Liam's Comic Document

When creating a comic there as various steps that the creators go through to create the end result.
The first step is done by the scripter/s, there job is to create the story and draw up the initial storyboards.
They start by creating brainstorms for large groups of people on possible stories and ideas. once an idea has been chosen they go deeper into the idea explaining characters scenes and dialogue. depending on the how strict the scripters are depends on how leanant the pencilers can be when creating the imager for the comic.
   

Once the Story has been set out it is the pencilists job to draw the outline of the images creating the initial comic layout.


An Example of a comic page that has been peciled out read for the inker.



    When all of the pencil drawings have been done for the comic the inker goes over the line pencil drawing, defining the lines adding definition and shading as shown below. the line drawing as created with black ink either digitally or with a fine black inking pen.



an Inker at work



 Once all of the lines have been inked the coulorist adds the coulor and any other small detail before it is published. below is an example of a semi finished comic scene that has been both lined and then coulored.

a Semi Finished/Coloured Comic Scene

Describe the applications and practice of DVD menu design and authoring with some appropriate use of subject terminology

DVD menu's are used to navigate between content and settings on a DVD.
a general DVD menu consists of a play button, setting button and commonly a scene selection button all labeled accordingly making it very easy to navigate.

The Scene Selection menu usually consists of various stills of the full movie of which you can select and navigate to that stage of the movie/footage and a button to return to the home page.

Here is and example of a scene selection menu

Settings pages usually consist of many options/tweaks that enhance your viewing experience such as volume, brightness, language settings, subtitles and additional features.

It is important for DVD's to have subtitles as some people are hard of hearing or speak different languages. having this option on a dvd means that these people get to enjoy the footage, opening the dvd out to a larger audience.

Additional content can include behind the scene footage still images, directors cuts and comments.

When creating a dvd menu it is important to make a relevant DVD disc cover, typical content that is usually printed onto a disc is imagery such as the title the age restriction copyright content and relevant advertising imager.

Here is an example of a DVD that has been printed onto displaying the typical information and imagery.

Understanding Principles of Digital Video Technology

In the media industry it is important to know about all types of technology and how it is applied.
when creating media there is more than one way to do it and there are a lot of variations in the process.

When shooting film in its raw form it is very large and there are many ways for it to be shared.

Because of the shear quantity of videos that are on video hosting sites such as www.youtube.com they have to have  there own way of compressing the video so that it can be stored at the smallest file size as possible put still clearly viewed over the internet via streaming.

A CD (compact disc) is a disc used to store audio only and can store up to 'around' 80 minutes of uncompressed audio.

A DVD (digital versatile disc) can hold both audio and video and has a huge storage capacity of just under 5GB on average. most DVD's that are created are called DVD ROM's these are disc that have the media embedded into them. with a DVD ROM once the disc has been burnt, you cannot re-write over it, but with a DVD RW you can rewrite over the media on the disc multiple times.         

There are two different types of compression rates one is lossy and one is lossless.

when a video or image is compressed at a lossy rate some of the information/imagery is lost.
this is because the program looks at the image/video's pixels and if there are similar colours close together it will discard all but one of the colours so that there is less date to keep.

on the other hand you can use lossless compression which keeps all of the data this type of compression is used in image file types such as PNG and GIF.


When compressing media onto a disc there are several different file types that you can use which have
there own unique positives and negatives, so it is important to choose the right one that suites the end product that you are looking for.

Mpeg 1 (Moving Picture Experts Group) is used for 'easily transferable' video clips specifically for cameras and camcorders.
   The Mpeg 2 was a very common file type used in the late 90's and is so important as it was used as the selected compression scheme for 'over the air digital television'.
   Mpeg 4 is a very common file type that uses a more complex coding to achieve a larger compression rate than MPEG 2.
   flash files are commonly used over the internet on websites such as www.youtube.com.
 Avi was introduced in  november 1992 by microsoft and can contain both video and audio.