Working In Digital Media Week 4

This week our guest spear was Ian Cudmore from Chutney Films.

I found this weeks lecture very interesting.  Ian started talking to us about what happened when he finished college in 2006.  He graduated from NCAD in 2006 where he was studying industrial design and product design.  He then decided to study further so he went to Trinity College to study media technologies and music.  Ian started playing around with a camera alot when he had finished this and that was when he decided he wanted to work in that industry.  He said that we were in a better position than most people with the course we are studying because it is one of the only media courses that cover all the aspects of media.  We have an advantage when we graduate because people currently in the media game are stuck to the one thing that they studied where as we will know how to do that plus more. Ian had 2 jobs after he finished college before he changed his career to be a freelance worker.  He had never really taught of freelancing so in order of successfully doing this he started playing around and practiced with different stuff.  He then started making music videos for different people who were impressed with his work.

Ian started calling himself an editor after he was asked to make a pilot for Maeves show. This was a four part series.  Where they had very low budget to work with.  This was Ian’s first real production job.  It took 4 months to create the four part series.  He also used a bit of stop motion in this mini series which for each bit of stop motion it took him 12 hours to complete.

 

Working In Digital Media Week 2

This week in working in digital media we had a guest speaker called Geraldine Gray.  She is from the Department of informatics in ITB.  She came in to talk to us about the different styles of learning.  There are 60 different ways of learning. I was amazed by this fact.

The different types of learning include:

• Learning Channels:        How we take in information
• Cognitive Strengths:       How we commit information to memory
• Manner/Style of learning:   How people process information to understand it.
• Personality type influences:  How your personality effects the way you learn
• Types of learning behavior:   Different types of intelligence.

Channel/Mode of learning

• Visual
• Kinasthetic
• Auditory

Auditory:

Auditory learners learn best by hearing information.  They remember things quicker when something is explained orally to the person.  E.G. Talking Aloud, Listening to a lecture, discussing in small or large groups of people.
Visual:

Visual learners learn best from seeing things.  They can remember information best if they see it wrote down.  There are two types of visual learners.  Visual Linguistic and Visual Spatial.

Visual Linguistic: Love written word. They can remember stuff after seeing it only once.

Visual Spatial: This type of learner learns best from of charts, diagrams, video and other types of visual materials.

Kinasthetic:

Kinasthetic learners learn best while touching or moving.  E.G. Doing, Hands on approach (manipulation, objects, simulations, live events) Field trips to gain knowledge, and small group discussions.

Tend to loose concentration when there is little external stimulation or movement.

I’m a kinasthetic learner so i am going to write a bit more on this one than the other ones.

Kinasthetic learners have problems with different things. For e.g. having legible cursive handwriting, sitting still (I am having great difficulty with that right now), listening to lectures for more than 4 minutes, spelling, recalling what is seen or heard, expressing emotions without physical movement and sticking with one activity.

The Labs:

This week in the labs we made a 3D model of a surfboard after it had been bitten by a shark. This was quite fun to do!! Playing around with shapes and learning the basics of Adobe Illustrator.

 

Typography assignment

this week we were given an assignment where we had to draw a sketch of our own faces and then we had to edit them using typography.

Sketch

typography

 

Visual language week 11

This week in the lecture we learned about unity in design principles and gestalt.  we then showed each element of unity physically and in groups of 4.

In the lab this week we finished up on our semiotics assignment.  In this assignment we had to portray celebrities in three different ways.  I chose Carlos Tevez as my celebrity and I portrayed him as feminine, wealthy, and evil.

Feminine:

 

wealthy:

 

evil:

These three images are my final design for the assignment.

This is the original image for the assignment.

 

Visual language week 10

In this lecture we learned about design principles.  We looked at 4 elements of design this week.  These elements were balance, contrast, movement and emphasis.

There are two ways of showing balance.  these are symmetrically and asymmetrically.

Contrast simply means difference.  contrast can be portrayed in shape size colour and composition.

Movement is the path followed by the eye in an image.  There are three types of movement for an image, these are rhythm, line and repetition.

Emphasis is the stressing of a particular area of focus.  There are four types of emphasis, these are simplicity, placement and scale, colour and isolation.

In the lab session this week we used photoshop to edit an image of louis walsh.

 

 

 

Visual language Week 10

In this weeks lecture we learned about Semiotics.  In this lecture we had an introduction to semiotics, we learned about signs and signifiers, advertising, ideology and activity and how they are used in semiotics.  In the lab for this week we continued in finishing off the fruitman that we started in the previous lab session from the week before.

 

Visual language week 5

This week in visual language I learned about digital imaging.  In this lecture we talked about bitmaps, bitmap image formats vectors and photoshop.

Bitmap images are made of pixels which include separate different color in each pixel to make an image.  These are not suitable to scale because the image turns out blurry.

There are 5 most common types of bitmap images.  These are TIFF (.tiff), BMP (.bmp), PICT (.pict), GIF (.gif) and JPEG (.jpg)

Vector images are made up of points and lines.  These are easily rescaled as their is no associated pixel for separate colors.

And finally we completed the lecture with an introduction to photoshop.

In the lab session this week we started using photoshop and made a fruit face.

This is how he turned out.

 

Visual Language week 4

Today we learnt about the color wheel, what colors compliment other colors, and saturation of colors.

In our lab we finished off our assignments and put them all together.

 

Visual language week 3

this week we learned about point, line and texture.  then we continued our assignment.

 

Visual Language Week 2

Today for visual language i started my first assignment for the subject.

This assignment involved drawing images and coloring them in within our chosen image!!