The schedule below is a projection, things can adjust a little depending on our discussions during the classes.

Week 14: Tuesday, December 7th

Class Topics

Students take Quiz 3 on computer technology

Lecture

We will take an approach on the terminology of Serif and Sans Serif fonts and how they are used. What is the future of typography? An overview of how typography is constantly evolving to address todays parameters. Having control of fonts and typography is becoming complex and unsustainable. To work around the strict limitations of the online frame Google has created NOTO font.

Week 15: Tuesday, December 14th
Topic: Reflections on Typography

Class Topics

Lecture: Introduction to motion softwares with Adobe Creative Cloud After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Anime. Presentation to an other approach to animation and 3D with the software Cinema 4D.

Guest interview with a designer specialized in motion graphics. 

Week 16: Tuesday, December 21st
Topic: ePortfolio

Week 1: Tuesday, August 31st
Topic: Welcome To Digital Media Foundations

 Objectives

  • Familiarize students with the objectives of the course.
  • Establish working practices and clarify expected outcomes.
  • Introduce the basics of our working practices.
  • Class introduction: Ice breaker with “The Questionnaire” game.

Project presentation: Video Project introduction

Next Week Class Prep: watch the video “The Art of Storytelling”on the homepage, in categories: Homework, video project.

Homework for your video project: Write a short text about how you intend to create the video.

Tuesday, September 7th
NO CLASS

Week 2: Tuesday, September 14th
Topic: How To Tell A Story In A Few Seconds?

Homework deadline: email me by Sunday September 6th, a paragraph of a pitch for your video.

Before the class watch my talks

Inspiration videos to watch

Lecture: Inspire students to approach their work presentation as a story telling. A series of short videos, commercials and music videos will be shown as examples to understand stylistic, narration, emotional impact.

Watch these videos for next week Class Prep

Homework for your video project: make your pitch into a screenplay after my comments and email it by Sunday September 19th, 1pm. Make sure that you will be able to follow your pitch during the making of your video. Your pitch is the tool that will help you make the video.

Week 3: Tuesday, September 21st
Topic: Digital Video and Sound

Homework deadline: email me by Sunday September 19th, 1pm, the updated screenplay for your video. Make sure that you will be able to follow your text during the making of your video. Your screenplay is the tool that will help you realize the video.

Class Prep: before class watch these videos

Lecture: Introduction to the technical aspect of digital video. Students will get familiarized with the terms and vocabulary of the movie industry and prep for the quiz 1. 

Demo: How to upload your video on YouTube.

Homework for next week

  1. Upload your video on YouTube and email me the link by Sunday September 20th, 1pm. Make sure that you will be following your pitch during the making of your video. The pitch should help you during the filming and with the final editing. You will follow the sequences of the scenes that you wrote and place the elements (graphics, sounds, voiceover) the same way you described them in your pitch.
  2. Quiz 1 Prep: Familiarize yourself with the audio and video vocabulary we talked about during class. Make sure you understand the benefit of story telling and a writing a pitch and why we need them.
  3. Watch these videos for next week Class Prep:

Week 4: Tuesday, September 28th
Topic: Audio for Quiz 1 Prep and Research Paper Presentation

Class Prep

  1. Your video should be on YouTube and I should have received the link.
  2. Watch all the students videos and read all the screenplays on OpenLab and comment at the bottom of the post.
    As we saw on the video about The Art of Storytelling, giving feedback is part of the process. Your comments have to be constructive and develop ideas. Suggest adjustments if you see something that could be added or tweaked that could help make the story better. This is part of your participation grades. You need to write at least a comment on 2 different stories.
  3. Quiz 1 Prep: Familiarize yourself with the video vocabulary we talked about during class. Make sure you understand the benefit of story telling in writing a good pitch, using a storyboard, and why we need them.

Class Topics

Lecture: Introduction to the technical aspect of digital audio. Students will get familiarized with the terms and vocabulary of the movie industry and prep for the quiz 1.

Project presentation: Research Paper

FOR INSPIRATION visit these posts:

Homework

Revise the Digital Video and Sound and Audio pages on OpenLab.

Get familiar with the vocabulary used in video and audio such as frame rate, aspect ratio, RGB color space, frequency, amplitude, decibels.

For your new project, prepare a list of 3 artists who inspire you. Write a short paragraph for each one. We will decide together who will be the most interesting to develop.

For your new project, prepare a list of 3 artists who inspire you. Write a short paragraph for each one. We will decide together who will be the most interesting to develop.
To help you choose, ask yourself these questions below.
• what is their art form?

• what period are they from?

• what is their style inspire by? 

• What type of recognition did they receive?

• Do they belong to a group of artists with similar esthetic?

• why am I inspired by their work?

Please email it to me by Sunday October 3rd, 1pm and remember to paste the links of the sources for your research.

If you haven’t done it yet, watch all the students videos and read all the screenplays on OpenLab and comment at the bottom of the post.

The quiz will start Tuesday at 6pm on OpenLab. I’ll send you the link before the class.It should take you about 30 minutes to do it, but I will give you an hour.

Week 5: Tuesday, October 5th
Topics: Quiz 1 and Web Design

Homework

For your new project, prepare a list of 3 artists who inspire you. Write a short paragraph for each one. We will decide together who will be the most interesting to develop.
To help you choose, ask yourself these questions below.
• what is their art form?

• what period are they from?

• what is their style inspire by? 

• What type of recognition did they receive?

• Do they belong to a group of artists with similar esthetic?

• why am I inspired by their work?
Please email it to me by Sunday October 3rd, 1pm and remember to paste the links of the sources for your research.

Class Topics

  • Students take Quiz 1 on audio, video and story telling.
  • Lecture: Introduction to web design with presentation of the WordPress platform and templates used for OpenLab.

Homework for next week

By Sunday October 10th, 1pm.

Send a written paragraph about the artist we decided to develop. Add a list of websites, videos, biographies that you are going to use to write your paper. You can also start to select portraits of the artist and reproduction of their work.

Week 6: Tuesday, October 12th
Topic: Motion Graphics, Visual Effects, and Animation

Homework

If you haven’t done it yet. For your research paper, prepare a list with 3 artists who inspire you.
To help you choose, ask yourself these questions below.
• what is their art form?

• what period are they from?

• what is their style inspire by? 

• What type of recognition did they receive?

• Do they belong to a group of artists with similar esthetic?

• why am I inspired by their work?
Please email it to me by Sunday October 3rd, 1pm and remember to paste the links of the sources for your research.

By Sunday October 10th, 1pm.

  • Send a written paragraph about the artist we decided to develop. Add a list of websites, videos, biographies that you are going to use to write your paper. You can also start to select portraits of the artist and reproduction of their work.

Class Topics

To do by Sunday October 17th, 1pm

Finish your artist paper.

Week 7: Tuesday, October 19th at 8pm
Live performance, in person and streaming

Film + Concert: Pollinator
By Valeria Trucchia and Briggan Krauss

If you can it would be nice to meet in person at

THE SOAPBOX GALLERY
636 Dean Street 
Brooklyn, NY 11238

otherwise watch the show online live.

Homework

If you haven’t done it yet, work on your research paper and upload it on your ePortfolio.

Week 8: Tuesday, October 26th
Topic: Concert and Film Discussion

Homework

If you haven’t done it yet, work on your ePortfolio and on research paper.

  1. By Sunday October 24th, 1pm, send a first draft of about 2 pages. And if you are late, send also a written paragraph about the artist you decided to develop. Add a list of websites, videos, biographies that you are going to use to write your paper. Include them as hyperlinks, not just links. You can also start to select portraits of the artist and reproduction of their work.
  2. Following the demo videos from how to build your ePortfolio, delete all the dummy pages and navigation from your ePortfolio on OpenLab. Create an about page, and a folder called Digital Media Foundations with inside a page of your Video project.

Class Prep

Watch the video series and complete activities

Class Topics

discussion about last week show.

Next week Class Prep

  1. by Sunday October 30th, 1pm, place the final artist paper on your eportfolio with text, photos, links and a list of all your references.
  2. Make sure you watched the Color Science video series and complete all the activities for your next quiz.

Week 9: Tuesday, November 2nd
Topic: Color Science

Homework

  1. by Sunday October 31st, 1pm, final research paper with text, photos, links and a list of all your references.
  2. write a page with 2 or 3 paragraphs on your impressions about the concert + my video.
    In my movie I used the definition and changed the words animal and pollen with artists and ideas, to evoke the impact artists have on people who are exposed to their art. 

    Dictionary definition: A pollinator is an animal that moves pollen from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma of a flower.[1] This helps to bring about fertilization of the ovules in the flower by the male gametes from the pollen grains.

    My interpretation: A pollinator is an artist that moves ideas from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma of a flower.[1] This helps to bring about fertilization of the ovules in the flower by the male gametes from the pollen grains.

    Try to reflect on it. Your text can be poetic and be inspired by the meaning of “Pollinator”. Below is a screenshot of the definition of the word from the dictionary.
  3. Make sure you watched the Color Science video series and complete all the activities for your next quiz.

Class Topics

Lecture: This is a prep class for your coming Quiz on November 16th. Determining Color is not as simple as saying Red or Blue, there are endless shades of color in the visible spectrum. In this lesson, you will learn how color is determined partly by the physics of light and partly by how our brains perceive it.

Intro to the different color spaces for various supports and identification of colors in the visual spectrum. 

Week 10: Tuesday, November 9th
Topic: Classifications and Psychology of Colors

Homework:

  • if you haven’t done it yet watch The Science of Color video series and complete all the activities.
  • by Sunday November 7th, 1pm, send your proposals for the Poster and Header Project in a form of hand drawings or digital sketches. I want to see many, minimum 5.

Class Topics

Lecture: last week we learnt that colors are subjectives. Visual professionals have created a classification system to identify colors for specific supports. We will explore the specifications of process vs. spot colors and PANTONE library. Through examples, we will discover the reasons why graphic designers are most of the time disappointed with their color output.

Demo: identification of colors and how they interact with each other using watercolor. The goal is to understand how real paint and a brush relate to the ways colors work in Photoshop, illustrator and InDesign.

Next week Quiz Prep

Next week Homework

  • by Sunday November 14th, 1pm, send your 3 favorite variations for each version, type and with visuals. See post for baby steps.

Week 11: Tuesday, November 16th
Topic: Quiz 2 and Poster project Presentation

Homework

  1. by Sunday November 14th, 1pm, send your 3 favorite variations for each version, type and with visuals. See post for baby steps.
  2. Make sure to read and comment on the other students artist research paper.

Class Topics

Students take Quiz 2 on color and web intro.

Artist Research Paper Review

Project presentation: Poster and Header

Next week Homework

  • by Sunday November 21st, 1pm, send your 3 favorite variations for each version, type and with visuals. 
  • See post for baby steps.

Week 12: Tuesday, November 23rd
Topic: Print Media and Digital Imaging

Class Topics

Students evaluation of teaching.

Feedback and review on the poster and header projects.

Next week homework and class prep

Sunday November 28th, 1pm, send your favorite variations the typography poster and the poster using visuals. See post for baby steps.

Watch the video below for creative inspiration.

Week 13: Tuesday, November 30th
Topic: Intro to computer technology:
Analog Vs. Digital

Homework

Sunday November 22nd, 1pm, send your 3 favorite variations of posters and headers. See post for baby steps.

Class Topic

Analog and digital signals are used to transmit information, usually through electric signals. In both these technologies, the information, such as any audio or video, is transformed into electric signals. The difference between analog and digital technologies is that in analog technology, information is translated into electric pulses of varying amplitude. In digital technology, translation of information is into binary format (zero or one) where each bit is representative of two distinct amplitudes.

Type Formats and Vector Image Formats

Every graphic you see online is an image file. Most everything you see printed on paper, plastic or a t-shirt came from an image file. These files come in a variety of formats, and each is optimized for a specific use. Using the right type for the right job means your design will come out picture perfect and just how you intended.

Next week Quiz Prep

Revise what we study these past 2 weeks.

Read about lossless data compression.