Digital Graphics Unit Lesson

The Assignment

YOU KNOW THE SECRET OF THE UNIVERSE

and you want people to read about it!

You have purchased advertising space on the Yahoo, MSN, and CNN web sites and need to create a banner ad for their use. If you build it, they will come and know ----- THE SECRET OF THE UNIVERSE!

Specifications:

1. Banner ad is a full horizontal ad, using one of the three sizes (468 by 60, 460 by 55, 192 by 72)
   Reference Site: http://www.webpencil.com/bannersizes.htm
2. Theme should be YOU and your SECRET OF THE UNIVERSE. Rule: the secret of the universe has no physically-altering properties, so keep it "wholesome"!
3. The SECRET OF THE UNIVERSE is free.
4. Must be animated and contain at least 4 graphic elements (text, pictures, shapes)
5. Sources for all materials used must be included in a separate Microsoft Word document.
6. Skills and tools to use:
   • Shapes
   • Text
   • Anti-aliasing
   • Design Elements
     rule of thirds, space, balance, emphasis, variety, contrast, repetition, alignment, proportion
   • Blending
   • Morphing
   • Transitions
   • Movement
   • Selection
   • Editing
     Cutting, Pasting, Cropping
   • Color Choices
   • File Format Choices - Vector vs Raster

You have 2 minutes to complete this exercise ---- GO! Just kidding.

Notes:

The above Unit Lesson idea was chosen and written in Week #2-Discussion #1 of TATC 101-1 Digital Graphics.

The Digital Graphics Sample (DG Sample link) was created to highlight several techniques for changing digital images. The tree used will be about 3 seconds of my animation, highlighting one of the darker SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE that other people have explored. This section was created during Week #2-Discussion #2 of TATC 101-1 Digital Graphics.

The Vocabulary and Answer Key were created for Week #2-Discussion #3 of TATC 101-1 Digital Graphics. It is a PDF document, page 1 being a self-test and page 2 containing the answers.

© 2002 ESC11 and Steve Smiley