Week 1 2016: Digital Media Intro

August 24-26, 2016

Welcome to Digital Media. This semester you will be learning how to use Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, html, Film editing and many other software programs. Digital Media 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 quest 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 50pts
-Pretest 50pts

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 50 pts.
50-Boxes & Shapes  pts.

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.

Week 39 2016 State Testing

May 23-27, 2016

1-Class Test on Canvas:
 https://canyons.instructure.com/

2-Submit Portfolio
http://goo.gl/forms/rZtu7uE5ZV

3-State Test Code:
1: HA3CAD4Q
2: BVANDC7F
4: VW84SSEZ
6: ZPALKU8H
7: SGTEUSU6

 https://www.precisionexams.com/usoe/welcome/

5-Sr. Survey. (Only if you are a Senior.)
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1TbUOWALnj1s-h--eyNkq5tQC4vPidQ0UzwQl4-GWWkI/viewform

Week 39b 2016 Portfolio

May 23 -27, 2016

Portfolio Checklist

Home Page
Show most recent art work.

Biography Page
Describe yourself.

Animation
-Cartoon Animation
-six still image
-Animated gif.

App Design
-App Icon & Home Screen
-App Pages (3 more screens)
-App Mock up (coded .swf)

Film
-Intro
-Video Copilot Effect
-Green Screen
-Film Project
-Film Poster

Web Design
-Home Page
-Page 2
-Page 3
-Page 4

-50pts (Create Pre-Test) May 26, 27
Standards for Digital Media 1B #811

Week 38 2016 Study Guide

May 16 - 20, 2016

Practice Test:

Period 2: Digital Media Practice Test (052016_1) Results

Period 2: Digital Media Practice Test (052016_2) Results

Period 4: Digital Media Practice Test (052016_4) Results

Period 6: Digital Media Practice Test (052016_6) Results

Period 7: Digital Media Practice Test (052016_7) Results


Assignment: Study for test.

Digital Media 1B State Standards

STANDARD 8

2D Animation -- Students will produce and utilize 2D animation.

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Keyframe
Frame by Frame Animation:
Tween
FPS: Frames Per Second
24 FPS for Animation.

STANDARD 9

Digital Video: Students will plan, create, edit, and publish digital video.

Camera Angles

Helpful websites for study:
 
http://www.mediacollege.com/lighting/three-point/ Lighting
http://www.mediacollege.com/lighting/ambient/ Ambient Lighting

Point Light:
http://escience.anu.edu.au/lecture/cg/IlluminationJ3D/pointLights.en.html






Aspect Ratio: 
http://apex.infogridpacific.com/dcp/flo-aspect-ratio.html

Week 37 2016 Coding

March 16 - 20, 2015

Assignment: Flash App Design.
Details: Build, Code, Evaluate, Launch your app.
Flash App Design

end

Mit App Inventor

http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ 

Flowlab

http://flowlab.io/

Week 36 App Icon & Home Screen

May 9-13, 2016

Object: Use correct dimensions for creating an mobile application.

App icon and image sizes (All sizes measured in pixels and 72 resolution)
-Icon Size: 1024 x 1024

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/mobilehig/IconMatrix.html

App image sizes (All sizes measured in pixels and 72 resolution)
-iPhone 5: Image Screen Size: 1136 x 640

For iPhone 6:

750 x 1334 (@2x) for portrait
1334 x 750 (@2x) for landscape

Week 35a 2016 Planning

May 2 - 6, 2016

Assignment: App & Web Design

Details: Planning, Design, & Development:

ADDIE Model

a. Analyze -- gather and process contextual information affecting the goals, structure, purpose, content, audience, and design of a project.

b. Design -- plan the general look an scope of the application and the media it will use, along with the

budget, tools, objectives, outline content, storyboard, and schedule.

c. Develop – collect & create digital media content and testing of the application

d. Implement – publish the finished project and make it available to its audience.

e. Evaluate -- assess the effectiveness of the project with the target audience and make

adjustments in future revisions.

Adobe professional Model

Design and Development Process

a. Define -- Goals, target audience, content, and delivery requirements

b. Structure – Flowchart to portray the overall structure and screen views of the project

c. Design – design of comps, review with client, redesign from client feedback, and production

storyboard

d. Build and test – project production based on storyboards, technical and usability testing, revision, and final project presentation

e. Launch – launch and publish project

Assignment: Turn in on a word document.
-App Name
-Goal
-Description
-Target Audience

Structure & Design

Assignment: Create a flowchart to portray the overall structure and screen views of the project.

Development

Assignment: Research code and programs to code in.

Possible Programs: Flash Action Script 3, Xcode, Game Salad, Scratch, AppCoda.

Links: Flashthusiast