Just Another Week in CommTech

Last week was very similar to the week before. The few differences during the week were that the class had to use Audacity and create an mp3 file using 5 different songs.  The whole thing had to be 25 seconds long.  I used guitar riffs in majority of my file.  In order they were: Kryptonight by 3 Doors Down, Your Love is A Lie  by Simple Plan, Accoriding to You by Orianthi, Summer of '69 by Bryan Adams.  The last song was I Remember You by Skid Row, and I used part of the chorus for that.  The next thing we did was take our screen printing test.  We had to do an application part of the test.  It was to make a poster that is appealing to Grade 8 students for CommTech. Mine is posted below.  That's all we did last week.  Bye.

Poster for the Test.

Another Week of Screen Printing

This week was basically the same as last week.  We continued with our screen printing (I made a t-shirt and a bag).  At the beginning of two classes we also took a note on the chalkboard.  We also had to make a presentation on www.prezi.com about screen printing.  The note was about the four key concepts when designing Graphics.  Those key concepts are:  Fonts, Colour, Resolution, and Layout.  Each of these ends up contributing to the overall product of your graphic, and how good it will look if you follow each of the key points.  This week as I mentioned I made my screen prints.  One on a t-shirt and one on a bag.  The design on my t-shirt is one that one of my friends in the class made.  The other design is my personal one that I posted a picture of last week.  My screen prints came out pretty good.  The presentation that I made on prezi is also complete.  It included the process to screen printing and its main purpose. 

Below I am posting my latest doodle as the drawing for the week.

My latest doodle.

Screen Printing

This week in CommTech we did screen printing.  Screen printing is when you create a design, either on the computer or draw it then scan it into the computer, then put the design on a t-shirt, sweater, bag and etc.  The task was to make one Korah themed (our high school) and one personal themed one.  I will post my designs below.  I will also be making my t-shirt next week (actually putting a design on the shirt).  The screen that I will used is first covered in emulsion, then after the emulsion is dry the design being used is then put on the screen.  The design is on posi-paper, so that it is able to be transferred.   When the screen is put into the screen printing stand, it is ready to go.  Then you get what you want screen printed and put it on the little stand where the ink will be put on your item.  Bring down the arm that has your stenciled design on it and secure it over the item.  Take one colour of ink and put a line of it at the bottom of the stencil.  Then you use a squeegee to push the ink across the stencil to the other side.  Leaving the item you placed under the stencil with the design on it.  I will tell you how my screen printing goes next Friday after I do it.  This week we also started to make a prezi, on www.prezi.com  this is just a presentation that you can make online.  Our prezi's had to be on screen printing.  I will tell you how that went next week as well because I'm not yet finished my prezi.  Bye, until next time.

This is my personal design
for screen printing.

This is my Korah themed design
for screen printing.

Yet Again With Some Graphic Design

This week was another continuation with the Graphic Design unit.  All that we pretty much did this week was finish our notebooks.  The picture of my notebook design is in the previous blog that I posted.  As the week went on we finished editing our notebooks.  The next day I photocopied it 100 times to make the pages in the notebooks, and then glued them together on one end to keep all the pages together.  The next day I took my notebooks and started to cut them apart, only in half length ways, since the other half of the notepads had to be glued together now, so they were glued.  The day after that I finished cutting my notepads apart and handed them in.  While I was waiting in between each of these steps I was doodling in the Coral Draw program.  I have those two doodles down below.  On the last day of the week, our assignment was to use Korah's name and use some of the tools in Coral Draw to make it look cool.  I have that posted below as well.  Once again, that's all for now.

Friday's Work

Doodle number 2

Doodle number 1

Graphic Design Week 2

This week we continued with our Graphic Design unit.  There wasn't very much that went on because we had a supply teacher for today as well as the past 2 days.  Well this week we had to make notepads, or start them at least.  I finished the design for my notepad, I will post it at the bottom.  Other than making our notepad designs, we were given a booklet that we had to read about Graphic Design and answer 10 questions about what happened in the booklet.  Then we had to read an article on 3-D TV and answer questions about that.  We had to do an essay question on 3-D TV as well. That's all that really happened this week.  Until next time.

My design template for the 4 notepads that I will make.