1. Draw a diagram of your preferred workflow and explain why you take certain steps 2. Create a checklist for your workflow Preproduction:Set shooting to RAW format.Insert empty memory card.Find correct lenses, camera body and charge battery.Have editing software available, like Photoshop or LightroomShotlist + storyboard. Postproduction:Import images.Do back up on the RAW files.Manage the …
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Fashion photography
Written assignment In your own words, describe the procedure of planning a fashion shoot. You don’t need to go into too much detail, a short outline will do. What are the stylist’s duties? List your duties as photographer What equipment would you take along on the Alice in Wonderland shoot that was featured in this module? …
Lesson Task – Advertisement in After Effects
In this lesson task, you are in need of a green screen background. During this lesson I have touched on many things that should help you understand the possibilities of After Effects. I would now like you to create your own Apple iPod advertisement. It should be similar in style to the one shown at …
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Lesson Task – Creating an Animation in After Effects
Work through my sunrise example step-by-step. Upload your version of this project to your WordPress blog. Please note, you will make a better impression if you make this animation your own. Don’t be scared to take things a little further and experiment. Now you need to come up with a unique animation concept of your …
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Lesson Task – Applying Basic Animation Principles
Create a character. This character can be a letter, a person, an animal or any type of illustration, use your imagination. This character will play the main role in your animation. Take this character and draw it in five different exaggerated poses. In each of these poses the character has to express some kind of …
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Lesson Task – Visualise Your Ideas
I would like you to create a mood board and storyboard using a word and its meaning as the concept. For example, you could use the word “prop”. You could then use the “r” to prop up the “p” that keeps falling over. That’s just to give you an idea, be creative and use a …
Lesson Task – Playing With Ideas
If the idea is at the heart of everything, then I would like you to think of a movie that you love. Then look at its current title sequence and come up with a new one. Sketch up the rough idea in the form of a storyboard. Your storyboard needs to be at 30 frames …
Lesson task – Front cover
Question 1 Practical assignment (Two and a half days)Have a look at all the tasks and lessons you have done over the last few weeks. Your task now is to make a cover (a front page) for your very own magazine. Go through the Graphic Design history timeline and choose a style and designer that …
Lesson Task – Typography
Question 1 Written assignment (observation and analysis) (4 hrs) Define the term “typography” in your own words Write a few sentences explaining what typography is not Find a case study on typeface development on the Internet (similar to the ones in Addendum A). Explain which medium (small format printing, large format printing, mobile devices, etc.) the font …
Lesson Task – Sketching Techniques
Practical assignment (observation and analysis) Define, in your own words, the printmaking terms Find examples on the Internet to represent each of those terms Use your graphite, eraser, eraser putty and blending stub to sketch spheres using the following techniques: hatching and cross hatching, blending, rendering, squiggly lines and cross contour lines (please scan your …
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