September 6 = Holiday
September 8 = Last Day to Add

File types, more discussion of web sites. A look at photo oriented web sites.
Class lab: Finish watching the Photoshop CS3 tutorial movies in sections A, B, C & F on AtomicLearning.com
Assignment 4: Do the Review and Hands-on questions at the end of Chapter 2. It is due March 4. At home, gather 6 or more digital or images to be scanned that would tell your own story. Please photograph new images if possible. Images found on the web are not allowed.

More image preparation for. See Photoshop Help and atomiclearning.com in the Mac tutorials for Photoshop CS3. Do E. Web Graphics22, #3 Saving the Picture for Web Use. March 11: Construction of photo web site.This is the second part of Assignment #6 (B).
Class Lab: Prepare files for web site. Construct web Gallery using Photoshop.
Assignment: Finish Assignment #6B. It is due (show instructor) at the end of class no later than October 13.

October 11, 13

October 18, 20
(Mid-Term Exam)

Home Page presentations. Start on Flash banner: Introduction to Macromedia Flash: a program commonly used for web animation. Flash player files (.swf vs. document (.fla) file type.
Class Lab: Exam and design and storyboard a Flash banner/homepage animated art or advertisement.
Assignment: Proceed with Flash tutorials to be noted.

Vector graphics and the pen. Flash draw tools for making your own animated banner.
Class lab: Go to the Adobe video help section: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0132. Click this link to a screen shot and use it to select the Program, Flash CS3, the section Getting Started, then the videos Using the Drawing Tools, Working with Text, Creating and Using Symbols, Understanding the Timeline...
Homework & assignments: Video tutorials (these are big files to download): Go to this web site http://www.cartoonsmart.com/free_index.html and download the Drawing Basics and Animation Basics 1 later if you want. Note that the Drawing tutorial takes an hour, but it's good. The Animation Basics takes two hours, so this is optional.
Explore Flash drawing tools. Go to the Flash help menu for help. Watch AtomicLearning.com A. Basics #1 - 2, 8 - 17, B. Working with the Flash Interface #2 - 12, and C. Modifying Shapes and Objects#1 - 19.
Assignment: Assignment 8: Constructing your homepage and web site, due November 15.

Animating with Flash. The concepts of timelines, keyframes, motion guides, tweening, and shape animation.
Class lab: On your own, do a simple animation using motion tweening. Show the instructor. Use the movies at www.atomiclearning.com for assistance. See http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/authoring/studio/index.html or the StoryBoard Doctor. See AtomicLearning.com and watch D. Modifying Shapes #1 - 12, E. Layers and TimeLine #1 - 5, F. Symbols Library and Behaviors #1 - 4, and G. Frames and Animation #1 - 12.
Assignment: You may study the Flash Tutorials at w3schools.com. You are not responsible for the Button 1 & 2 tutorials.
Do Hands-On exercises 1 and 5 on page 71 as assignment #9. Turn this in on November 17. Finish class lab.

Intro to video and digital storytelling. Write a short story or a slideshow-like description that fits with your web site subject area. You can use the script example and template found here. Video recording tips. Lighting, camera settings, tripods, etc.
Class lab: Finish the Banner and include it in your web site (assignment #8) this week for sure. Explore Apple's iMovie tutorials at http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie and storytelling tips on Atomiclearning. Go to the Extras and choose Video Storytelling Guide.

Digitizing, file types for Video and Sound. Editing Video using iMovie, adding voice overs, music, transitions, and photos.
Class lab: Be ready on December 6 to transfer video to the Mac according to the lab video instruction handout and Apple tutorials.
Assignment: Start editing video.
Final Project: Incoporating this video on a page in your web site is the final step for your project. Make sure everything works and is all in one folder so that the site can be transferred to any location. This is absolutely due May 27.

Exporting for your web site or YouTube. Making a DVD.
Class lab: Edit your video.

1. When finished Share your movie as a Quicktime and select the size that you need. For an example, see web Movie test here. It shows the movie in a page.
2. Now make sure your movie is placed in your web site Root folder. Use Menu Insert, Media, Plug-in command in Dreamweaver to insert your movie into your page. Using the properties box, set the size of the plug-in to the same horizontal size of the movie, then add 20 pixels to the verical size of the movie and enter that. Do a Preview in browser to check it.
3. Name your site folder with DM77_YourName_Sp-10 and test it thoroughly to see that it works. Do this by draging the ndex.html page to your browser. Have someone else test it too.
4. Copy the whole site folder by holding the option Key down and draging the folder to the Class Box, RBeede folder, and dropping it on the Drop Box. It will come up with a message that says you will not be able to see it. It has just been dropped into a Black Hole ready for showing on final day.
   Assignment: Finish all assignments if you can!!!!!!!!!!