Been a very busy few weeks and not been as vigilant at maintaining this blog but back now so...

Overview of how things are going tesep wise.

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Have made concerted effort to expand constructivist activity and most appears to be working well but feel progress on assessment is not as efficient. Potentially at the moment with just 2 weeks to go my Digital Photography students will struggle to complete all assessments before the end of the block - hopefully by leaving the assessment document open most will acieve this unit. Students are very keen on this unit and the skills are very valuable for enhancing the other multimedia products they have to produce for other units within their course.

2D ANIMATION
Most of the Animation HN Students look as if they are on target to complete and 4 who have completed already have produced quite stunning work - Cartoon of getting up in the morning with sound effects and voiceover, training animation where a student inputs figures and sticks fings in test-tubes, etc, Animated storyboard for Art and Design Website which gives overview of the different areas eg ceramics, fine art, etc utilising appealing stick characters. Animation for Furniture Restoration Area, Quiz for school children, Animated Intro for Drama Dept.

BSC NETWORK COMPUTING
Part-time degree class who just started their Digital Media unit with me have had to be sold the unit for the first 2 weeks but appear to be really enjoying the course and make lots of enthusiastic noises about their productions. As usual you could do with double the amount of time on each of the packages but... most are very smart girls (3) and guys (9) and are very capable. One returner to the course who did not achieve 2 years ago still appears to be struggling but time will tell.

BSC MULTIMEDIA
The multimedia degree class began their Digital Video Unit and appear very enthusiastic about the lesson content and the proposed course work (Horror Movie with visual effects and all original video footage.)

Students have set up Google Group in order to record details of their movie and associated written material.

AUDIO VISUAL - HNC
This group have gelled very well and learn an amazing amount in every class and also practice many of the skills over the coming week. Last Monday they learned how to record blue screen video and then place on the timeline and mask. One of the students did an amazing dance in front of the screen and students learned how to multiply, change size and chroma key, etc.

Group of students also utilised digital camera and took images to construct into panorma of the library and care.

GRADED UNIT - HNC
All students presented themselves to the assessment centre. Confidence was not high on completion of the assessment.