This section includes blog posts in accordance with the Digital Foundations course at Brock University
Week 9 – Storyboarding & Recording
So this week’s activity was to storyboard for a short video 45-60s, using 2-3 storyboard pages. When I went upstairs to get my bag with my pencil case and everything so I could start drawing my story board, I got inspired by the idea of opening up my locker to get my bag to get…
Week 8 – Adobe After Effects 😦
So this week’s activity was the worst. I genuinely do not think that without step by step instructions that I would be able to use this program for anything at all. The pin tool is the only thing I understood while I was doing. I mean I guess I understand adding the keyframes but the…
Week 7 – Adobe Animate
This week’s activity was to 2D animate a 2 second looped gif at 12fps, so I had to draw 24 frames total. I feel like I say this every week but this activity is my new favourite. To be honest using adobe animate was a bit easier than photoshop, there were only a few things…
Week 6 – Interpreting Graphic Notation
This week’s activity was a lot more fun than recording the sounds. I pretty much used the reaper interface as a canvas to place the sound items I drew, corresponding mostly to the vertical and horizontal positions of all the different shapes and colours. I say mostly because the vertical positioning didn’t matter as much,…
Week 5 – Sound & Graphic Notation
This week’s in class activity was to record a whole bunch of sounds, inside and outside, short and long, in mono and stereo audio. And then to use graphic notation to compose an experimental track. Finding and recording shorter sounds was fairly easy as literally anything you do makes a sound, the longer ones were…
Week 4 – Digital Collage in Photoshop
This week’s activity was to use the photos that we have collected and create a digital collage from them. This has been my favourite activity because I was kind of just messing around, though I did actually plan my composition and follow the plan. I just wanted it to be silly and reminiscent of the…
Week 3 – Lighting Experiments
Today I learned just how much easier it really is to control light in a studio. And just how advanced our phones’ camera settings are. It’s way more difficult to manage certain light effects with a DSLR, while your phone gives you really easy presets. The studio lighting was so much easier to get desired…
Week 2 – DSLR Experimenting
This week’s activity was experimenting with manual exposure settings on a DSLR camera. Taking the pictures was honestly fairly intuitive it just requires almost constant troubleshooting, because if you change the angle even a little bit, the light reading may change. Balancing ISO, aperture and shutter speed was a process of pretty much looking at…
Week 1 – Website Making
My experience with our first activity, making this website, was genuinely terrible. I absolutely hate the WordPress user-interface. It took me about an hour to figure out how align my picture with my “About” blurb, and another hour to add my “Blog”, “Art”, and “CV” pages to the navigation and the homepage. Meaning I literally…
Althea Da Graca 