NMED 1000
Dreamweaver Project
NMED 1000
Dreamweaver Assignment
• Form visual and text-based conceptual
relationships to tell a digital story
• Continue to work with Adobe Photoshop
– Develop a series of six images
• Become familiar with Adobe Dreamweaver
– Create and upload a basic web page
• Use creative problem-solving both on and offscreen
15% of Final Mark - Due Nov. 5th
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Today:
– Consider your original photo. Look at it and write
a 50-100 word caption about ”the story we don’t
see”.
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It can be fact, or fiction
It can be about the person taking the picture, the day
the photo was taken, it can be a how-to take a photo
like this. The possibilities are endless. Don’t over think
it.
– Based on this caption, begin to plan, design or
create six images you will work with in
Photoshop
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For Example:
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He was on his way to visit his great aunt Ethel who
was born and raised in Sunburst, Alberta. Her house
was the last stop required before his grandmother’s
estate was settled. For some inexplicable reason he
decided to pull over his 1992 Carrera 911 and he
looked this cow right in the eye. This was the day that
Victor decided to quit his job as a contract lawyer and
become a cattle rancher.
OR Frank remembers well the Tuesday morning in
September when he watched the terrorist attacks on
New York City. The towers were brought down, 3,000
people killed, and yet it had to be business as usual for
Frank. One week later the weekly sale at his cattle
auction house in Olds, Alberta began. Just after
bidding opened, word began to spread that a single
cow in northern Alberta, already dead for nearly four
months, had been identified as suffering from bovine
spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), better known as
mad cow disease. It was not business as usual after
all.
OR It was a beautiful day in the late summer of 2005.
I’d been driving since Halifax and only had three more
days of driving until I reached my destination of
Vancouver. My car stereo was on the blink and I had
been humming Gwen Stefani’s “The Sweet Escape”
since the middle of Saskatchewan. Then it happened
my car just stopped. I had run out of gas and the only
creature that seemed to notice was this cow.
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• Take the next 15 minutes to write your
50-100 word caption and save it as a
Word document.
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Pick SIX (6) words from
your caption.
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He was on his way to visit his great aunt Ethel who
was born and raised in Sunburst, Alberta. Her house
was the last stop required before his grandmother’s
estate was settled. For some inexplicable reason he
decided to pull over his 1992 Carrera 911 and he
looked this cow right in the eye. This was the day that
Victor decided to quit his job as a contract lawyer and
become a cattle rancher.
OR Frank remembers well the Tuesday morning in
September when he watched the terrorist attacks on
New York City. The towers were brought down, 3,000
people killed, and yet it had to be business as usual for
Frank. One week later the weekly sale at his cattle
auction house in Olds, Alberta began. Just after
bidding opened, word began to spread that a single
cow in northern Alberta, already dead for nearly four
months, had been identified as suffering from bovine
spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), better known as
mad cow disease. It was not business as usual after
all.
OR It was a beautiful day in the late summer of 2005.
I’d been driving since Halifax and only had three more
days of driving until I reached my destination of
Vancouver. My car stereo was on the blink and I had
been humming Gwen Stefani’s “The Sweet Escape”
since the middle of Saskatchewan. Then it happened
my car just stopped. I had run out of gas and the only
creature that seemed to notice was this cow.
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Each word will be represented by one of your six
images:
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Ethel , Sunburst, Alberta, estate , Carrera 911 , contract lawyer , cattle rancher.
OR terrorist attacks, New York City, cattle auction , Olds, Alberta ,BSE, mad cow disease
OR 2005 , Halifax , Vancouver , Gwen Stefani’s , Saskatchewan , cow.
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Try to avoid literal representations of your selected
words
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I.e.: the word “cow” represented by an image of a realist
photo of a cow
Your images can be:
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Abstract
Realist
Expressionist
Pop Art
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• Dreamweaver Assignment
• Your images can be photos or illustrations
– If you don’t have access to a digital camera
but want to take new photos, go to:
• B510 Computer Lab desk and ask to sign one
out.
• Cameras can be signed out for 2 days. Late
charges are applicable
– Go to the library to research illustration
ideas
NMED 1000
• Dreamweaver Assignment
• Create six images in Photoshop. Each image must in
some way refer to or be inspired by your original
photo.
• All images must be created according to these specs:
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200 x 200 pixels
72 dpi
RGB colour
original images created by you
no logos or commercial characters
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During the October 24th lab research six
websites. One that relates to each image.
1. One CBC news story page
2. One CNN or another international news media story
page
3. One Wikipedia page
4. One Library Archives Canada page
5. One blog page
6. One Amazon.ca page
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• Monday, October 29:
– Dreamweaver demo, how create a
hyperlink and how to upload
• Wednesday, October 31:
– Your page should be uploaded to your
personal web space by the end of class.
NMED 1000
Dreamweaver Assignment
• Form visual and text-based conceptual
relationships to tell a digital story
• Continue to work with Adobe Photoshop
– Develop a series of six images
• Become familiar with Adobe Dreamweaver
– Create and upload a basic web page
• Use creative problem-solving both on and offscreen
15% of Final Mark - Due Nov. 5th