For today’s lesson, we learned how to use audacity as that will be the software we will all be using to create our project for this unit. Audacity is an audio editing software which you can get for free and with it you can edit sound files such as songs and add affects such asContinue reading “Unit 5 Audio Blog Post 1”
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Unit 7 Interactive Media Blog Post 3
In today’s lesson, we listened to each others ideas for their own interactive media product. I have got a few more ideas that I could add to my ideas. One person said that one of their ideas was that they could use QR codes to read a short book in the library on their phone.
Unit 7 Interactive Media Blog Post 2
For our task, we have to implement the theme of fantasy into a form of interactive creative media. One possible idea I have is to have cars with boost and extra power compete in drag races and which ever car is the fastest wins. You could choose the length of the drag strip from oneContinue reading “Unit 7 Interactive Media Blog Post 2”
Unit 7 Interactive Media Blog Post 1
There are many different types of media. I will go through a few examples, explain them and will say if they interest me or not. Example 1 – Internet – The Internet is a medium for many things. It can be used for advertising, blogging, finance and many more. It also has many things thatContinue reading “Unit 7 Interactive Media Blog Post 1”
Semiotics
Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation. The main purpose of semiotics is to look into meaning and how meaning is communicated. Types of Semiotics There are 3 types of semiotics, Icons, Indexes and Symbols. An Icon has a physical resemblance to the thing that is being represented. AnContinue reading “Semiotics”
Reflection on shooting my panic attack film
A few weeks back, we shot a film that involves us having a panic attack. I felt that it went rather well and that we had a good time shooting our first film. I feel that we did an okay job at acting considering it was our first time doing this type of shoot. IContinue reading “Reflection on shooting my panic attack film”
Animation unit 2
More planning for my final animation project I have done some more planning for my final animation by stating what my final animation is which will be a stopmotion animation of a snail climbing up the side of a pot, going across and then back down. My poll I did on how I should makeContinue reading “Animation unit 2”
My media company
My media company is going to be called Ben Lancaster Enterprises. This is because the word enterprise is associated with entertainment and the creative industry. I chose my name for my media company as I want people to know who founded the company and who the original CEO of the company is. When I designContinue reading “My media company”
2D Digital Tank Game sprites & tank concept art
For this skills building task, we had to learn how to create game sprites
Pixel art cup and story boards
For our third skills building task, we used microsoft paint to create a cup based off of any company we wanted. I chose the company Costa Coffee and by sheer luck found a font style that was very similar to the font style used in Costa Coffee’s current logo. I used a dark red colourContinue reading “Pixel art cup and story boards”