September 25-28, 2023 Objective: Placing Graphics for different sizes. Assignments: Business Card, Web Header, Video Title, & Magazine Ad. Description: Use your logo place in each of the design layouts. Download Media Template
Save As: 007_MediaLayouts_XX.ai Save As: 007_MediaLayouts_XX.png
Welcome to Digital Graphics Art Intro. This semester you will be
learning how to use Illustrator, Photoshop, Animate, html, Audio, Film editing
and many other software programs. Digital Graphics takes patience and
practice but can be very rewarding. Each week you will be given an
assignment do the best you can do. All of your assignments will be
placed in an electronic portfolio.
Starter
Every day on the board answer the starter question in the first 5 minutes of class.
1st Day
-Take a picture of yourself
-Write a bio about yourself.
-Write 2 goals for this class.
Assignments
-Disclosure
-Pretest
Illustrator is a Vector based tool used to create
logos, clip art, t-shirt designs, and many other graphics. Learned how
to use the Selection Tool, Moving objects, creating rectangles,
ellipses, changing color of the fill and stroke, Duplicating, rotating.
Went over the Zoom tool, Align, and Pathfinder.
Assignments:
-Disclosure
-Boxes & Shapes
Assignment:(boxes.ai)
Description: Only using boxes and color create a graphic or image.
Assignment 2:(Shapes.ai)
-Draw an image using the shapes tool.
Description: Add a background and other details to your shapes image.
Objective: Create animation effects.
Assignment: Special Effects Description: Download 5 images. Organize them into a folder. Open After Effects and apply effects to your images.
Group Film Projects
Assignment: Script, Storyboard, Shot list Description: Choose a prop. Write a script, create a storyboard and shot list. Film your video. Use five different camera angles.
Pre Production
-Script -Storyboard -Shot list
Production
-Filming
Post Production
-Capturing Footage
-Editing
-Exporting
Film Project (300pts)
-50pts (Script, Storyboard, Shot List)
-50pts (Group Intro)
-50pts ( Title, Credits)
-50pts (5 Camera Angles)
-50pts (2 Sound FX)
-50pts (Export video clip)
Editing Skills
Details: Edit video clips
-Create a project folder
Objective: Edit Video Clips Assignment: Re Edit Movie Trailer -100 pts Description: Download and re-edit a movie trailer in iMovie. Find a movie on YouTube then download using a you tube downloader.
Assignment: 5 Sound FX (50 pts) Details: Use sounds library in flash, download or create sound effects in Garage Band. Use .mp3 or .wav files when importing into flash.
Objective: Scene Animation Assignment: Animation Clip Details: Export what you have animated up to this point. Save as: .swf, .mp4, or .mov Click to download Level 1-4
Assignment: Create 5 characters and 5 Backgrounds.
- 5 Characters (50 pts)
- 5 Backgrounds (50 pts) Details: Using scenes, create five different points of view. For example create an establishing shot from a distance, use medium shots, close ups birds eye view, and other angles.
