
MX Flash is the software we will mainly be using – To primarily create and put the movie together
· Ms Vector – Using vector graphics enables a picture to be scaled up or down without it being pixelated, therefore it would be ideal for editing images used in this stop motion
· Layering – A type of formatting that we may use
· Tweening –Plays a part in perfecting the animation
Group members
Aneeka Rashad
Rebecca Mangaroo
Niyan Shukir
Working with Flash MX timeline: (i) stop motion: frame by frame animation movie clips (ii) tweened animation: motion v. shape tweens
- Blank keyframes, no artwork on the Stage at that frame
- Clear Keyframes, erases the keyframe from the Timeline and removes all content from the stage
- And how to remove keyframes, simply select insert>Remove Frames
We then began to come to terms with frame by frame animations using texts to form a words framing the letters one by one. this enabled me to possibly use it for the final group presentation of domestic violence. Moving on to another key element used in Flash is Motion Tweening. This was the last area covered was motion tweening, the main function for tweening is to establish a start a starting and ending frame for an animation. I put this into practice by creating a square shaped animation and created it as a keyframe on frame 15. And moved the same square drawing onto the end of the stage. As a result when later previewing the image the square moves due the transition within the timeline.
Group Update: We managed to hand in our group proposal here is a copy of it below.
1st Submission of Introduction to Digital Media animation project
Company name - Flash Productions
Movie type - Stop motion movie/animation
Puppets, people or objects – People and objects will be used to construct this narrative.
The concept – Domestic violence
The theme – cartoon villains and damsels in distress; using masks to represent the feelings, creating hopefully a fairly thought provoking animation.
The reason for incorporating disguises - The emotions of the characters are shown through a non conventional way.
Target audience – Ranging from teenagers to adults (This type of abuse statistically seems to be more common with adults). In the animation age will not be a focal point when portraying the message because of the fact that literally anyone of any age can be at the receiving end of such abuse.
1. A couple looking at each other (focus on each face; zoomed in shots) Prior to a dispute that escalates in to something unexpected.
2. Male – His facial expression dramatically changing
3. A shot of his fist; gradual zooming in and then a ‘Bang’ in a bubble
4. Then shots of the females face after impact
5. Focus on how the impact affected her and where she ends up; hand on her face where she was hit and her on the floor. The feel and mood of the caption should speak for itself, in terms of being able to express a particular emotion.
6. Newspaper cut outs – spelling out the message word by word/letter by letter – this is so the movie does not come across as giving importance to domestic violence.
7. Point/message/aim – building awareness concerning a fairly controversial issue many people are faced with, and may be faced with
8. Closing sequence after the issue of domestic violence has been addressed – company name
This creates a relationship between the movie maker and the targeted audience. The movie will bring attention to a hidden unfortunate type of common abuse. It should effectively create a link between those who are affected or are aware of someone who is affected by domestic violence. When a general awareness is circulated in a type of media like this it usually gets some sort of recognition depending on the ways in which it is structured, made, and created.
Using irony to portray such a serious message is also very important in this stop motion movie. Such an important amount of information has to be delivered perfectly in a short space of time. A short sharp message highlights the concept while not dragging on so the audience do not get bored and lose interest.
1. Role participants are playing: -
· 1) Abuser – costume/makeup/theme – Masks to play a theme; the joker from batman
· 2) Abused – costume/makeup/theme – A sad animated character or no mask; no mask would include dramatic effect exaggerated makeup to really reinforce the abuse and bringing attention to the extremity of it through the victim.
2. The programmes and effects that we plan to incorporate in to the stop motion animation: -
MX Flash is the software we will mainly be using – To primarily create and put the movie together
· Ms Vector – Using vector graphics enables a picture to be scaled up or down without it being pixelated, therefore it would be ideal for editing images used in this stop motion
· Layering – A type of formatting that we may use
· Tweening –Plays a part in perfecting the animation
Group members
Aneeka Rashad
Rebecca Mangaroo
Niyan Shukir
Working with Flash MX timeline: (i) stop motion: frame by frame animation movie clips (ii) tweened animation: motion v. shape tweens
Week 4- Introduction to Flash MX vector animation package
In Week four we had an intense workshop focusing on how to use Adobe Flash Player. Developing new skills on importing digital images, understanding and organizing the library pallet. Flash is a multimedia platform designed to add animations, video and designs for moving webpages.
Flash is designed to manipulate vector graphs providing animation of text, drawings, and still images. The basic reasons for Adobe Flash is to import images, create moving animations, also still and moving text. The software enabled me to change colours, size and formation of texts.
All this information at the time was in my opinion rather intense and required full attention, however with the help from my tutor we were able to move on quickly absorbing as much information as possible.
Group Update: Finalising our idea of the group presentation, using the theme of domestic violence. Later producing a video using Adobe Flash Player. We continued to research on the effect ways domestic violence can be displayed to the public especially for women.
Flash is designed to manipulate vector graphs providing animation of text, drawings, and still images. The basic reasons for Adobe Flash is to import images, create moving animations, also still and moving text. The software enabled me to change colours, size and formation of texts.
All this information at the time was in my opinion rather intense and required full attention, however with the help from my tutor we were able to move on quickly absorbing as much information as possible.
Group Update: Finalising our idea of the group presentation, using the theme of domestic violence. Later producing a video using Adobe Flash Player. We continued to research on the effect ways domestic violence can be displayed to the public especially for women.
Week 3- Bitmaps versus vector graphics
For the Duration of the session in week 3, we were introduced with a presentation on vectors and Bitmaps digital art works. The presentation enabled me to understand the difference between vectors and bitmaps.
A vector image uses geometrical formulas to represent the images. bitmaps is an image made up of pattern dots, the advantage of vector graphics is that it requires less memory than bitmaps, therefore vectors it is has more of an advantage compared to bitmaps. it can be easily stretched and is less pixilated.
we continued with Photoshop coming to grips with the tools and playing around with images. We later began working with Adobe illustrator, creating scalable graphics. I was able to understand the basic principles of adobe illustrator, the software package is suitable for designing and illustrating, allowing us to modify and rescale most objects without loosing the quality of the image itself. Towards the end of the session i was much more confident using photoshop and developed new skills in a new software such as Adobe illustrator.
Problems Encountered: As this was a completely new software, some mistakes did occur with Illustrator, however after careful listening, I was able to complete tasks assigned during the workshops.
Group Update: We individually researched on the topics mentioned in week 2, so I researched, issues on domestic Violence within the UK, I continued researching using online statistics and books explaining the issues raised in Domestic violence and how it is viewed by society through the media .i.e. TV adverts, posters, magazine articles.
A vector image uses geometrical formulas to represent the images. bitmaps is an image made up of pattern dots, the advantage of vector graphics is that it requires less memory than bitmaps, therefore vectors it is has more of an advantage compared to bitmaps. it can be easily stretched and is less pixilated.
we continued with Photoshop coming to grips with the tools and playing around with images. We later began working with Adobe illustrator, creating scalable graphics. I was able to understand the basic principles of adobe illustrator, the software package is suitable for designing and illustrating, allowing us to modify and rescale most objects without loosing the quality of the image itself. Towards the end of the session i was much more confident using photoshop and developed new skills in a new software such as Adobe illustrator.
Problems Encountered: As this was a completely new software, some mistakes did occur with Illustrator, however after careful listening, I was able to complete tasks assigned during the workshops.
Group Update: We individually researched on the topics mentioned in week 2, so I researched, issues on domestic Violence within the UK, I continued researching using online statistics and books explaining the issues raised in Domestic violence and how it is viewed by society through the media .i.e. TV adverts, posters, magazine articles.
Week 2- Manipulating Images, and Understanding File Types
In Week Two, I brought in a few images and a Digital camera, the purpose of this was to experiment capturing and shooting images. Once I had completed this I had uploaded the images into Photoshop.
In Photoshop I was able to Manipulate the images using various selection tools and effects, for example the glow tool, the crop tool, the contrast tool, stamp tool, healing brush etc. I found it interesting to be able experiment with the tools for the images and creating effects to the images, enabled me to feel more confident using Photoshop as it is a software I have used briefly before.
Moreover, we were taught how to save our work properly using the appropriate file type, the images could then be saved into a jpeg files so it would be available when using Adobe Flash.
Problems Encountered: Some of the images I had taken on my digital camera was not uploading on the pc, this was due to the images uploading automatically to iphotos instead of finding the files in my home applications.
Group Update: As a group we were already familiar with each other from previous lectures, during the second week we discussed our project theme issues such as, sexual health, bulling and domestic violence. We then considered the options for our final, such as a presentation, movie etc.
In Photoshop I was able to Manipulate the images using various selection tools and effects, for example the glow tool, the crop tool, the contrast tool, stamp tool, healing brush etc. I found it interesting to be able experiment with the tools for the images and creating effects to the images, enabled me to feel more confident using Photoshop as it is a software I have used briefly before.
Moreover, we were taught how to save our work properly using the appropriate file type, the images could then be saved into a jpeg files so it would be available when using Adobe Flash.
Problems Encountered: Some of the images I had taken on my digital camera was not uploading on the pc, this was due to the images uploading automatically to iphotos instead of finding the files in my home applications.
Group Update: As a group we were already familiar with each other from previous lectures, during the second week we discussed our project theme issues such as, sexual health, bulling and domestic violence. We then considered the options for our final, such as a presentation, movie etc.
Week 1- Introduction to Module aims and Photoshop
In week one we were introduced to some of the software's which we would use for the duration of the course. Photo shop was the main software used, we were given basic tutorials on how to use the software. For example were the tools are located and what the functions are for some of them. one of the most difficult tools was the crop tool,
at first the tool was tricky to adjust with, however once I understood what was required from the session and with the help of the class tutor, I was able to complete and understand the session. We were also introduced to our directory, for example files on the computers where our named was saved, allowing us easy access each time I save my work and log in.
We were informed about the group work required later on during the course. This session was beneficial for the class to get to know each other and feel comfortable using simple software's such as photoshop. Throughout the session I was able to understand the particular functions of photoshop and how to apply them if i was using it for the group work.
Photoshop enabled us to prepare for next week were we had to bring in images, to later manipulate them and create effects using photoshop.
Problems Encountered:
From previous use of the Photoshop Software, new updates had been made (cs4). This slowed me down and took some time for me to understand the changes.
Group Update: Our Group consisted of three members within the class's, Myself Niyan Shukir, Rebecca Mangaroo and Aneeka Rashad.
at first the tool was tricky to adjust with, however once I understood what was required from the session and with the help of the class tutor, I was able to complete and understand the session. We were also introduced to our directory, for example files on the computers where our named was saved, allowing us easy access each time I save my work and log in.
We were informed about the group work required later on during the course. This session was beneficial for the class to get to know each other and feel comfortable using simple software's such as photoshop. Throughout the session I was able to understand the particular functions of photoshop and how to apply them if i was using it for the group work.
Photoshop enabled us to prepare for next week were we had to bring in images, to later manipulate them and create effects using photoshop.
Problems Encountered:
From previous use of the Photoshop Software, new updates had been made (cs4). This slowed me down and took some time for me to understand the changes.
Group Update: Our Group consisted of three members within the class's, Myself Niyan Shukir, Rebecca Mangaroo and Aneeka Rashad.
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