Schedule

Final Exam Slot: Animated Short Crits

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Open Q&A from Tuesday’s discussion.

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We will discuss the final project, what we know how to do and what we still need to figure out.

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TBD by class dicussion on Feb 23

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We will begin sorting a lot of the assets we have created this term using Adobe CC’s libraries. We will talk about exporting the libraries for folks using the school account.

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We will start looking at our last piece of software for the term: Adobe Character Animator.

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We will peer review our children’s books today.

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We’ll put ourselves into our readers’/viewers’ shoes to understand the documents we create.

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We will return to page design conversations from the start of the term, but now we’ll look at pages, screens and scenes through the lens of eye-tracking methods.

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We will talk about techniques for editing video sequences in Photoshop.

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Please read the assigned article about marketing teams using Photoshop in ethically problematic ways. We’ll talk about the techniques used for those brochures, how to do them well, and how to do them ethically.

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We will talk through several tools in Premiere to handle audio, whether you are doing film or pure audio (podcast) projects.

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We will talk through each of our CC programs, identifying the tools we can use to balance color and other visuals.

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We will discuss the ‘Every Frame a Painting’ episode on shot/reverse-shot.

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We will spend this class session reviewing our Lab materials.

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We will start talking about the effect that medium has on a viewer or a reader, particularly comparing books, ebooks and animated shorts.

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We will focus our conversation today on the way color affects a viewer or a reader. We’ll use children’s books as an example document.

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Before class, please watch at least three videos from Storytime Online. Pay attention to the design of each page: How many elements do you see per page? What font choices are made? How much text is there per page? What do non-text elements look like?

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We will get into the thing everyone likes to debate online: font choice. We’ll continue building on last week’s page design conversation by examining how font choices affect our reading of a page or screen.

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We will discuss some core course assumptions about document, page and screen design. In particular, we will get into reading order and how a user/reader/viewer actually processes a visual.

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We will run through core course themes and goals, and we will make sure everyone can access CC by making memes.

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