Graphic/Comic Short Story: Publishing
April 27, 2010

Objective:
Standard 3: Students will apply principles and elements of visual design while creating multimedia projects.

Standard 5: Students will participate in individual and team (group) activities.

Standard 6: Students will produce various forms of media.

Learning Outcomes:
Students will achieve a moderately to highly skilled status by showing proficiency in the following:

• Demonstrate the ability to make effective decisions about digital imaging.
  • Recognize and apply the size guidelines for photographic composition such as mergers, simplicity, leading lines, rule of thirds, balance and framing
  • Demonstrate the ability to manipulate and enhance a digital photograph
• Demonstrate the ability to work individually in the completion of multimedia projects.
  • Demonstrate oral, written, and/or technological communication skills.
  • Apply management skills in personal problem solutions.
  • Demonstrate personal initiative in problem solutions.
  • Complete projects according to specified deadlines.
• Create 2D graphics using a variety of formats and techniques.
  • Create, manipulate and appropriately use bitmap (raster) graphics
  • Create, manipulate and appropriately use vector graphics
  • Effectively manipulate the resolution of graphic and photographic files

Coursework Procedure:
Now you need to assembly your "Graphic/Comic Short Story". So far you have worked on the first stage: The Story Outline, Storyboarding. Then you worked on Shooting Images, Converting Images.

Now you need to assembly your product into a digital document. That means it must either be one of the following:

• a PDF file
• an eBook in the ePub format

To accomplish this, you can use either Adobe InDesign and/or Adobe Acrobat (all of us are familiar with Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free program that allows computers to read PDF files. Adobe Acrobat is a program that allows you to create, manipulate, and merge PDF files). Here are some tutorials to help you with either program:

• InDesign:
  • InDesign tutorials on Adobe TV
  • Designer Today InDesign tutorials
  • Seneca Design & Training
  • Iowa State College of Design
  • Pixel2Life
  • Video Tutes (click on "Watch Tutorial" then on "Play Tutorial")
  • Arbent Design Freebies
  • designm.ag Tutorials
  • Layers Magazine InDesign CS5 tutorials (we have CS4)
• Acrobat:
  • Georgia Southwestern State University
  • Designer Info
  • AcrobatUsers.com Learning Center
  • Performance Graphics
  • allgraphicdesign.com (scroll down the page)
• and remember: Google is your friend!

Due Date(s) and Submission Instructions:
You must email me a completed .epub or .pdf file with your graphic short story to rathke at teacher dot com by Tuesday, May 11, 2010.

ART 1800 - Digital Media Essentials
Grade Levels: 11-12
Units of Credit: 4 credit hours (SLCC)
Course Number: ART 1800
Prerequisite: None

Intro to software & hardware used to create multimedia productions. Hands-on experience using hardware, software to create 2D/3D graphics, sound, animation, & video. Discussion of the multimedia market, copyright, & ethics in mass media.