Switching teachers

This week we had our first lesson with Suzie who is taking us for the non-ICT part of the module. She introduced herself to us and we all introduced ourselves to her and told her a bit about our experiences with art. We looked at meanings behind images and what the creators might be trying to show. We looked at logos and branding, we analysed 'The scream' and we watched a short video which was meant to convey a message about war. Although I think I will enjoy my time with suzie I'm still not sure where this module is going but I guess I'll have to see.

Creative writing

The images in the posts below are two examples of websites we looked at where we could change words into different types of images. Mandy showed us a slideshow of different ways of writing and presenting words such as graffiti and writing on different things. We then used some different websites to create our own creative writing, I used graffiti and text image, creating a graffiti version of my name and a picture of the video game character link using his name. I enjoyed trying out the sites and found the different forms of writing interesting.

Text image

Graffiti

Movie maker

In last weekes ICT seminar we had to create a video on something to do with our university. My group was given 'The place'. We used a basic video recorder and walked around our typical route in the campus. We then put the video clips on the computer and edited them using windows movie maker. We made sure all the clips were in order and then sped the clips up x3 and we added music. We used 'Chase' to go with the speed of the video. We then saved it in move maker. In this seminar we are publishing the video to the computer and presenting the video to the class.

This will be our last seminar with Mandy, I am interested to see what we will be doing for the rest of year and I am looking forward to doing our ICT projects.

Nativity activities

In our last lesson before Christmas we looked at different ways of repersenting the same thing. We did the nativity as a theme and all had to repersent it in different ways. I did a sonnet with a partner. We then posted all of the ways we repersented the nativity story on our wiki page. I enjoyed it and enjoyed seeing how people used the techniques they were given to repersent it.