Week 12

Last week we have spent time to work on Adobe Flash. We seperated our roles into three parts:

1. Brendon is the one who responsible for the flash page as he is good in action script. 
2. Eddy was the camera man and he is responsible to resize all the images so that Brendon can used them in flash. 
3. Myself responsible to make an index page for our layout Map page. 

Although we work in different tasks but we have discussed everything together so that everyone in the group is agree with the descion. Brendon has finished the action script last Monday but we could not exported the files because of some errors. Eddy has resized all the images to make the files smaller and we tried to export it again. I have done a layout map and brendon suggested me to put the images of the theater/galler instead of just putting text. Besides, Eddy suggested me to enlarge the images when the user click on it. Below is the webpage for our Layout Map. 

The top part of the page.

The bottom part of the page. Users are able to enlarge the images by just click on it.

Week 11

We have assigned into few groups and started to have some ideas for the BaRock exhibition site. I am in a group with Eddy and Brendon, we chose to create layout map/hall view page. 

Brendon has found something interesting on doing the map viewing page.
http://www.mapwing.com/explore/view_tour.php?t=llAvvDl0CDv00Av

We met on the 24th of September and took some photos of the walk way from the Uni info shop to the theatre and Nan Giese Galley. We will meet again on Monday afternnon and work out together on Adobe Flash.

Below is our webpage banner that Diego created.

Week 10

This week we learned how to link page within images. During the class, we have assigned in group of two to find out how to link within images. Me and Eddy have found something easy which is the add a URL in the properties.

Besides, I have learned how to create a table in Dreamweaver. Below is the link:
http://scah.cdu.edu.au/2012/NMD201/s210651/xiausze_s210651_prac10_table.html

I have uploaded every files I did to Cyber Duck. I found it really useful as I can access my own pages everywhere. I can have my own website. 

Week 9

This week we learned about Adobe DreamWeaver. Dreamweaver is a web software development that provide publishing tool which allow users to create and edit web pages. It also appropriate for beginners, the application uses graphic interface and coding features. 

I have learned how to link pages with using editable region in Dreamweaver. 

I have linked 5 pages as below:

http://scah.cdu.edu.au/2012/NMD201/s210651/xiausze_s210651_prac9/contact.html

Week 8

This week we have learned about HTML files and URLs. 

We have given a server named: scah.cdu.edu.au and we have learned about Cyber Duck. 

Cyber Duck is an open source File Transfer Protocol(FTP). Each of us has an account in Cyber Duck to upload HTML files so that we can preview in browser. I have created a webpage and uploaded to Cyber Duck. Below is the URLs of my webpage.
http://scah.cdu.edu.au/2012/NMD201/s210651/xiausze_s210651_prac8/index.html

Week 7

We still have class as usual during the mid-term week. This is a make-up lecture for week 11.

We started the second part of this unit which is learning Hyper Text Markup Language(HTML). Our next project is to create a CDU website for School of Creative Arts and Industries. We have learned about the basic html started from the page structure. 

Also, we have learned to link between two pages and add on external links to the page. I have completed the page below.

We have watched everyone's work before we finished the lesson. I was impressed with everyone's work and they are great! 

Week 6

It is finally the due date for our music composition project. I have finished the project yesterday night and I have been in lab until late in the midnight. I am quite happy with my work as I really like the rhythm of the music and I have made it! 

The first version that I came out with was too boring as I kept repeating the same rhythm until the end. I was repeating the chord with piano bass clef which we learned from the class. After I imported the movie into Sibelius and it was getting better for me to compose the music. I followed the rhythm and the melody of the clip. 

I did not change much in Reason, I just used the original instrument as I wanted to keep the piano and violin original sound itself. The challenge I met in this project was to follow the rhythm in the video clip. I have uploaded the video to Youtube and share with everyone. 

Week 5

I did some research about animation on Vimeo and You tube. I found a few clips from Vimeo and I feel like sharing with everyone here. I might choose one of them for my assignment. 

Week 4

It was picnic day on Monday(6th of August) and we did not have class. However, we had a make up lecture on 13th of August from 11am to 6pm. That is a long hour class ever! 

We learned about chords/Triads. Chords/Triads are composed of a root, third and fifth notes. The group of three notes are played at the same time. 

Our weekly exercise was to compose a tune over the chords with using other instrument. This is really interesting and I have learned something new in this lesson. At least I have a brief idea on how to compose music on my animation and I found it easy if I compose the music according to chord. I have compose about 8 bars music for task 4 and I feel happy about it. I can be a musician too! :) I forgot to print screen for my score and save as mp3 file so that I can upload them to my blog and share with everyone. I have not used blogger before and I need some time to figure out on how to upload mp3 file. The other interesting part is the Reason sofware, I have composed a 8 bars music and after it go onto Reson the midi file is just awesome.

The music piece that I have composed:

 after I exported from Reason:

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Week 3

We continue to discuss about the music theory. Jack had further elaborate about music Harmony. I learned something interesting which is Key signature. Key signature are made up of Sharp, Flat and Natural. They appear at the beginning of the music, but can also appear in other parts of the music. You can see key signature between the clef sign and the time signature. 



There are a lot of key signatures:





The picture below shows the sign of Sharp, Flat and Natural. 


A sharp sign means the note that is one half step higher than the natural note. A flat sign means the note that is one half step lower than the natural note. Most of the natural notes are a whole step apart. It cancels the sharp or flat and returns the note to its original pitch. 

For my own understanding, sharp and flat can be remembered in backwards and forwards order. And there are also rules apply when we played the key signature. When a sharp or flat appears in a key signature, all the notes on that line and all other notes with the same letter name are to be played sharp or flat. 

We also talked about music scales. There are many types of scales but we only focused on Major scale. Major scale is numbered from 1 to 8. For example, C major scale begins with a C note and ends with a C note. The same rule applies to every scales. 

Week 2

Today we talked about music composition. Composition is a creation or recording of music. It is a piece of music which composed by musical notes. We have also talked about the three elements of creating music and they are Rhythm, Melody and Harmony. 

Rhythm is the duration that each note is played. It has nothing to do with the highness or lowness of a note (pitch). The elements included beat, bars, time signatures and types of note length. 

Melody is the sequence of noted that forms a musical phrase, like a sentence. The horizontal progression of music. 

Harmony is the vertical progression of music. Notes play together to form chords. 

Week 1

Hi there, My name is Xiau Sze or you can call me Chelsea. This is my blog for NMD201 New Media Intermediate Studio. I am looking forward to the unit content as this is totally different from what I have learned from last semester in the same unit(that was part 1 I think). It was my first week class about Sibelius but I have missed it. Sibelius is a very new thing to me and I still need to catch up a lot! Sibelius is a software mainly for music score writer. It is easy and simple to use for editing and printing beautiful scores especially for beginners. Although it is easy to use but I also need time to explore. Hopefully I can do it well. Good luck everyone.