Wednesday 8th December 09

Today in John's class we progressed with our set design by doing our plasticize models & work on the set / backdrop . I design three figures today and i made them as well & also designed and made the pedestal for the athletes to stand on at the end of the short film . In Angies class i wrote a summary on the models containing there following diameters and colors with the materials i used listed as well such the metal wire skeleton and the plasticize

A brief History on Animation

The Magic Lantern 1671

And also known as the Lanterna Magi-ca was the modern slide projector & was founded by Athanasius Kircher . What this method basically is : With a oil lamp & a lens , images painted on glass plates could be projected onto a suitable screen .

Web Page Customization

BBC
BBC's home page has many different features that are unique and appealing . One of the features BBC provide you the ability to customize the home page to the viewers needs . This personalized page can let you view what you want to view such as music news , weather etc or you can make sure do not have to view these categories and move them around the home page. You can also set your local area so if something happens in you area that news will you headline. 

GOOGLE

Google offers you the same features but more when it comes to customizing your page . You not only change your news and area but you can add images to your background and change the layouts . This is agood search engine for perso

nalizing . 

Personal Web Pages

The BBC home page has a lot of features that make it attractive and appealing including its customization feature that allows you to move categories such as music , weather etc around to your preference , also you can change the color of the page and show only the categories that you want you an also type in you local information for local news and find out what is going on this give a large of selection of different things to do to personalize the BBC website on you p.c. or mac .

HTML

You are cool as anything kid 

Google

Photoshop & Video Sharing

Today in class we had to go on photoshop and learn the basics of the program, I already knew the basics so i made a banner on photoshop with a gradient background of 4 colors and duplicates of adam sandler with beveled edges and in the middle had text with different colors and size 72.

To made the duplicates of adam sandler is used the magic wand tool to cut out all over the white background on the picture just like a green-screen effect and added 3 of them together.

Video sharing sites

Youtube: Youtube is the most popular video sharing sites in the world, you can add friends and family on you-tube also share your videos out to them. Their are many things you can do such as favorite videos you like, rate them 1-5, share them to other sites such as face-book Bebo my-space blogger and plenty more.

On you-tube you have more own channel which you can design and put a background also upload your own picture on the avatar. you have a subscribe button on you-tube say if you likes someone's videos you can click subscribe and whenever they upload a new video you will notice their new video in the subscription box and also you have an option to get emails if someone makes a new video.

Mega video

Mega video is like youtube but different in some ways, you can upload longer videos like 1-3 hours such as movies. you can also have your own profile but it isnt as good as youtube's profiles and you can comment and favorite videos also.

You can make money also by uploading a video which gets loads of views and the more you get the more money you will get. you can upgrade your account from being a non member, non member accounts can only watch 70 minutes of videos per 55 minutes and when you upgrade you can watch allot more.

Search Engines

Their is many search engines such as google, yahoo, ask jeeves and bing

they all have a search bar where you can type anything you want to look of research for.

Most search engines show links to websites, images and videos other search engine such as google show them also and news and many things more to help you get what you want. also some search engines show sponsored links at the side or at the top these are advertisements that are related to your search in the engine.

search engines can do many things, you can calculate numbers or check the currency or even convert the currency.

here is an image of google :

and here is an image of yahoo

Here is an image of ask jeeves:

Blogger And Facebook

When using blogger you can do many things on your blog, you can have different themes you can use html/script have different fonts and colors and a range of templates.

blogger is owned by google and you can log in with your google account, you can also add in a gadget with your google adsense account and make money off advertisment. their are many gadgets you can use such as followers, pictures, slide show, video bar and even a search box.

Facebook

Facebook is a social networking site where you can also blog about yourself, you can add friends join groups and message people. you have your own wall which tells people what you are doing such as if you upload new pictures or a video or even playing a game. you can also tell people what your doing and it will go to their homepage wall not their own personal one. facebook also has a quickchat feature at the bottom its like a toolbar which also shows you notifications.

which also shows you notifications.

Photo Sharing - Friday 4th Sep

Photobuck Review : Photobucket has alot of usful features such as there partnerships with netwoking sites such as facebook and myspace . Easy to use, has fast uploading speed for use. You can look at other related photos other users have uploaded themselves. 

This site is good for storing and keeping old photos if you dont want to use computer memory files (pictures) can be edited with a easy / professional generator This is also a photo client for put photos on networking websites . 

Flicker : flicker is easy to find things and has useful things such as tags so you can find images or photos easier and has good things such as maps and photo streams.

Flicker uses a system where you can make business cards , Calendars and photo albums for novelty purposes , unlike photobucket flicker is also a networking site were you can keep intouch with friends and family 

4th September

Today i learned how to use i life on apple mac computers 

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