The start of the lesson Owain started with explaining what interactive media was and told us some examples and how they're examples of it. He then explained what we are going to do for this unit.
Music creation
Video games
Websites
YouTube
We was then set a task to think about a game or app we have played or have and think about the secret functions of the game and we discussed some within the class.
3 Secrets in games or apps:
Hidden features
Cheats
Easter eggs
Hidden levels
Glitch's
Shortcuts
Cheat codes
Secret achievements
I have found out that if you type into google 'do a barrel roll' it rotates the screen and I never knew that. I already knew about the siri hidden features when you ask him/her something specific and it gives you weird responses. I know about gta secrets like how you can enter cheat codes to spawn cars or to make you fly etc. I knew about a secret glitch in one of the modern warfare's or call of duty's that if you run into a certain point in a map it glitches and goes underneath the map. I know of that whilst playing a game you can sometimes get random achievements for doing something on the game. I know that on gta there is certain Easter eggs on the game play that can only be seen at certain times in certain places like how on gta v if you wait till a certain time and go to the mountains at a certain spot there would be a dead girl hovering but you couldn't get too close otherwise it would disappear.
We then went onto sketching and drawing characters. Learning about the guide lines and where facial features are placed to make it look symmetrical. We first of all sketched simple shapes on a face and created something that looked human. We then drew more complex shapes on the next face. We had a go at drawing straight lines with drawing the facial features to make a robot looking character.
We drew an oval and halved the face and drew a faint line and then halved the face portrait. We had to then halve the lower face below the line and from there constructed lines for the facial features. After listening to Owain helping us we then messed around with sizing of facial features and drew 3 of our own weird faces.
I have learnt how to construct a face and feel more confident with where symmetrically the features go on a face.
We then looked at faces with different expressions and drew them out for our self's. We then mixed two emotions together to try and find another expression. I mixed 4 different faces with emotions. I mixed happy + sad and got the out come of embarrassed, I mixed anger + surprise and got the outcome of shocked, I mixed happy + fear and got the outcome of relief, I mixed fear + disgust and got the outcome of frustrated and lastly I mixed disgust with fear and got the outcome of freaked out. I was shocked to see how by combining two emotions can create another which you don't expect. I was expecting the mix of anger + surprise to look a little different than the outcome of shocked.
