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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Year 11 Project 1; Surrealism (making a landscape collage in Photoshop)

Surrealism Pp


You are expected to make your landscape collage using a wide range of copyright free digital sources; to demonstrate your understanding of international law.


Copyright Free Media at Creative Commons


*Melting object effect tutorial (easy) using Pen tool shape layer model.

*Dali melting object effect tutorial using Warp and Liquify (difficult).


* I like this tutorial. Shows how to mix color with texture using linear burn. Also showing an easy method for creating shadow.


* A useful tutorial showing how to blend images together in a collage 












Thursday, September 12, 2013

Y10: Using Google Docs to Analyse a set of data.

Google Documents allow the live updating of a shared work space.

However, there are limits on the number of synchronous collaborators for each Doc type.

10 people can edit a Presentation at the same time.
50 people can edit a Spreadsheet simultaneously.
50 people can edit a Document at the same time.

There is a limit of 200 combined viewers/ collaborators for all of the different Doc types.

Classwork:
Add your name to this spreadsheet. Add your resting and active heart rates to the sheet

Activity 2:
Use formula's and functions to analyze, average, chart and explore the data.

Activity 3:
Plot a graph or chart which shows the clearly and meaningfully shows the results. Be careful with labelling axis and add a title!

Can you notice any trends?

Extension Activity: What, if any, are the disadvantages and advantages of using a Google Docs spreadsheet compared with Excel

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

“The Next Steven Spielberg Uses A Smartphone” - Smartphone Filmmaking.

What a mobile filmmaker does?


·         Acting
·         Directing
·         Editing
·         Cinematography
·         Writing 
·         Music Production
·         Marketing




What kind of video comes out of your camera? This is often referred to as the source video or raw video format.

What kind of video does your video editing program accept? You want to make sure that whatever comes out of your camera is supported by the video editing program you want to use.


What kind of sharing format is best for the online video platform you've selected ?


Video Editing Software


wevideo (google docs extension)
imovie (for mac)


imovie (iphone app)
video edit (iphone app)
splice (iphone app)

many other apps available for android


Examples

http://vimeo.com/12819723 Apple of my Eye

http://bit.ly/14HR4lC Music video

https://vimeo.com/15608787 Goldilocks short film



Further reading