Class Notes - March 29
Keyframes
–Sort of like plot points
–significant events that happen in a story
Professor Ersinghaus is taking photographs at 7 megapixels. Now he’s asking what to do with the pics. Put the SD card into the slot. Open the folder, and view the pictures in thumbnail format in a folder. He copied the pictures into a folder named “Tunxis” on the computer, which he could do because they were recorded in a digital format.
He opens the picture in photoshop, and resizes it from 3k pixels wide to 450 pixels wide. Saves it back into the Tunxis folder. Opens FireFox, logs into WordPress, uploads the picture and then previews before publishing. Voila, here it is:
We discussed three act structure in class, but instead of reinventing the wheel, I just reposted the lecture from Professor Timmons’ online Film Art class at this link.
Key frames are the decision points. Like in a basketball videogame, if the digital ball hits the digital basket, a point is registered and the ball is shown going through the basket.
In class demonstration of Macromedia Flash Professional 8.
In class demonstration of Adobe Photoshop.
(Some things just aren’t conducive to note taking)
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