Multimedia Communication Assignments (subject to change)
- Assignments
- Story Assignments
- Print Evaluation
- Advertising Forms (PDF)
- Pictures for Articles
- Editing Pages
- Div 1A
- Max Preps
- Grammar Check
- Press Releases
- Track Results
- Wrestling Results
- Swimming Results
- Opinion Ideas
- How to Write articles
- Workplace Readiness Prep
- Syllabus
- Old Yearbooks
All weekly assignments are available in the assignment sheet. Additional responsiilities are on the ladder. Additional assignments may be posted here and in Google Classroom.
PhotoShop Tutorials
May 10
Adobe Video Tutorials: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/tutorials.html
Using Adobe Premiere to create Videos
Premiere Pro Get Started course
- Create a project and import a clip
- Watch, 18 min
- Explore Premiere Pro panels
- Watch, 13 min
- Learn editing skills
- Watch, 21 min
- Work with graphics and titles
- Watch, 13 min
- Adjust the timing of your edits
- Watch, 11 min
- Change the look of your clips
- Watch, 15 min
- Add effects
- Watch, 16 min
- Work with audio
- Watch, 15 min
- Work with your clips
- Watch, 15 min
Import media course
- Import with the Media Browser
- Watch, 9 min
- Import media directly
- Watch, 9 min
- Relink offline clips
- Watch, 8 min
- Multi-layered Photoshop files
- Watch, 8 min
- Mixed footage
- Watch, 9 min
- Mixed frame rates
- Watch, 8 min
- Export video in multiple formats
- Watch, 8 min
- Watch, 8 min
Work with animation course
- Adjust the anchor point
- Watch, 10 min
- Explore Bezier keyframes
- Watch, 7 min
- Create animated effect presets
- Watch, 7 min
- Looping animated backgrounds
- Watch, 10 min
- Animate a layered title fly-in
- Watch, 8 min
Essential color adjustments course
- Adjust contrast, highlights, and shadows
- Watch, 7 min
- Discover the Lumetri Curve controls
- Watch, 8 min
- Make natural color adjustments
- Watch, 6 min
- Get ready for clip comparison
- Watch, 4 min
- Automatically match clip colors
- Watch, 3 min
- Copy and paste effects
- Watch, 5 min
Understanding audio mixes course
- Understand audio level
- Watch, 5 min
- Discover audio effects
- Watch, 4 min
- Automatic audio ducking
- Watch, 5 min
- Mix multichannel audio
- Watch, 5 min
- Adjust audio track volume
- Watch, 5 min
- Discover the Audio Track Mixer
- Watch, 5 min
- Reduce noise and reverb
- Watch, 5 min
- Advanced noise and reverb reduction
- Watch, 5 min
Create new sequences course
- Personalize the Timeline panel
- Try it, 5 min
- Automate to sequence
- Try it, 5 min
- Freeform storyboards
- Try it, 5 min
- Top and tail clips
- Try it, 4 min
- Three-point edits
- Try it, 5 min
- Quick transitions
- Try it, 5 min
Create beautiful visual composites course
- Discover compositing
- Watch, 5 min
- The Ultra Key effect
- Watch, 5 min
- Precise clip masks
- Watch, 5 min
- Add a Track Matte key
- Watch, 5 min
- Discover blend modes
- Watch, 4 min
Add transitions course
- Add transition effects
- Watch, 5 min
- Modify transitions
- Watch, 5 min
- Apply transition effects to video and audio
- See how, 2 min
Beginner projects
- Add a Look to your clips
- See how, 5 min
- Create an action sequence
- See how, 5 min
- Import a range of media types
- See how, 5 min
- Animate a rotating graphic
- See how, 8 min
- Match clip color in a scene
- Try it, 5 min
- Change footage properties
- Try it, 5 min
- Get creative with unusable footage
- Try it, 5 min
- Combine multiple clip formats in a sequence
- Try it, 8 min
- Create an audio mix
- See how, 5 min
- Animate a layered opening title sequence
- See how, 8 min
- Create an ink transition effect
- Watch, 5 min
- Create a transparent movie title
- Try it, 5 min
- Create a duotone
- Watch, 5 min
More beginner projects
- Make a composite
- Watch, 8 min
- Make a cinemagraph
- Watch, 5 min
- Make a tilt-shift effect
- Watch, 5 min
- Isolate a color
- Watch, 5 min
- Create a color-dissolve transition
- Watch, 5 min
- Add a focus pull effect
- Try it, 5 min
- Replace colors in a video
- Watch, 10 min
- Create blended visuals
- Watch, 5 min
- Sweeten the vocals
- Watch, 5 min
- Correct skin tones
- Watch, 5 min
- Create a cinematic look for your footage
- See how, 5 min
- Slow down footage
- Watch, 5 min
Reply to quote-soccer email
Articles and Infographics
- You will be assigned to a team of two. One person will write a weekly article either Student of the Week or Athlete of the Week. The other will make the infographic for the article. The following week you will switch roles.
- lowryhighschool.com for article examples.
- There is an AOW outline in the articles online folder.
- Infographics are made in Photoshop with a resolution of 100 and dimensions of 2000px by 2000px.
- Save the file in the infographics templates folder using "your name template".
- Video for basic tools in Photoshop and photopea.
Photography
- Hope from Cripps Photography (https://www.crippsphotopro.com/) will be coming to class to teach photography.
May 30
FINAL: Indesign Spreads for yearbook
- Create a spread for a yearbook section
- Save as yourlastnameyourfirstnameyearbook.
- Save in the folder named "For assignment". in the "Page Ideas" folder.
- Find an example of a yearbook spread/theme that you like and we might be able to use next year.
- Copy and paste the image into your spread and lock it in the background. Recreate the spread as closeley as you can.
- Page numbers start at 100.
- Placeholder text from one of our stories online with proper styling and spacing.
- Use our pictures. They must be copied to the "pix" subfolder.
- A headline with a saved character and paragraph style.
- A sub headline with a saved character and paragraph style.
- Picture frames with a saved object style.
- Page settings.
May 29
Manage Social Media for the week
- 4 must be non sports
- Check assignments sheet for your team
May 22
Manage Social Media for the week
- 4 must be non sports
- Check assignments sheet for your team
May 15
Manage Social Media for the week
- 4 must be non sports
- Check assignments sheet for your team
May 6
Create Infographic
- Make an infographic that can be posted in the next two to three weeks. You can use Canva or the internet in general for ideas but you must make it in PhotoShop.
- Save the file in the infographic folder. Use the file name "your last name infographic". Save the PSD and then when you are done you will export it as a jpg to post. Use the dimensions 2000 px X 2000 px.
- It must include an ad from the For Infographics folder which is in the ads folder.
- Multiple images/shapes and layers must be used in conjunction with text.
Use of adjustments, styles and effects. - Possible topics: Summer sports, upcoming events (nnvd1a.org), classroom activities, etc. There is still a lot going on the remainder of the year ranging from concerts to graduation.
- From the email I sent, the football image would fully satisfy the requirements. The baseball Game Day image is barely good enough to post. The final image does not meet the requirements.
- When you are done, export the image as a jpg file and email it to me as a reply to the email I sent you.
May 8
Manage Social Media for the week
- 4 must be non sports
- Check assignments sheet for your team
May 1
Manage Social Media for the week
- 4 must be non sports
- Check assignments sheet for your team
Apr 24
Manage Social Media for the week
- 4 must be non sports
- Check assignments sheet for your team
Apr 17
Manage Social Media for the week
- 4 must be non sports
- Check assignments sheet for your team
Apr 15
Make your own newspaper/Magazine
- Create a new folder using your last name in the folder MyNews
- Create 1 file that has two-page spreads.
- Make your own masthead in PS.
- Quality counts.
- All images must be saved in your folder.
- You can use four ads from the ads folder.
- Must use your work from the year in relation to articles and pictures.
- Find the articles and pictures at lowryhghschool.com
- Create Character and Paragraph styles for your headlines, stories and captions.
- Name the styles Headline1, Headline2, Story1, Story2 and Caption.
- Create one Object style for your image frames. Name it Image.
- Create content that appears in the margin of each page. Such as the date and page numbers.
- This is done through the pages panel.
Apr 10
Manage Social Media for the week
- 4 must be non sports
- Check assignments sheet for your team
Apr 3
Manage Social Media for the week
- 4 must be non sports
- Check assignments sheet for your team
Canva
- Create a game day or score graphic to post.
- This should be done on the app using your phone (assuming parental approval).
Mar 27
Manage Social Media for the week
- 4 must be non sports
- Check assignments sheet for your team
Mar 23
The Brand Winter/Spring Evaluation in GC
Mar 22
Create your own copy of The Brand by placing the Indesign files inside an Indesign file you create
Mar 20
Manage Social Media for the week
- 4 must be non sports
- Check assignments sheet for your team
Mar 20
Headline Email
- Find a headline you like from a NEWS article from the past week. Copy and paste it as a reply to the email I send and tell me why you like, it in one sentence.
Mar 13
Manage Social Media for the week
- 4 must be non sports
- Check assignments sheet for your team
Mar 11
Deadline 5 for yearbook pages
Mar 6
Manage Social Media for the week
- 4 must be non sports
- Check assignments sheet for your team
Feb 27
Manage Social Media for the week
- 4 must be non sports
- Check assignments sheet for your team
Feb 20
Manage Social Media for the week
- 4 must be non sports
- Check assignments sheet for your team
Feb 13
Manage Social Media for the week
- 4 must be non sports
- Check assignments sheet for your team
Study for CTE test
- Quizlet Employability
- https://cte-escr.org/
- Click on WRS Sample Test on the bottom right of the page
Feb 10
Deadline 4 for yearbook pages
Feb 6
Manage Social Media for the week
- 4 must be non sports
- Check assignments sheet for your team
Jan 31
Editorializing Email
How to save and rename pics for The Brand
Jan 30
Manage Social Media for the week
- 4 must be non sports
- Check assignments sheet for your team
Jan 23
Video: Convert PDF to JPG using PhotoShop
Manage Social Media for the week
- 4 must be non sports
- Check assignments sheet for your team
Jan 21
Take Photoshop Test in Quizlet
Video: Formatting the assignments sheet
Take Indesign Quarter 2 Post Test in Quizlet
Jan 16
Brand Assignments for spring issue
- Check assignments sheet for stories
Jan 9
Social Media Management
- This begins weekly teams to manage social media
- 12 posts for the week, 4 must be non sports
- Meet each week and make a plan
Jan 7
Deadline 3 for yearbook pages
Jan 18
Yearbook Rough Draft for Deadline 4
- Submit yearbook pages using share for review, print those that are not functioning
Dec 16
Submit deadline evals in Google Classroom
Dec 12
Reply to picture caption email
Dec 10
Deadline 2 for yearbook pages
The Brand
- Cover events for pictures
- Post to social media
Winnada
- Work on pages for Deadline 1
Dec 9
DUE: The Brand Final Draft
The Brand
- Cover events for pictures
- Post to social media
Winnada
- Work on pages for Deadline 1
Nov 29
DUE: The Brand Rough Draft 3
The Brand
- Cover events for pictures
- Post to social media
Winnada
- Work on pages for Deadline 1
Nov 16
Work day after school
Nov 14
DUE: Yearbook Pages Deadline 1
The Brand
- Cover events for pictures
- Post to social media
Winnada
- Work on pages for Deadline 1
Nov 11
Lead Assignment
- Objective: Build a responsive website using HTML and CSS
- Read the email and reply with an example lead.
Nov 9
Work day after school
Nov 8-12
The Brand
- Update pages for fall issue
- Final Draft Articles for Fall issue
- Cover events for pictures
- Post to social media
Winnada
- Final Draft People pages
- Fourth Draft Sports pages
- Cover events for pictures
Nov 2
Work day after school
Nov 1
DUE: The Brand Rough Draft 1
The Brand
- Cover events for pictures
- Post to social media
Winnada
- Work on pages for Deadline 1
Nov 1- 5
The Brand
- Assign pages for fall issue
- Fourth Draft Articles for Fall issue
- Cover events for pictures
- Post to social media
Winnada
- Fourth Draft People pages
- Third Draft Sports pages
- Cover events for pictures
Oct 26
Work day after school
Oct 25-29
The Brand
- Third Draft Articles for Fall issue
- Cover events for pictures
- Post to social media
Winnada
- Third Draft People pages
- Second Draft Sports pages
- Cover events for pictures
Oct 25
Reply to long quote email
Oct 24
Video: Fixing buffer error to IG
Example Article from Elko Daily
Oct 24
Photoshop Posttest
- Take the Photoshop pretest in Quizlet
- Do not look up answers
- Use 20 questions
- Screenshot your results and send as a reply to the email I sent you.
InDesign Posttest
- Take the Indesign pretest in Quizlet
- Do not look up answers
- Use all 20 questions.
- Screenshot your results and send as a reply to the email I sent you.
Oct 24-27
Class/hall/headshots
Oct 17-20
Class/hall/headshots
Oct 10
Picture
- Fix and crop picture and submit via email
Oct 9-14
Homecoming: The Brand
- Cover events for pictures
- Post to social media
Homecoming: Winnada
- Cover events for pictures
Oct 6
Posting with Buffer
Review pictures taken at soccer
Managing editor: Finalize styles, cover and endsheets
Oct 4
Indesign Spreads for The Brand
- Go over more details of what should be included in spreads.
Spinoffs
- Brainstorm ideas for spinoffs.
- Reply to email with three ideas.
Oct 4-8
The Brand
- Assign Articles for Fall issue
- Cover events for pictures
- Homecoming Post to social media
- Homecoming event pictures
Winnada
- Assign People pages
- Cover events for pictures
- Homecoming event pictures
Oct 2
Canva
- Use canva to create a game day graphic.
- Pick a sports picture.
- Upload it to Canva and edit the picture.
- Find a template you want to use.
- Save it to the social folder in Canva.
- Add relevant information.
- Add #GoBucks and @LowryHigh to the image.
- Add the sports logo to the image.
- Download it as a jpg and email it to me and use the subject Canva.
Canva Social: https://youtu.be/_E0G-FPN8aY?si=jrrUQVP2yLdzoma_
Canva Social: https://youtu.be/fKx9MdMBleU?si=ze34sMpu94uEvpKk
https://creativecloud.adobe.com/cc/learn/app/indesign?skillLevel=beginner
Sep 29
Indesign Spreads for The Brand
- Alexis and I will go over what needs to be on your spreads
- Page numbers.
- Placeholder text from one of our stories online with proper styling and spacing for word counts in the assignments sheet.
- A headline.
- A byline.
- Placeholder pics and ads.
- Stroke on pictures.
- Wrapping 0p6.
- Paragraph styles, Character Styles and Object Styles.
- The guide for this is at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PdqMTq5i43eDvRR-vjKqdowNu0jB5-0FHp517uegRKg/edit?usp=sharing
Get started with InDesign Tutorial: https://creativecloud.adobe.com/cc/learn/indesign/web/get-started-indesign?locale=en
Set up a beautiful magazine Tutorial: layouthttps://creativecloud.adobe.com/cc/learn/indesign/web/design-magazine-layout?locale=en
Sep 28
Video: Sending a business ad proof
Review Transitions assignment in GC
Sep 27
Make your staff Picture
- You can use your school picture or one you take. The image must be high resolution.
- Make a copy of the file "staff pic bg.psd" in the staff folder which is in the pictures folder.
- Rename it with your name.
- DO NOT EDIT THE ORIGINAL.
- Do not unlock any layers.
- Cut out your picture and make sure it fits in the blue guides.
- Change the name to yours. Your cut needs to be done extremely well.
- Export the image as the highest quality jpg and email it to me as a reply to this email.
Sep 21
Sep 20
Spreads
- 1st year students, find a magazine or newspaper layout to use to build your assigned Brand pages.
- 2nd and 3rd year students start creating pages for yearbook as assigned by Danielle.
Managing Editor
- Assign all pages for 1st deadline, including ads, sports, people, AO, SL
Sep 11
Transitions in Google Classroom
Sep 5-15
Class and Hallway pics
- Everyone will check out a camera for at least a day to take pictures for people and A&O
Adding images to stories
Posting articles to website and buffer
Sep 7
Weekly Article
- Each of you is writing an SOW, POW or AOW article. Your area has been assigned in your assignments sheet, not the ladder.
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FWmFbdAeDYjnl6irp23VhnH-Lmkz73Sfub_y6LMlKNg/edit?usp=sharing
- Remember these must be saved in the articles online folder on Google Drive. The file name should be your last name your first name and the article name. For example, espinola olivia SOW week 3. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CAb_GMwKnt1uKqoFnIbHLlYPi6xOY1t0?usp=sharing
- You must talk to the teacher/coach and the person they select. Please tell them this does not have to be their best student or athlete but is used to get someone publicity who might not usually get it. Get at least one quote from each. Do not ask the student how they feel about getting picked. Ask them about their year or season so far.
- You will also find, edit and insert a picture for the article. If it is a freshman we do not have their school portraits yet so you will need to take a picture with a camera, not your phone. For sports, we only have game pics of football, volleyball, and boys soccer but we have head shots of all athletes.
- Try to physically talk to the interviewees as you will get better quotes. If you must use email there is a list of coaches in the student rosters folder in the Winnada folder. DO NOT contact any teachers/coaches by phone.
- Examples:
- http://lowryhighschool.com/?s=Athlete+of+the+Week
- http://lowryhighschool.com/?s=Student+of+the+Week
- http://lowryhighschool.com/?s=Performer+of+the+Week
Others: SOW, POW AND AOW Articles and infographics
- Video: Basics of writing AOW/SOW article and where to save
- Video: Making an infographic
- Video: Inserting images and captions
Sep 6
First Year Students
- Work with Alexis on story ideas for The Brand.
Returning Students
- Work with Danielle on layout for the yearbook and The Brand.
Sep 5
Headline assignment in Google Classroom
Email: Camera Settings
Video: Making a template in Indesign
Sep 1
Reply to camera settings email
Aug 31
Review ideas from last spring
Layout
- Find images of yearbook/magazine layouts you like.
- Try googling yearbook spread.
- Email the image to Danielle and bcc me on it.
- Use layout as the subject.
- Sketch the layout of your page.
Aug 30
Indesign Video: Creating and loading Styles in Indesign
- Wrapping
- Text Boxes
- Overset Text
- Broken Links
- Styles
Aug 28
Photoshop Pretest
- Take the Photoshop pretest in Quizlet
- Do not look up answers
- Use 30 questions
Work on Interview Articles
Aug 25
InDesign Pretest
- Take the Indesign pretest in Quizlet
- Do not look up answers
- Use all 30 questions
How to save and upload pics
Work on Interview Articles
Aug 23-24
School Pictures
- Some will help Cripps Photo with school pictures.
Interviews and articles in groups of three
Taking a picture
- Review pics from volleyball
- Where to get cameraa settings...Google Classroom
Aug 21
Interview with Mr. Taylor
Ads Ladder
- Make sure you have the ad forms
Write the outline to your article
- Where to save
- Veterans help
- How to insert a picture
- How to submit/Share.
Aug 20
Theme ideas and vote
Article structure
- Go over the general outline to an article.
Aug 19
Course requirements/expectations
- Syllabus
- Print signature pages for your parents.
Mentors
Ads
- The Contract is at lowryhighschool.com
- Go only to your assigned businesses.
- Print forms to take with you.
Introduction to the Winnada-The Brand
- Syllabus and Contract
- Ads
- Establish staff positions
- Story ideas
- Print Dates
Editors Meeting
Icebreaker
- Explain a picture on your phone.
Add shared Brand drive to your school drive
Join Quizlet
Aug 15: Before school starts
Get business ads
Senior pictures
Fall Sports pictures
All Day Training with Walsworth
- Add transition effects
- Watch, 4 min
- Import with the Media Browser
- Watch, 15 min