Monday, April 25, 2011

QUIZ FRIDAY APRIL 29--Study the following things:
What in the World is Graphic Design worksheet
Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 Basics of Design worksheets
Copyright Law & You worksheet
Photoshop lecture documents
Intro to Vectorland
Emphasis Ad Analysis
Balance & Contrast Ad Analysis

KEY TERMS: All terms can be found in the materials listed above.
Resolution
Pixels
Selection
Sampling
Source
Destination
Filters
Blend Mode
Layer mask
Adjustment layer
Clipping mask
Opacity
Rasterize
Flattening
Brush library
Visual Hierarchy
Layer Style
Desaturate
Paths
Emphasis
Contrast
Symmetrical
Asymmetrical
Visual Weight
Public Domain
Fair Use
Vector
Raster
Attribution

Monday, April 18, 2011

POSTER PROJECT
Your task is to create a movie poster. The poster must be made in the style of a real movie theater poster. The movie represented in your poster must be of your own creation. Do not make a poster for an existing movie.

GENRE: COMEDY or ACTION

GOAL: To inform people about and convince them to see the movie.

AUDIENCE: PG-13 moviegoers.

EXISTING SAMPLES: http://www.movieposter.com/ and http://step-art-tech.tumblr.com/ and in the "MOVIE POSTER SAMPLES" folder in the Art Tech 1 folder on StuShare. Look at a bunch of movie posters. Try to identify the point of emphasis, and the secondary/tertiary accents in the VISUAL HIERARCHY of the design. Think about how you will achieve this in your design.

POSTER CRITERIA:
1. 6 inches x 9 inches @ 300 DPI

2. *Clear VISUAL HIERARCHY. (There should be a point of emphasis, and secondary/tertiary accents.
*Definitive sense of SYMMETRICAL, ASYMMETRICAL, or RADIAL BALANCE to design.
*Some type of CONTRAST from the list on page 44 of your Basics of Design textbook.


3. Your poster must incorporate a minimum of 6 separate images that have been worked into a cohesive image in Photoshop. You must include a movie title and other relevant movie text information.

4. Images must be public domain, creative commons licensed, or under your copyright, or copyright that someone has authorized for your use. Here are some good links for acceptable images. Also see our STOCK IMAGE RESOURCES blog entry:
http://search.creativecommons.org/
http://www.archive.org/
http://www.everystockphoto.com
http://sxc.hu/
http://freeres.info/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://morguefile.com/


5. You MUST include a bibliography of your image sources with your final design. Keep track of the websites you are getting images from by pasting links into a Word document.
STOCK IMAGE RESOURCES FOR MOVIE POSTER
Remember to track your resource links for your bibliography as you work!
Also try to use your own photos or drawings--that is even better than stock resources.

Billions of Resource Links!
http://freeres.info/

Creative Commons Informational Video--Watch before using filter
http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/getcreative/

Creative Commons Search Filter
http://search.creativecommons.org/

Free Fonts
http://www.dafont.com/

Free Brushes and Patterns, etc
http://www.brusheezy.com/

Friday, April 15, 2011

COPYRIGHT LAW CLASS RESOURCES:


Copyright Law & You worksheet URL:
http://cyberbee.com/cb_copyright.swf
http://www.copyrightkids.org/quizframes.htm

Creative Commons Videos:
http://learn.creativecommons.org/

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Desaturate and Recolor Composition

1. Start a Photoshop document measuring 8.5 x 11 @ 150 dpi

2. Develop a composition of your choice, that features the following criteria:
• A minimum of 5 instances of de-saturation and re-coloring. Use both the color replacement tool and the full desaturate/recolor method. Also include instances of solid color, gradient, pattern and clipping mask.
• The composition must demonstrate symmetrical, asymmetrical or radial balance.
• Your de-saturation and re-coloring must follow one of these color schemes: monochromatic, complementary, analogous, split complement, triad, tetrad. Check out the color notes on our Tumblr page!

3. Print your composition when finished. Write down the following things:
A. What items were re-colored on the back of the page, and how you did it (color replacement tool or full desaturate & recolor).
B. What type of balance you applied to your composition
C. What type of color scheme you applied to your composition

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

ASSIGNMENTS FOR 4/6 and 4/7 in MS. WAKELY'S CLASSES

Art Technology 1:
Agenda for 4/6:
1. Work on the brushes, pattern, effects and filters assignment. Make sure to write what tools were used and where they can be seen on the back of your printout before turning in. If you were absent 4/5, watch the tutorials in the ‘LayerBrushTools’ folder in the Lecture Videos folder on the Shared server. You will also want to look at the lecture files in the ‘brushes_color_pattern_effects’ folder on the Shared server.
2. Finish and turn in any missing work listed on your progress report.

Agenda for 4/7:
3. Read Chapters 3 and 4 in Basics of Design and do the worksheets for those chapters.
4. Do the Balance and Contrast Ad Analysis:
A. Find an ad that uses ASYMMETRICAL balance, or one that uses SYMMETRICAL balance.
B. Place the ad on a sheet of drawing paper.
C. Identify the GOAL of the ad. (What is the ad trying to do?)
D. Identify the AUDIENCE of the ad. (Who is the ad trying to reach? Describe the demographic as specifically as you can.)
E. Identify the type of BALANCE in your ad--symmetrical or asymmetrical. Clearly mark it on your layout.
F. List one way the use of BALANCE in the ad works to create EMPHASIS in each ad. Refer to the techniques for effective emphasis listed on pages 27,28 and 29 in Basics of Design if you need help.
G. List one type of CONTRAST used in each ad. Refer to the techniques listed on page 44 of Basics of Design if you need help.
H. Do you think the ad is effectively reaching the demographic they hope to target? Explain why or why not in 1-2 sentences.

Period 3 STEP Plus Arts:
1. Continue working on and finish your stop motion animation movies.
2. If your group finish your movie, bounce the file to .mov format and turn into the ‘Stop Motion .mov Files’ folder inside STEP Plus Arts on the Drop server.
3. Use remaining time to either create another stop motion film or make DVD packaging or a poster for your movie.


Period 4-5 Art Technology 2:
1. Work on the Independent Project you committed to. The sub will let me know if you do not look occupied Wednesday; you will have PLENTY to do that will be less fun if you don't follow through with what you committed to.
BRUSHES, PATTERN, EFFECTS AND FILTERS ASSIGNMENT
Create a Photoshop document that is 8.5 x 11 @ 150dpi. Experiment with the tools discussed in the Brushes, Color, Pattern and Effects Photoshop lecture.
Use at least one tool mentioned in each type layer of the document--At least one thing from each of the following topics:
1. LAYER STYLES
2. BLEND MODES
3. OPACITY
4. FILTERS
5. CUSTOM BRUSH
6. CUSTOM PATTERN

You can download a ton of cool patterns and brushes at http://www.brusheezy.com/

Print your final sampler, then write down which tools you used and where they can be seen on the back. Make sure your name is on it!