Rosie Ball

Rosie Ball
She has just left Norwich University.
She went to Long Road Sixth Form College 3-4 years ago and is now nominated for a BAFTA Award, for the Ipad game she helped design. She entered a competition for her university along side with 5 other team members to represent the University.

 Tick Tock Toys won one of three places the competition and is about a robot toy following a track and you have to move the obstacles out of the way.
http://www.rosieball.com/Site/Portfolio/Pages/Dare_2011.html#2 is her main website.

http://www.facebook.com/swallowtailgames/ is the official Game update post for Swallow games on facebook.

This is the trailer for the game.

Final Cut New York Title Sequence

In friday's session I put my garage band song into final cut. I found that the song was a bit too long, so i faded the song out at the end of the video so it fitted perfectly with my video. Then I  added my ident at the beging of the video to the start off the sequence.  Plus I added titles on the clips I did this by clicking the film icon then going to text and then click on the secound text. Then you drag the control tab to edit the text. Then I dragged the text box down onto the timeline. Then I used the shorten clip tool and the fade in fade out tool on the pieces of text to fit properly with the sequence. I then used the tool which looks like a rhombus symbol. This is acherly the motion tool, This tool makes still text or objects to move. After all of  that i uploaded my finished New York sequence to Vimeo. it took a few minutes too upload the video. I am proud of what i made.


L2 Alex's New York Sequence from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

New York Garageband Soundtrack Session

In this session we imported our New York Sequence from final cut into garage band. We did this so that we could mach the sounds to the certain parts of  the short clip. We had to make the song in garage band. I originally put together a lot of beats and drum pieces, Then I found it a bit overloaded so it cut it down and added so bass guitar. Then we put the song into final cut with the video and our indent.

New York Final Cut Editing session

This lesson I and every one else were given images of New York, including a video of the Statue Of Liberty. We had to put the videos together so they would flow into the next video.  We all used fades and the splicing tool and other video and photo transitions. At first I found it fairly easy to use after the presentation from Steve. The lesson went well until for some people their macs shut down.  I am proud of what I have produced.

garageband demo

 We had wednesday 21 to experiment with garageband two make a song.Above is the embedded link from the song i wrote to test Garage Band for the first time. I used preset loops.

 

In the above image, The blue bars are the notes for the short piece. I edited these parts so every note would be more different from anybody elses work.

This is where i got my original samples from before i had edited them, I would drag a sample into the track where i wanted it, On the instrument i wanted it on.

In the upper left you can see a list of my instruments, ranging from a drum loop to an electric piano (And a synthesizer!)

Logo Ident Production Session

Two lesson on friday was to put our designs of logos onto photo shop, using many different layers that contain diffrent images of my choice. I have added onto my logo effects like brushes, glow and sharpen. I will save them onto the save device, which works like save as but you have to do it layer by layer insted.When I finished saving all the layers I can upload them onto the final cut pro and add each layer back onto it. Making a little clip.

The most difficult part of photo shop I found was working out how to make a smart object editable.
I'm pleased with how much i have learnt last week and now i will be able to retrace my steps in most parts of each post so I know what I learnt.

Media Production Company Logo Planning Session

I  planned a few different designs for my own personal logo production. I came up with a few names. plus a few ideas from the logos I had been researching. I will use many effects and styles on photoshop to make my logo look professional.

logo research session

When we had the logo research session we came up with two different logo's of our choice and research about them. Like where they come from, what's the purpose of them, after we had found out these details we had to write the information down on our pail sheets of paper then take some time drawing these logo's and describing them. I picked proton and ninja tune record company.

Club Flyer Task

 The whole class was set a task to make a unique Flyer of our own. We learnt how to start off properly selecting the right size and name. Instead of changing the name when saving and changing the size of the canvas at the end of the editing. First off i had to plan the information for my club like, the dates of when the Club is open, the opening times, the name,  ticket prices and the location of the club. After I had done all of this. I started by choosing the saved name, international paper then the size [A5] in this case and turn it 90* cw to make it landscape. Then we had to set a background image which we could start from, but we had to chose photos from the flicker website. The image had to fit the theme of the club. Then we started adding layers so we can come back and edit the file again. We also edited the photo's, after all of this i had to write the information on the page, I used the design tool to change the font of the writing and colour so make it stand out.

Photoshop skill session 1: Earth and eye

On this first skill session we learnt how to;
1-Open a photoshop file so we can have the right size, save file name and lots more.
2-We learnt how to insert an image onto photoshop.
-There are two main ways to do this, on one of them I had to select the picture then press cmd apple + C  [copy] and then reselect photoshop then press cmd apple + V  [paste].
-I also can drag the photos from the desk top on to one of the layers.
3-The oval marquee tool lets you select an area to delete then if you inverse you will be able to delete the outer part of the picture.
4-The magic wand tool cleans up any left overs which you don't want and it will have to be in the same colour tone.