February 22 - February 26, 2010

On Monday, the class had a test on the layout of a yearbook spread. Then for the rest of the class, the time was used to finish up the practice spread of the girl's basketball spread, which I happily already finished! That day we also learned how to create layers and backgrounds.
On Tuesday, the class learned how to place clip art into a yearbook template, and how to get rid of the outside white space so the picture could be easily placed and used in a spread. These we marked by the teacher on how one listened to the lesson and created a good transparent-background clipart. That night, I was also sent on a photo assignment to take pictures at the Duke of Edinburgh ceremony, and I took group shots of the bronzes, silvers, and golds.
On Wednesday, the class got back their test marks, and some got their marks back on their practice spread, and I received both. That day, while the class was finishing up on their practice spreads, I went ahead and began choosing photos for the spread I am to be creating for the yearbook, which is the girl's volleyball spread. I chose a few photos that day, and resampled them, changed their mode to CMYK, and cropped them to the way I liked them.
On the days of Thursday and Friday, I was absent because of an extremely sore throat! Hope I didn't miss alot!

February 15 - February 19, 2010

On Monday, we had no school, yay holiday!
On Tuesday, the class continued on the practice spread of the Girl's Basketball Teams, and that day the class focused on captions for the spread, and how to make them sound better, and involve the 6 W's, which are who, what, where, when, why, and how. That day, I continued to touch up my spread.
On Wednesday, the class learned how to create secondary headlines, and make them look appealing to the reader. The secondary title I chose was "Girl's Basketball: Skill with Style."
On Thursday, the class learned how to create extra graphics for the spread such as rule lines and colour boxes, to make the spread look more appealing, and allow certain parts of the spread to stand out.
On Friday, we had no class because there was a school assembly on character, and it involved the musical talents of Errol Lee, a recording artist promoting character and anti-bullying.
The picture on my blog this week is teh jpeg of my yearbook spread of the Girl's Basketball team, I really enjoyed making this spread and I hope to make many more!

Suessical Photos

Here are some photos of Suessical the Musical that I took while on a photo assignment on Tuesday February 9. 2010.

February 8 - February 12, 2010

On Monday, we focused on creating the girl's basketball spread for the yearbook. We learned how to resize and resample and image, so it can be used in the yearbook. The pictures were changed from 72 dpi to 300 dpi, while maintaining its size. We also changed the brightness, constrast, and intensity of the photos to the way we want them in the spread.
On Tuesday, I was sent on a photo assignment to take photos of Suessical the Musical at our school. It was fun watching the show as well as taking great photos that could potentially be used in the yearbook. That was a class well spent, althought not necessarily in it, I was still learning things.
On Wednesday, the class focused on placing captions and learning the whole layout of the girls basketball spread. The class was shown how to place captions in the spread, and what to talk about inside the captions. I had a fun, but somewhat difficult time thinking of clever captions for the spread, but I managed to do them all. I also had a photo assignment that day after school to take pictures of the girl's junior and senior volleyball team, which I am involved in as well.
On Thursday, we continued progresing with the girl's basketball spread with captions, the body copy, and everything else that was taught but still incomplete. I tried to finish up as much as I could, and also started experimenting with titles for the spread.
On Friday, we learned a new technique that could potentially be used in the yearbook, and that was placing an image in text. This was done by typing text, creating an outline and placing a photo inside it. Above is the text I created with an image of Suessical the Musical inside it.

Februrary 1 - February 5 2010

On Monday and Tuesday, we created a mosaic in class, using Adobe InDesign CS2. The class, including myself, learned how to create a mosaic by learning how to create a rectangle frame, adding strokes to the frames, the process of step and repeat to add multiple frames, rotating the frames, creating a compound path, and placing the photos inside the frame. Above is the picture of my mosaic.
Throughout the week the computers have been extremely so, and on Wednesday and Thursday it was basically impossible to complete any work without it consuming alot of class time, and restarting the computer alot. Basically, Tetris was the only option.
On Friday, the computers were working again, and we were able to change pictures of the Girls Basketball team from RGB form to CMYK form, changing the resolution, and adjusting the picture to the way we wanted it by cropping and changing the brightness and contrast. This was all done on Corel PhotoPaint.