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Media 201 Digital Image Editing with Photoshop – assignment: REVIEW of the class
I brag about the classes of Marina Shipova at Peninsula College, this one is about MEDIA 201 in real life all of the time. especially to seniors as I am…
Special EFFECTS Gone Wild
WARNING FOR PTSD SURVIVORS: POST CONTAINS VIOLENCE and WEAPON REFERENCES Special effects are where the magic happens as things magically fly that shouldn't. explosions and natural disasters are suddenly happening…
Transformation: Changes happen in life and stories –
Transitions in film are shots that lead us through clues in a storyline and invite questions leading to the next one like: how? Why? What next? Filmmaking itself encourages extensive…
Storyboards And a Few Bonuses From Me
I went to the 3D showing of Migration at the beginning of the quarter with my kiddo and decided to do a clip of the movie for storyboard class practice. …
Audio and Sound effect Importance
Audio is extremely important in video production because of all of the emotional strings that can be pulled depending on the chromatic scale and happy, sad or dramatic tone of…
Image Systems in Movies: What is it?
There are several movies with an "image system" that come to mind and some I ran across during research. An image system is a repeated visual technique or image that…
Color – Making Movies Stand Out
Color is a fun yet important setting consideration when deciding how to film a movie. Color can emphasize all kinds of moods from blue for sadness to red for rage. …
Drop, Deflate, Roll, Ignite, Tumble – “The Way Things Go”
"The invention - Calco de Peter Fischli & David WeissLinks to an external site." by lugar a dudasLinks to an external site. is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0Links to an external site.. According…
Photoshop – Movie magic Maker or Killer?
What Star Wars had that was part of it's magic when I was small was the time it took to create all of the figures and make them mystically fly…
Photoshop Etiquette
Where is the rest of this deer? "Bad photoshop?" by Kristofor & Rebekah is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Putting PS in the hands of the creators gives people more power to "mislead"…
Protecting Our Art and Ideas
"Copyright Symbols" by MikeBlogs is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Copyright allows the owners of IP to control, set and monitor whether it can be shared or charged for and Reproduction Rights Reproduction…
What do you think of when you see the APPLE logo?
"File:Colour Apple Newton Logo.JPG" by Binarysequence is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. It invokes immediate emotion at my cell phone sales job… either they hate it or love it when mentioned but take…
MMmmmm! The Yummy Pizza Lesson!
Photoshop can be a SCARY nightmare for beginners. Sometimes the tools get stuck on your cursor, sometimes you lose internet or your PC dies and it just comes back as…
Desserts and Friends: 2 Riches to Enjoy
This entire Hitchhiker portion and first few essays of this website originated from a college class taught by Professor Rene Brock, who was an editor / author / artist for the…
Babel Fish? We Thank You For All of the Fish Today!
Created by myself using Adobe Illistrator Why the fishy title? The Babel Fish is Not at babelfish.com. DO NOT go there. I just did and it is a terrible ill-functioning…
What’s GPP? What Does Color Have To Do With Anything?
According to Wikipedia...GPP stands for Genuine People Personalities, which is an invention of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. GPP gives emotion and AI to various pieces of "dumb" low-capacity technology that…
STEAM
Universal Mission: To Easily Navigate Earth Through Design and Education | Tour Guide: Starship NOVA NOVA (A collaborative team project from Peninsula College) UD=Universal Design - the idea that everything in…
Hitchhikers Guide (H2G2) And It’s Impact Today
https://youtu.be/eLdiWe_HJv4 The "Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy" can be found in various forms to intake from the book to stage, TV and movie screens. This is an incredible work of…
NEED A BREAK? TREAT YOURSELF TO DOUGLAS ADAMS TODAY
https://youtu.be/XKnOohVHkuQ?si=ZYWtjW1sOIc_I9cJ Both the documentary "Hyperland" and the "Hitchhiker's Guide" by Douglas Adams are two amazing examples of digital media that I definitely recommend researching hand in hand. "Hyperland" from the 1990's…