Reflection (Week 1 : 5 Jan 2011)

Today is the first day class and start at 4.30pm. Dr. Zaida explains about course and syllabus, lecturer’s and student’s responsibilities, assignments and projects.

I will explain a little bit about the assignments (Individual Project).

Assignment 1-Digital Image Album

Every student has to prepare Digital Image Album in their blog (in a CD‐ROM) consists of:

i. Realistic Images produced by using DSLR (minimum 8 images – 2 portrait images, 4 landscape images, and 2 macro images). Each image has to be explained with the exposure setting  (Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO) that has been used.

ii. At least six images with incorrect exposure and shooting techniques and the corrected
version of the images with the correct exposure and shooting techniques.

Assignment 2-Image Manipulation

For this assignment, every student has to prepare six digital images with different image manipulation techniques using graphic manipulation sofware, which is Adobe Photoshop.This assignment needs to be uploaded in your learning porfolio, which is your blog.  A copy of the files in .psd format needs to be submitted also to the instructor using a CD‐ROM. The original images also has to be display side‐by‐side with the manipulated images. Explain also the image manipulation techniques that have been used to manipulate every image.

Assignment 3-Graphics Design (Poster/Books Cover)

For this assignment, student needs to create an A3 digital poster or book cover to explain one concept in teaching and learning. You can choose any topic and target users for this assignment. As guidelines, followings are potentials concept that you can choose:

i. Human respiratory Process and System
ii. Anaerobic Digestion
iii. Computer System
iv. Photography Shooting Techniques
v. Video Shooting Techniques
vi. Etc.

Your poster/book cover should have more visuals and less text. Provide also explanation on how to produce the poster/book cover (the effects that have been used, filters etc.This assignment needs to be submitted in a softcopy format (.psd and .tiff or jpeg file format) using CD‐ROM.