Current Assignment

05-13-08

Working on Flash Animation

05-12-08

Parameters of Flash Animation assignment

200-350 frames (30 secs)

Sound

movement/action

Hero/heroine

Background

Optional-Drawing objects

Optional-morphing objects

Look on internet for sound: Free Wave Files for PC

Reminders: Passed out some important reminders about importing images into flash, Use of layers, and sound

05-09-08

Quiz on Chapter 7 today

Inserting sound into a flash file

05-07-08

Inserting photoshop images into a flash file

05-06-08

Review/Practice Quiz on Chapter 7

quiz on Friday

05-05-08

Color cycling

Shape morphing

05-02-08

Free period today

Seniors are at great america

05-01-08

Tweening

Turning shape into a symbol

04-28-08

Continue Chapter 7 read/questions

Viewing old animations

     How can these be made better?

Demonstration: Rotating a ball

Key Frames

Timeline

Stage

04-25-08

Continue Animation preparations

    What is a cell?

Begin looking at former student Flash pieces

Next week: How can the animations we have seen be better animation?

04-22-08

Persistence of Vision exercise in class

Example of how to create possible Hero/heroine with photoshop

Due: Mini Autobiography

         Questions from beginning of chapter 7 on animation

04-21-08

Homework:

Ideas for your hero/heroine

What’s the story? Why is your hero/heroine a hero or heroine?

Questions from today’s reading also due

Tdoay’s work in class:

Review last week’s work

Today-Brainstorming your own invented hero/heroine

What is their name?

What are their physical attributes?

What are their personality attributes?

Working with mannequins and sketching out thumbnail ideas

Sharing ideas

Continue preparations for animation by reading and answering first set of questions from chapter 7 on animation

04-18-08

Brainstorming about Heroes

Who are Heroes?

What are their     characteristics?

    Physical/Personality

Examples of Thumbnails

and roughs of Heroes

Begin Characteristics of Heroes

04-17-08

PreTest on Animation

Short reading on Character development

How do you develop a character?

What should a character be able to do for an audience?

Examples of Super Heroes

What does the artist/designer want you to see?

In class: Group character development

04-15-08

Teacher and peer critique

04-14-08

Peer Edit:

checklist

improvement suggestions

04-11-08

Begin writing mini autobiography

Continue digital self-portrait-students

Digital self-portrait on this 6 week marking period

Monday-Peer edit on piece

04-10-08

Digital self-portrait should be completed by the end of class tomorrow

04-08-08

Quiz on Chapter 6

Continue Self-portrait

Self-portrait should be completed by Friday

04-07-08

Game Show Review of Material for Chapter 6 Quiz tomorrow

04-03-08

Continue Chapter six Last question section and work on digital self portrait

04-01-08

Continue chapter six on images  page 153 questions 1-9

Continue digital self-portrait

03-31-08

Short review of material from before break Reminders of assignment perimeters

Students working on Digital Self-Portraits

03-19-08

What does Resolution mean? How does it effect your photoshop pieces?

What resolution is used for the web?

What resolution is used for print?

What happens when you take a piece designed for the web and put it into a piece which is designed for print? How can you solve that problem?

Continue Self-portrait work

03-18-08

Reading about Image

Work sheet on reading material

Continue working on Self-portrait

03-17-08

Passed out self-portrait assignment sheet

Short discussion about assignment

Checked past assignments to be put into gradebook

    Color adjustments

    Working with Filters

    Exotic vacation

03-13-08

Examples of student digital self-portraits

How have others approached this assignment?

Tools reviewed today:

Opacity/transparency on the layers palette

Eraser tool

03-11-08

self-portrait photos

Finding images on internet for self portrait

02-28-08

Reading and questions from Images Packet pages 142-151

Continue work with Selection tools

02-26-08

Working with selection tools

“Exotic Vacation”

02-25-08

Read pages 136-

Answer 5 questions

Finish work with filters from last week

02-21-08

Crop

Flatten

Image size

Move tool

Selection tool

layer palette

Filters

02-19-08

Begin Photoshop

learning tools

Adjusting photos

02-11-08

Critique and self eval of

business card designs

Student Examples