LA & LT – Randis Reflective Journal

LT31

Draw a diagram of your preferred workflow and explain why you take certain steps Create a checklist for your workflow Take a screenshot of your folder structure Explain why creating backups are so important Before the photoshoot: Make sure all participants are booked and ready. (Model, hair & makeup, photo assistant.) Location – make sureContinue reading “LT31”

AW30

Question 1 In your own words, describe the procedure of planning a fashion shoot. You don’t need to go into too much detail, a short outline will do. What are the stylist’s duties? List your duties as photographer What equipment would you take along on the Alice in Wonderland shoot that was featured in this module?Continue reading “AW30”

LT w 26 – Applying Basic Animation Principles

Create a character. This character can be a letter, a person, an animal or any type of illustration, use your imagination. This character will play the main role in your animation. Take this character and draw it in five different exaggerated poses. In each of these poses the character has to express some kind ofContinue reading “LT w 26 – Applying Basic Animation Principles”

LT w25 – Visualise your ideas

I would like you to create a mood board and storyboard using a word and its meaning as the concept. For example, you could use the word “prop”. You could then use the “r” to prop up the “p” that keeps falling over. That’s just to give you an idea, be creative and use aContinue reading “LT w25 – Visualise your ideas”

LT w 24 – Playing with ideas

If the idea is at the heart of everything, then I would like you to think of a movie that you love. Then look at its current title sequence and come up with a new one. Sketch up the rough idea in the form of a storyboard. Your storyboard needs to be at 30 framesContinue reading “LT w 24 – Playing with ideas”

LT week 21 – Front Cover

Q1 – Practical assignment (Two and a half days) Have a look at all the tasks and lessons you have done over the last few weeks. Your task now is to make a cover (a front page) for your very own magazine. Go through the Graphic Design history timeline and choose a style and designerContinue reading “LT week 21 – Front Cover”

LT week 20 – Typography

Q1 – Written assignment (observation and analysis) (4 hrs) Define the term “typography” in your own words Write a few sentences explaining what typography is not Find a case study on typeface development on the Internet (similar to the ones in Addendum A). Explain which medium (small format printing, large format printing, mobile devices, etc.) the fontContinue reading “LT week 20 – Typography”

LT week 19 – Sketching Techniques

Practical assignment (observation and analysis) Define, in your own words, the printmaking terms Find examples on the Internet to represent each of those terms Printmaking is using one of many techniques to engrave a pattern, and where you may choose to print the same pattern again and again. There is a wide choice of printmakingContinue reading “LT week 19 – Sketching Techniques”

LT week 18 – Advice Postcards

Design two postcards. Each with one piece of advice that you would give a first year Graphic Design Student. You are welcome to make more if inspiration strikes. All graphics and text must be your own.

LT week 12 – Fun with Slow Shutter Speeds

During this lesson task you will get familiar with working in a darker environment and how it affects buildings and people while using slow shutter speed. Wait until it’s almost dark outside. Take your camera and go and sit in a busy tourist area. Choose a building or statue to photograph. Place your camera onContinue reading “LT week 12 – Fun with Slow Shutter Speeds”