27/11/09

I came in late today as i had the dentist earlier this morning, when i came in i found out that i would be in a group with Richard to set up a production project and the first job i had to think about would be the development of the project brief.

23/11/09

23/11/09

Poster made in Photoshop as part of the Hardware and Software Unit.

23/11/09

Video done in Adobe Flash as part of the hardware and software unit.

11/11/09

In this mornings Creative Digital media class we used photoshop to make a Poster for digital media in Carnegie College, my poster can be seen in the previous post.

11/11/09

Skills learned in Photoshop and Flash
PHOTOSHOP

* Picture to Drawing
* Cleaning up a drawing
* Saving authoring file
* Saving compressed format file


FLASH

* Importing bitmap
* Free Transforming
* Frame by frame animation
* Using the eraser tool
* Making layers for actionscript, each component of animation
* Making a symbol
* Animating a symbol

Third Sector

Social Networking

Bebo a very popular social network which can be used by anyone as an individual or as a band or group.

Concept
Design
Production
Testing
Final Delivery

Differs itself to others by being much easier to use and make things easy to find by using a simple layout, you can also change your profile around to suit you and change profile information.

Social Networking has gotten very big over the last few years with the likes of Facebook, Myspace and Bebo being massively popular to the users

Types of jobs include a website tester, web designer, graphic designer and project manager

Sites used

www.bebo.com
www.wikipedia.org

Second Sector

Video games developer

Video games developers are software developers which can be in a business or individually and they create the video games. Games developers can focus on one console such as PS3, Xbox 360, nintedo wii or could develop for a variety of consoles. Developers also tend to focus on a certain type of game like first person shooters, tactical or sports games.

The majority of there work takes place in the development studio like Activisions Radical Entertainment, and the developers are completly involved with all work from the 1st steps to the very last.

Qualifications required for this job can need up to 4/5 years managment skills with creative teams also required to be very good technical and managment of projects.

Passionate about games development

The right balance between the business and creative team

The right disipline and willingness to get the games to the highest standard possible

Games developers start out testing games (mainly for faults or glitches) then can be team manager or even head of company which require for qualifications mainly in graphis/animation



Sites I used

www.wikipedia.org

19/10/09

A logo created in class

2/10/09

Overview of the Creative Process

1. New Music Company Campaign
2. Pitching for the contract
3. Presentation Date prob first Friday back after the October Break
4. Video'd in the Lecture Theatre
5. Audience who will assess who wins the contract

Possible

* Radio
* Website
* Youtube
* Twitter
* Facebook
* Video
* DVD
* Email


Skills used in Photoshop

* Layers
* Multiple images
* Layer Styles
* Text
* Text Styles
* Changing size of Text

Today in Creative Digital Media we made logos on photoshop, I didnt save the first one but the other is uploaded above. In photoshop we adjusted the colours of the layers and Put text across as a logo.

Project Proposal

Storyboards
Testing
Brief
Pages
content
Images
Animations
Meetings
Budget

Time
Resources
Prototype
Portfolio
Script
Evaluation

25/9/09

We started todays creative digital media class by giving a rating out of 5 on how we would complete todays assesment( with 5 being likely to finish and 1 not so likely) I thought 5 so thats what i said and i got it finished quite quickly.

Stages in Developing and Producing

Stages in Developing and Producing

23/9/09

Todays class started in 704 with team building and leadership games, which was a lot of fun and everyone seemed to really enjoy the experience. The later part of the class was spent in our normal room 607A with a bit of photoshop, we searched on google images for our faverourite images then made a slideshow of them using photoshop, which some recored on a camera then we uploaded them to youtube then eventually to this.
and you can see the video below this...

Video of my youtube slideshow of pictures i like, someone filmed it while i changed slides.

image edited using photoshop

18/9/09

Today in creative digital media the day started with a woman called Sally coming in and talking about child abuse, we got given questions and most people answered them accurately. It was a serious issue but the woman felt that it was a subject that had to be talked about. After the break we began an assessment on a job title of our choice and i choose to do a web designer.

18/9/09

Passed a PC Passport assessment got 12/15 should of been 13 but i scored out a correct answer and put a wrong answer, leading up to the assessment i found the practices fairly easy so i fully expected to pass.

16/9/09

16/9/09

Assesment

JOB TITLE: Web Designer


SECTOR Corporate

1. Description of what someone with this tob title is generally involved in (where appropriate you should collect a typical job description

Web designers are responsible for the layout, visual appearance and usability of a website. This role may overlap with that of a Multimedia programmer and web architect. Using a combination of graphic design skills and technical knowledge of how web pages are created, the work involves:

• liaising closely with a customer or client at the design stage and finding the answers to questions about why the site is needed, who the target audience will be, who the leading competitors are, etc;
• producing a design that will be attractive to the target user, has a logical navigation system and has all the features required;
• writing web pages in a combination of codes, such as HTML and XHTML, CSS, Javascript, Actionscript, ColdFusion, .Net, Flash, or using code-generating programs, such as Dreamweaver and Visual Studio;
• deciding on how images and other material will be digitally optimised and presented for the web;
• ensuring that material on the web site is accessible to all groups including those with disabilities;
• testing the site for functionality in different browsers and at different resolutions;
• fixing errors.

Web designers will have knowledge of graphic design packages such as Fireworks or Photoshop in order to produce basic layout and manipulate images. Skills in e-commerce and server side technologies, such as PHP and .Net, and internet security are also important. As users gain faster access to the internet via broadband, web designers with skills in multimedia and interactivity are likely to be in greater demand.

2. Description of where in the development and production process a person with each of these job tiles is usually most involved

Pre production, production and post production

3. Description how someone with this job title may have begun working in the industry and what qualifications he/she needed

University/college courses in Web Design/Multimedia

4. Description of how someone with this job title can progress within the industry and what qualifications may be required

Senior Web Designer in charge of projects. Manager of projects.

5. Provided your sources of information

Tutor
www.wikipedia.org

JOB TITLE: Animator


SECTOR: Film

1. Description of what someone with this job title is generally involved in (where appropriate you should collect a typical job description

An Animator is someone who can make images come to life with the use of animation.

2. Description of where in the development and production process a person with each of these job titles is usually most involved

Pre production, production and post production

3. Description how someone with this job title may have begun working in the industry and what qualifications he/she needed

Start with special effects then move on to movement of still images at college or university.

4. Description of how someone with this job title can progress within the industry and what qualifications may be required

5. Provided your sources of information

WWW.wikipedia.org

JOB TITLE: Games developer


SECTOR: Computer Games

1. Description of what someone with this job title is generally involved in (where appropriate you should collect a typical job description

A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video games. A developer may specialize in a certain video game console, such as Sony's PlayStation 3, Microsoft's Xbox 360, Nintendo's Wii, or may develop for a variety of systems, including personal computers.

2. Description of where in the development and production process a person with each of these job titles is usually most involved

Some developers also specialize in certain types of games, such as computer role-playing games or first-person shooters. Some focus on porting games from one system to another. Some focus on translating games from one language to another. An unusual few do other kinds of software development work in addition to games.

3. Description how someone with this job title may have begun working in the industry and what qualifications he/she needed

College graphic design could be a starter course on leading towards being a games developer

4. Description of how someone with this job title can progress within the industry and what qualifications may be required

Game developers start off developing little projects and could progress to developing some of the best selling games in the world

5. Provided your sources of information

www.wikipedia.org

14/9/09

Today in college we had an assessment for computer hardware systems, It covered things like computer hardware and binary and after i came back from lunch i found out that i had passed it- don't yet know how much i got though

11/9/09

InfinityWard

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Today I made a slideshow about the game developers Infinity Ward, who developed Some of the Call Of Duty series

9/9/09

• The work i have carried out in class are as follows: Mind maps Pics - individually and in scrapblog Sideshows from Photobucket. Using Embed code in blogger, PowerPoint Presentation to slideshare and embedding in blog Animation created in Flash. Saved as a Movie and placed on YouTube and then code embedded into Blogger.
  

4/9/09

Today in Creative Digital Media the class used Adobe illustrator and flash to create some animations from scratch, which was a fish swimming through water. We also watched Simone Legnos design techniques which looked awesome and he gave tips for people who liked to design things similar to his.

28th August 2009

Today in class we went out with digital cameras and took photos of each other "looking happy" which we then uploaded to photo bucket and then took some and put them into scrap blog, which we knew how to use because Gillian demonstrated how to use the editing tools for it.