GIFS

the lesson spent on gifs was very entertaining. However, I've had quite a bit of experience with making gifs in the past. Even though I wasn't new to the process , it was still fun to spend time excersing my skills and developing them further.

Psycho Shower Scene - with foley sound affects

We were shown the famous shower scene from the Hitchcock classic Pyscho and told to listen to the sound. We were then given a silent copy and told to dub over the clip making our own sound affects. given a microphone to record, and various equipment, we spent time making our own foley sound affects. 


                     sound affects
We made various sounds using the equipment that was available. 
We were given lettuce which we used to produce a sound replicating the stabbing noises, we did this by stabbing a knife into the lettuce overlapped with sounds made by punching the lettuce.
To create a noise replicating the sounds coming from the shower, to create this running water noise we used rice poured into a bucket slowly overlapped with the sound of a running tap.

Critical Thinking skills

1.Formulate your question

2.Gather your information

3.Apply the information

4.Consider the implications

5.Explore other points of view

evaluate your own choices 

increase the number of positive choices we make

the session spent on critical thinking, I feel helped me develop mature decision making on my media projects, with some vital and much-needed advice on why you should be critical on your own work

adobe illustrator

 

Adobe illustrator was a new software to me, it was something new to me, however I learnt the basics pretty quickly and masked in a pencil tool over my face. The final product looked ok and could even possibly make decent t-shirt or article of clothing and could even work as potential merchandise.

Maya

personally out of all the software we touched on in this segment of the carousel , this one was the hardest for me to wrap my head around. I struggled to work on the software and understand how it is used, because of such little time given to experiment on it. Nevertheless it was extremely interesting for me to work on a program used to create 3D animation.

Graphics

Photoshop 

      Photoshop Editing - learning the basics

     

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Our task was to turn a natural image (I chose a droplet of water) and  merge a face into the image.




I tried to make the most abnormal adaptation of the natural image.





               
overall I found Photoshop fairly easy to use and get used to. possibly because of my previous use with other photo editing software of similar nature










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