Year 11 Holiday Reading!

Hey year 11 students!

In preparation for your new assignment next term, you MUST read these two articles, they have some great principles for web design!

A Graphic Design Primer, Part 3

Teach Yourself Graphic Design

Flash to HTML5!

Hey Sam (and everyone else)

check this out!

Google has released online software to convert Flash to HTML5

Year 11 ITM "Present" Projects

Here they are!!!

Year 11 have done an excellent job, creating these Kinetic Typography videos within 6 weeks and uploading them to Youtube.

VW rebellion!

If you haven't seen the VW mini Darth Vader ad, you better go youtube it first...

In response to what was an awesome advertising campaign, Greenpeace have turned the tables back on VW, spoofing the companies miniature star wars campaign.

check it out below...

Post Crazy!

Sticky it out at interviews tonight, so im gonna go a little post crazy!!!

heres the first...

Amazing Wedding invitations, these are very cool, check them out!

More cool stop motion!

Year 12, info for you!

The Board of Studies have just posted some helpful FAQ's and answers!

Most of these are in relation to the major project and folio.

Go check them out here.

No Excuses!

With so many creative and innovative videos out there for inspiration (such as the one below), I dont think any year 12 student has an excuse not to create an amazing multimedia project!

Cool Vid!

Check this out!
Reminds me a lot of the videos Chad Vangaalen does.
Must of taken a lot of preparation.
Done in stop motion!

Blogging from iPad!

Test!

Very Cool!

Check out this video, very cool! Could be a great idea to do something like this for a year 12 Major Project.

Helpful AND Interesting!

Heres some great posts from the smashing network!

The Art of Negative space - great images using negative space well, like the one below!
Understanding Copyright and Licensing - There may be slight differences with this and the Australian IP laws, but very helpful nonetheless!

Vivid Festival

I dont know if you got a chance to head into the Vivid festival in Sydney over the last couple of weeks, but check out this video of some great light show work at customs house!

Innovative use of format!

Animated Gifs have always annoyed me, they seem so pointless and get overused a lot, even when used well they seem to be a very low quality...

Not anymore!

Check out what this guy has done with some photography and gifs!

Screen It!!!

Hey Guys

A few weeks ago as part of CAREERS FRIDAY, I told people about this competition! There is a bunch more information up now on the website here.

also

Check out the winners from last year, it gives you an idea of the standard thats out there.

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They have provided a great booklet that outlines a lot of suggestions, this would be a great resource to keep especially for YEAR 12 STUDENT doing any kind of animation or video (ahem, Kieran, Jordan and Jacob).

Check it out!

Time Lapse!

Check out this amazing time lapse video!