Rosie Ball

In this lesson, Rosie Ball, a former long road media student came in and spoke to the class about her computer art and design degree and her BAFTA nominated iPad game. Rosie Graduated from Norwich university college of the arts studying games art. She is now focusing on making games that are different and combine digital elements. Rosie entered a compition to design a game, three groups out of hundreds could win and her group was on of those three that won. Her game has now been nominated for a BAFTA award. When Rosie came in, she also let as play her game, it was fun but some of the harder levels were difficult to do.

Final New York sequence

We uploaded our New York video onto Final cut, then also uploaded the garageband music. We then had a list of names we needed to add to the New York sequence such as ' Nicholas Cage (cast/star)'. To make the names appear more professional/interesting we made them fade in and out and made them move from side to side. We also had to make sure that the music we had made was just the right length so it stopped when the video stopped.

L2 Beth's New York Sequence from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

New York garageband soundtrack

In this session we put our final cut videos on garageband and made a soundtrack to go with the New York sequence. I made quite a cheerful upbeat sound. I had alot of fun doing in this session.

New York final cut

In the New York fianl cut session we had to make a short video with short clips in New York.  My favourite bit of my new york clip was the start when I had merged two clips together so a plane flew over the statue of liberty. I used Fade in and fade out alot as I like the effect it gave. I enjoyed this session but also found it quit hard.

Logo Ident

After we had researched different logo's it was time to make one of our own. First I found an image of a star that I liked, then thought of a name that was appropriate for the star and came up with 'star productions'. Then  decided to make the star turn around and  put a sound with it.

http://www.vimeo.com/album/1698550/video/29311697

Logo research session

In our third session we had to choose two logo's to draw and research. The first logo I decided to do was the BMW logo as I liked the style of it. I then decided to research a totally different logo which was the fanta logo. I wanted to do very different logo's to widen the range of what I was researching. So I chose a dull, smart logo and a bright colourful logo.

Club Flyer Task

In this session we learned how to make a club flyer. Ths envolved designing the overall look of the flyer, making up a name for the club we were promoting and putting the needed information on. First I opened an A5 sheet and had to turn it 90* and made it landscape. Then I went on Flickr and chose two images that  thought would look merge well together, I chose a picture ofgreen lazers and a picture of peoples hands up in the air. After I was happy with the two pictures I copied both pictures by doing 'cmd-shift-4'. Pressing cmd-shft-4 will make a small icon appear, then I just dragged the icon from the top left corner down to the bottom rght hand corner and it copied. Then I opened both images in photoshop, merged the two together so it looked like they were one picture. Then I needed to put text onto the flyer by clicking the 'T'. I then put the club logo and the nformation onto the flyer and I was done.

                                                         Earth and eye photoshop task

This was our frst lesson of using photoshop. We were all put into pairs and had to make the earth the iris. First, we opened photoshop and made the sheet we were working on A5 and then turned it around to make it landscape. We then when on Flikcr and found a the picture of the eye and the picture of the earth. To copy and paste both pictures into photoshop, you press cmd - shift - 4. When copied into photoshop you layer both pictures.

Then we cropped the earths background so just the earth was left. Then taking not of how big the iris was, we made the earth exactly the same size to make it look effective. We used the blending tool which made the earth blend in with the iris, e.g. the it made the earth fainter so you could still see the pupil. Then me and my partner made the skin around the eye black and white and made the iris a bluse colour, mainly so the iris could really stand out.