Lecture
This week's lecture was taken by Daniel Cunliffe again, at the start of this lecture we were told we would be receiving marks for our blogs up until January. The main topic of this lecture was covering another part of the multimedia palette, the new topic that we were starting was audio. The aim of the lecture was to compare digitally created sound with recorded sound. To do this we started discussing using audio:
-Only way to convey certain information.
-Can be a large production effort.
-Compromises are usually needed.
We then moved on to design factors that have to be taken into consideration such as where the sound is going to be used, what kind of sound is going to be used and where the sound is acquired from.
Tutorial
This weeks tutorial we were given a hand out on how to use Audacity, to start this tutorial we had to download sound files from blackboard and open them with Audacity. The first file we opened was an interview with 2 speakers and we were required to split the two. Once we had split this we were given instructions on how to add effects to the audio file, examples of effects added are:-
-Bass boost.
-Amplify.
-Fade in/out.
Following this we were instructed to try mixing audio, playing tracks over other tracks. To do this we were instructed to download 2 other files from blackboard of which we could play over each other to combine them making it sound like one file.
External Reading
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/tutorials
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_recording_and_reproduction
Reflection
I thought this weeks lecture was really good, I was surprised we were given a mark for our blogs but was really happy when i discovered I had achieved 100% so far on the assignment. I enjoy the topic of audio and audio editing is going to be a helpful procedure for the coursework that has been set, I am looking forward to getting into this website coursework. This weeks tutorial was interesting, I had never really done any sound editing before, doing something new is always good fun, and I found the instructions we were given really helpful to introduce me to the use of Audacity.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Coursework
Lecture
I was unable to attend this week’s lecture but from talking to my colleagues I was able to find out that the coursework was given out. So i have decided to write some information about the PowerPoint presentation that has been put up on blackboard, I will give a brief outline of the first few slides. The presentation gives information on the aspects of text in multimedia that has to be taken into consideration when designing the media, these are things like layout, font and colour. The presentation also went onto talk about publishing such as a webpage or dialogue like a blog which is much more interactive.
External Reading
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing
Tutorial
This week’s tutorial Rafal gave out sheets giving us instructions on how to insert images and videos into Dreamweaver files. To start off I had to remap my drive to allow me to host the website. The first step was to open the htm file which was a simple webpage with some buttons and text. Following this we had to insert the new button for Dogs. The notes then went onto describe how to insert a video which involved typing some code into the design view in Dreamweaver, we were then given examples of how to control the video file, such as autoplay.
Reflection
As I had said above I was unable to attend the lecture this week but the information I was looking through up on blackboard was interesting and it showed that we were finally going to be moving off just doing text, I’m looking forward to moving onto something else. This week’s tutorial was good, I had done most of the stuff we were told to do before but I still found it helpful as a refresh on how to do these tasks, I really enjoy doing work with Dreamweaver. I am looking forward to starting my coursework and applying these ideas to my own website.
I was unable to attend this week’s lecture but from talking to my colleagues I was able to find out that the coursework was given out. So i have decided to write some information about the PowerPoint presentation that has been put up on blackboard, I will give a brief outline of the first few slides. The presentation gives information on the aspects of text in multimedia that has to be taken into consideration when designing the media, these are things like layout, font and colour. The presentation also went onto talk about publishing such as a webpage or dialogue like a blog which is much more interactive.
External Reading
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing
Tutorial
This week’s tutorial Rafal gave out sheets giving us instructions on how to insert images and videos into Dreamweaver files. To start off I had to remap my drive to allow me to host the website. The first step was to open the htm file which was a simple webpage with some buttons and text. Following this we had to insert the new button for Dogs. The notes then went onto describe how to insert a video which involved typing some code into the design view in Dreamweaver, we were then given examples of how to control the video file, such as autoplay.
Reflection
As I had said above I was unable to attend the lecture this week but the information I was looking through up on blackboard was interesting and it showed that we were finally going to be moving off just doing text, I’m looking forward to moving onto something else. This week’s tutorial was good, I had done most of the stuff we were told to do before but I still found it helpful as a refresh on how to do these tasks, I really enjoy doing work with Dreamweaver. I am looking forward to starting my coursework and applying these ideas to my own website.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Text
Lecture
This week's lecture was taken by Daniel Cunliffe again, we were looking into text in further details this week. We started by discussing the different weights we can use in the design of text, examples of these are:
-Light
-Regular
-Bold
-Extra Bold
Following this we went on to width of characters, condensed, normal and expanded are the 3 different types that can be used, following this we went on to styles of characters such as Roman and Italic. We then went on to families of fonts and how these styles can be applied to fonts to create other styles.
Tutorial
This week's tutorial we were working with active server pages and using databases online. To start the tutorial we were required to remap our drives again to allow us to host the active server page we had been given. The file we were give was initially a .txt so we had to rename it to allow us to use it as an active server page. Once we had been able to view the initial page we were set the task of going into the database and adding a record. Following this we were asked to add another field to the database to show the price of the pets, to do this we were required to edit information in the active server page file.
Reflection
I found this week's lecture really boring and I am quite shocked that we are covering such simple topics at this level of the course, I was really hoping to be covering harder and more interesting topics. I am looking forward to moving on and getting our coursework set and moving on to more interesting multimedia topics. This week's tutorial was really good, working with active server pages was something I had never done before and i was interested to see how to link a database to a website, and applying CSS styles to an active server page was new to me, so this tutorial was really helpful and interesting.
External Reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typeface
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages
This week's lecture was taken by Daniel Cunliffe again, we were looking into text in further details this week. We started by discussing the different weights we can use in the design of text, examples of these are:
-Light
-Regular
-Bold
-Extra Bold
Following this we went on to width of characters, condensed, normal and expanded are the 3 different types that can be used, following this we went on to styles of characters such as Roman and Italic. We then went on to families of fonts and how these styles can be applied to fonts to create other styles.
Tutorial
This week's tutorial we were working with active server pages and using databases online. To start the tutorial we were required to remap our drives again to allow us to host the active server page we had been given. The file we were give was initially a .txt so we had to rename it to allow us to use it as an active server page. Once we had been able to view the initial page we were set the task of going into the database and adding a record. Following this we were asked to add another field to the database to show the price of the pets, to do this we were required to edit information in the active server page file.
Reflection
I found this week's lecture really boring and I am quite shocked that we are covering such simple topics at this level of the course, I was really hoping to be covering harder and more interesting topics. I am looking forward to moving on and getting our coursework set and moving on to more interesting multimedia topics. This week's tutorial was really good, working with active server pages was something I had never done before and i was interested to see how to link a database to a website, and applying CSS styles to an active server page was new to me, so this tutorial was really helpful and interesting.
External Reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typeface
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Text
Lecture
This week’s lecture was again taken by Daniel and we covered text this week. The lecture started with us covering some basic points to do with text, such as where and why it is used. Some uses that were mentioned were for web page content and links. The lecture then went on to what we have to consider when designing in consideration to text. Things discussed during this part of the lecture were the purpose of the text, the audience that will be reading the text and how it will be presented. The end of the lecture we discussed character codes and how text can also represent an image.
This week’s lecture was again taken by Daniel and we covered text this week. The lecture started with us covering some basic points to do with text, such as where and why it is used. Some uses that were mentioned were for web page content and links. The lecture then went on to what we have to consider when designing in consideration to text. Things discussed during this part of the lecture were the purpose of the text, the audience that will be reading the text and how it will be presented. The end of the lecture we discussed character codes and how text can also represent an image.
External
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_text
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_code
This week’s tutorial was a continuation of last week using Dreamweaver. At the start of this tutorial we were required to re-map the drive we had mapped last week’s as the computer had not saved it for us. We were initially given a link to a website that showed us different examples of some cascading style sheets, on this website we could also retrieve the code for these different types of CSS. The tutorial then went on to us having to write div tags to allow the website to be split into columns/rows allowing better functionality of the site.
Reflection
This week’s lecture was really boring and I felt that most of the information we covered was fairly obvious. I do like that the lectures are all aimed towards the creation of our website for the next piece of coursework but I would prefer to be covering something more difficult. The tutorial was really good, the website that we were given was really helpful and will come in handy in the future. I enjoy writing CSS and getting used to it because when I used to use Dreamweaver and never used CSS in any designs, so I can see it making it a lot easier to carry through designs from page to page.
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