Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Assessment - Game
I know, that its set me back a little but if i work hard next week, ill get i done.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Assessment - Game
Hopefully I'll be finished the last lesson next week :D
Completed Challenges
Using the the codes in the tutorial post, i completed:
- Challenge 1
- Challenge 2
- Challenge 3
- Challenge 4
- Challenge 5
- Challenge 6
- And Challenge 7
I didnt complete challenge 8 as i felt that i was capable enought to start working on my assessment. The challenges representing the same colour means that i completed them on the same day.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Completed tutorials
Animate it: This tutorial teaches you how to animate your chosen character.
When Clicked
Forever:
Switch to costume sprite 1
wait 1 sec
switch to costume sprite 2
wait 1 sec
Change Colour: This tutorial teaches you how to change colours of sprite
When Space key pressed
change colour effect by 25
Dance-Twist: This tutoral taught me how to make sprite to dance and twist. To make this happen i had to join certain codes for this to be able to work, and make the girl/boy i had chosen dance. To make it dance-twist, the following code is used:
When W key pressed
Play sound dance sample
set whirl effect to 50
wait 0.25 secs
set whirl effect to 0
wait 0.25 secs.
Glide: Glide allows you to make your sprite glide across the screen
When clicked
glide 1 secs to x: 20 y: 80
glide 1 secs to x: -30 and y: -20
glide 2 secs to x: -110 y: -100
Interactive Whirl: allows sprite to whirl
When Clicked
forever
set whirl effect to mouse x
Keep-score: Keep score allows you to keep score in your game
When Clickedset score to 0
forever
turn to the right pick random -30 to 30 degress
move five steps
if touching small fish
change score by 1
play sound comp and wait
move -100 steps
Move-to-the-beat: allows sprite - preeferrably dancer - to move to the beat when clicked.
When clicked
forever move 30 steps
play drum 35 for 0.5 secs
move -30 steps
play drum 39 for 0.5 secs
Moving-Animation: When you animate your sprite, this allows you to also make your animation move.
When clicked
forever
switch to costume sprite1a
wait 0.3 secs
move 5 steps
switch to costume sprite1b
wait 0.3 secs
move 5 steps
if on edge, bounce
Suprise Button: Allows you to make your own button
When drum clicked
change colour effect by 25
play drum pick random 35 to 81 for 0.2 secs
change colour effect by -25
Say something: Makes sprite speck to another character/or person controlling it.
When sprite clicked
say: Hey/Hello
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Windows 7
There is only one version of windows 7, but a very simliar one is Windows Vista.
2. Describe some of the features of the new task bar.
Some of the new features used with Windows 7 are the following:
- Fewer clicks
- Faster Searching tools
- Easier Browsing
- Faster PC
- More Secure and reliable
- Starts faster
3. What are jump lists and how will they be useful?
The use of jump lists helps the person using windows 7 access documents, pictures, music files, websites etc. by allowing you to open these certain data types which you have previously had open, without re-opening them.
4. How can one quickly size two windows to fill the desktop side by side?
You are able to resize windows opened to fill the desktop side by side, by using Snap. It's a quick and easy way which you are able to drag the open files to the sides of the screen and they automatically change size to fit the screen.
5. Research and describe the 9 multi touch gestures that Windows 7 uses (note: this site does not describe the gestures you will need to run a search).
The typ
6. What is XP mode. What users would find this feature most useful would it be useful?
XP allows you to to run the older Windows XP software through Windows 7
7. What feature related to removable drives has Windows 7 removed in a bid to increase security?
Bilocker is a removable drive which allows to open and view the content to the removal drives which have been protected.
8. What are the minimum hardware requirements for windows 7.
9. What observations does the article offer regarding performance for Windows 7?
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Tutorials
We are still working on some of the other tutorials at the moment !
Tutorials
We are still working on some of the other tutorials at the moment !
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Computers Never Do what You want them to do !
Algorithms: Are a set of rules which allow you do solve a problem
Pseudocode: The Description of computer programming
Machine Language: Language in which the computer/or machine is programmed with.
High Level Computer Language: Commands which the programmer of a computer gives the computer, so that the computer will do what the programmer wants it to.
Flowchart: a diagram is a flowing order.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Yesterday?!
We have made it easy to get to our presentation. We have added it to our blog and to get to it you just click on the screen and it'll go straight to our main page. From there you click on whatever you want to read first and there is an easy links to all the pages.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Eleventh September
If i've finished that, i'll then start to complete the last parts of the assignment which i need to complete !
At home on the weekend, i'll work on my assignment !
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Ninth September !
We'll be finished next week ! by the time it's due.
Monday, August 17, 2009
:)
We both talked to the other about what we have done and we both agree that we'll get our assignment done in good time :P
Friday, August 14, 2009
Fourteenth August
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Researching Online Multimedia Tools
Versatility – what media does it allow me to use (text, images, video)?
This program allows me to use text, images and video. You can use your own images or images from the interent for a creative effect. But with Video, you can only use videos that has been uploaded to Youtube or photobucket. You can't unload to video straight from a camera.
Ease of use – how friendly is the user interface for the designers (you)?How easy is it to add components to my presentation? How friendly is the user interface for the user, can visitors find what they need on your presentation?
Scrapblog is really easy to use. They have good, creative designs or you can create one yourself. It's easy to add components to the presentation, via the bar on the left side on the page. Yes, vistors can find what they need to find on my presentation.
Collaboration – how well does the online tool allow me to work with my partner? Can we both work on the presentation at the same time?
It allows me to work well with my partner. We can both work on it at the same time. But we would prefer to work on it at the same time, incase we change something the other person has done and cant get it back.
Second Multimedia Tool - Notaland :)
Versatility – what media does it allow me to use (text, images, video)?
Notaland allows us to use text, images, video and music files. Unlike Scrapbook, it allows us to add images, video and music files straight from a file or camera, instead of having to go through youtube or photobucket. Although, we can do that if we want to when using notaland.
Ease of use – how friendly is the user interface for the designers (you)?How easy is it to add components to my presentation? How friendly is the user interface for the user, can visitors find what they need on your presentation?
It's really easy to use. We have to design the page ourselves, there isnt any templates to use. It's really easy to add components. All around the page (to edit page) there are tools to help edit and help you with your presentation.
Collaboration – how well does the online tool allow me to work with my partner? Can we both work on the presentation at the same time?
Yes, we can both work on it at the same time. We prefer to work on this seperatively, because we can both work on different pages and wont acidentally delete each others work, like we would using scrapbook.
Monday, August 3, 2009
multimedia presentation Tools
its interesting,
Scrapbook is a good site as well, but I prefer to use nota :)
For Lani and my assignment, we are going to use NOTA :)
i checked with her already :)
but she is away this lesson ! :(
Researching Multimedia Presentation Tools
1. Computer Displays - LCD, CRT and plasma screens, pros and cons of each. Full high definition, high definition? (Blue)
2. Digital Televisions – Plasma, LCD, LED, OLED (Blue)
3. Hand held multimedia devices ( e.g. umpc, iPod, itouch, iriver, touch screen phones)
4. Piracy and Copyright (Purple)
5. Social Networking (Purple)
6. Secondary Storage: including (Yellow)
Hard Disk Drive
Blu-ray Disks
DVD (standards – single layer, dual layer,) & CD
USB memory storage
7. Sound Cards (Yellow)
8. Wifi (Green)
Lani is doing:
Numbers 3, 4, 7 and 8
Laura's Doing:
Numbers 1, 2, 5 and 6
to set out what we are doing with the topics above, we have to set it out a certain way (shown below):
What to Say
Some information to include in your project about each topic could include
1. What it is ? What do we use it for?
2. How is it a part of our multimedia world?
3. Are there different types? What are the advantages/disadvantages of each type?
4. A “simple” explanation of how it works.
5. A rough indication of the cost of the device (only where a device is being researched)
6. Future directions, what is waiting around the corner, what is the next “new” technology in this area?
We also have to answer certain questions which will be posted on another blog.
THE WORLD OF MULTIMEDIA
I commonly use multimedia at school and at home. At school I use to internet mainly, but we are allowed to listen to our iPod's in IST and occasionly some other classes. At home I use the internet, iPod and phone. I use all these multimedia devices all the time at home, they are a way to entertain ourselves when we are bored.
2. What multimedia device or service would find it hardest to be without?
The device I would hardest to lvie without would be a phone (in general). Without a phone, it can effect our safety. This is because one of the reasons why I have a phone is because if I ever get into trouble or I'm lost and I don't know what to do, I can call my parents and they'll come and get me. And the same goes with a home phone. If I feel unsafe or some creepy person keeps coming around and asking to come in, I can call my parents to come home and then call the police. Without phones, we wouldn't be able to get out of trouble and our safety will be in danger.
3. Do you think the video on future directions (second video) will come true. Do you see advantages/disadvantages to the use of technology?
Yes I think the the video shows future directions which will come true. I have no doubt that they are already inventing things that will be similar to what was shown in the video. And advantage would be that it would help us to get more organized and a disadvantage would be that it might be to confusing to use and a lot of older people wouldnt be able to use it.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
ASSESSMENT - Entry 6
This Video is about teenagers whom have a disease. The Disease causes certain teenagers to believe that they are actually celebrities. The worse teenagers with this disease are the ones who change from more the one celebrity into another or several other celebrities also.
Our video shows two teenage girls who have this disease. Sarah only thinks she is one celebrity - Paris Hilton and Jenny thinks she is several - Hannah Montana, Forest Ghump and Ashley oslen.
www.slideshare.net/my-slideshows
This website takes you to our storyboard. :)
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
ASSESSMENT DETAILS - Entry 5
Presenter – Lani
Hannah Montana – Laura
Paris Hilton - Andy
Scene 1: Introduction (Lani introduces show and what it’s about)
Scene 2: Interview with Hannah Montana (Lani starts interviewing Laura)
Scene 3: Interview with Paris Hilton (Lani interviews Andy)
Scene 4: Hannah interrupts Paris’ interview and then they start fighting so I tell them the truth.
Scene 5: Andy and Laura get angry and Andy storms off with the ‘invisible Tinkerbell’
Scene 6: conclusion and Snippet of next week’s show. (Claudia thinks she’s blind and Laura thinks she’s got no arm.)
ASSESSMENT DETAILS - Entry 4
We were told that it was fine, and sir would mark via movie maker.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
ASSESSMENT DETAILS entry 3
We were suppose to upload film on monday, but sir was absent so we couldn't get the film off to put the assignment together and film the last part of our assignment.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
ASSESSMENT DETAILS entry 2
So Lani, Carla and myself working on the storyboard.
ASSESSMENT DETAILS entry 1
So we've flimed everything except one scene which is what we are going to be filming next.
Since starting the film, we've had another person join our group, Carla.
Our, is a UK Television show about a weird disese that has been spreading. It's the disese of thinking your actually a celebrity.
Carla was suppose to have been Paris Hilton, but when we were filming, we couldnt find Carla, and we filmed with one of our friends, whom took her place. We offered to refilm it but Carla said it was fine.
I am going to be hannah montana. This is the part which we havent filmed yet, but will be the next and last thing we do before we start editing.
The assignment has been extended until friday.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
ASSESSMENT :)
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
ASSESSMENT DETAILS :)
We will be starting to film next week on Tuesday and Wednesday. We are hoping that how long it'll take to film but if it takes longer we will work on the filming on friday as well.
During lessons when we wont be editing, we will be continuing to work on the tasks and hopefully will complete all tasks, by the end of term.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Assignment :) day one !
We have decide on which people will be in our video but not yet decided what they'll be doing. All we know is that we will have a group of contestants who are really bad at there talent and have one winner :)
Next lesson will up date you with whats going on!
signed (:
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
27th of May (:
Sir allowed us to check out some of the previous videos made by classes last year and the year before that. They were very interesting. Seriously very interesting.
We havent exactly chosen what we will do for our video but when we figure it out, you'll be first to know !!
(:
To infinity and beyond...
signed Buzz lightyear (:
Monday, May 25, 2009
Task 1.5
Stereo - reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound
Channel - a path over which electrical signals can pass
Track - A track is a song/songs on an album
Frequency - Frequency is measured of occurrences of a repeating event per unit time
Hertz - the unit of frequency
Decibel - the intensity of sound
Wav, mp3, aiff - audio/video formats
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
LAni and Laura's podcasting
We are going to add music to our podcast next lesson (:
RINGTONE!!
We asked sir why this was happening and he explained to us what we hadnt done. We turned the file into a mp3 and uploaded it.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Audacity!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
INTRODUCTION - Digital Video
Analog Video is signaled by analog and digital video is the opposite. It is signaled by digital rather then angalog.
Some advantages of have digital video, instead of Analog video are:
1. You keep track of your video information at home on the computer.
2. There are usually several outputs so you can connect more then one digital video.
Digital video has frame rate. It's a measurement of frequency which an image produces unique consecutive images.
All digital application use frame rates but it really depends on the resolution of the image/images and the individual elements of the image (pixels.)
Resolution is the individual elements (pixels) on screen. It very important because it determines how much data needs to be transmitted and stored, so that we can view the video we want to view.
RGB is a video colour sceme, which stands for Red, Green and Blue. These are the components of colour was see on our computer screens.
There are three standards use around the world, which are NTSC, PAL and SECAM. The main didderence between the three of these standards are they are used in different parts of the world. NTSC is used in USA, Canda, Japan, Korea and Mexico. PAL is used in Australia, China, Most of Europe and South America. And Secam is used in France, Middle East and much of Africa.
The Camera you would need to use a Capture card would be a anaglog video camera. You need this so it the video captured will become a digital video.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Assignment - Entry 5
At home i put all my layers together and made sure everything was in the right order. I then saved my final animation as a gif file. I saved the xcf. file again to make sure if something happened i could change it into another gif file and i saved the gf file as well.
When the gif. file had been saved, i played it back to see if i needed to change the speed of each frame/layer, which i did.
The first couple of slides, i tried at 200ms, which was still a little bit fast but was okay and the rest i out at 300ms. I played it all back and thought that it was still a bit fast. So the frames/layers that were 200ms went to 300ms and the frames/layers that were 300ms went to 400ms. When i had done that, i played it back and it was at the right speed, so i saved it.
My finished animation size is 6999KB and it's 109 frames/layes long. I'm not sure how long it goes for but it's over 5 seconds long.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Assignment - Entry Four
Through the process of making my animation, i saved each frame/or layer as a xcf. file. It's short for eXperimental Computing Facility and is the image format used in gimp. I also aimed for getting to a 100 frames/layers or over and having my animation be 5 seconds long or longer.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Assignment - Entry Three!
Sir said in class, that we could do what ever we wanted to do. Use what ever program, out of Gimp or Inkscape. On the board he showed us a couple of ways which we could do our animations, using Inkscape. My first thought was that everyone was going to use Inkscape. My second thought was that maybe using inkscape was going to be the easier and quickest option. So, i went onto Inkscape and started to have a play around with the drawing tools and made a picture (which i didn't save.)
I didn't really like using Inkscape because I, personally, found that it was a bit hard to use. So my third thought was that i should give GImp ago and I did. I found gimp much easier to use and understand.
My next thought was what should i do? I looked at the Coolock flag to see if it would give me any ideas. The main idea that i got was to animate a leprechaun to help promote my house colour. Why a leprechaun? Well Coolock house is the colour green and the emblem on the flag is a shamrock, which is irish. I thought of other irish figures and came up with the leprechaun and decided that, that's what i wanted to animate.
This lesson i continued working on my assignment and got a little bit further in the process.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Assignment - Entry Two!
I've decided that i'm not going to do anything with the coolock flag or emblem. I thought it would be best just to stay with the leprechaun and animate him. Maybe even animate another green character and get the two characters to do a cheer, as a way of promoting my house colour.
I finished what I needed to have done and I saved my animation just as a gimp image. I'm not going to turn my animation into a GIF. until all my editing is done and i don't need to do anything else but change the amount of time a layer stays on the screen.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Assignment - Entry one!
This is as far as I got this lesson. Next lesson, or the next time I work on my animation, I want to do something with the Coolock emblem and shamrock. When i finished for the lesson, i saved my animation so far, just as a gimp image.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
ASSESSMENT - T1
I have thought about a couple of ideas.
1. Draw a Leprechaun
2. Animate the Coolock flag
3. Have a group of kids - stick figure - dance and cheer for Coolock
I have not yet decided out of these. I may do two of them together
Monday, March 2, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
8 of clubs.

Monday, February 16, 2009
Windows Paint Tools
To use paint, and actually paint a picture, there are different tools that create different effects you might want to use. Down below is a picture of the tools used in paint

Free-Form Select: This is used to draw a shape over your picture and when she move the shape away, it reveals a cut underneath.
Select: This is used to do the same thing at Free-Form Select. It draws you a rectangle, and when you move the rectangle, it shows a cut underneath.
The Eraser: Is used to delete/rub things out!
Fill with Colour: This is used to fill the backround of the artwork with any colour, you like.
Pick Colour: This helps you choose a colour you want to copy.
Magnifier: This is used to make the picture bigger, so you can do more detail on the artwork.
Pencil: The Pencil is used to draw things on your artwork, choosing from the colours on the program.
Brush: The Brush is used to draw things on your artwork, but creates a paint brush effect.
Airbrush: The Airbrush is used to draw things on your artwork, but it creates an airbrush effect.
Text: Text is used to add text to your artwork, by using a text box.
Lines: There are two types of line, a straight and a scribbly. They're used to draw lines on your artworks.
Shapes: There are four shapes, Rectangle, Polygon, Ellipse and Rounded Rectangle. They are used for drawing shapes onto your artwork.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Digital Art. Is it Real?
Compared to painting or drawing with a pen and paper, Digital art is different. The main difference is that you can use a computer to do it and with pen and paper you can't. The are different programs you can use to do a digital artwork, such as paint and websites. '
Some advantages of doing a digital art, is that you can undo any mistakes, by using the erasers or by pressing the undo buttons. You don't have to go to the tap to change the water to wash your paint brush, or get up and wash your paint brush everytime you change colour. You can also upload your artwork straight away, instead of waiting for the paint to dry, then scanning through to the computer and then uploading it to the internet.
You can also send it straight to friends or family.
An important, skill that people should possess when doing a digital art, is being able to read. Without being able to read, you won't be able to understand what is to be done, if your using a special program or just paint.
Another skill that people should possess when doing a digtial art, is being able to understand how to use different tools. Other then that, it should be easy enough or anyone to do.





