Thursday 25th
Presentation
Magic Lantern - slides that present a story
Slide Carousel
Presentation - tool used for buisness > more expensive
Conecting to a lot of people at once
First developed for mac bought by microsoft
Video / sound / animation
Towards a common understanding
Snr(t)aminski.com
Davidbyme.com/art
Aninconvenienttruth.co.uk
Pptworkbench.com
Monday, 29 November 2010
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Photoshop
Thursday 18th November
We were taught the basics of photoshop CS5 and scanning an image
We were taught the basics of photoshop CS5 and scanning an image
Pieces of work...
The Two ways of life by Oscar Rejlander is made up of 36 images
John Heartfield, part of the Dada movement, created political montages and played with scale.
Hannah Hoch
Raoul Hausmann
David Hockney
Peter Blake, Beatles album cover, lonely hearts. his work allows him to play with time putting people together in the image that wouldn't be possible with photography alone.
Richard Hamilton
GigaPan: A huge number of images together taken by a camera on a tripod and joined together
Scanning a negative photo & Montaging
set scan mode to transparency, Positive. Save image at about 1200 dpi
Montaging notes..
Open image in photoshop and clean up with retouching tools. add any filters/ effects to improve image colour etc.
to cut out images magic wand can be used for a quick outcome. when selecting areas you can change the tolerance so that areas of slightly different colouration that you don't wan't selected are missed out.
alternatively you can use the polygon lasso while the image is selected with magic wand and you can click around the section that shouldn't be selected and remove it from selection.
To use the image rather than remove the outline go to.. select > inverse and it will select the content that was outlined.
To move around the image while using a tool hold the space bar and drag the page.
Photoshop CS5 Tools
We used image slides and scanned them in then cleaned up the image in photoshop. Then to try out some basic montage we got some images from the web and edited them into the scanned photo. Below is the result that I created using the scanned photo and three images of animals from the web.
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
Thursday 10th November
Something in our life...
In this session we each were asked to think of something memorable in our lives that stood out and when we had all thought of something weather it be moving house, travelling, family, friends, pets etc. We were then told we had to create a piece representing it either drawn or computer made in pairs. I worked with Rachel and we based our work on the idea of friendship, how we had chosen to do the work together through being on the same course. What we produced was a drawn image of a book cover idea this incorporated the idea that we were doing graphics and the piece was a book design, also we used the title of 'graphics' and at the bottom the words 'Friends' 'Future' & 'fate' and we left the center blank from the idea that we were at the begining of our lives so there was no content so far.
Something in our life...
In this session we each were asked to think of something memorable in our lives that stood out and when we had all thought of something weather it be moving house, travelling, family, friends, pets etc. We were then told we had to create a piece representing it either drawn or computer made in pairs. I worked with Rachel and we based our work on the idea of friendship, how we had chosen to do the work together through being on the same course. What we produced was a drawn image of a book cover idea this incorporated the idea that we were doing graphics and the piece was a book design, also we used the title of 'graphics' and at the bottom the words 'Friends' 'Future' & 'fate' and we left the center blank from the idea that we were at the begining of our lives so there was no content so far.
Thursday [Date]
Performance
We were set a task in small groups of 2-3 again to find somewhere to sit for 10 minutes and take in what was going on around us then come back and put together a quick performance piece to show what we had seen however we were not allowed to use any dialogue, only sounds and actions. This was to show there is more ways of communication and how much of our body we use to communicate. I found the thought of doing the task quite difficult but once we started to plan and knew we would have to do it I just got on with it and played my role in the group.
Performance
We were set a task in small groups of 2-3 again to find somewhere to sit for 10 minutes and take in what was going on around us then come back and put together a quick performance piece to show what we had seen however we were not allowed to use any dialogue, only sounds and actions. This was to show there is more ways of communication and how much of our body we use to communicate. I found the thought of doing the task quite difficult but once we started to plan and knew we would have to do it I just got on with it and played my role in the group.
Thursday [date]
Drawing
To begin drawing, working as a team and coming up with quick ideas we split in to two groups of three to four people. We were given two four pieces of A1 paper to stick together to make one big piece and a piece of charcoal each to draw with.
The only thing we were told is that we were like a 'tribe' and we had to draw something on our paper as a group, then swap over and add something to the other teams piece until the pages were filled. I think this was a pretty good task as we weren't really set any rules, apart from not making it into anything 'readable' such as drawing a sun etc.
Seeing the finished pieces with a bit of everyone's work on it was good, you could see how styles from each team were used on the two pieces.
I think this workshop was good for getting people to work as a team and because of it being set up that we were in a way against the other group and using the paper and drawings to interact we had no choice but to interact with eachother.
Drawing
To begin drawing, working as a team and coming up with quick ideas we split in to two groups of three to four people. We were given two four pieces of A1 paper to stick together to make one big piece and a piece of charcoal each to draw with.
The only thing we were told is that we were like a 'tribe' and we had to draw something on our paper as a group, then swap over and add something to the other teams piece until the pages were filled. I think this was a pretty good task as we weren't really set any rules, apart from not making it into anything 'readable' such as drawing a sun etc.
Seeing the finished pieces with a bit of everyone's work on it was good, you could see how styles from each team were used on the two pieces.
I think this workshop was good for getting people to work as a team and because of it being set up that we were in a way against the other group and using the paper and drawings to interact we had no choice but to interact with eachother.
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