Review of Week 29 - A Day of Reviewing Ourselves

This week has been a week of reviewing not only our works, but ourselves as well.

In Comics, Katie has explained, very clearly, what I need to do for the class, and I have worked on my short comics strip for the class.  In it, a Scottish Wildcat goes in a bar and asks for a "dram", but the English Fox thinks he's asking for a drum, only for a Welsh Hound to reveal that the Wildcat is asking for a glass of whisky.  Now I need to review some comic strips and a piece of a graphic novel for the class.  In PAT today, we discussed the class in how we felt of the class and of our work, and we've agreed that while there may be poor planning of the class, we might not have put as much as work as we'd like to have.

In Digital Imaging, I have completed altering my first of at least ten images for the class.

In PAT, as I have mentioned, we discussed about how we felt of the course so far, all its ups and downs.  Iain told us how the classes are sorted by the SQA for the courses.

In Media Project, Brain talked about storyboarding, and asked us to do quick storyboard of two people meeting in a restaurant/cafe.  We noted how the cameras would pan or zoom in/out on the people arriving and meeting.  It was good fun.  Then we looked at editing in Adobe Premium Pro.

Earlier this week I discussed the birth of a royal prince, who has been named Prince Louis.

I hope that next week goes well for all of us, just six weeks left.

Wish us all luck.

Week 29

Week 29 has begun!

St. George's Day was quite a day for the Royal Family with the birth of a prince.  For the prince, there are many Georges: born on St George's Day; has an older brother called George; and his uncle, Prince Harry, is getting married at St George's Chapel next month.

In Page Layout, I've made a start in the InDesign software for the leaflet, I might need to resize the font of the lettering.  In Animation, I updated my workbook and completed my storyboard for the animation project over my lunch break.  Now, I just need to double check the paperwork, then got on with making the animation.

Today we had an event called Heritage where students going round the college dressed as people from different areas of the world and I think doing some performances.  But the biggest event was down in the reception area where there was a display of event about Air Traffic Control and its future.  One display screen had Heathrow Airport.  I talked to the two men running the stall that when I was a kid living in Northumberland, I used to visit Newcastle Airport and watch the planes land on a viewing platform on the roof (I don't know if it's still there or not, or even if it's allowed or people to go there), and I commented that if my mum was there she'd complain that there one thing missing, the Concorde.

For the Comics and Graphic Novels class tomorrow, for Outcome 3, I have made a start for the comics and part of the graphic novel.

I hope that this week goes well for all of us.

Wish us all luck.

165th Blog Post - End of Week 28 - Less Than 8 Weeks Left

This week has gone by very quickly - and we have less than 8 weeks of the course left (Yikes!)

The Comics and Graphic Novels class is perhaps the only class this semester that dos likely not planned properly.  Katie wasn't in so Ken from the Advertising class last seamster took over, telling us that we had to write a 1500 word essay, only to tell us in the next class (Digital Imaging) that that it wasn't the task at all, but make a start on our comics strips.

In the Digital Imaging class, we were double checking on our work so far and showing Alison what photos we had for Outcome 3.  I have started planning on what to do with some of my photos.

PAT today was quick so nothing of interest happened for me.  In Media Project, some of starting making a video on the Flow event just outside the college before the holidays with Adobe Premium Pro.  We had a go at the software and discussed what we thought on the video as it progressed.  For reference I showed them the video I did for NC Digital Media Level 6 just three years ago (Zonks! Is that all?).

It looks like next week will be getting into the work a bit more.  I'm thinking of taking or finding more photos for the Digital Imaging class.

I hope that next week goes well for all of us.

Wish us all luck.

Quiet Wednesday Back

We returned to college today.

In Page Layout, we continued with our small projects with me deciding which books to review, writing small pieces of their plots, what I thought of them and who their authors were (though I'm starting to think of removing the last bit in terms of much to write on the pages).

In Animation, I was updating my workbook for the class and going over with Alison what she thinks of the work so far and what stills needs to be done.  So far for the animation, I have done the first scene, just three more to go, then get the timing for the shots to make the animation in the video work and put audio in (the sound effects might be from the public domain).

Today well very well, hard to believe that it has gone by as quick as it did.

Comics and Graphic Novels class tomorrow (oh joy!), then Alison again for the Digital Imaging, and I have some images ready for the class.

I hope that the rest of the week goes for us.

Wish us all luck.

What A Easter Holidays

The Easter Holidays have been a reasonably quiet (and quick) holidays - now the period I call "The Season of Assessments" will begin at college.

I'm sorry that April's Fools Day wasn't a college day as I was hoping to get back at Iain for confusing me over the start of the Christmas Holidays, but I still hope to get even.

We had Winter's Last Hurrah here in Inverness during the first week.  Tuesday and Wednesday saw us waking to snow in the mornings and Wednesday gave us hailstones.  Thursday was sunny while Friday was cloudy and grey and cool, but neither was too cold to have snow.  For the second week, there was sunny and cloudy spells, with the second Friday starting with some rain in the morning.

I have caught up with the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast as much as I could.  I managed to watch Katarina Johnson-Thompson finish first in the 800 metres race in the Heptathlon and winning gold for the event (Well Done Katarina Johnson-Thompson!).  I enjoyed watching BBC 's Mike Bushell's slashing interview with the English Swimming team, before the gold winning English Netball team attempted a similar thing.

I have been thinking on a theme for Digital Imaging about points of view and what sort of genres to use, such as cityscapes and landscapes, in and around Inverness.  I just needed to take the photos (which I have done) and choose which ones to go for before I get back to college and alter them (I'm thinking of about 15 of them) on Photoshop.

I've been starting to plan out my studies more with the completion of NC Media this year before finishing ECDL Advanced Presentation.

I hope that this term till the end of the course goes well for all of us.

Wish us all luck.