Rosie Ball.

Yesterday in my Media class we met a person called Rosie Ball she's and ex student from Long road and she was telling us about her qualifications and how she's doing in life.
 She also told us that she entered a game contest  which you have to make make your own game within 10 weeks.
You get given the equipment that you want including any computer you ask for with any program and then they select the certain best 15 out of hundreds of teams.
She got chosen and out of those 15 they choose another 3 and they get given a award.
Her game was for the ipad and was called Tick Tock Toy Box. The aim of the game is to move the toys out of the way so the robot can reach the goal. more info below.
http://www.rosieball.com/Site/Home.html

Horror Stills Conventions Moodboard

For our horror stills conventions we had to make a mood board about horror.
Mood board is a lot of different pictures stuck on top of each other to make people think kind of like a brain storm.
With a lot of different pictures in different shapes, colours and sizes.
For my mood board I focused on a lot of the classic horror films such as Freddy Kruger, Chucky, Hell raiser, Predators, Dracula and Jason.
 I also added random pictures of empty graveyards, aliens, ghosts and a full moon too.

Final New York Tittle Sequence

For our New York title squence we had to add titles to our final cut piece.
And make them fade in and out.
This was quite hard to do because i had to ask people around me for help.
But after a hour long of hard work i finally got there as you can see by the video above show.
i created the fade out effect by using the pen tool and clicking on each of the image's four times.
After i had clicked it four times i put the fade in and out in diffrent areas and created my effect.

New York Garage Band Session

For the New York Garage band session we had to create a song that fit in with our Final Cut production. This was done by using Garage band and creating a new song and moving video inside Garage band so we could make the music fit in time with the video. This was done by opening final cut and then drag and dropping the final cut file into the Garage Band. Once it was in with Garage band every time you clicked play the movie would play with it.
 So you could time the music and video together perfectly you could move the times of the music in Garage band.
 By just drag and dropping so it made this method very simple.

New York Final Cut Editing Session.

Our task was to Edit multiple videos and to blend them together to create our own and very unique video. There are three ways to edit I used the following. once you create the video you need to choose your "In" and "Out" points in your video.
You have to drag the play head to locate the beginning of the part you want to use.
Then click the mark in button or the simply press "I" (I for "In")
Drag the play head to locate the end of the video and click either mark out or press "O" (O for "Out")
Then all you need to do is drag and drop the clip directly from the viewer to the timeline.
you can drag the clip to the lower third of the video track to perform an 'Overwrite Edit'
The Cursor will change to and arrow pointing downwards.
You can also use the selection tool for editing by trimming and extending from the tool palette.

Garageband Demo Session

For my Garageband Demo Session our task was to simply explore garageband and learn how to create our very own song.
 Using various samples of electric guitars, drum beats, bass lines and much more.
 The reason why we had to learn about Garageband was because we were going to use it in future lessons.
 I quite enojyed garageband because i've always wanted to try and create my very own song.
 When you first open Garageband you have to choose a instrument i choose the Electric guitar.
In the bottom  right corner you click the button that looks a lot like a Eye.
This allows us to choose samples and drag and drop them into the time line to create our very own song.

Logo Ident production session

I found the most difficult thing in photo shop was finding certain button's or finding button's to crop certain images to the size i desired the most.
 I resolved this issue by asking Steve or the person sitting next to me who was often very kind enough to help me out.
 Altough I haven't started my Final Cut yet there are alot of question i still have.
 Like how will i add/find the sound effects and how do i make the camera zoom into certain part's.
 For instance when I want to make my Jack's production's even bigger after the man fly's over it.
 What I'm most pleased with, with my Logo Indent is that its nice and simple.

And it should able to make people smile because its quite whitty. And the fact that I enjoyed getting it togeather. And actually making my own logo and a small animation to go with it.

Media Production Company Logo Planning Session

For this session our task was to first sketch out our initial ideas on a piece of A4 paper given to us I began this brain storming alot of diffrent company logo's.
 such as, Monster, Marvel, Mac, Windows, etc. After awhile i started to sketch out diffrent pictures such as computer's, lightning bolts after we came up with a logo we had to think of a way we could animate.
 It like a Intro type style the way we had to make this is by saving layers one by one into photo shop.
 First you would have to un- click the eye's near the layer.
 And then instead of using the normale save as option we have to use the Save for Web and Devices option.
We had to do it for each layer so we could use it for the final cut program which is what we will be using to animate our logo's.
 My original plan was for my figure to be a disabled sign but I taught it would be to offence towards disabled people.
So I kept it as a normale figure.
 The logo will have the shopping trolly run into the figure and the figure will fly over the top of "Jack's Production's"

Logo Session

For the logo Session we were told to find two logo's we find particulary intresting and draw them out in side a sheet.
And write a brief desription of the company info, when they were made, who owns the company and where is it from. After we drew out the two logo's we were told to annotate them and talk about the shape, fonts, colours and size which were used.
 We were also asked to write down what associations the design elements might suggest. My first logo was Monster. Monster is a energy drink made in america but is also sold in the UK it is marketed and distriputed by Hansen Natural it's not widly advertised by the media but is well known around various sports.

The design elements show's a monster's scratch or a scratch from a large beast. And this can be taught as when people are afraid they get a adrenaline rush causing them to run faster and longer and think fast too. So in a way it would make quite alot of sense for a Energy drink to be named monster.







My second logo I chose was the famous Marvel Comics logo. Marvel comics is also a american company but it publishes comicbooks and other related media.
 Marvel comics are sold all round the world including the UK the company was first started in 1939 as Timely productions and by the early 50's it became generally known as Atlas commics.
The marvel logo is a Red rectangle with Marvel written trough it the red is the back ground and the white writing is the forground.

Photo Shop Skills Session 1: Club Flyer Task

For the Club flyer task we were told to make our own Club flyer that would attract people to come to our club we had to design the background by combining  two different pictures like we did in the Earth and Eye task.
 We also had to make the type international paper and size A5 we found our pictures on Flickr.com for my background i used a picture of a empty stage.
 then I cut the some of the picture out of the bottom with the Marque tool, scaled it to the A5 size picture once I was happy with the scaling i went and looked for another picture that would suit the theme of my club flyer.
After I found the picture I like I had to extract what i wanted.
 Like in the Eye and Earth session. I used the Magnetic Marque tool for this this selected the colour around the object I wanted highlight/move. Automatically making it easier than doing it just free hand.
Then like in the Earth and Eye session i moved the picture and scaled it by going into the main menu>edit > transform> scale.
Once i scaled my object to the desired size I then added some text to it E.g my Club's name and prices also small deals to make people come to it early.
 I added text by using the Type Tool this tool allows you to add texts onto your picture providing messages or in my case times and prices and even the club name it's self.
Once i was happy with what i wrote i could even start to edit the text by changing colour and even styles.

Photoshop Skills Ession:1 Earth and Eye Exercise

For the Earth and Eye exercise we where told to creative a photo shopped picture of a Eye edited with the earth making it seem like the person had the whole world in their eye.
 We did this by first going on to Flickr and getting the picture of the Eye and Earth once we found them we clicked on them and clicked "view in all sizes and chose the size we desired. then we would click the download button.
After both images where downloaded we opened up photo shop and opened the Eye and Earth images (Main Menu > File and then open) after it was opened we had to copy the earth picture into the eye.
 To do this we selected the "Rectangle Marquee tool" from the tool box we then clicked and dragged to define the area around the eye.
 Then we coped the image by either pressing (CTRL + C) or you go to Main menu, Edit and Copy and then we clicked the eye image to make that layer active, then we pasted the earth image onto the eye.
 after that we clicked the move tool and moved it into view and selected the Oval Marquee tool and dragged the dotted marquee around the image of the earth. Then go to the (main menu > select and then click inverse this will select everything except the earth then click delete to delete it.
 Then we used to magic tool to clean the image up a bit then we had to scale the earth into the eye we did this by going to the main menu and going to "edit" followed by Transform and then scale this formed a small rectangle around the eye then you grab the edge of the box hold shift and scale it into the eye.
 once we where satisfied with the scaling we pressed return and apply to the transformation.
 We then had to blend the earth with the eye the way we did this was by going to blending modes in the layers palette and clicking overlay this blended the earth to the image into the eyes.