Magazine Advert

To be produced in Illustrator

Your task:
Use the assets in the ‘Illustrator Brief Assets’ to develop a page layout for a magazine
that uses the following aspects of Desk Top Publishing:
1. Bsc(Hons) Digital Art And Technology title (mlatitle.tif) as a .tif file
2. Use of the Bo-Shing graphic as a Vector based graphic at any size
3. Use of the dummy text in text, style and columns of your choice
4. Use of any jpg bitmap files coverted to use for print
5. Optional use of captions.txt and mlalogo.ai
6. Produce an A4 colour print.

The mlatitle.tif file must not be present within the image. Instead use it as a guide to
create your own, correctly kerned title with the illustrator text tool. Similarly
Bo-Shing graphic must not appear within the poster as a jpg, but must be converted into
a vector graphic using the pen tool etc.

Think about:

• How will your use of the graphics and text best work in an ‘architectural’
manner to support the structure of the page.
•Make sure the files are formatted and treated with appropriate care and
attention to details for print.
Please submit your layouts (burned to CD) & Prints
by 5.00pm Friday 14th December.
Marks will be based upon:
• Your ability to kern the MLA title
• Your ability to build a vector based graphic based on the Bo-Shing bitmap
• Your ability to use dummy text appropriately
• Your architectural skills in constructing a coherent and good looking page
• Your design skills in selecting how to manipulate all of the above
components into a contemporary design.

Issue Date: 27th November 2006
Due Date: Friday 19th January 2007.
This assignment is intended test your understanding of basic animation, drawing
and coding with Flash

Specification

You are required to create an interactive movie poster using flash which will
provide information on the movie and promote it by creating an engaging
experience for the user. It is advisable to select a famous movie as there will be
more content such as images and audio readily available for your poster.
The interactive flash poster you create should include the following:

1) Information on the movie the: Movie Title, Director, Main Actors/Actresses,
Age Restriction. You must also provide a brief plot outline or trailer text
(similar to the text used for a voice-over on a movie trailer). This text does
not have to be visible all the time, but can be brought in by clicking a
certain element of the poster.

2) It must be interactive by making use of buttons and the relevant
ActionScript to allow the user to interact with various elements. Additional
movie information must be accessible via buttons, this information can be
in the form of text or images.

3) It must make use of external assets which have been imported, this must
be either audio and/or images files.

4) It must make use of animation to engage the user, transforming the poster
from a flat image to an engaging piece of media. The animation must be
relevant to the theme and style of the movie as well as promoting it.

5) The flash movie must make use of all the three different symbols in the
library (Buttons, Movie Clips and graphics), these must be used
appropriately and named correctly in the library and also correct syntax
must be used when naming the instances on the stage.

Assessment

1) All symbols (Movie Clips, Buttons and Graphics) must be implemented
and named appropriately.
2) Layers and key frame must be neatly organised.
3) Appropriate use of drawing tools and/or external assets to create content
which is clear, easy to read, and laid out in a pleasant style.
4) All coding must be neatly written and commented correctly.
5) The technologies used must be implemented competently and efficiently.
6) The posters must be intuitive, interactive, easily accessible and relevant.
7) How engaging is the poster? It must promote the movie in a unique way,
making the experience fun for the user will providing all the necessary
information.

The Number Game was made using VB Script (for the inner workings of the game) and HTML (for the page design and forms). Although there are issues with it working in Firefox, it seems to work fine in Internet Explorer. You can view the final verison here.

Managed to complete the Javascript Website for IDAT102. It was created using a mixture of;

• Javascript (Calculator, Validation)
• DHTML (World Map Layers)
• HTML (Basic Site Design)
• CSS (Site Design Styles)

You can view it here

In this collaboration with Pete Harrison we present ‘What’s the point?’. Art should raise massive questions and social change, we transcended the subway space in our own way and got someone to lie there as the public walked past. It had a powerful message to make and clearly reflects how our global societies are equally unsensible to certain events.

It received very high publicity, appeared in local and national newspapers and even on television, check out the video we made from the night;

Click here to download the video.

You are asked to write 2000 words essay which argues for a relationship between the emergence and the development of a technology and its representation in and by communications media.
Select a technology either current or historic that interests you, find out as much as you can about the circumstances of its invention and relate that to the way it was treated in the press, or television, and how that treatment may have inflected our understanding of what that particular technology is for. For example: Thomas Edison thought that the phonograph was a business machine to be used for dictating correspondence, etc. But in its promotion some people saw it as a way to reproduce music and there is substantial evidence that through this popularizing strategy the gramophone, record-player and iPod have become platforms for a massively influential cultural industry.

In this essay you are expected to show a coherence of argument, and evidence of research into primary sources to support your argument. You must cite your references very clearly so that whoever reads your essay can find your evidence if they choose to.
In your writing you must follow essay guidelines outlining key rules of academic writing and your essay must make explicit reference to the reading on the module with references clearly cited, using appropriate critical and theoretical material in support of your argument.

I received 35.5/50 for this test which is 71% and that makes the first level which I am quite pleased about.

This is the upcoming website DC-Art.co.uk - a locally based and orientated website for artists, photographers and videographers in and around Devon and Cornwall in the South West of England.

On the website itself you will be able to submit your work to show to other members who can then comment, critique and give feedback on it. Also, whilst uploading your artwork, it will become part of your own gallery which you can then show off to whoever you please.

In the mean time we hope to build up a local community who can chat, inform, show off, flirt or whatever you want whilst we build the site which the forums will become a big part of.

If you haven’t already, please sign up and post whatever you want.

Anyone looking for the link for the details of the London trip it is here.

We have our group finalized and a couple of ideas ready for this project. Our group is;

Dimitri Ssal,
Matt Gardiner,
Chris Garner,
Kane Andrews,
Steve Anson.

The balloon idea is concrete as it interacts with the audience really well, however the latter stages are nothing final yet.