Week Three Homework

1. Refine your room drawings. Make sure you have a such info as possible. How tall is the dresser? How tall is the bed? etc etc etc. Make sure you have sketches of each wall and a floor plan with as much info as possible. You might want to transfer that to an Illustrator or Photoshop File. A standard scale for drawings like this is 1/4" = 1', or 1/2" = 1', or 1"= 1'. Ex. If your room is 12' wide, it would be 3" long in the drawing if you are using a 1/4"=1' scale. If you use a 1"=1' scale, a 12' room will be 12" long on the drawing.  Bring your drawing board, supplies, and your room measurements and drawings for next week.

2. Watch The Sopranos Finale: Final Scene.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqpDxCo2vic

Count how many different shots are in this scene (everytime the shot changes is a new shot). Make note of how many shots are repeated. Notice that many of the shots are taken from either a POV (point of view) of one of the characters, or eye level with the action. With the exception of the outdoor parking shots, everything takes place in the diner. One environment. 

3. Find an image from your favorite Animation or Game from Googles images. Make sure you can differentiate Foreground, middle ground, and background. Make sure the image is a large as possible. An image that is 420 x 360 pixels will be pixelated with rough jagged edges when you zoom in. Try to find something 700 pixels or larger. 
Utilizing Photoshop, Open the file, duplicate the background. Save it. Now using your selection or masking tools, separate the foreground from the rest and put it on another layer. Save your work. Now do the same with the middle ground. Save your work. Finally separate the background of the image and put on a layer. You should end up with the Background layer, the duplicate background layer (these 2 are your original images) a foreground layer, a middle ground layer, and a layer of just the background of the image. Save you work.
Explore placing a blur filter on the background layer. Now try adding the same blur to your middle ground layer. Save your work with and without blur filters. Bring them to class.