Overcast

The weather today has been wet and miserable, didn’t stop me taking these pictures though.

Slightly overcast too.

Could get hail like we did earlier.


Sheep in the distance.

Pond full of water

Liked the light effect over the trees.

Flash CS3

It’s the early days of block 2 and all is well. Yesterday was interesting enough, given a task using flash. This was to create a rectangle and make it rotate, was easy enough. The tough task was creating a figure using the parts provided in the library, and then make it move across the screen using the frame by frame. Early days and still getting used to flash, must mention I have found it easier to use than first thought.

Digital media audio consisted of watching another video, then starting a task that will take 3 week. This task was to choose a story from a list given to use, then research the story and choose a chapter. Next week we will start making our own story, this will involve creating our own sounds. Could turn out to be very interesting indeed

Wiki progression

Well it’s Wednesday already and I am at college doing Social Software at the moment, currently editing the Wiki we created last week. My topic is college journeys, the group has put in an image and a few links to make it look more professional and interesting, who knows, there might be someone out there who doesn’t know were Aberdeen is. The Wiki page seems to be developing the way it should be, give it some more time and it should be something with a good source of information.

weeks flys bye

The week has been going fine so far with college. Didn’t do all that much in the Install and maintain computer software class, all I did was determined whether software was compatible, and discuss the copyright terms of software. Later was element for software, at this stage I thought and wrote down my ideas. Pleased too say I have a good idea to where I feel is the right direction for passing.

Will keep you informed.

Nothing to do yet

At the point of not knowing what to do, I’m meaning I have completed all the college work possible so far. So I haven’t got a class till 11am. That will be the Install and maintain computer software, so it runs through my mind of what we will be doing today. Will it be paperwork or maybe practical so I can take some pictures to post.

I am looking forward to the Digital media (elements for applications) class, this is so I can hopefully create my storyboard for the assessment. It will have to include the following things.

Text
Image
Animation
Movie
Sound
Interaction

So I would imagine this is going to be interesting to see what I come up with, would like to make it funny, but not so simple so I can text the knowledge of what people know about health and safety when involving a computer.

My chosen HNC

With the weekend drawing to an end, I haven’t much really to say other than I applied for my HNC. I have chosen to do multimedia web development, this all depends on me passing the course I am doing at the moment, shouldn’t be a problem as block one was easy enough to handle. My decision to do Web development was helped with the past couple of weeks. There will be plenty to do, just think about taking your own pictures? Editing them in Photoshop and putting them on you website. The achievements stand for themselves. Adding to that you have the chance to add videos and audio, with the added perk of animations that interact with the user, so in a whole you have a quality website people would want to view and enjoy.

Using Flash CS3 Professional

College has gone fine this week with the opportunity of using Flash CS3 again yesterday. I did a few more tasks, but this time I used frames for creating my animation, basically I started with a single image and changed it slightly frame by frame, so for example I could have a stick man walking across the page. This was achieved by changing the stickman frame by frame, so for example I changed the positioning of the legs to make the stickman walk.

Then in the afternoon I did some audio editing. First the class was split into groups, then we were set the task to record a conversation about out selected category. Mine was about travelling to college, at this point we each recorded a sentence about our travel. Then uploaded the recording to blackboard for the group to edit individually.