Homework due on Tuesday March 21, 2006

Hope you are all enjoying your day off. I have been in meetings all day today discussing how to make your school life even more enjoyable! Your homework is to read pages 74 & 75 and answer the following the questions:

1. What are the 4 steps in the design stage? (4 pts)
2. What are 4 ways to fit text into available space? (4 pts)
3. Explain what leading is. (2 pts)
4. What should you avoid doing in order to have a nice, professional looking page? (7 points)

Good luck! BTW, I just wanted to let you know that I was very proud of you for the great job you did on your collage and mugshot pages for the yearbook. Excellent work!

Homework due on Friday, March 17, 2006

A few technical difficulties, so this homework will be due this coming Friday instead. Read pages 70-73 and answer the following questions:

1. What are the two ways most current files transfer information (5 pts)?
2. Which is the most flexible? Why (3 pts)?
3. What is the most important things to consider when you prepare material in one program to be used in another (1 pt)?
4. What does file formatting mean and why is it such an important procedure (3 pts)?
5. What is Rich Text Format? Why was it introduced (5pts)?
6. Why are pictures more difficult than words to put into a suitable file formatting for inserting and importing (2 pts)?
7. What are 2 ways to import pictures into a DTP program (2 marks)?
8. Describe the difference between bitmap & vectors when you resize them (2 pts)?
9. What is a very important part of the design process (3 pts)?

Good luck and sorry about the problem.

Homework due on Friday, March 10, 2006

I hope you enjoyed the Harry Potter video and learned a lot about the use of computers to make movies. For your homework please read about 3D animation on pages 58-59, and then answer the following questions:

Describe what computer animation is (2pts).

Describe how it works (5pts).

What can you use to speed the process up (3 pts)?

Describe what happens once you have created a scene (4 pts).

Describe the proces of in-betweening (4 pts).

Good luck!

Homework due on March 7, 2006

For Tuesday please answer the following questions for the reading found on pages 56-57:

1. What type of programs are most 3D programs? What data does a 3D program describe?
2. How does a CAD program work at its simplest level?
3. What are 2 advantages to using 3D programs?

Good luck!