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Thursday 9 December 2010

Tuesday 31 August 2010

TYPOGRAPHY 1 OVERVIEW (Intro to GD, Wk 4)

Intro. to colour

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LAYOUT (Intro to GD Wk 9)

15 TYPE RULES (Intro to GD, Wk 11)

Basic but useful rules for type

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Grid Based Layout

Includes a short intr. and history into grids

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GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program

Alternative to use at home free instead of Photoshop

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NewsDesignConf2009_Akzia

Simplify» Creative strategies for newspaper designers

SND30: Five papers named World's Best-Designed™

Interesting collection of slides on Russian etc. newspapers

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Tips for news design

Thursday 19 August 2010

Wednesday 5 May 2010

BS1253 feedback ready

______________________________________________
From:    Isi Wilkins (abs) 
Sent:   05 May 2010 14:18
To:     Tim Conner (abs)
Subject:        BS1253 feedback ready

Hi Tim,

That’s the feedback ready for the students if you want to send them a message.

All the best
Isi

Isabelle Wilkins
Undergraduate Team
Stage 1 & 2 Administrator
Aberdeen Business School
Garthdee Road
Aberdeen
AB10 7QE
Phone: +44 (0)1224 263844

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Monday 26 April 2010

Social Media PRess Release service FREE

http://pressitt.com/

This may be of help in boosting numbers it create social media press releases.

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Friday 23 April 2010

CW1 is marked and back in the boxes on 4th floor

CW1 is marked and feedback is avaliable in the boxes on the 4th floor, should be a copy of feedback for all the groups members 

Cheers Tim

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Tuesday 20 April 2010

Briefing for course changes today at 11am in the Media Project class

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Tuesday 13 April 2010

CW2 due in date

Just to conform that the CW2 part of the Media Project is due in on the 30th April 1pm, green sheets with all members names of them to be posted in the boxes along with a sheet contain all the url's of the Web 2.0 services that you used. (if you could also email this sheet to me that would be great, thanks Tim

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Monday 12 April 2010

CW for Digital Animation

CW1 (50% of the overall mark for the module)

Group project

Really simple, really fun and hopefully you will produce something extraordinary in the process.

Split into creative groups you have to create a 3 minute (minimum) Stop Motion animated film, that will be hosted on a service (You Tube etc.) that will put it into the public domain. All materials contained within this animation will be wholly original or have copyright permissions to be used in this medium.

Assessment criteria

  • Digital artefact  60%
  • Originality of the narrative 40%

CW2 (50% of the overall mark for the module)

Individual project

Simply create a digital animation (can be Stop Animation, Flash, etc. as long as it is in the digital form). Final animation must include opening/closing credits and be a minimum of 2.5 minutes long.

Assessment criteria

  • Digital artefact  60%
  • Originality of the narrative 40%



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Class today

I expect that everyone has had enough of class as it was cw hand in day and such a sunny day, if anyone does turn up and wants to go over anything please email and I will pop down (already did but no one was there) Cheers Tim

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CW is due in today at 1pm

Yes CW is due in today at 1pm, Cheers Tim

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The lab today

Will be in lab today at 1pm if anyone wishes to meet to help with Media Project module

Cheers Tim

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Tuesday 30 March 2010

Unsure where the groups are today

No sure where any of the griups are today but happy if you are all getting on with CW, have marked the planning stage and should be back next week to all the groups. If anyone wishes to meet today please email me and I will pop down. Have a good break next week Cheers Tim

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Monday 15 March 2010

How to customize Wordpress themes

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The finished example

Stop motion tutorial

Sign up for wordpress

Welcome back to RGU hope placements went well

This is a blog for the Online Journalism module, only really for the practical aspects of the module

Cheers Tim

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Tuesday 9 March 2010

Digital Animation

-----Original Message-----
From: MARC BLAKE (0902320) [mailto:m.s.blake@rgu.ac.uk] Sent: 09 March 2010 11:30
To: Tim Conner (abs)
Subject: Digital Animation

Hey Tim,
Just to let you know that myself and Connor Vearnals have
decided to work together for the group animation project as the groups
were changed in our absence. Hope this is cool


Thanks
Marc

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Nice example of a video shoot storyboard and planning stage

Free timelapse app for Iphone

http://joby.com/gorillacam/

Maybe handy, tripods cheapest avliable also at http://www.oddsandpods.co.uk/joby-m-46.html for 20 quid

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Free timelapse app for Iphone

http://joby.com/gorillacam/

Maybe helpful as a backup to any filming you may be doing

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Storyboard templates

Story Boards and release forms

Templates for story boards also Personal Release Forms if you need these, i.e. people in shoot agreeing to be filmed etc.

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Good free alternative to Photoshop

http://aviary.com/

Good alternative to Photoshop and free, within the browser window so no need to download

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Good and free alternative to Photoshop

http://aviary.com/

Good alternative to Photoshop and free, within the browser window so no need to download

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Free online alternative to Photoshop

http://aviary.com/

Good alternative to Photoshop and free, within the browser window so no need to download

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Alternative to Adobe Photoshop etc.

http://aviary.com/

Pretty good on browser alternative to Photoshop

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Monday 8 March 2010

No class today

Sorry everyone I Am not going to make it in today, just crack on with planning or starting the group animation for cw. If you wish to use the Frame by Frame software there is a link on the blog Cheets Tim
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No labs today

Sorry everyone I am not going to make it in today, labs will be back on next week as usual. Use the time to get on with the Project Planning cw Cheers Tim
Sent from my iPhone

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Thursday 4 March 2010

Fwd:

Animation Groups for CW as at 02 03 10

1. Stuart Martin, Scott Anderson, Peter Clark

2. Kirsty, Laura, Emma, Jo

3. Paul Taylor, Andrea Stetco, Andra Groza, Emma Sim

4. Magdalena Kedziora, Sarah Mackay

5. Thomas Stephen, Ross Anderson, Kevin Dunn

6. Steven Herd, Scott Lochhart, Euan Walker

7. Arndreea Oniga, Ana Custoria, Becky Davies, Grohg Wohuhahn, Adam Seostko

Anyone who  is not in a group better find one especially one that has 2 or 3 members

Cheers Tim

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Tuesday 2 March 2010

Next Tuesday 9th March room 126 for PG Journalists

Seems there are no rooms free next week, but have managed a slot at 9.30am on Tuesday in lab 116. This can cover stills cameras and an introduction to the basics of photoshop.

See you all on Tuesday

Thanks TIm

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Friday 26 February 2010

Changed time to meet at Stratosphere for BA1 Media (digi Animation)

We are meeting at 2.30pm on Monday at Stratosphere to give you time to travel down from the Comm Principles lecture at Garthdee. See you all there on Monday in at cafe or somewhere at 2.30pm
Have a good weekend Tim

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Wednesday 24 February 2010

Cancel Digi Animation class tomorrow

Sorry everyone I am going to cancel the class at 10am on Thursday as not sure about the weather and took 2 hours to get home tonight, hope this is not a problem and plenty to look at on the blog www.timanimation.posterous.com to watch. See you all on Monday at stratosphere 2pm
Cheers and have a good weekend Tim

Sent from my iPod

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CW submission dates Media Prod. Project BA2

CW1 (project planning stage) Friday 12th March at 1pm (submitted in CW boxes with all names and matric numbers

CW2 (group submission for client) Friday 23rd April at 1pm (submitted with green sheets and a4 page all group members name on it and all details of URLs ALSO email this to t.conner@rgu.ac.uk

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CW submission dates

CW 1 Friday 12th March at 1pm

CW2 Friday 23rd April at 1pm

Cheers Tim

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No labs for Digital Animation on Mon 1st March just the meet at Stratosphere

...for the Wallace and Gromit exhibition
Cheers Tim thanks for the comment Stephen

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REMINDER Wallace and Gromit Exibtion 2pm STRATOSPHERE this Monday

Guys I forgot to mention we are going to the Wallace and Gromit exhibition on at Stratosphere at 2pm this coming Monday at 2pm (Monday 1st March) can we just meet in the cafe at Stratosphere at 2pm?

Can a few of you respond to make me think that you got this message and also announce it in class or spread the word about the class

Thanks Tim
www.timanimation.posterous.com

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Tuesday 23 February 2010

Media Production Project Group

-----Original Message-----
From: THOMAS ROSS (0802234) [mailto:t.d.ross@rgu.ac.uk] Sent: 16 February 2010 15:21
To: Tim Conner (abs)
Cc: ROXANA MIRONESCU (0808215); DAN DAIANU (0810733); NANCY ZHANG
(0713623); ANDREI MARIAN (0809837); STEVEN NOBLE (0703685)
Subject: Media Production Project Group

Hi Tim,

We've not come up with a group name yet, but thought I would let you
know who everyone in the group is.

Thomas Ross - 0802234 - Pub w J
Roxana Mironescu - 0808215 - Pub w J
Dan Daianu - 0810733 - Media
Ruomeng Zhang - 0713623 - Media
Andrei Marian - 0809837 - Comm PR
Steven Noble - 0703685 - Comm PR

Will let you know when we come up with the name,

Regards

Thomas Ross
0802234
Publishing with Journalism - Stage 2

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MPP Group work

-----Original Message-----
From: HOLLY MCLENNAN (0803942) [mailto:h.j.mclennan@rgu.ac.uk] Sent: 17 February 2010 11:37
To: Tim Conner (abs)
Subject: MPP Group work

Hi Tim,

Our group is called Pose Promotions and our team memebers are:
Kirsten Binnie (0816384)
Becca Nolan (0805524)
Holly McLennan (0803942)
Andrea (0613883)
Amy (0811296)

We aim to promote a model,

KHolly McLennan

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media production project

Adelle thanks for that


From: ADELLE CHESSOR (0804715) [mailto:a.chessor@rgu.ac.uk]
Sent: 23 February 2010 12:44
To: Tim Conner (abs)
Subject: media production project

 Hi tim.
I don't know if anyone in our media production project group has emailed you with a group name and a list of our names.
 So I thought I should let you know.
Our group name is: MykejayBlack.
And the members are: Adelle Chessor
Vicky Verbiest
Amanda Dumbar
Amy Gold

Emma is also is our group from Media Studies, however, I don't know her last name and she has only turned up once.

Thanks
Adelle

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Embedding vimeo videos

How-To Customizing your header image

Enmeddding movie/images intop wordpress blog

Wordpress help

Free Creative Commons audio film etc.

Monday 22 February 2010

Lego animation made by the Frame by Frame software

USB camera drivers for MAC and stop animation

http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/

OPen source stop animation software for mac http://web.mac.com/philipp.brendel/Software/FrameByFrame.html

easy and straightforward the answer to my prayers

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Good examples of viral marketing innovation

http://www.brewdog.com/
http://www.limmy.com/  (some content is choice but definitely uses web 2.0 to the full)
http://www.skittles.com/  (the big one from last year)
http://www.elfyourself.com/  (more hits and attention that it is possibly to imagine)
http://www.eepybird.com/dcm1.html (Diet Coke and Mentos)
http://www.blendtec.com/willitblend/

 

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Final Cut Pro Intro

Final Cut PRo Video Transitions

WordPress Lessons

How to embed video on Wordpress

WordPress Lessons

http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons

Also look at the showcase at http://wordpress.org/showcase/ this is an impressive bit of open source kit

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Really interesting service, beautiful mag design

Wordpress much more flexiable blog tool

Wednesday 17 February 2010

Some nice animations here and fun site

Coursework for Media project

Background

And Coursework

The Task

In its simplest form, this is a group task.

The aim of which is to research, plan, create and deliver a new media “viral marketing” element for a band or artist within the UK’s music scene.

Viral Marketing Defined

What does a virus have to do with marketing? Viral marketing describes any strategy that encourages individuals to pass on a marketing message to others, creating the potential for exponential growth in the message's exposure and influence. Like viruses, such strategies take advantage of rapid multiplication to explode the message to thousands, to millions.

Off the Internet, viral marketing has been referred to as "word-of-mouth," "creating a buzz," "leveraging the media," "network marketing." But on the Internet, for better or worse, it's called "viral marketing."

The Six Simple Principles of Viral Marketing by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson, E-Commerce Consultant, Web Marketing Today, February 1, 2005

The purpose of this is to increase the profile of the client and create a new media “viral marketing” element for them. This task therefore has to be grounded in the principles of identifying an audience’s needs and wants. As this is a media rich environment considerable thought will have to go in to designing for your audience. This will include a vast range of “considerations”, such as technical issues with video, appropriate platforms to host the video, appropriateness of social network or web based hosts etc.

The Client

Content

Technical

Issues

The Group

The Aim

The Audience

Need, Wants and Value


Understanding project  characteristics

  • Projects are different from ordinary work. They are

intended to change things

  • Projects have a timeframe with a beginning and an end
  • Projects have to be planned
  • Projects use resources and need a budget
  • Projects require evaluation – the criteria for evaluation need

to be established from the beginning

  • Projects have an outcome, which is not necessarily known

at the outset

  • The outcome is very often a “product” of some kind
  • At the end of a project, decisions need to be taken about
  • whether to use or institutionalise the outcome
  • Projects involve people

 Possible Roles

  • Project Manager
  • Market researchers/Marketers/PR
  • New Media Researchers
  • New Media creators
  • Editors/Content creators

Available Resources

Software

Various options available – Photoshop, Studio MX (Flash and Dreamweaver), Audacity (Sound editing), Final Cut Express (video editing), iMovie

Video cameras

There are six Sony Z1 cameras, complete with on-board

and detachable microphones, tripod and power supply.

Stills cameras

There is at least 10 Canon 400D―next generation digital SLR―available.

Sound recorders

There are at least seven Marantz PMD660 Professional Solid State

Digital Recorders.

Radio and TV studio

Radio studio and TV studio set-ups which, while the equipment is fixed, provide sound-proofed recording environments and, in the case of the TV studio, lighting and multi-shot possibilities that could prove very useful, depending, of course, on what you have in mind. Booking is essential, however.


-Coursework 1

The CW will form into two parts.

CW1 contributes 40% of the overall grade

The areas that will be covered in this section will include all the ground work and research that the group engages with in the pre planning stages. This will be for a client in the UK music industry, hopefully this can/will be a local band or artist.

As a group you are required to produce a 4,000 report on the early planning stages.

Elements that you are required to produce here may include sections on

Initial Stages

·                     Creating value with projects. Setting up a project for success by clarifying expectations and outcomes. 

·                     Defining and planning projects. Creating the right foundations for a good, practical, plan. 

Outcomes:

·                         Evaluate and capture stakeholder and audience needs; 

·                         Define how the project adds value by agreeing clear objectives and targets 

·                         Establish an organisational structure for governance and ensure clarity about decision rights.   

·                         Define deliverables and their quality; 

·                         Control project scope; 

o                       Create a plan and budget (if required) by progressively defining the products and then breaking down the work needed to produce them; 

·                         Assign, work to teams, providing roles and responsibilities to the group

·                         Manage risk   

·                         Explore the problems of managing time where multiple tasks and priorities conflict; 

·                         Adjust schedules in the light of constraints on availability; 

·                         Motivate and manage the team; 

·                         Track and report progress; 

Submission of CW2 will form the basis of a written report, with all group members actively contributing to this process. Visuals and mock ups are also encouraged at this stage (these could be of similar products).

Assessment criteria

Your report will be assessed using the following criteria:

Content, feasibility and scope of project                 50%

Evidence of research                                            40%

Structure and presentation                                   10%


Coursework 2

CW2 contributes 60% of the overall grade

·                     Executing and delivering product. The practicalities of delivery in a large and complex organisation.  

·                     Test and deliver the product; 

·                     Close, learn (reflection) and present the project.

This product will be the deliverable section outlined in CW1. The parameters (in terms of length and structure) will be very specific in terms on your individual client, but it will be expected that this product will contain and number of media rich elements, it will facilitate a two way communication function and will enable users/client to contribute to the product and continue its development past the closure of the project group. 

Assessment

The practical element will be assessed using the following criteria:

  • Design and innovation of product (40%) - You must demonstrate knowledge of the market as well as the consumer. Inventive and original solutions to the task are being sought.
  • Content - the creative process (30%)  - You must demonstrate a clear understanding of the relative importance of different production /design/media issues and be able to arrive at a clear solution which is fully formed and functional and ready to be offered to consumers.
  • Clarity of communication (10%) - Your work must be demonstrate clarity of communication not only through the text but visually. Presentation of information, whether this is images or text, must consider the reader at every stage.
  • Presentation (10%) This will be a group presentations performed in the final weeks of the semester.
  • Peer assessment (10%) - This will be an opportunity for you to comment on ALLL members of the groups contribution to the overall submission. Appropriate forms will be distributed and to be submitted with the final piece CW.

       

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Tuesday 16 February 2010

SOMEONE NEEDS TO FIND A GROUP


From: SARAH CORCORAN (0806427)
Sent: 16 February 2010 11:55
To: Tim Conner (abs)
Subject: Media group

 Hi Tim, Im emailing you so that you canhelp me find a group for this module as I have been absent for the past two weeks when the groups were being formed. If you could get back to me as soon as possible. Kind regards, Sarah.

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Due date for CW1 Friday 12th March 2010 at 1pm

Submit in CW boxes in 4th floor all names of GROUP and matric numbers need to be on the green sheets Cheers Tim

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CW1 due date PROJECT PLANNING stage

Friday 12th March 1pm in the cw boxes, all CW are groups therefore all matric numbers need to be on the greeen sheets

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Rescheduled class because of the TIM Tabling issue

Sorry cannot find alternative accommodation for us at 1pm today therefore will run a session from 9.30am next Tuesday in 116 (normal room) until 11am and then again in the afternoon, thanks Tim

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Monday 15 February 2010

Trip tp Stratosphere

Looks like Monday 1st March 2pm at Stratosphere, will confirm with you next week

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The whole introduction to Final Cut Pro