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30
Nov
Student Work of the Week – Ginger Drake – 7 Deadly Sins
Categories: Electronic Imaging and student work of the week
Tags: Electronic Imaging, student work of the week
Tags: Electronic Imaging, student work of the week
MWF Electronic Imaging – Wednesday December 10 at 1:30 pm
TR Electronic Imaging – Friday December 5 at 1:30
Advanced Digital – Tuesday December 9 at 10:10
Your final projects are due NO LATER THAN the exams scheduled above.
FAQ
Q: Can I turn my project in before the scheduled exam time?
A: Yes
Don’t forgot, BFA portfolio reviews are being held today. MWF Electronic Imaging and Advanced Digital will not be meeting.
See you on monday.
Select one of the poems by Jorge Luis Borges found here.
Visit Born Magazine and study the combination of literary arts and interactive media that they feature.
Create an animated, interactive piece using the poem that you have selected.
Your work should include:
- Sound
- a preloader
- at least one movie clip
- a link system that allows the viewer to determine the pace of the piece
- a full screen script
Submit all storyboards and sketches as scanned pdf’s (this means you, Ryan)
Submit the work as a .swf and a Mac projector file, titled yourname_poem
Progress crit: Wednesday December 3
Final files due no later than: 10:30 am on Tuesday December 9
I apologize for the late notice, but the final candidate to be the Director of the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts is on campus today. The interview is at noon, so I will not make it to class until 1 pm. Please come to class as usual and work on your projects until I get there.
Your final presentation will be to create a PowerPoint/Keynote nonlinear project based on the internet phenomenon My Boyfriend Came Back from the War. You will use your own symbolic images to create an innovative visual vocabulary that communicates your own version of My Boyfriend Came Back from the War based on your experience or opinions of our country’s current war. You can use images you find online or existing photographs, but you must Photoshop tools to alter these images and create new images for this project. The final presentation will be in the form of a PowerPoint presentation in which the individual parts of the project lead to different parts of the presentation. You will be creating a non-linear narrative. .
Sketches and flow charts due on Nov. 17 and 18
Progress Crit on Dec 2 or 3
Sound
A sound is something that is heard. Listening is an activity.
Sound design is fine-tuning the message your audience will sense. Sound may be buried in the message and only noticed if it is ever taken away. Sound may be the message. Without it we limit the use of one of our most receptive senses. Naturally, certain tones are conveyed by using certain sounds that ultimately communicate a message. It will be up to you to determine what you want to say and how you want to say it through the design of sound.
Below is a list of five words. Each student must compose sound from a sample or recorded means or a combination of both that communicates each word. Listen critically to how different sounds portray different messages. Each sound should be exactly ten seconds in length, exported as .mp3 files. We will play each .mp3 one at a time through the QuickTime player. Do not use music.
The words to use are:
Soft
Global
Digital
Speed
Mournful
Details. Five, ten-second .mp3 files.
Each file should be labeled with the corresponding sound names as well as students’ initials followed with .mp3 (for instance soft_studentinitials.aif). Place the files in a folder labeled “sound_studentslastname” and burn it to a CD labeled with your first and last name as well as “Sound.” Be prepared to load the files onto the presentation computer at the beginning of class.
Grading
Audio: 100%. Student demonstrated the ability to record, import, edit, compose, and export .aif files. Student also demonstrated an appropriate, clear, and memorable solution to the given problem. Level of finish and technical craft achieved.
Progress Crit = Nov 17
