Glide

The tutorial Glide was where the sprite was made to glide around the screen. The scripts were informative and there were different combinations that could be used for the sprite to glide around the screen.

Definitions

Algorithms-an effective method for solving a problem expressed as a sequence of steps.

Pseudocode-A notation resembling a simplified programming language, used in program design   

Machine Language- a programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers

High Level Computer Language- A computer language whose instructions or statements each correspond to several machine language instructions, designed to make coding easier

Flowchart- a diagram of the sequence of operations in a computer program or an accounting system

Sequence- A particular order in which related events, movements, or things follow each other

Selection- Data highlighted on a computer screen that is a target for various manipulations

Repetition-The action of repeating something that has already been said or written

Research

I have used several internet sources in order to create my multimedia ebook. Some of the sources that i have used is :

• How stuff works?
• Advance Broadband Wireless Internet
• WI-FI helps
• Different types of ports

Difficulties and Solutions

A problem that occured today was that the internet was very slow and because I hadn't finished the researching of the topic I was currently working on, I was unable to complete my research on the topic 'handheld devices'. I overcame this difficulty by working on the structure of my powerpoint slideshow. I duplicated the amount of slides I would need, then I put the correct headings, a contents button that is a hyperlink to the contents slide and arrows to  indicate where to go.

Change topics

I have changed the last topic that I have chosen to do. Instead of bdoing bluetooth, I have decided to change the topic to WI-FI.

So far in the powerpoint I have completed the content of 1 topic.

Why I chose powerpoint?

The reason why i chose powerpoint is because it is easy to use and through the use of hyperlinks it is easy to navigate and it is able to reconnect to the home-page through the hyperlinks. The software contains a variety of tools that would be useful in the creation of my multimedia ebook.

Multimedia eBook- topics

For the project, i have decided that i will be using powerpoint to construct the project. The topics that i have chosen to do are:

1. Hand held devices ( e.g. smartphone, iPod, iPad, PSP)
2. Piracy and Copyright
3. Types of ports, eg. USB, Fire-wire
4. Bluetooth

Evidence of research into multimedia presentation Tools- Notaland

This is the image that was created by the use of notaland online tool. The media allows users to add text, images and videos to one or slides and create a book of these images. The site is easy to navigate, however the account settings are hard to change.

The CPU

1.       What is the function of the CPU?

The function of CPU is to complete computation engine that is fabricated on a single chip.

2.       What was the name of the first CPU?

The first CPU was the Intel 4004.

3.       Referring to the graph on page 2 of the article, describe how the speed of CPU’s has changed.

The speed of CPU has changed because since it has first began the speed is much quicker in a shorter space of time.

4.       What does MIPS (millions of instructions per second) measure?

MIPS measure the rough performance of a CPU.

5. Research (Google it) what is a dual core processor, what is multitasking and how do the two work together.

A dual core processor is a microprocessor with two separate cores on the same die, each with its own cache. Multi taski ng is  when the processor must go back and forth between two or more sets of data streams and programs.

The World of Multimedia

1.      Where do you commonly use multimedia in your daily life, list as many examples as you can. You commonly use multmedia in your daily life while you are at school, at home, during sport games, shopping centres and while you're on the move.  Examples of multimedia devices include phones, ipods, laptops, computers, televisions, radios.

2.      What multimedia device or service would you find it hardest to be without? Discuss.
The multimedia device taht i would find the hardest to be without is the computer. It is a highly useful device and connects people to the rest of the world through the use of internet.

3.   The video on future directions (third video) has already to some extent come true. What multimedia technologies displayed in this video are already commonly used?
Multimedia technologies that are already used are the connection between televisions and other devices, touch screen televisions, screens in cars, GPS devices, touch phones.  

4.   Do you see any advantages/disadvantages to the use of such multimedia technology? Some of the advantages of using multimedia is that it is quicker and more efficient, then other forms of technology. Also, there are interesting ways of putting them to use through the use of a simple device.

Story board

Filming

Last week and this week, Gurlean and I started to film our new trailer. We gathered the characters together at different lunch times and did parts of the trailer.

Gantt Chart

• A Gantt chart that schedules the tasks to be completed throughout the project.

Synopsis

• A clear synopsis that outlines the purpose and goal of your video. For example are you creating an instructional video on cyber safety aimed at young people . This should only be three or four lines.

The purpose of the video is to recreate the Harry potter and the deathly hallows literal trailler. We plan to make the already good video into more of a comedy/ more entertaining with different actions and dialogue. The video is aimed at Harry Potter fans in the school and other people to see the comedic side of the world wide phenomenon.

Video

A couple of days ago guerlean and i decided that we would reanact the Harry Potter literal trailer. We have assembeld a couple of characters from our grade. And am currently getting the scenes and sets decided.

Broadband and Bandwidth

1.    What is broadband?

The telecommunication in which a wide band of frequencies is available to transmit information.

2. What units are used to measure bandwidth?
bits/bytes

3. How much faster is broadband than dial up?

Broadband is much faster. You can easily access the huge amount of broadband using contents that is on the web now.

4. What are the speeds that broadband operates at compared to dial up?
Broadband operates from 10 to 20 times faster than a dial-up connection, enabling the speedy transfer of large amounts of data.

5.  What are some of the advantages of using a broadband connection to download something like a video compared to dial up? 

 

It saves time, for instance, downloading a song takes a few seconds versus perhaps ten minutes with dial-up; e-mailing digital photos is almost instantaneous.

6. Create an image in paint that illustrates how a high bandwidth connection can move more data compared to a dial up connection at a given time.




Cars on two different highways

 

Internet Speed

1. What is the speed of the connection from your computer to the Sydney location on the map?

0.29 Mbps

2.  What is the speed of the connection from your computer to the U.S location on the map?

0.62Mbps

3. Why did the data transfer rates vary? [Hint: think of what happens when an eight lane highway moves into a two lane highway?]

The data starts to slow down.

Audio Bit Depth Sample Size and Sampling Rate

1.       Sound moves through what medium?
Sound moves through the physical medium to travel anywhere.


2.       What unit is used to measure sample size?
bit/s

3.       What unit is used to measure sampling rate?
Hertz

4.       Compare the quality of AM, FM and Digital radio.

AM radio is broadcast on several frequency bands.  Frequency modulation (FM) is a form of modulation which conveys information over a carrier wave by varying its frequency (contrast this with amplitude modulation, in which the amplitude of the carrier is varied while its frequency remains constant). Digital radios send the analog audio signal digitized into zeros and ones, compressed using formats such as mp2, and transmitted using a digital modulation scheme.

Movie Maker-How to organise your project

1. Create folder for project

2. place in folder- video files
                          -music
                          -still image

3. Open Movie maker- Import resources

4. Saving- project file- remember last location of resources- work in progress
                                - Movie File- all resources enabled in one file -''completetd work"
                                                                                                     -Different resolutions

You should sychronise at the end of each lesson (the s drive)

Audacity

Today we learnt how to use the program audacity. The tutorial shows that there are several different tools they are:

selection tool: highlight a part of music

envelope tool: used to change the volume of the track

envelope tool #2: volume change

zoom tool: zoom into the track

drawing tool: able to move individual handle

Timeshift tool: used when you have more than one track and you are able to move it whereever you want.

Animation Finished

I have now completed my Animation project and have taken the marking guidelines/ criteria into consideration for the written part and the animation and this is stated through my blog.

Uplaoding Animation

I uploaded my animation yesterday and during that time I encountered a difficulty while uploading it. Every time I tried to upload the video a message would come across the screen:

I asked a teacher how I was supposed to upload the video. He told me that my animation was still saved as a movie maker file and this was not the actual animation file. He then told me to save it as a movie. When I tried again after saving as a movie, I found that I could upload the animation.



Animation on Windows Live Movie Maker

I have now finished making the frames that will be in the animation. I have 129 png frames. The custom size of each frame is 500 by 475. I have imported all the frames into Windows live movie maker. I have readjusted all the times so now all frames are 0.1 seconds. The last 13 slides are 0.5 seconds so the message that flashes across the screen is legible. In total, the whole animation goes for approximately 18 seconds.

Coolock animation

Today I have completetd several more frames for th eanimation and am currently up to my 60th frame. The frame rate that I am aiming for is 0.2 seconds per frame. The frame shape is a square. I had several difficulties so far in my animation, such as finding the right tools to use to create a frame, but I have overcome them by asking others for help. I have taken another picture from the inkscape clipart library. It is a green bird which is going to be the centre of the animation.

Animation Making

Describe what software you used and why you choose it.

The software that I have used to create my animation is the Inkscape drwing application along side Windows Live Movie Maker. Inscape is a draing application that provides you with many tools in the process of making a movie. The starting frame of my animation is shown below. All the images that I have used have been taken from the site 'Open Clipart Library'. The link was found on student net.



Describe the creation process you followed.

The creation process that I followed was making all the frames using Inkscape and then adding them aas a collective file to Windows Live Movie Maker. 

What image format were you saving your work in during the development of the frames? 

During the development of the frames I saved it as an svg file.

The image format the that I saved my work as was a png file type. 

What image format did you save your frame as?

The Animation Begins

A couple of days ago I started my animation with the purpose of promoting my house, Coolock. I have decided that I am going to use a tree with different coloured leaves. A green bird will then come and touch the tree. All the other coloured leaves will fall off except for the green ones. Text will then appearon the screen stating " GOCOOLOCK"

Digital Media

• Forms of digital media that surround us is a blank CD, blank DVD, Blu-ray disc, USB Flash Drive and a digital media player.
• The number system that digital data is based on is the binary number system. The two digits that are used to code all digital data is 23.
• Bit: a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states.
• Byte: a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications.
• Sampling Rate: the frequency of sampling per unit time

Image of Sampling rate

• Colour depth affects the apperance of an image by altering the colour quality depending onthe amount of bytes or bits in that particular image. For example if you have one or two bits in an image you will only have a monochrome coloured image. Whereas is you have an image with more bytes you will get a better quailty image with 64 bytes being the largest so far.
• Sampling rate only affects video as it takes the sample per second, a video is a moving image and therefore the sampling rate would take the images per second. However colour depth only affects still and video digital media. Nothing is produced in still images and therefore a sampling rate is not affected



The Drawing tools in word and Inkscape

Through the drawing tools on word i have created this
picture with 3D effects.

The duplicated tin man produced on
inkscape.

Painting Tools

  All the tools and effects on paint allow you to create or add colours or special effects to a picture.


Tool Bar allows you to draw,fill in a space,
add text, erase and magnify



                                                   


The text tool allows you to insert
text into a picture

                           






Allows you to draw a free form line with
the selected line width allowable

 

The eraser allows you to erase part of a picture and replace it with the background colour





The fill tool allows you to fill in a shape

with a specific colour.











The colour picker allows you to pick a colour from
 the picture and use it for drawing

 

The magnifier tool allows you to change the
 magnification for a part of a picture



Draw vs Paint

Drawing  programs create images composed of objects(e.g. squares, circles, triangles). The objects can have properties such as colour. These objects can easily be edited (e.g. change position and rearange them). Drawing programs are created through vector files.

Paint programs create images pixel by pixel. They can't be easily edited, the only way do to this is to edit individual parts. The files they create aren called bitmat files.

Drawing prorams include:
- Word
-Inkscape
-Microsoft Paint
-Photoshop

Graphic Terms

Animated Gif(Graphic Interchange Format): A single graphic file that contains a series of images which are displayed sequentially to give the illusion of movement or change over time.

jpeg (Joint photographic Experts Group): A file format commonly used for image compression; An image file in that format
Pixel: the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen 
Flip: Turn upside down or throw as to reverse

bmp: is an image file format used to store bitmap digital images
Video card:A piece of hardware installed into a personal computer to allow it to send video signals to an external output device Crop: when you remove part of the image. This may involve cutting some of the image from the left, right, top, bottom, or any combination. Mirror: a way to provide an alternate way to access files when the main server is being used elsewhere.

Fps: The speed at which still images (frames) in a video or animation are played in succession by an imaging device
Frame: where the pages are broken up into various areas

Morph: cause to change shape in a computer animation
Cpu(Central processing unit):the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing

Dpi(Dots per inch):Resolution that varies across media

Resolution:measures how fine a printer can print.The higher the resolution, the more that can be displayed on the screen.

File Extension: is the suffix at the end of a filename that indicates what type of file it is
Compression: is particularly useful in communications because it enables devices to transmit or store the same amount of data in fewer bits

Frame Buffer: The portion of memory reserved for holding the complete bit-mapped image that is sent to the monitor.

Colour Depth:The number of distinct colors that can be represented by a piece of hardware or software.