Today was another very busy day in communication technology class. I continued working on my graphics project today. I am currently done my wordmark for the assignment, although I still haven't put the wordmark on a business card or letterhead. The graphics project this time is a little more strenuous in my opinion, because there are many more technical steps involved in the project. I found that downloading fonts online were very annoying today. Every time I downloaded a file onto the font book, the font would not show up on Adobe Illustrator. I finally had to switch computers with one of my friends in order to get my wordmark done. Tomorrow is going to be a very busy day, as I still have to complete my business card and letterhead, along with my target market and product profile.

Communication technology class today was another day to work on our graphics assignment. Today, Mr. Tammik continued a tutorial on making wordmarks on Adobe Illustrator. I personally really enjoy graphic design, so I found the tutorial to be very interesting. I was especially interested in how one could modify "glyphs" on illustrator by converting the text into an object. I think that I will be able to make good use of this technique to enhance my wordmark. We were given a little bit of time after the lesson to start making thumbnails for our wordmarks. I experimented with some fonts and found them to be pretty effective.

Today in communication technology class, Group E and F continued working on our graphics projects. Mr. Tammik started us out with a lesson on some basic wordmark information. He led us through an Illustrator worksheet about Typeface in order to help us in our wordmark designs. The lesson was rather long, as there was a lot to cover. I learnt that a wordmark is a graphic representation of a business, or product through only text. In comparison, a device mark is a graphic representation using symbols and images. I found it very interesting when we learnt about the "cases" in type. I was surprised to find out for example that uppercase are only called that because they were originally kept in the higher case in printing presses.

Today in communication technology class was the first day to work on our second round of graphics projects. The majority of the classs today was spent on an introduction of the assignment by Mr. Tammik. Unlike the other assigments in audio, video, and graphics, this graphics project is done individually (with an individual mark). For this project, we are to create a wordmark for a product or service that we also have to fabricate. After we create the wordmark, we are to paste the wordmark onto a business card and letterhead. Hopefully, this project will go well.

Today was a rather lazy day in communication technology class. My group had already finished with our video project, while the other group had not. I think we mostly had this time advantage because we used the HD digital SLR camera (which shoots video) instead of the standard video camera that uses tapes. By doing so , we saved a lot of precious time with the "capturing" of video, and editing of files. Unlike the previous video project, we did not have to scramble to finish everything. Instead, we were able to get the small details perfect for the project. Hopefully, our second video project will receive a good grade.

Today in communication technology class was the second last day to work on our second round of video projects. My group is nearly done our Public Service Announcement, which is a relief. The only things we have left to do are to fiddle with some of the text in our project, and to adjust the colour settings to black and white for the some of the shots. I feel that we have done a good job on this video assignment, as we made efficient use of time, and were careful to not make any major errors.

Commmunication technology class today was yet another day to work on our video projects. My group is currently working on adding text, and positioning the shots in order to match with the music. The text is rather troublesome to work with at times, because we have to use another program called motion to create it. The files that this program creates are rather large, and are difficult to import at times. Our group had to spend a lot of time simply waiting tfor the files of text to save, or import.

Today in communication technology, Mr. Tammik showed us how to properluy edit an record a garage band file. We found out that we couldnt speak too loudly into the microphone, because there would be distortion in the resulting audio recording. We also learnt how to splice files, and some shortcuts on garage band. These are very convenient, and hopefully will help our group work efficiently later on.

Today was the last day of schoolk before the winter break. Most of the communication technolgy class today was spent dawdling around waiting for the final bell to ring. My group has submitted our audio projectto the class folder, so we spent much of the class watching videos, and talking pictures on the blue CG background. The course will soon come to a close after the winnter break.

Communication technolgy class today was rather productive. Group F is just about done our audio project. We were able to finish 95% of the editing today. The remaining 5% of the editing is mostly on small details of the project.The rest of the editing is going to be done tomorrow. Mr. Tammik extended the deadline for this project, as he did for many of the pther assignments. Tomorrow, we will be submiting all the components of the audio assigmment to be marked.

Today was the second last day to work on our audio projects in communication technology class.
My group is still looking for sound effects, and adjusting and re-recording our recordings. I am glad that the majortity of the work for this assignment is done, so that we won;t have to scramble to finish, as we did for some of the other projects. We decided to take out some of the sound effects in our script, because they took up too much time to search for online. However, we still have more than enough sound effects in our story to do well on the project.

Today was another very productive day in communication technology class. Group F continued working on the audio project for the second round of audio, video, and graphics. We spent the majority of the period today looking for the sound effects in our script, and editing our recordings. We had to spend a lot of time looking for the sound effects, because we have so many specific sounds in our script. The editing of our recordings is going well, as garage band is very convenient to use. We had to re-record parts of our script, as some of the recordings had mistakes.

Today was another very busy day in communication technology class. My group is still working on the audio project. We are done recording 90% of our script and have only the sound effects, and editing left to do. We decided to use a member from another group in our recording, because the story required a male character. We have started looking for some of the sounds effects and background music. Freeplaymusic.com was a very helpful website for finding royalty free music. The sound effects were a little mroe difficult to find, as we had some very specific sounds in our script.

Today was a rather productive day in communicatino technology class. Group F is still working on the audio project, and we are plowingh ahead rathere well. We are still recording our storybook, and we do nto seem to be having any diffculties with the garage band program (yet). I feel lucky to have group members that have good presentation skills. Many of the other audio groups had to find people from other groups to record the majority of their scripts.

Today was another day to work on our audio project in communication technology class. My group is done the script for the project, and we are now starting to record the actual storybook. The audio recording this time is going to be a lot longer than the previous recording for th first round of audio, video, and graphics. The sound effects for this project are very open. We have to make at least 5 of the sound effects by ourselves, which will be very interesting.

Today was the third day to work on our audio projects for the second round of audio, video and graphics projects in communication technology class. For this assignment group F decided to make an audio recording of a retelling of "Jackilocks and the Big Bad Wolf": a mmash-up of goldilocks, the three litte pigs, and various other fairytales. Our group started working on the script for the project today. We are currently half-done the script, and I will be finishing up the rest of it for tomorrow.

Today was the seond day for the second round of audio, video, and graphics projects. Our group started with the audio project, which is said to be the easiest assignment to do. For this assignment, our geoup is to pick a fairytale to dramatize as an audio recording. Our group decided that our audio recording would revolve around the story of "Jack and the Beanstalk", because we would be able to insert many elements from other fairytales.

Toady in communication technology class was a very productive day on our audio commercial. My friend and I finished all the recording for our Shubang commercial. I was surprised at how quickly we managed to do all the recording. After we had finished the recording, my friend and I started editing our rcordings, and trying out some effects.

Today in communication technology class, group F continued sketching out the script for our Shubang commercial. We also started looking for music, and sound effects on the internet and on garage band. I found that the sound effects on garage band were pretty good, and very convenient to insert in. HOwever, the sounds tat we couldnt find were much harder to insert and even download. We found it very annoying, because many of the files online didnt download.

Today was a hardworking day in communication technology class. Our audio group is hard at work on our script for the project. Mr. Tammik took up a part of the work period today showing us the proper formatting and recording for the commercial. Audio commercial scripts are organized in a specific manner. Music, or jingles (short melodies) are underlined with a solid line, while sound effects are underlined with a broken, dashed line. The people working for radio stations will sit on a recording studio and record script after script of commercial. The example commercial that was recorded was very well done. The music fit well with the script, and the sound effects added good emphasis and created an engaging atmosphere for the listener. Hopefully, our group will create an equally well-done radio commercial.