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Foundation Degree (FdA) Digital Media Design

AF102 Visual Communication
Assignment 1: 50% Weighting
Assignment title: Creating panoramas for the web

Brief
You will produce at least two cylindrical panoramas for web distribution using a camera, Photoshop and some given HTML/CSS/jQuery code.

You should take all the photographs yourself in two or more locations to make at least two combined images (long shaped images) which will be constructed in Photoshop.

You may, if it helps you, form a vague narrative or theme between the images and the following is a list of suggestions:-

Chase or follow
Scene of a Crime
Tourist Guide
Day in a Life
Sense of location

You will save the stitched images as .jpgs at appropriate sizes and proportions for bringing into the html model for cylindrical panoramic interactivity.

Pass Criteria (i.e. to achieve a 40% / D -)
Make a CD or DVD disc, clearly labeled with the project name and your name, containing the following:
• At least two .html files which link correctly to the required css and image files to display interactive cylindrical panoramas
• Two or more finished flattened image files of your panoramas
• Two or more layered .PSD files including paths, selections, masks and other non-image content. These files should provide evidence that you have worked progressively and that you have adopted standard ways of working non-destructively.

Submit the following onto the submissions server (duplicates of the above):
• At least two .html files which link correctly to the required css and image files to display interactive cylindrical panoramas
• Two or more finished flattened image files of your panoramas

Keep a blog showing
• Research into panoramic photography and interactive panoramas by embedding images and/or linking to examples online with a written commentary or analysis of your chosen examples
• The development of your project, showing your working methods, progress and problem solving
• Periodic reviews of your work in progress
• Embed or link to your finished work and evaluate its qualities

Write and essay
Research and write a 750 word account of an aspect of panoramic photography or interactive panoramas such as its characteristics and uses, or a review of a practitioner. All quotes and ideas must be fully referenced and the research for this piece of writing must be included in a bibliography.


Enhanced Criteria (i.e. to achieve A, B or C grades)
• Understanding of resolution and dpi issues to achieve predictable and desirable results
• The images must be seamlessly edited
• Exhibit excellent, non-destructive Photoshop editing skills throughout the images
• Imaginative and inventive use of images
• Aesthetic decisions re location is strongly taken
• Your blog reflects a focused approach to your work and thorough research
• Your 750 word account is detailed and analytical

Deadline
The deadline for submission is 1.30pm on Monday 11th October. Your ‘crit’ session will take place during the session that morning.