10 Nov 2020
Two groups are competing for prizes, today – Grade 11 & 12’s and the Grade 10’s.
Main Entrance Television Advertisements
You have 50 minutes (hands down at 9:50) to create FIVE screens for the television in the Main Entrance of SDSS. You will be using the 1920x1080 template in PHOTOSHOP (under Film and Video tab) to create these slides. You will export each slide as a JPEG numbered in the order that you want them to appear and that corresponds with the numbered items, below.
We will VOTE for the most effective and best-looking package of slides, starting at 9:50.
Two groups are competing for prizes, today – Grade 11 & 12’s and the Grade 10’s.
Main Entrance Television Advertisements
You have 50 minutes (hands down at 9:50) to create FIVE screens for the television in the Main Entrance of SDSS. You will be using the 1920x1080 template in PHOTOSHOP (under Film and Video tab) to create these slides. You will export each slide as a JPEG numbered in the order that you want them to appear and that corresponds with the numbered items, below.
- Welcome to SDSS
A welcome message for SDSS. School logos are available to use (see board for location). - Guest Speaker
Chris Hadfield, astronaut
Friday, November 27
SDSS Cafetorium
Donation of food bank item is encouraged - Remembrance Assembly
Wednesday, November 11
Starts at 10:30
SDSS Cafetorium - European Field Trip Advertisement
SDSS Trip to Europe
March Break 2022
Italy and France
See Mr. Weigand for details
Cost is $3800 - Upcoming Events
Dec 4 – Dance in the Gym
Band: The Arkells
Dec 11 – Pyjama Day
Dec 18 – Christmas Assembly
We will VOTE for the most effective and best-looking package of slides, starting at 9:50.
27-30 Oct 2020
- Continue working on your 10 minute-long TV News Program until you have it finished and uploaded to the HandIn folder.
- Culminating Assignment HANDOUT
- Movie Poster Help
- Stop Motion Examples
- Here are some more examples of the 4 types of Stop-Motion Animation:
1. Claymation
- Simple - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA2XrXeHSRg (plasticene creature)
- More Advanced - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2LQMK9k2t8 (various ideas)
2. Object Stop-Motion
- Simple - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWcT36TsvZA (cutlery and household objects)
- More Advanced - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEglOulvgSY (with fruit)
3. Cut-out Stop-Motion
- Simple - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo6-6ENTl7o (Coco the Dog)
- More Advanced - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqVPYPyTNPs (various scenes)
4. Pixilation
- Simple (kind of) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5IqwECL6bo&list=PLeb1dw3SJP3L4wJgLZkYQXXPFKUMKGh1S&index=2
(Human Skateboard)
- More Advanced - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUCTnmWT5Lk (pixilation... minus the humans)
** Do not try this at home - Human Space Invaders (this must have taken forever!)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VczbbiRmDik&list=PLeb1dw3SJP3L4wJgLZkYQXXPFKUMKGh1S&index=5
Some people even make Flip-it books!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LguKiUMG6OQ
A Ski Movie by Philipp Klein (2020)
A skiing adventure, in his bedroom!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HrIVWziJ0Y
Lego Harry Potter (2016)
The whole Harry Potter Series in 90 seconds!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnbBcAr7XGo
A Comm Tech Classic – Western Spaghetti (2009)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBjLW5_dGAM
Some advice for making the best stop-motion video you can make!
Ten Things that Stop Motion Pros Do
Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aHta3gpFgg
Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUX56F6BFKA&t=323s
Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lk9N_rnB9A
- Stop Motion Examples
Some people even make Flip-it books!
Yearbook Survey Link
for Annie MacKinnon, yearbook student
for Annie MacKinnon, yearbook student
26-28 Oct 2020
- Continue working on your 10 minute-long TV News Program until you have it finished and uploaded to the HandIn folder.
- Assignment 11 - A TV News Program (10 minutes in length)
- Assignment handout explaining the project
- VIDEO TUTORIAL - How to do "Picture in Picture" and "Side by Side" clips
- Mr. Weigand will give you some choices for your culminating assignment(s).
15-16 Oct 2020
- What have you done, so far...
- Created a short video that demonstrated the 5 main camera shots - ELS, LS, MS, CU, ECU.
- Created a 1-minute video.
- What you need to work on, today...
- Continue working on your 1-minute video until you have it finished and uploaded to the HandIn folder.
- Assignment 11 - A TV News Program (10 minutes in length)
- Assignment handout explaining the project
- VIDEO TUTORIAL - How to do "Picture in Picture" and "Side by Side" clips
14 Oct 2020 - Wednesday
- Please submit (or resubmit) any missing work that is highlighted on the grade sheet that Mr. Weigand gave to you, yesterday.
- Continue working on your 1-minute video
- Try editing your name, using the Knife Tool and various colours, in Illustrator, as you were shown.
13 Oct 2020 - Tuesday
- Please submit (or resubmit) any missing work that is highlighted on the grade sheet that Mr. Weigand gave to you, this morning.
- Remember...
When exporting your finished work from Illustrator or InDesign, as an Adobe PDF file, there are different methods for each program.
Illustrator
File - Save As - choose Adobe PDF from the pull-down list of options
InDesign
File - Export - Adobe PDF (Print) from the pull-down list of options, then choose SPREADS on the very last window of options before saving. - Continue working on your 1-minute video project.
- Assignment 10 - My One-Minute Video
- Create a short video, using whatever means you have available to you (video camera or phone that takes videos), that is 1 minute in length, and focuses on ONE of the following topics. You have a choice as to which topic you pick. As you can see, some of the options require making TWO short videos to total to 1 minute
- **These options should hit all comfort levels. There's something for everyone!
- CHOOSE ONLY ONE OF THESE OPTIONS
- Public Service Announcement (PSA) – COVID 19 virus-avoidance recommendations (could be longer than 1 minute)
- Creating a "commercial" or PSA that teaches viewers the following important points.
- staying at home, avoiding gatherings, practicing physical distancing (2m), washing hands for 20 seconds, coughing or sneezing into your arm, self-monitoring and self-isolating, if have travelled outside Canada to self-isolate for 14 days, limiting your outings by buying groceries once-a-week
- Creating a "commercial" or PSA that teaches viewers the following important points.
- Public service announcement (PSA) - topic of your choice (1 minute)
- 2 x 30 second commercials (can be funny, but keep it clean)
- A common task reversed (record it and then reverse the motion and save it)(1 minute)
- A trailer for a movie (1 minute overview using video that YOU have recorded). Be creative. Lego figures work well, for instance.
- A life lesson demonstrated. A "life hack" or encouragement for how to live a good life. You know the stuff. (1 minute)
- A short interview with a friend or someone in your home. (1 minute)
- **We will learn about adding intro and ending credits (and titling), later.
- You will export and upload your FINISHED VIDEO as a .wmv video file.
- Public Service Announcement (PSA) – COVID 19 virus-avoidance recommendations (could be longer than 1 minute)
- Good luck and have fun with it.
02 Oct 2020 - Friday
- Here are some examples of effective One-Minute Long videos.
- You can accomplish a LOT in a 1-minute film as demonstrated here:
- Black Hole (2012) https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=1ijTTyxyaKk&feature=emb_logo
- Simple and effective short film.
- The moral of this story. Don’t be greedy!
- Wildebeest (2012)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=59&v=gdL17lg-GUw&feature=emb_logo
- And we thought goldfish had memory issues!
- Black Hole (2012) https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=1ijTTyxyaKk&feature=emb_logo
- There is a career to be made in making short films and it’s not just in advertising.
- Check out some of these short films from the National Film Board website (most of them are animations).
- One Minute films on Youtube
- Assignment 10 - My One-Minute Video
- Create a short video, using whatever means you have available to you (video camera or phone that takes videos), that is 1 minute in length, and focuses on ONE of the following topics. You have a choice as to which topic you pick. As you can see, some of the options require making TWO short videos to total to 1 minute
- **These options should hit all comfort levels. There's something for everyone!
- CHOOSE ONLY ONE OF THESE OPTIONS
- Public Service Announcement (PSA) – COVID 19 virus-avoidance recommendations (could be longer than 1 minute)
- Creating a "commercial" or PSA that teaches viewers the following important points.
- staying at home, avoiding gatherings, practicing physical distancing (2m), washing hands for 20 seconds, coughing or sneezing into your arm, self-monitoring and self-isolating, if have travelled outside Canada to self-isolate for 14 days, limiting your outings by buying groceries once-a-week
- Creating a "commercial" or PSA that teaches viewers the following important points.
- Public service announcement (PSA) - topic of your choice (1 minute)
- 2 x 30 second commercials (can be funny, but keep it clean)
- A common task reversed (record it and then reverse the motion and save it)(1 minute)
- A trailer for a movie (1 minute overview using video that YOU have recorded). Be creative. Lego figures work well, for instance.
- A life lesson demonstrated. A "life hack" or encouragement for how to live a good life. You know the stuff. (1 minute)
- A short interview with a friend or someone in your home. (1 minute)
- **We will learn about adding intro and ending credits (and titling), later.
- You will export and upload your FINISHED VIDEO as a .wmv video file.
- Public Service Announcement (PSA) – COVID 19 virus-avoidance recommendations (could be longer than 1 minute)
- Good luck and have fun with it.
1 Oct 2020 - Thursday
- Continue working on the tutorials until you have completed them.
- Basically, here are the steps to editing videos...
1. Find content either online or created by YOU and get it onto your computer.
2. Import the content into the program you are using to edit video.
3. Drag the content into the "Timeline" (or whatever your software calls it).
4. Arrange the clips to your liking and play them, in order.
5. Manipulate the video and associated sound, as you wish. Delete the sound and add music - you name it!
6. Add titles, sounds, transitions, and credits.
7. Export your finished movie as a .wmv file.
- Camera Shot Types
- 1966 - The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly - directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood - TRAILER
- Types of Shots (some may refer to these by a slightly different name, but these are the fundamentals)
- Extreme Long Shot
- Long Shot
- Medium Shot
- Close-up
- Extreme Close-up
- VIDEO TUTORIAL - Shot Types in Cinematography (14 min - note: some swearing in one included scene)
- Watch excerpt from "The Crown" - Netflix series (Adriano Goldman - cinematographer)
- Season 3 - Episode 1 - introduces an older queen (great use of long shots and camera tilt)
- YOUR TASK - Assignment 9 - Types of Camera Shots
- In groups of 2 or 3, using your cellphones, I would like you to record examples of all 5 types of shots.
- Each type of shot needs to be, at least, 10 seconds long. There can be action in the clip, of course.
- You will return to the computer lab, upload your clips to your computer.
- Load the clips into Adobe Premiere and place them in sequence from extreme long shot to extreme closeup.
- What to include in your video?
- Caption each shot type with what type of shot it represents. Use the Text feature in Premiere.
- Export your video in the .wmv file format.
- Your group members can use the same footage, but EACH MEMBER edits and submits a finished video.
- Good luck!
30 Sept 2020 - Wednesday
- Continue working on your t-shirt design until it is completed.
- Please bring your phones to class, each day, for the next while. (like I have to remind you of this... ;)
- TUTORIALS - Adobe Premiere Pro
- Tutorial 1 - Get to Know the Premiere Pro interface (just watching)
- Tutorial 2 - Learn 5 Editing Basics (just watching)
- Tutorial 3 - Create a Project and Import a Clip (watching and doing)
- Tutorial 4 - Explore Premiere Pro panels (watching and doing)
- Tutorial 5 - Learn Editing Skills (watching and doing)
- Work through the various tutorials to build up your fundamental competencies. Work at your own pace and try to complete EACH step that is laid out for you. Once enough of these have been completed, to my satisfaction, I will begin to assign both individual and group projects.
Make sure that you download the "sample files" for each tutorial by clicking on the GET FILES button.
It would be convenient to save them on your D: drive in the COMM TECH folder you created.
29 Sept 2020 - Tuesday
- Continue working on your magazine cover. What I have seen, so far, is incredible. Keep up the great work!
- Assignment 8 - T-shirt Design
- A fun, yet useful, assignment. Some day, you may actually find yourself designing a t-shirt for an event.
- Using Illustrator or Photoshop or InDesign (or a combination of all three, like your magazine cover), design the front of a t-shirt that you would be proud to wear and means something to you.
- It must be entirely of your own design - ie. your own photo (Photoshop) or your own logo design (Illustrator)
- Check out: 10 Tips for Creating Better T-shirt Designs
- You need to save/export the finished file in Adobe PDF format.
- **If you search Google or Bing for a high resolution image of the colour of the shirt on which you would plan to place your graphic, that would be ideal. Just give the shirt its own layer so it can be removed, later.
- A fun, yet useful, assignment. Some day, you may actually find yourself designing a t-shirt for an event.
28 Sept 2020 - Monday
- What have you done, so far...
- Cut-out and moved fragments (clones) of photos in Photoshop
- Experimented with Layers and Masks in Photoshop
- Created a wordle (manipulated text) in Illustrator
- Used clipping masks to have photos show through text in Illustrator
- Completed tutorials in Illustrator to expand your skills
- Converted text to editable objects, in Illustrator, to make artistic initials
- Combined the "big three" - Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign - to put your edited face into a clock
- Today, you'll be working on continuing and/or finishing up these projects.
- Assignment 7 - Magazine Cover
- Use the template provide, below. There is a specific way to download the file to use in InDesign.
InDesign Template for Magazine Cover
(must right-click and choose Save linked file as... and save on your desktop or in your Magazine Project folder) - Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Example 4
- Some helpful websites...
- For Free Fonts - www.dafont.com
- For help in matching a logo font - www.namethatfont.net
- Some helpful websites...
- Check out this Rogers Sportsnet commercial which highlights the creation of their new magazine cover.
- Sportsnet Magazine video
- Instructions for Magazine Cover
- Download cover template file.
- **Make certain that you save ALL FILES RELATED TO HIS PROJECT in the same folder. This entire folder will be handed in for grading.
- Also, label your InDesign layers appropriately for the different parts of this project.
- Front Cover
- Photo on cover must be your own or taken of you by a friend. Can be of a pet or object from home or school, as well.
- Masthead (title of magazine) should be created in Illustrator and placed on the right-hand side of the template.
- The masthead should also appear, in reduced size, on the spine of your magazine.
- You are trying to recreate the layout of a magazine that you have found on the Internet - Vogue, Sports Illustrated, TIME, etc. Often, students will place an example of the cover that they are trying to replicate on its own layer, in the background. The transparency of the layer is adjusted to give it a ghosted image.
- Find a high-resolution bar code (Google or Bing) and place it on your cover.
- Spine
- Reduced-size copy of masthead needs to appear on the spine.
- Month and Year
- Other?
- Back Cover
- This is an advertisement that YOU will create. It can be a reproduction of a real advertisement that you have found or from your own imagination. Once again, it must include photos that you have taken or images that you have created.
- YOU must create all of the elements in the advertisement, including any logos, if applicable.
- Front Cover
- What to submit for grading?
- 1 - A PDF Copy of your Magazine Cover
File - Export - Adobe PDF (for print) to create a "portable document format" (.pdf) of the magazine. - Make sure that you click the SPREADS option under Pages in the final dialogue box with a lot of options.
- 2 - COPY your entire "Magazine Assignment" folder, and all of its contents, over to the HandIn folder for grading.
I need this to see if you have labeled your Layers and organized your assets.
- 1 - A PDF Copy of your Magazine Cover
- Good luck!
17-18 Sept 2020 - Thursday and Friday
- continue working on Assignment 4 - Seasons, until it is finished and uploaded
- DEMO - Adobe Color Website (formerly Kuler)
- Analogous Colours - groups of 3 colours that are next to each other on the COLOUR WHEEL
- Complementary Colours - 2 colours on opposite sides of the COLOUR WHEEL, the combination provides high contrast
- red/green, blue/orange, yellow/purple
- DEMO - Pantone Color Website (use Screen Snip or Print Screen to save the colour scheme)
- Assignment 5 - My Initials
- This is an exploration of type and how it can create a statement.
- Instructions
- Create a new page in Illustrator, landscape view, and letter-sized at 300dpi.
- Choose different fonts for your first and last initials of your name.
- Resize the letters to fill the page.
- Choose Type - Create Outlines to convert your initials, recognized as text, into editable shapes.
- Using your creativity, use shadow, colour, duplication, rotation, skew, overlap, etc. to create something "cool" with your initials. Maybe, it's a representation of YOU, somehow? This is up to you.
- Examples: Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Example 4
- Assignment 6 - Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign - "Time for Bling!"
- This is an exploration of the Adobe trifecta - Photoshop - Illustrator - InDesign.
- Instructions
- Create a new page in Illustrator, landscape view, and letter-sized at 300dpi.
- Create a clock face including numbers in the proper rotation and placement (using the alignment feature).
- Have someone take a photo of your head, just past your shoulders. You may borrow a camera.
- Disguise your face using Photoshop. Gather images from the Internet of mustaches, tattoos, glasses, and the like, to disguise your face. If you search for .png files, the backgrounds should be transparent (this will help immensely).
- When your disguise is complete, save your face as a .jpg to flatten and shrink the file size. You may want to save the .psd, just in case.
- Open InDesign and create a new landscape-oriented page at 300dpi (under the Print tab).
- On one layer, create a box using the Rectangle Frame Tool. Use File - Place (keyboard shortcut is CTRL-D) to place your clock, made in Illustrator, into this frame.
- On a second layer, create a circle using the Circle Frame Tool (just under the rectangular one) that is the same size as your clock. Place your disguised face in this frame. Adjust so that the clock layer is on top of your disguised face.
- Type your name in the bottom right-hand corner.
- Go to File - Export and choose Adobe PDF (Print) and export your work.
- Copy it to your HandIn folder. Voila!
- DEMO - recorded actions and droplets in Photoshop! Very handy.
17 Sept 2020 - Thursday
- Getting to Know Illustrator Tutorials - OPTIONAL - if you think you need to start with these tutorials
- Work through the following tutorials. You will be expected to know the material found within them, in order to complete an upcoming project.
- Everyone should complete the following tutorials.
- Assignment 4 - Illustrator - Images in (behind) text representing the 4 Seasons
- Using SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN and WINTER, you will create 4 letter-sized (8.5"x11") sheets in Illustrator that represent the 4 seasons.
- EXAMPLE - SURF text with image in behind
- Technique - Clipping Mask on a Compound Object
- What you need to include..."the basics".
- Text with images related to the seasons in behind the text.
- Drop shadow on your season text.
- Then, the rest is up to you. Be creative!
- How you will be graded...
- 60's - something is missing. Didn't use a layer mask to put the photos behind the text.
- 70's - fulfilled the basic requirements of the assignment
- 80's - met basic requirements and surpassed them
- 90's - you rocked this assignment. Everything you needed was there, and much more!
- ** Some important hints/keyboard shortcuts.
- With the background image and your text selected, right-click on the image and choose Make Clipping Mask.
- If you want to distort your words, you have to highlight the word, go to the LINKS panel, choose the pull-down menu, and Embed Image(s). Doing this will allow you to use the tools that are 8 tools down, on the left (hold down the left mouse button), on the Tool Bar (Width, Warp, Twirl, Pucker, etc.).
16 Sept 2020 - Wednesday (after lunch)
- Assignment 3 - Wordle (Adobe Illustrator)
- Using Adobe Illustrator, manipulate and adjust text to create a "Wordle". Put image in background layer.
- The website, thesaurus.com, will help you to find synonyms (words with similar meanings) for your Wordle.
- TEACHER DEMO - type on a path tool and how to arrange the text on the shape, save as .pdf
- hand in Wordle as a .pdf file (eg. Brittany Wordle.pdf)
- Check out this website for making "high end" wordles - Tagxedo
16 Sept 2020 - Wednesday
- Assignment 2 - Layers and Masks (Photoshop) - "The Great American West"
- "On a Layer Mask, Black Conceals and White Reveals"
- This assignment will help you to learn about layers and masks in Photoshop.
- Access the website with the video tutorials - Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Layers and Masks
- Under "WHAT YOU'LL NEED", click on the Get Files link to download the elements used in this tutorial.
- Move the downloaded ZIPPED folder to the D:\CommTech drive that you created.
- Right click on the folder and choose Extract All (you must "unzip" the folder) and accept the file name and saving location that come up.
- Using your headphones, watch and listen to the video entitled, "Get to know Layers".
- Pause the video and use Alt-Tab (hold down the Alt key with your thumb and tap on the tab key with your index (pointing finger) to switch to another open program, and vice-versa) to switch to Photoshop to try what the tutorial has just shown you. USE the FILES that you have downloaded for this activity, of course.
- Watch each of the videos and perform what they demonstrate to you on your OWN copy of the tutorial files.
1-Get to Know Layers, 2-Combine Images using Layer Masks, 3-Add Text and Effects, 4-Include Vector Graphics, and 5-Export and Save the Design.
- Upload your finished work to the Handin folder.
- To help improve your competency with masks and layers, try these tutorials.
- 1 - Cutting out Photos Using Masks
- 2 - Combining Images Using Layers Masks
- If you run out of work, check out this website from Adobe with all of their Photoshop tutorials for Adobe Photoshop CC. Choose one that interests you and try it.
15 Sept 2020 - Tuesday
- Photoshop
- Upload your kermit.psd file to the HandIn folder within the course folder (under YOUR login name).
It is important that your file is a Photoshop document (.psd) so that I can see all of the layers. - Assignment 1 - Me and My Clone (Photoshop) - need your phone cameras!
In teams of two, students will decide on a location and action in which to photograph themselves in various positions. A student's teammate photographs the student while they pose in ways in which the resulting figures will be interacting when placed together in a montage. Students then manipulate their photos to have their clones 'interacting' in one location. For example, students could form a pyramid of clones, trip themselves in the hallway, or jump over themselves playing leapfrog. You need a total of SIX clones in the photo with at least two interacting in some fashion.
Upload your photos to OneDrive and access them on your classroom computer. Edit as needed. - See examples, below and this photography company from Iowa, USA - Shirk Photography.
- Upload your work to CommTech-Members-YourLogin-HandIn folder.
- Hand in work as Your Name.psd. Must be .psd format in order that Mr. Weigand can still see the layers.
- Be sure to ask your neighbour or Mr. Weigand for help, when needed.
- Upload your kermit.psd file to the HandIn folder within the course folder (under YOUR login name).
14 Sept 2020 - Monday
- What is this all about, anyway?
Photo-taking and editing, graphic creation, video creation and editing, webpage creation - Bring your phones to class, each day!
- Log in to network. Work out the bugs. Explore shared folders.
- ** Set up OneDrive on phones and desktops.
- Your first task - take a photo, upload it to OneDrive, access it on your desktop through OneDrive.
- Lesson
- File types - (.jpg, .mpg, mp3 and their origins, .psd, .ai, .indd, .mp4, .htm)
- Colour Modes - RGB vs. CMYK
- Photoshop vs. Illustrator - types of files they can produce (bitmapped (rastered) vs. vectored (scalable))
- InDesign and significance of 72pt
- Fake vs. Reality - will soon be VERY hard to tell the difference, if not already.
Check this out - Top 10 DeepFakes (11 min.)
SuperBowl LIV (2020) Commercial Example with Jason Momoa
How they made the commercial
- Photoshop
- Using Photoshop, extract Kermit from this photo and place him in this sidewalk photo.
Ask Mr. Weigand to see it, when finished.
How to Create a Realistic Drop Shadow Tutorial
- Using Photoshop, extract Kermit from this photo and place him in this sidewalk photo.