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SPEED TABLE
Date
Reference
Time
WPM
Comment
15/08
Presto pg36
1 minute
18
Hard to copy
15/08
Presto pg36
1 minute
27
Better than last time
15/08
Presto pg36
2 minutes
23
Slow again
15/08
Presto pg36
2 minutes
26
Getting better
15/08
Presto pg36
5 minutes
27
This one was harder because it was long
7/9
Presto pg32
1 minute
30
It was good, made a few mistakes
7/9
Presto pg32
1 minute
30
Harder this time, longer words.
7/9
Presto pg32
2 minutes
31
It was good
7/9
Presto pg32
2 minutes
22
Terrible! haha
7/9
Presto pg32
2 minutes
31
Well it was a lot better than the last one!
7/9
Presto pg33
5 minutes
30
Stupid computer popped something up but I did ok.
3/10
Presto pg90
1 minute
38
Personal best! Whoo hoo
3/10
Presto pg90
1 minute
39
Getting faster
3/10
Presto pg90
2 minutes
34
Not so great
3/10
Presto pg90
2 minutes
34
Don’t like 2 minutes
3/10
Presto pg90
5 minutes
28
Not to good at 5 min either
28/11
Presto pg90
1 minute
32
Just warming up
28/11
Presto pg90
1 minute
32
28/11
Presto pg90
1 minute
38
Not bad :)
28/11
Presto pg90
2 minute
33
28/11
Presto pg90
2 minute
37
28/11
Presto pg90
5 minute
36
I definately improved over this half year. I learnt how to use proper fingering. In the speed test the general trend was that i got faster but i still made mistakes. My highest WPM were the one minute times. the first few i did on the days were usually the slowest probably because i was "warming up".

Onion skinning- When all the frames in an animation can be presented at once, therefore you are able to see how an object in the frame has moved. You can also select the amount of frames so only a fraction of the transition is displayed.
Easing-
I COULDN'T GET MY ANIMATION ON MY PAGE IT WOULDN'T UPLOAD. I TRIED ON THURSDAY AND THE COMPUTER DIED

Moving images
Brief: Tauranga City Council Library are a running a month long programme that will encourage primary school students to read traditional stories from Aoteroa. You are to create an animation that could appear on the library website. Your animation needs to depict a scene from a traditional story and encourage your target audience to read it.
Vocab
Stage- The blank white sheet that you draw on when starting your animation
Timeline-Displays the length of time and number of frames you have created
Bitmap- A type of image format or memory organisation
Vector- This can refer to the software used to create geometrical shapes.
Frame rate – Is the rate at which a image device produces unique consecutive images called frames
Marque-
Layer lock- Lock a layer so it can not be drawn on/edited
Eye dropper- A tool that allows you to select a colour you have used before to fill another object
RGB- Is when red, green and blue light is mixed together in various ways to create an broad array of different colours.
Hexidecimal- A positional numeral system. Representation of values in computing and digital electronics
Transparency- Something clear/ see through
Alpha- The first letter of the greek alphabet
Gradient- This is the ‘directional’ change in the intensity of a colour. The term ‘Gradient’ refers to the gradual blending/change of a colour. This can be referred to as ‘Colour Progression’.
Linear radial- A real valued function who's value only depends on the distance from the origin.
Symbol-
Keyframe- This is a frame on the timeline that represents an important place. This is showing exactly where an object has to be in the animation at an exact point in time.
Shape tween-
Motion tween-
Onion skinning- When all the frames in an animation can be presented at once, therefore you are able to see how an object in the frame has moved. You can also select the amount of frames so only a fraction of the transition is displayed.
Easing-

There is a difference between these two image formats, a Bitmap is what you save an image as if you want to keep the layers so you can edit them seperately later, where as a jpg will merge all the layers of a picture into one.
Multi layer graphics takes a lot of space when they are saved as a bitmap. This is why before I put mine on wikispace I changed it to a jpg. A jpg 'flatterns' the document down by blending the layers into one which uses much less space and means we can put it on wiki. When you save the document it is a good idea to save a bitmap as well as a jpg because that means you will still be able to edit your work using all your layers.
{flowerfiltered.jpg}

9. I then saved it as a JPEG
{finaloutfits.jpg}
JPEG vs. BITMAP
There is a difference between these two image formats, a Bitmap is what you save an image as if you want to keep the layers so you can edit them seperately later, where as a jpg will merge all the layers of a picture into one.
Multi layer graphics takes a lot of space when they are saved as a bitmap. This is why before I put mine on wikispace I changed it to a jpg. A jpg 'flatterns' the document down by blending the layers into one which uses much less space and means we can put it on wiki. When you save the document it is a good idea to save a bitmap as well as a jpg because that means you will still be able to edit your work using all your layers.

A local fashion house has asked me to design a new collection. The collection should contain a number of different pieces that can be combined to produce many different outfits. A final 200 x 800px graphic needs to be presented to display four outfits that best represent my collection.
How I Made Them:
use Fireworks.
2. I inserted the doll template into my document.
3. I made a "folder" called shoes.
9. I then saved it as a JPEG
{finaloutfits.jpg}


Brief:
A local fashion house has asked me to design a new collection. The collection should contain a number of different pieces that can be combined to produce many different outfits. A final 200 x 800px graphic needs to be presented to display four outfits that best represent my collection.
How I Made Them:
1. I learnt how to use Fireworks.
2. I inserted the doll template into my document.
3. I made a "folder" called shoes.
4. I created 3 pairs of shoes on three different layers within the shoes folder.
5. I locked,named and made these layers invisible as I created them.
6. I repeated These steps with the bottoms,tops and accessories.
7. I then created 4 different outfits mixing and matching the items of clothing I had made and then saved them as 4 seperate documents.
8. I made another document called final outfits and imported the four separate oufits I had saved.
9. I then saved it as a JPEG
{finaloutfits.jpg}