Desktop Publishing Assignments

Students writing for the school paper should use the information to the right.

• Creating a Newspaper Article

  1. Newspaper article basics, the Five Ws. Download the word document to help organize your thinking about your article.

  2. Using a writing prompt to write your story. Write a newspaper article about something that is going on in school or is school related.  Download the writing prompt Word document.

  3. Study and research more information about writing news stories.

     • The traditional structure of news writing

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Final

• Create an 3D animation of your name

  1. Animate a 3D model of your name

  2. File/Create a Video File, Quicktime movie. Save/create on the C:/My Documents

  3. Copy the finished movie to your Tripod website.

  4. Add the movie to your webpage.

Week 16-18

• Ulead 3D

  1. Review the software for creating 3D

  2. Know what 3D imaging is and why it is used.

  3. Learn how to use 3D by completing each of the tutorials. The tutorial downloads should be saved to the "C" drive on the local computer, in your "My Documents"folder.

     	Importing Animation Projects from COOL 3D™ Production Studio into MediaStudio Pro Learn how to create 3D jump animation in COOL 3D™ Production Studio and import it to MediaStudio Pro..
     	Ulead COOL 3D™ Production Studio Can Fix Those Problem Fonts Find solutions to work around some of those small problems that plague us.
     	Using COOL 3D Videos in a DVD Workshop Menu Learn how to use COOL 3D™ Production Studio to make animated buttons, text and background objects.
     	Place Dynamic Video Texture onto Your 3D Objects Learn how to add realism and action to your 3D objects using video textures.
     	Toast to COOL 3D™ Production Studio with Your Own 3D Glassware Use the Lathe Editor and the Transparency settings to create a perfectly symmetrical and realistic 3D champagne glass.
     	Mother Nature Sets COOL 3D™ Production Studio on Fire with the Particles Plug-in Learn the basics of the Particles Plug-in to set your 3D objects aflame.
     	Basic Animation Using COOL 3D™ Production Studio Learn how to use video background and basic Animation tools to create a space fighter on a journey through space.
     	Create a Video Overlay and Import into Your Video Editor Use the Lathe Editor and the Transparency settings to create a perfectly symmetrical and Create and export a video frame to be used in your Ulead VideoStudio project.

Week 15

• Publishing Multimedia on the Internet

  1. Understand website hosting

  2. Signup for a website at www.tripod.com

     1. Remember the ID and password you select

     2. Your address on the web is http://yourID.tripod.com

  3. Upload your webpage

     1. Use Frontpage to upload files; File, Open Site, http://fontpage.tripod.com/yourID

     2. Include the following files

  4. Open and edit the "index.htm"  tripod website page.

     1. Remove all the tripod propagada

     2. Add your information, anything your want your audience to see, text, pictures, links. Do not use your first and last name or address.

     3. Add a link to your music video web page.

multimedia webpage

publish.htm

music video
Code address for your musicvideo to play:
http://yourID.tripod.com/musicvideo.wmv (the name of your music video file)

musicvideo.wmv or musicvideo.mov

you may elect to have two different sizes for your audience to select from

animated cartoon

cartoon.gif

original image for the webpage background

bkgrd.gif or background.gif (jpg)

Week 14

1. Publishing Multimedia on the Internet

   1. Create your own multimedia webpage

      1. Use an original background image, created in Photoshop.

      2. Include your animated cartoon on the webpage

      3. Include your music video on the webpage

      4. Include a page title and brief description of the purpose of the webpage

Week 13

• Publishing Multimedia on the Internet

  1. Reverse Engineer a multimedia webpage from the internet

  2. Understand the code for Windows Media Players

  3. Understand the code for Quicktime media players

  4. Formats for Internet Multimedia files

  5. Decide on your media file formats

Week 12

• Publishing Multimedia on the Internet

  1. Understand CODECs

  2. Tutorials on audio video publishing

  3. Research multimedia web pages

Week 11

• Drawing in Photoshop

  1. Draw a picture of yourself

  2. Draw animation layers of yourself

  3. Publish the animation on Acid Planet, your music video webpage.
      

• Update the L drive for 2nd Quarter
  1. Remove all assignment files from your L drive folder
  2. Keep your index and remove past assignments and links, index template.

Week 10

• Animation to Video

  1. continue animation in Image Ready
  2. Combine animated GIF file format, WAV file format, text, and transitions in Ulead Video Studio

Week 9

• Animation

  1. Create animation layers in Adobe Photoshop
  2. Animate frames in Adobe Image Read

Week 8

• Turning in Assignments

  1. File format test
  2. Assignments "index.htm" web page list

If your files in the "L:/Arnett/Desktop/" (local network only) are not as follows you need to name them and/or save them in the correct format. Then copy them into the L: drive from your H: drive. Make certain the files are linked to your "index.htm" file. Any other formats will be deleted!

1. lastname_ID.jpg
2. lastname_ID_requirments.doc
3. lastname_ID_creative.jpg
4. lastname_test_tune.acd
5. lastname_musictitle.mp3  (music title is the name you give the music)
6. lastname_musictitle.wma
7. lastname_review10-4.htm
8. lastname_file_format_test.htm

Bonus files:

1. lastname_project1_bonuspoints
2. publishing music (WMA) on Acid Planet
3. lastname_practice_test.htm

Week 7

• Review

  1. Review Publishing File Formats
  2. Bonus Points -- Practice Test
  3. Compressed files & CODEC

Week 6

• Review

  1. Review Publishing File Formats
  2. Print your "template" ID

Week 5

• Project 2 continue

  • Publishing your music to the Internet
  • Bonus Points--Published music title on Acid Planet web site.
    • ID = digiart@digiart@net
    • PW = digiart
  • Leave a Review for another student's music.

Week 4

• Project 2

  1. Test Tune--as a ACD Acid Pro edit file format
  2. Saving music in a "publishing" format

Week 3

1. continue project 1

2. Foreign Film Friday-Project 1 Bonus Points

• Project 1

  1. Template ID  (local network only)
  2. Research IDs (local network only)
  3. Creative ID

• Exercise 1
   

• Exercise 2