Media
Audio
Imaging
Multimedia
Improving Productivity
During this session we made a radio advert promoting a music festival, to do this we used audacity and text to speech programs. In the background I used the instrumental of songs and then added speech over the top of the background music.
Leaning Tower of Pisa
This is the leaning tower of Pisa I made in photoshop with a lightning strike in the background, I did this in photoshop by removing the orginal background of the leaning tower of Pisa then added the photo of lightning in the background as another layer then finally I changed the brightness and contrast so that it looked like there was actually a thunder storm at the leaning tower of Pisa.
Car poster
For this assignement I had to create a poster, the one I chose to do it about selling a car, I started this poster by chosing the name "Perodua" and then making a logo for it, the logo started of as 2 circles then I changed the one at the back to black and the one on the front to red which gave more colour to the logo itself, I then added the text "Perodua" but it looked very plain and boring so I decided to change the font, make it bold and 3D, I then added other effects like the background shadow and the bezel.
Next I made a new canvas on photoshop and added a picture of a long stright road in the middle of nowhere, then I added the logo onto the picture at the top in the center. After this I added the 2 cars, I had to remove the background from the orginal image and make them look like they were on the road.
Finally I added the text, this included the slogan and information about the car. I added the text then changed the colour, font and made it all bold. I done the colour based on the colours of the cars and the logo which were red black and white, I felt these blended into the image well whilst still being easy for the reader to notice.
Shampoo advert
For my shampoo advert I had to design the bottle of shampoo and put it into movie maker with other images related to the shampoo, I used effects and different font types on these images, after I changed how long each scene lasted and made it so the advert was 30 seconds long.
Course Review
I have enjoyed doing the Level 2 Digital Media course over the past year, this consited of Audio, Imaging, Multimedia and improving productivity.
In the audio section of the course I found this easy as the software Audacity which we used was simple and was very easy to find the tool you needed, I quickly learnt how to crop and cut music, I think audacity was the best software to learn on as it has lots of tools.
I found the imaging unit hard at first but it got easier quickly as I learnt how to use Adobe Photoshop to edit images. I think this was a good software to learn as up until this course I was never tault how to edit images on any software.
The multimedia unit was easy as there wasn't much to learn on Windows Movie Maker as it is a simple peice of software where the main features are to cut and trim the video and add audio to the video, I would have liked to use another peice of software which had more features.
The improving productivity was easy but I ran into a few issues like corrupted audio but this wasnt hard to replace.