Horror stills Session

we took ten shots in groups of four , one of us being the Filmer. the other three being in the shots, in our groups stills we had one victim (Amy Vince) and two werewolves (me and Jake Pena-Prime) who attack the victim..after we uploaded to photo shop we photoshoped them to make the warewolfs look like warwolfs and then imported it into final cut making a short movie of the ten shots and put famous music over them ( e.g jaws )

then edited them fading each shot in and out ect..

Rosie ball visit

even though i wasn't there for this session, i have been told about it..an ex-student from norwich uni a university that i'm am planning to go to. came into our class and showed everyone a BAFTA nominated ipad game she had created, im really annoyed i missed this because im sure it was very inspiring!

(THE BOMB!) - PART 1: THE PHONE CALL - FILMING

this lesson we were able to go out and film. we were asked to film a conversation on the phone with two people in three locations, this session we only hat to film the conversation, in the next lessons we have to film the rest of the sequence (bomb being laid) then end up putting all of them together creating a short film! beforehand we given a sheet with directions of what to do, ( what shots we hat to use, e.g close-up, medium shot, long shot ect.. ) 

i enjoyed this session as it was more practical.

Horror conventions session

in this session we were introduced to the horror genre, we were asked to brainstorm all things to do with it, then Google images of some of those things.
then use photo-shop to layer all those pictures to create a collage of horror conventions

even though i didn't spent much time on mine, i'm fairly pleased with the outcome.

new york title session

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New york garage band soundtrack session

we made a soundtrack in garageband to put over our finished new york movie, i was happy with my finished video as the music went along with it.

New york finalcut editing session

in this session we were asking to make a movie from samples on the computer about new york, you can fade clips in and out and layer the clips like in photoshop.

Garage band demo

in this session we were asked to create a song that we can put over our film we made of new york

Garage band session

garage band allows you to pick samples from a selection of genres and mix them together to create a song, you can layer them and fade them in and out like in final cut, so it was easy to use.

Final Cut Skills Session 1

Photoshop skills session 1: Club flyer task

in this session we were asked to design and create a flyer for an imaginary club in photoshop, we  had to create a name, mine was called BIA (beats in abundance) and make up an entry price, and who was featuring at the club

overall i think that my final product looked quite good as it looked quite professional and complex :)

Photoshop Skills Session 1: Earth & Eye Exercise

This task was our first lesson using Photoshop.

using the two pictures of the Earth and the Eye found and downloaded from flickr, we opened them in Photoshop and then started layering them, i used the magnetic lasso to cut out the foreground (earth) from the background (space) after i moved the cut out picture of the earth an layered it on the picture of the eye, then resized it to fit the size of the eye, then finally made the earth transparent to be able to see the pupil.

Logo ident

in this lesson we were asked to make our logo animated and make it move in final cut, i found this quite hard, since final cut is a new programme to me.
instead of the logo actually moving all my layers just fade in, but im still fairly happy with it.

L2 Tom S's IDENT from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

Logo research session

We were asked to research two logos of our choice and then draw them up on paper, after we had to annotate the logos and find information about them.
-e.g when they were first made, how they attract people and where they originated form.. etc
First logo
I chose CAMEL cigarettes purely based on the fact that i smoke them, and it was simple but effective.
Second logo
For my second logo i chose PlayStation, i chose this logo because its very well known globally, an looked fun and easy to draw up!

Media production company logo planning session:

Firstly we started by thinking of ideas for our logo and drawing them up, once we were satisfied with what we had come up with we then opened Photoshop and attempted creating them on screen, for mine i found images off the internet and target grabbed them (cmd-shift-4) then used the magnetic lasso to crop them, and finally layered them until i was happy with the final product...