2nd period
EVERY advanced student MUST show the substitute what you have done the last 4 days. Anyone doing the Stop motion project MUST have the “Ken Burns effect” turned off!!!!! It’s not hard to turn off so figure it out ( click on the bottom left of any picture in iMovie and choose “fit/crop/ken burns..” after you chose that there is a picture that shows up on the right - on the upper left of that picture choose fit - that should take care of it)
if you are doing flash - don’t worry about the button at this time. — make sure you have at least one motion tween and/or a shape tween.
- For those who want a challenge try Allan’s Flash Button Tutorial
Beginning students: You get to start Garage band today. Have anyone show you how to choose the different sound tracks. Totally just have fun with it. Make something up add to it!! if you want you can try the “Magic Garage Band” that you can get when you choose new while in garage band
CNS:
Friday crew you are on the hook!!! Everyone else be productive - PLEASE and make sure ALL THE CAMERAS ARE PUT AWAY AT THE END OF THE PERIOD!!!!!!
Tags: Composition, Culminating Project, Music, Project, Senior
Lines of type that are too long or too short slow down reading and comprehension. Type size, margins, gutters, and number of columns help determine the line length of a publication. Increase readability by following a few guidelines and trying out some formulas for determining the ideal line length for your text.
Here’s How:
- Apply the alphabet-and-a-half line length rule.
The alphabet-and-a-half rules places the ideal line length at 39 characters regardless of type size. Measure the line length in inches or picas for your chosen body copy font using the alphabet-and-a-half rule. This is one of the measurements you’ll use in finding the ideal line length/column width for your publication.- Apply the points-times-two line length rule.
Take the type size of your body text and multiply it by two. The result is your ideal line length in picas. That is, 12 point type would have an ideal line length of 12×2 or 24 picas (approx. 4 inches).- Compare the line length measurements for method 1 and 2.
Set a column width in your publication that falls within the range established by each formula. Keeping column widths and line lengths within this range will help insure the most readable text.- Adjust font size and column widths to accommodate best line length.
If your chosen body copy font and desired layout fall too far outside the ideal line length as determined by applying methods 1 and 2, consider adjusting your font size or changing your layout to find a line length that is closer to the ideal.
Tags: Blog, Design, Publishing, Readability, Text
Aero Director/ VFX artist Sam O’Hare has finished a short film, The Sandpit, that we’re very excited to be able to share with you. This short is inspired by films like Koyaanisqatsi (really, that’s not in spell check??), and time-lapse tilt shift photography. Click to see The Sandpit. (For best viewing, check HD and watch in full screen mode.) - http://aerofilm.blogspot.com
The Sandpit from Sam O’Hare on Vimeo.
Tags: Animation, Creativity, Koyaanisqatsi, Photography, Time Lapse, Video
Watch the tutorial videos part 1 and part 2 to see how to use the files from chapter 2 of the Head First Series PHP and MySQL Book with the hulk.osd.wednet.edu web server.
- Click on the download link below each video to see a larger version of the screencast
Part 1 [10:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Part 2 [7:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadTags: Head First Book, MySQL, PHP
Tags: Photoshop
Start learning the basics of Photoshop at tv.adobe.com
Tags: Creativity, Photoshop
So if you are reading this you didn’t come to our game - Shame on you!!!!!! :-p
Not much change from Wednesday - but you need to be ready to go.
Viscomm Per. 1, 2, 3, 5
Advanced Students
For the stop motion you are going to be working in iMovie next to make the video - take some time practicing getting photos into iMovie and get used to the controls. You will need to learn how to take off the special effects - the how to is in the video.
Here is a tutorial for you to get started with.
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie-photos
MAKE SURE YOU KNOW HOW TO TAKE THE EFFECT OFF!!!
Also, something you should know is that iMovie automatically saves your projects. if you are logged in as you it will be saved for you the next time you log in. Make sure you are logged in as you and that you log out at the end of the period or you might lose your work!
Here is a video that gives you some ideas about how this works
and a more simple one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-lHdmPyKI
If you are working on Flash right now - We are working for a 20 - 30 Second video. Have some fun with it. If you Have not done flash yet, do a search on flash tutorial on this site and there is a link to the Adobe website 19 step by step Videos - try and get 5 done a day.
Beginning Students
You need to remember to NOT do anything to the background. You need to have a minimum of 3 layers. You can copy, add, clone, subtract anything you want (school appropriate :))
CNS Per.4
BE ON TASK!!!! Remember that next week we are only airing on Monday and Friday because of the HSPE (aka WASL) testing
Friday Crew - Make sure you get the tape from Mr. Leduc by the end of the period so hopefully you can get things on tape at the end of the day
Tags: Database, Excel, MySQL, Spreadsheet
Check out some of the 3,500 pictures from Mr. Le Duc’s visit to China in the Summer of 2005.
Tags: China, History, Le Duc, Photography
