Friday, October 30, 2009

INILEVAC

What I did in course three.
Do not amaze or being concentrate more on above word "IN-IL-EV-AC" this means "INNOVATE, ILLUMUNATE, EVALUATE and ACTIVATE, these are four steps of creativity.
Since we are the designers and according to what we did in this course.
It was good series of sessions for us rather than previous one, we studied hard,
so here we took up developing slowly, slowly and we did more changes compare to the last courses, we had an opportunity to know something new about multimedia and different things that support interactivity and how to interact with them and even the environment that associates flora and fauna themselves.
Also we learnt about time management and how sound effects the environment, multimedia tools, kinds of interactivity and its merits generally.

I am very much interested in developing website using Dreamweaver software, because in this course we advanced a bit in designing and developing a website,
I am also proudly myself on this, because each and every one has created unique neighborhood website and we have done five projects of cultural website by groups and my group consists of three members included Said (photographer), Elizabeth (animator) and I (designer).
Other important things to know the sections of the Web Pages, what do we need to make a website, graphical design tips, slicing or splitting design and typography.


Neighbourhood web template.


Cultural web template.


Posters of different companies.

Zanzibits Film Production.
In Zanzibar, film industry is less advanced compare to Tanzania Mainland East Africa and the rest of the world.
On 04th of June 2009, we begun to study about film, here we understood many things concerned about it, long and short film including editing process, how to film, responsibilities of the directors, producers, editors, cameramen, actors, animators and such-and-such,
but the aim of Zanzibits is to teach short film (animations or cartoons).
We made five animation films in groups, my group consists of three members included Ashraff (directors), Elizabeth (animator) and I (cameraman and story maker), the rest works we done together and our story called “mouse, cat and cassava).
Afterward, we got an opportunity to show our films on ZIFF exhibitions 2009 in Old Fort (Ngome Kongwe) and also we post them on YouTube website in order to advertise our films to the entire world.

Brainstorm.

Filming at the Francis Maria Liberman School.

Shooting the song at the Francis Maria Liberman School.

Filming short movie of Zanzibits Students.

Making Animations of Cassava Movie.

Filming Super Baby Movie.

Our Screen on ZIFF Exhibition 2009.

Short Movie of Zanzibits Students.

Videos that we made





Photograph.

Digital camera.

In Zanzibits, also we learnt about photograph and how to take good and quality pictures, how light affects pictures and it’s properties, different kinds of light, how to use camera applications and many more concerned about it.





Thursday, October 29, 2009

Zanzibits, new comers.

Zanzibits students 2009.

Before joining Zanzibits School Center for Film and Multimedia, I learnt computer course in Suza (The State University of Zanzibar) located at Vuga street then after finishing there, I joined with Zanzibits after passed well the twice interview.
On 13th of January 2009, we started the course one called "Behind the Screen" that was concerned with introduction to computer, a bit microsoft word, exel and power point and more about photoshop, how to surf in the internet and getting online using the different browser, you know what, because some of students knew nothing about internet surfing even computer it self.
Since I was starting design of different things in Photoshop software, I got more experience of designing like business cards, banners, logos, post cards, posters, brochures and many more about designing but initially I knew nothing about designing in this software instead of drawing different things on A4 or A3 papers using pencils and pens.

Some of the collections of my works in Behind the Screen (course one).

CD Cover.

But now I am very interesting with this software and always I am increasing my talent of designing in Photoshop.
On 06th of February 2009, this was the end of the course one so we did mini graduation and enjoyed a lot, so that we waited for result in order to continue in next course.

Course two.
We started course two on 25th of March, at the first time in this course we studied how colors relate each other, kinds of colors, color wheel, color and personality, this means the meaning of different colors and also we knew the different methods of using combination colors and how bright, warm, light, cool, dark colors express themselves.
According to the environment that surrounds human beings, it seem that colors have effects, send messages and express different perspectives to the entire world.
Apart from colors also we learnt about shapes and lines and their behaviors, shapes are about perceptions, language, influence our imaginations and many more, and how create a story board. Also space and composition, space is a part of learning so we learnt the types of spaces which are physical space personal space and visual space and how we can use them in different activities in our life.

My works of course two.

Shape.

Story Board.

Space and Composition.