I don’t plan on walking you through any basics of how to set up a social media account. My intent is to let you know what platforms are available, what platforms might appeal to what audiences, and ways to coordinate your posting to multiple platforms and accounts from a single source.
I’m not going to focus on too many topics related to image editing, as that is a discipline unto itself. I do want to talk about file formats, compression, and cropping.
JPEG and GIF
The two file types for web images are JPEG and GIF. Photographs (pictures of natural images, people, etc.) should use the JPEG format, as it handles continuous changes in color tone better than GIF. Computer drawings and animated characters (which includes many types of logos) will usually be better as a GIF. In general, if you have a lot of solid colors with distinct color changes, use GIF. Otherwise (and most of the time) you will use JPEG.
Draft Due Friday, May 18, 2012.
Final Version Due Monday, May 21, 2012.
Using WordPress.com, create a website suitable for your use as a studio teacher that includes at least three static pages and three external links visible on every page. (100 points, total)
I like to use my teachingmusic posts to help distill information from class. Even with a small number of people, we tend to branch off with different things catching our attention.
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The Final Exam is comprehensive. You should review posts from the semester.
Late posting.
Concrete Music (Musique Concrete)
Concrete Music uses prerecorded sounds (often natural sounds) as the source of all of its sounds for a composition. The French were the first to develop this technique, and it draws upon their focus on color (think Debussy, Ravel, etc.), but their development is only a historical origin point. Concrete music draws its name from the technique of actually manipulating the sound source to create a composition, rather than working with abstractions (notated music) on paper.
Just a last minute post, since crashing seems to be taking over your life.
To monitor your total cpu usage, you need to open the Activity Monitor (Mac only). Go to Applications | Utilities | Activity Monitor. You have various ways of looking at your usage. The key is looking at the overall percentage of cpu usage. When you get upwards of 80% (user + system) your system’s graphic interfaces will start to behave erratically. If you are using Jitter, this unpredictability could have implications, like Max crashing.
today we explored 3-D visualizations in jitter. download the patch HERE.
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