Week 4 in review: What we learned

Week 4 in review: What we learned

Hello, this is a summary of what I remember us being taught, it is intended to help people keep track of what's what and to allow them to catch up on anything they may have missed.

I am going almost purely from my head so if I missed anything just write a comment and I'll fix it up.

Tuesday: Work Health & Safety, Thinking Creatively

In Work Health & Safety we examined a short film: Broken(2003) and noted some of the real world hazards that needed to be addressed. We also watched a short animation (To This Day) and a ... interactive game about coworkers being a hazard to the well-being of other coworkers.

In Thinking creatively we continued to work on our short animations for youngsters. Storyboards should have been drawn and a decent idea should be formed by now.

Wednesday: Web, Cinematography

In web we started learning about CSS div tags being used to create a layout for a web page.

In Cinematography we learned more about depth of field and got a bit of an introduction to using a camera to set up a mid shot with both shallow, and deep depth of field.

Friday: 2D Animation, Sound, 3D

2D Animation had us continue the alien landing sequence by animating the space ship landing on a part of the planet. We were introduced to gradients in flash but it was mostly more practice in using the software.

Sound had us continue to test out the various microphone types. We also received scripts for a one minute audio production which is to include two voice actors and sound effects.

3D recapped story boarding, included some of the more obvious required information in documents(storyboards included). We also launched lightwave and started building a simple car using a technique called box modelling.

I hope this is useful to someone, if I missed anything or got anything wrong, just comment and it'll be fixed up.