2011 -

MM 126 Homework

1. Be sure you have Open Office, Neo Office, or Micro$oft Office on your home computer
2. Try out all the things we learned, in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
3. Go exploring, try out features  - watch YouTube tutorials.
4. Enter things you learn in your MM 126 - What I learned Google Document.

TIP OF THE DAY
http://www.lipsum.com

Do PROS use it?

What is it?

Why USE it?


Tasks today...

1. Mark your MM 118 slideshow... yes he knows this is MM 126 -but we do have 3 hours in MM 126
   
   
2. Do ipsum lorem for quick Word Demo, page numbering - indent on paragapah style
   
   
3. Sample of good reports scribd.com  and filetype:doc  on google, for report
   (BORROW some good ideas from the best!)
   
   
4. work on your PowerPoint
   
   
5. Excel DEMO
   
   
6. Review due date and assignment requirements. (MS Office - Word Excel and Powerpoint)
   

Student R&D

About Fonts and Multimedia

. Mr. M. used to SELL fonts for $19.95  - hand made with Fontographer  (1998 or so) - KeysPlease

. What did Steve Jobs say about fonts?

. What did the PowerPoint comedian say about Fonts?
  "If you use Times New Roman, then you are d____ and b____.

Thanks John:
On 2011-10-12, at 12:41 AM, John Willcott wrote:
http://www.typetester.org
a site worth sharing if your lookin for or to compare fonts


TIP:
You have to PUSH that little button to get the CSS

When would a student use this:

1- In MM 118 - to dress up the little bit of text in the XML slideshow,
     or in the HTML window INSIDE of Google Sketchup - Orion will show you more and
     more CSS in weeks ahead.  CSS is terrible important now days - Especially for the OPEN SOURCE
     JS library jQuery  (which you have all tried in the Lab exercise that simulated the Mid term test)

2- In MM 325 - If you had a nice WordPress Template, and wanted a little dressier font..
      It should be easy to modify... but beware... fully testing any modifications to
       proven and tested WordPress templates could be 1- 100 hours of work, depending on extend
         of your CSS modifications  (Especially positioning issues, and work arounds for IE 6-9)

Can we talk about Composition And Framing?

2011 Mr. M. bought Oil Painting at the finest art store in Ontario 
W_____

Cell phone photo...


In Mr. M. home office...
he only has TWO gray scale paintings.
1- this one
2- photo of his father, in World War II - standing in uniform, outside tent.








Whether it is a Flash Slide Show, web page, Gadget, Widget, photo, movie, sketch...jQuery slideshow... WordPress, PHP anything...
Always pay attention to Composition and Framing.



Do you like this one?
THere are a lot of nice things going on here...
   Yellow?
Depth of field
Foreground, middle ground and background...'




Question:
How do you like this photo in local paper?

From a few years of studying Composition and Framing here are Mr. M.'s comment

1. Rule of Thirds?
   
   
2. But... wait, there is more...
   What about the "story" of the photo... where does your mind, your eye take a journey to
   
   
3. Sometimes, not always, foreground, middle ground and background can really HELP a photo, or video, or film.
   
   
4. Don't expect be an expert on "framing and composition" by taking just one class in photography, or  a semester, or 3 year course... it takes a LONG time with much study.... Mr. M. thinks he is now... about 54% of where he wants to be with just Framing and composition for creating short films.
5. WHAT ABOUT COLOR?  that is a huge topic...

About, foreground, middle ground and background...

Here is an example from our college website
of where rule of thirds and background, middle ground, foreground could be improved.
(sound/ audio levels are quite good!)

    - Mr. M. filmed in the SAME location the head of our Union, Kaia - and his sound was terrible (planes, cars, buses, wind etc)
, and HIS composition was only so-so - that was 3 years ago)





A better example, Rule of thirds, background, where is your eye drawn to... what "story" is being told.


Caution:
Even a 30 second video clip can take you 100 hours... if you count all the time and efforts.
Don't expect a quick and dirty 30 second clip to be very good at all. The most Mr. M. has ever charged for 30 seconds
was $1,400US - pet supply commercial aired on  CNN affiliates in Western USA - and that was not enough money
but he enjoyed it and learned a lot.






No. 1
(note the SHADOWS, do help frame our talent- model)
and there is NO tree sticking out of her head <-- that would be an OBVIOUS sign that this is NOT a professional photographer.






No. 2

Story?
- where are they going, is that a lake?
- is that her father.
- will they sit on that bench
- is he sick
- what are they talking about.
- imagine a time, when the daughter was very little, on that same path,
   and she had to hold on to Daddy's hand, maybe just his finger...
   there was a time when she needed help... now the father does...
   Maybe they are thinking of those grand old days... and how life has changed...
 

Whatever you think  --- but this picture does provoke some interest in Mr. M.'s mind.




No. 3

Contents

1. 1 MM 126 Homework
   1. 1.1 Student R&D
   2. 1.2 Can we talk about Composition And Framing?
2. 2 A Story about a 3rd year student - Jason
3. 3 Tip of the Day
4. 4 Learning Microsoft Excel

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A Story about a 3rd year student - Jason

http://spunphotography.ca



http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150280438020422&ref=mf


Sheridan College

http://www.sheridaninstitute.ca/programs%20and%20courses/full-time%20programs/programs%20a-z%20index/applied%20photography.aspx


Email Permission:
From: "jstassssssiw (Jason ssss)" <jstasiw@confederationc.on.ca>
Date: October 13, 2010 9:34:13 AM EDT
To: "mccormssssac (Rob Mccormack)" <Rob.Mccormack@confederationc.on.ca>
Subject: RE: PERMISSION to show site and tell story

Please do! to anyone and everyone. : )


Jason Stasiw
SITE DOWN:  http://spunphotography.ca
http://facebook.com/spunphotography

________________________________________
From: mccormac (Rob Mccormack)
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 7:37 AM
To: ssss (Jason ss)
Subject: PERMISSION to show site and tell story

Hey:

Could I show your site, movie and tell story of
Sheridan's students to my 2nd year and 1st year.

It really is amazing.

If not, I will understand...

No pressure ;)

Cheers.
Mr. M.

Tip of the Day

Try out Templates in Google Docs  (DEMO)
Note:
All Office Suites have Templates to get you started,

Warning:
Many of MS Office templates are so full of advanced features, it makes it very hard to modify.

Also, using presentation "standard templates" make you look boring and tired.

Learning Microsoft Excel

Now a days... if you want to learn something, search on YouTube
"Excel tutorial"



There are thousands of features in MS Excel. Let's learn the basics today, enough to do a budget and other useful tasks for business.
Excel course would be 80 hours long to become "Intermediate Level", it  harder than Word or PowerPoint

1. There are FREE alternative, Open Office, Neo Office, Google Docs
2. Who has used it?  For what purpose?
3. Good for scenarios and what-if  - i.e. what if we had a good financial year, what if bad, what if we charged $ for our services/product.
   

DEMO and Excel TIPS for your "What I Learned in MM 126 Document"

1. Enter a million dollars - what happened, how to format it.
2. Enter a formual =now()  - what does that do?
   
3. Format painter tool - is alive and well in Excel
4. Grid is like on a map - do you live on D3 grid in Thunder Bay?
   
5. How big is an Excel Spreadsheet - have you climbed the Mountain?
   
6. Writing a formula - what key gets you started?
   
7. Copying a formula
8. using =sum() - greek letter "sigma"
   
9. There are more formula than anyone in their right mind could possibly use
   
10. Spreadsheets can be DANGEROUS - be careful what you rely on - $50,000 Art Gallery error....
    TIP OF THE YEAR - use little numbers (like 1.0) in your spreadsheet while you build at - avoid a terrible loss or error that could cost you a lot of money.  DEMO - do some big numbers, then little one.
    
11. Tabs at bottom - writing a formula between sheet - is it possible
    
12. Using Date arithmetic  date() - maybe too advanced for MM 126?
    
13. Can you have headers and footers on a spreadsheet  (Yes/No) how?
    
14. ADVANCED: but useful, the ABSOLUTE Reference  $a$4
    
15. UPLOAD your .xls file to Google  Docs (DEMO) - how does it look?
16. Update your "What I learned in MM 126 Document" with all you have learned - take TIME to do this properly, and in your own words.