TGJ2O1 Poster Assignment

Create a poster that promotes a cause or issue of your choice. The issue will of course be the same one that you have chosen for your video assignment. The posters will be done individually. There are examples below for you to take a look at. Take note of what you look at first. Image, text, colour etc. Notice that most have little competition in terms of what draws your attention in the posters.
Then check the instructions below for your assignment.















Step 1: Do some additional research and find out more about your topic.
Step 2: Try to find a specific aspect of this topic to focus on for your poster. Decide who your audience is! Are you seeking money from the public, are you trying to get people to think and learn, are you speaking to the victims or the people involved in the issue?
Step 3: Write a paragraph on the broader issue, and also on the specific focus you are taking for your poster.
Step 4: Design a poster that expresses the mood, theme of this issue and serves to promote the cause.
Draw 10 thumbnails. Show them to a partner who can help you decide on your best 3 before going on the computer!
Choose your best 3 for roughs.
On the computer (Photoshop) produce your 3 roughs.
Choose your best rough to expand for your final work.

Hand in your 3 roughs and your final, labelled with your name (rough 1,2,3) and poster into the drop folder marked Poster.
Hand in your written paragraph into the folder marked
Poster written.

Then post your final poster to your blog with a brief written statement that explains your intent – audience, message, issue.

Parameters:
10x16” @ 300 p.p.i.
Can be in colour or black and white
Must include a slogan (catchy phrase that promotes the issue)
e.g. Racism. Stop it.
May include a photograph or image if that image is altered and unrecognizable from the original, or an original photograph if you took the photo.
You may use Photoshop CS OR Illustrator CS

TGJ 2O1 - Editing with iMovie HD

Hello Class,

Here is a really straightforward video tutorial on using iMovie HD. Please view it, in your groups if you like, and then go ahead and begin editing your 3:6:9 sequence.
Don't add any transitions for now. Keep the cuts as they are (jump cuts).

Keep in mind, the ONLY clips I want in this exercise are your 3:6:9 clips of ONE SUBJECT shot from THREE distance points from THREE different angles. DO NOT edit the movie so that they appear in order. BO-ring! Mix it up. You are welcome to play around with the clips, copy them so that they appear more than once and of course the length of time each clip appears is up to you.

I'm looking for variety, creativity and imagination. The trick is to edit these clips together to make a fun quick video - it doesn't matter what subject you chose. Please work together as a group. I'd like everyone in your group to have a chance to do some editing.

Try adding music and sound effects. You will end up copying the entire sequence of your video and pasting it a few seconds after your first video ends. I'd like you to choose a completely different piece of music for the second showing. The goal is to see how much music impacts the overall feel and perception of the video.

Here's the tutorial. Have fun!
Don't mind the cheesy music and give it a few seconds to load. It's 7 minutes long. If it doesn't work, please go to the THIS LINK!

TGJ 2O1 Sequencing in Video

Scroll down to the posting on Video Sequencing for CyberARTS. You will be doing the same assignment. Basically, I'd like each of you to read through this article and follow the instructions in that posting - summarize the article in point form, post it to your blog with a link to the article embedded in the blog posting and also add the link to your link list. Then do that with a second article you find.

We've already talked a bit about sequencing. If you didn't do the assignment posted one below this one, I suggest you do that as well!

In total you should have three different postings - one on video sequencing, another on whatever you find that is linked from that page and a third from the video storytelling posting (one below this one)

On Thursday we'll be doing a shooting exercise in your groups and editing on Friday.
Please make sure you complete this article analysis today! There will be no more time in class to do this and it is DUE: Friday November 27th. If you do not complete it in class, you will need to ensure that it is complete by Friday.