Summer Session

9 Classes left after this quarter. 

My Classes Course     Title IMD312     Interactive Motion Graphics IMD313     Animation Graphics IMD412     Des. for Server-Side Technology RS345     Fund. of Advertising (elective class)   Summer Session 7/9/2012 to 9/22/2012

Summer Schedule 2012??????

Picked up my Summer schedule today. Apparently the school scheduled alot of classes during times when the people scheduled to teach the classes are not available. I am going to have to change my schedule not really sure what I am going to end up with. I am registered for a class this evening but it was one of the classes that was changed and now a computer lab isnt available at the time of the class. Really? A web design class without computers? WTF? How much did I pay for this???

Anyways last year was so stressful trying to stay in school with all the horrible stuff going on in my life. I had begun to really hate going to school. Today when I picked up my schedule was the first time in a long time I felt good about being in school. First time in a long time I have wanted to be there. I am glad that I have made so many changes to my life over the summer break and I am ready to be back in school!!!!

The Meaning of the Yellow Rose:  They convey  joy, gladness and delight.  Another truly wonderful meaning of a yellow rose is that it indicates a determination to start over new and to begin fresh. Yellow roses also symbolize freedom.

Classes at Ai

I always find it interesting to see who professors at other Art institutes teach the same classes that I am taking. It is amazing to me how the same class with the same course description in the catalog can be completely different depending on where you take it. For example I took Intro to Programming online and we learned about PHP. Students that took this class at Ai learned c++. Students that took at the campus never get a class in PHP yet several upper division classes assume a knowledge of PHP.
Student work
Student site nice way to keep work organized
seems like most ai students at othe campuses do this organization of the websites they have made for classes here are more examples
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A list of them
Student projects
Student work
Some upper division classes

Also see my inspiration for my portfolio on pinterest 

Toned Down

I decided my portfolio was a little to themey so I have toned it down some. But I am still not sure which background I will use. Have not decided if I will use a background image for each section or not.

Web Design Trends of Fortune 500 Companies infographic

Storyboard

Storyboard to develop my concept. Includes images and written description.

Great resource video school

Some inspiration on pinterest  

A Round-up of Tools You Can Use For Creating Online Videos

Pixar’s Rules Of Storytelling

 Doing a movie trailer for this class was not a great idea everybody else just did really simple videos for example one girl compared drought conditions with non drought conditions and just put together videos with fade transitions. One video was just different shots of waterfalls. One project was just las vegas scenes cut together.

We were allowed to use comp videos from getty.

I guess I have always been taught to tell a story so that's what I tried to do. More work then I needed to do.

Some examples of Movie Trailers for inspiration these are done in After Effects which although this class was about learning Adobe Premiere Pro I don't have that so I used after effects for everything:
Poker Trailer
Epic 
Epic  2
 Shake
Legacy
Horror

Easier Video Ideas I could have done these would have been perfect seriously this is how simple everyone else s videos were:
My post about video ideas
Fashion 
Pills
Herbs
Graveyard
Toy City
Beach
Italian Food
Beer
Welcome to my life
beach
Abandoned Amusement Parks

Video Scrapbooking

Christmas 

How to videos Halloween

Make a video for father's day or a child's birthday.

Video Tutorial

 Birthday Party Ideas video

Christmas Brunch Ideas VIDEO

Holiday Cookie Ideas - Video  

Halloween Decorating Ideas Video

Inspiration from shutterstock footage
BBC motion gallery 
Free HD Stock Video Footage! - Videezy is a community of Videographers who download and share free HD stock video!
Getty images footage 
A good you tube channel on making good videos
Neo's Clip Archive

 

Main Project Concept Paper

During this course, we will be working on two different sets of assignments. The first type of assignments are “Weekly Exercises” and will be used to practice the concepts and skills taught in the course. The second type of assignments is are “Main Project.” This project is creating a video with at least two tracks of audio that incorporates advanced editing techniques such as transitions, motivated edits, and superimposition of images, along with the use of audio enhancement such as music and voice-over.

First assignment for the Main Project is to develop the concept for the main project and write an explanation of how  footage will be used to portray a story.

 My idea:

Project Theme:  A classic story with a twist.
Story Concept:  I plan on making a TV spot movie trailer for a movie based on the tale of Rip Van Winkle envisioned as a crime drama.
This story takes place in a fog-shrouded port city. The story begins in the 1930s and ends in the 1950s. Rip, in the 1930s, leaves his family to get drunk and passes out. He wakes up twenty years in the future.  He first wakes up to witnessing a murder. He ends up getting blamed for the murder.
Video clips are available at Getty images for this project. The video will start with footage from 1930s a man leaves his family to go drinking and passes out. The video clips will be black and white. The background music will be from the 1930s. After he wakes up the video will have quick cuts showing the murder followed by the changes that have happened since he went to sleep. The background music will get louder and be rock n roll music from the 50s. The video clips will switch to color. It ends with a motion graphic of the title.
Audio: Voice overs, music, sound effects
Intended Audience:  Adults
Beginning: Fog covered city in black and white.
Middle: He passes out
Turning Point:  He wakes up and witnesses a murder.
End: Motion graphic of the title

Website Resources I Love

 Many more on my pinterest board

Subtle Patterns has a  great collection of patterns. Love these patterns.

The work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

The patterns can be used freely in both personal and commercial projects with no attribution required, but always appreciated. Made by Atle Mo.



A great website for interactive design.

Tutorials

Elegant Accordion

Scrolling elements

Mega menu

Easily animate box shadows

Textures 

Create a Stunning Sliding Door Effect with jQuery

Skeleton is a small collection of CSS & JS files that can help you rapidly develop sites that look beautiful at any size, be it a 17" laptop screen or an iPhone.

Tweetable is a lightweight jQuery plugin which enables you to display your twitter feed on your site quickly and easily. More than just displaying the feeds you can highlight @replys as well as links being dynamically generated for ease of use.

Designing A Website Above The Fold infographic by basekit.