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Stages in developing your portfolio of creative work

 Stages in developing your own portfolio of work: 1. Show at least four pieces of work that you like and have already produced Say what they are, what tools and techniques were sed to make them 2. As a result of these examples of your work, say what you would like to develop for your own creative project 3. Show work from others, taken from other sources, to give ideas for your project. In all of these examples, include: A link to the source Say what it is  Say what you like about it
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Peer Feedback

 Responding to feedback from others, especially peer feedback, is an essential element of all courses. It may well be that you may find writing to feedback or responding to feedback uncomfortable, but these are skills that we need to develop. Feedback should always be positive, and should avoid text speak, slang or swearing. Feedback should always be made in full sentences. Feedback should never be abusive, cynical or sarcastic. Feedback should suggest ways that the work could be improved. Positive Comments: Great Magnificent Fabulous Beautiful Incredible Amazing Good Astounding Lovely Even better if comments: Edit and Make tidy Could make improvements by... Spelling and punctuation Put in what was needed Bit missing! What should be in so far: Graphics Videos How to embed a video Youtube Copyright Animated Gifs Students own animated gifs
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Copyright and Non Copyright in Blogs

  Copyright Issues and Constraints 1.What is meant by copyright? 2. What media might you not be allowed to use because of copyright? 3. What is intellectual copyright? 4. What is the DMCA? 5. Show links to at least three websites.  6. Show a screenshot of each.  7.Say who owns the copyright on each of these websites. 8. What is meant by non-copyright and creative commons? 9. Show links to at least two non copyright websites  10. Show a screenshot of each. 11. What is meant by fair use? 12. What is a copyright strike?
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Xmas Exercise

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Making my own Animated Gif

Click here for the link to a tutorial on how to make your own animated gif.
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Animated Gifs

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  Animated Gif: short sequence On a loop Not designed to be looked at for a long period of time Works well with flat colours Not so good with photos or videos or scenes that were made out of pixels Usually small size on page Basic animation or Minimal Animation
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Developing your own Portfolio of work

To Develop your own portfolio of work, you first need to show links to work you have already produced, or to upload examples here. You should include at least four examples of your creative work. Your digital portfolio can include work in: Digital Graphics Youtube channel Animated Gifs It must be: Your own work Work produced in studies at Middlesbrough College. (If you want to include work produced outside of college as well, that is fine - but you need to make it clear that it has been produced outside of college. However, most of the work which you show in your blog must be work that you have produced as part of your Middlesbrough College course). For each piece of work that you put up in your blog, include a comment or description to say what it is about and what was used to make it. These examples of work which you have included will form the basis of new projects and explorations in digital media. These new projects can be in different kinds of media. They could include: Digital...
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