Digital Media 11

Course Outline

This introductory computer course will provide students with basic skills required for today's digital age. We focus on different types of digital media creation that is often demonstrated in the World Wide Web and film production.

Topics covered include image manipulation, video creation and editing, 2D animation and 3D modeling and animation. The focus will be on elements of design, composition, techniques, and use of space.

Projects

Assignment 1 - Microsoft Word, Digital Camera, PDF Creation, File Organization (Feb. 2)

Section 1 - Image Manipulation

Assignment 2 - Getting around in FireWorks (tutorial) (5 marks)

Assignment 3 - Changing the Colour of a Bitmap Image (5 marks)
Assignment 3.5 - Use what you've learned and change an object in a picture of your choice to a different colour. (10 marks)
Example: change someone's hat to a different colour

Assignment 4 - Paste Inside Masking Tutorial (5 marks)
Assignment 4.5 - Use your imagination and the techniques shown, create your own "picture perfect" image. (10 marks)

Assignment 5 - Replace One Image with Another

Assignment 6 - Visual Pun (merging pictures)

Assignment 7 - Photoshop tutorial and exploration (haunted house)

Assignment 8 - Fixer Upper House

Assignment 9 - Basic Intro to Adobe Illustrator

Assignment 10 - (Online Tutorial) Create an RSS icon using Illustrator

Assignment 11 - Trace your favourite cartoon character in Illustrator (no colour fills) (You can use Stewie Griffin)

Assignment 12 - Choose one of the following online character drawing tutorials

Image Portfolio - You will need to hand in 3 pieces of your own creative work in your portfolio by the end of term 1 (April)

Section 2 - Video Editing

Video Project 1 - Public Service Announcement. Sample topic: "Recycling". Approximately 2 minutes.

Planning - Using Adobe Illustrator to create a Storyboard.

Create a VideoProject1 folder. Create the following 4 sub-folders: Research, Script, Images, Storyboard
Research 10 facts on Recycling in Canada. Save in a Word Document in the Research sub-folder
Collect at least 10 images to go with your facts. Save in Images sub-folder
Create a Narrative script in Word. You need at least 1 line per fact/image. Save this document in Script sub-folder.
Open up Adobe Illustrator CS4 and create a new storyboard. (Ask Mr. Wei on how to get this going)
Save storyboard in Storyboard sub-folder
Hand in the entire VideoProject1 folder

Getting Sound Resources Ready - Recording Narratives

Create a new sub-folder called "Sound Bites"
Record narration in Adobe Soundbooth
One file per corresponding frame

Editing - Putting it all together in Premiere Pro CS4

Import all image and sound files to Adobe Premiere project
Edit your slideshow movie
Add titles and captions
Add a background music file (.mp3, etc.)
For higher marks, add transitions and effects
Export to .mpg format when done

Video Project 2 - Musical Montage ( Video Pitch Form )( Storyboard here)

Video Project 3 - Open Video Project / TV Commercial ( Video Pitch Form )( Storyboard here)

If you are doing an open (your choice) project, make sure you have a video outline and storyboard presented to Mr. Wei before you start filming.
If you are doing a TV Commercial, your video pitch needs to briefly outline the product you are selling and the storyboard needs to summarize the commercial.
TV commercials MUST BE either 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 45 seconds or 60 seconds!! Any deviation from the length or if the quality of the video is compromised due to a sudden time-chomp will result in mark deduction.
You are encouraged to include Flash 2D animation in this video

Final Project - That's Crazy!! ( Video Pitch Form )( Storyboard here)

You will be provided with a few video clips of Mr. R standing in front of a green screen
Your task is to use at least 3 of these video clips and develop a short video from them
You will need to provide background image or video to replace the green screen