Cinco De Mayo

Today, I finished up my "Tir Nan Og" flash animation piece which was paced off of the short film, Tir Nan Og.
After making the finishing touches, I created five questions for our final (as seen below). They mainly focus on tweens and photoshop as it is super hard figuring out questions about multimedia. 

Questions

Name three types of tweens that can be used in Adobe Flash.
A) Typography, Slide, Fluid
B) Motion, Classic, Shape
C) 3D, 2D, Amorphous
D) Line, Geometric, Curve

How can Photoshop be used in a field of work?
A) Creating an advertisement for your company.
B) Creating a slideshow for a convention.
C) Animating a short film.
D) None of the above.

What should you use if you want to make an animated short film?
A)Photoshop
B)Pages
C)Adobe Flash
D)All of the above

Which tween would be best use if you want to make a ball roll across the screen?
A) Shape Tween
B) Circle Tween
C) Motion Tween
D) Classic Tween

What would be best if you want to find an image on the web for your use?
A) Use Google Images
B) Use Google Images and cite your source.
C) Use free stock photography.
D) Use free stock photography and cite your source.

Web 2.0 Write Up 1-31-11

YOUTUBE:

What exactly is youtube? What does it do? How do you navigate it? What is its purpose? Youtube is an online database of home and professional videos and even a few movies that allows a user to watch what he/  she pleases while staying on one site. The concept is similar to the newer Vimeo. A user can type  a query into the search bar and any video with a relation to the query will show up in a list. To find the relations between video and query, the database matches words in the search to that of title, description, and Tags (words about the video that can be attached such as "dog, funny, fail, kid trips, vacation, party".



Whats good about youtube? Youtube is great because one can search for a plethora of videos while staying on one site. The convenience of the advanced search engine saves time rather than wasting it scanning thousands of videos just to watch one. Youtube actually recommends videos for based off passed viewings, and if thats not enough, you can create your own account; for free! On your account, you can upload your own videos, friend other users, or subscribe to other users. The subscription sends you an alert every time the person have subscribed to uploads a new video. And finally, since youtube has been bought by google, you can link your google account, with your youtube one!

Whats bad about youtube? Youtube doesn't have too many problems since it is owned by Google, one of the best website programming company in the world. However, there still are three I would like to mention. First off, the ads; I can't stand them and neither can 3/4s of the youtube community. They either stall your video, or they block out a small section of your video until you closes it. It honestly isn't that bad the first time or so, but after seeing the same ads for just ten videos, it gets kind of annoying. The second problem, not a big one, is that sometimes you either can't find the video you want because it has obscure tags and/ or title, or the video isn't even on youtube. The third problem is the corporations who have rights to videos (mostly music). Companies like EMI claim rights to videos on youtube and have them removed (which means you can no longer watch the Dirty Harry music video by the Gorillaz). Companies like Vevo buy out the bands too so some videos are only on the Vevo pages, and the Vevo pages are plagued with ads.

Is youtube a tool that could be used for education? It's possible because there are tutorial videos, and online lessons, but its highly unlikely your parent or teacher is letting you on youtube due to all the other videos that might distract you from your work.


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Input-Output Picture Labeling 1-31-11

1) Output, Monitor
2) Input, Keyboard
3) Input, Mouse
4) Input, CD/ DVD Drive
5) Output, Headphones
6) Input, USB Drive
7) Output, Projector
8) Output, Printer
9) Input/ Output, Wireless Internet & Hub
10) Input, ActiVote
11) Input, ActivBoard Pen

Day 4 or 6 or maybe somewhere in between with a possibility of a little more or a little less.

BOOM!
Kind of small but it should be fine. The real image is much larger and when it's upload to google docs it should be fine.

Day 3? I think it's day 3.

As promised:

It also has an added pistol stencil. Don't worry if you don't understand it now, it should come together in the end.

Project Day 2

Today I finished my stencils (I have three in total) and added a drip effect to help hide the straight edges. I don't have time to upload the image today but hopefully I can on Tuesday.