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Lewis Fowler
37 Coombe Avenue
Weymouth,
Dorset, DT4 7TR
Home:
(01305 775158
Fowler128@hotmail.com
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College Student in BTEC Interactive Media
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Focused, independent and
hardworking college student in BTEC Interactive Media level 3
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Advanced skills in applications
such as (MS Office, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, GL Basic, Dreamweaver,);
demonstrated ability to learn new computer programs quickly.
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Intermediate-expert
communication skills. I have demonstrated theses skills in PowerPoint
presentations in various points within my education
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Reputation for dependability,
honest and enthusiastic. Have completed various tasks and have exceeded
expectations on many occasions
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Experience
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Assistant
Grounds man
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21/04/08- 06/05/2008, Dorset
Works Organization
Cut
grass, operated a roller machine for cricket pitches, line marking, setting
up goal posts and cleaning
Key Accomplishments:
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Exceeded employers
expectations when under a very strict amount of time.
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Willingness to complete any
task that needed to be done
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Every task completed was said to have been completed to near
professional standard
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Received outstanding feedback
from employer for hard work, politeness and determination to see that the
task was completed to professional standard
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Incredible attention to
detail was noted by employer when completing certain tasks.
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Education
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Weymouth
College 2009- Present
BTEC
Interactive Media (year 1)
Unit
names and relent projects
Ø Working to a brief in the creative industry
Ø Web Authoring
Ø Pre-Production techniques
Ø Digital graphics for interactive media
Ø Research techniques
Ø Digital communication
Ø Video production for interactive media
Ø Interactive authoring
Ø Critical approaches to Media projects
Main projects:
Interactive authoring - creation of an application within GL
Basic
Web authoring: creation of a website for a
movie
BTEC
IT and Business Level 2
Unit
names
Ø Working in the IT industry
Ø Communicating in the IT industry
Ø Computer Systems
Ø Organizations using IT
Ø Doing Business Online
Ø Project Planning Using IT
Ø Presenting information Using IT
Get
into creative: Art and Design Level 1
Wey
Valley School and Sports College
2004-2009
GCSE’s taken:
Mathematics – E
English Language –D
Applied Science – C
D&T Electronic Products – D
History – D
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Skills
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Skill Name
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Skill Level
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Last Used/Experience
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MS Office Suite
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Expert
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Currently used/5 years
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Adobe Photoshop
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Intermediate
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Currenty using/3 years
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Adobe Illustrator
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Novice
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Currently used/8 months
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Adobe Flash
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Intermediate
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Currently used/8months
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Adobe Dreamweaver
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intermediate
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1 year ago/2 months
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Gl Basic
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Expert
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Currently used/8 months
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HTML
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intermediate
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1 year ago/2months
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Actionscrpit 2& 3
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Novice
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Currently used/8 months
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General computing
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Expert
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Currently Used/9 years
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Intermediate
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2 years ago/1 year
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Additional Information
Available for temporary, permanent or
contract work
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Monday, 21 May 2012
appling for jobs: CV
applying for jobs :part 2
Jobs and applying for
them: Part 2
The job that I could potentially apply for is Games
designer. This is for a companys client. The studio is based in Soho, London.
The ad states that “They are looking for a games designer to work
side by side with the manager on new interactive TV/film concepts and projects.”
Job description
The job focuses on creating and writing in game design
mechanics that are both fun and innovative. The job also noted of the
expectation of game designers bringing their creativity and skills in a host of
situations with the willingness to raise the quality of work on the title that
they are working on.
Job
roles/responsibility
The primary responsibility of this job is to create design
documents detailing game mechanics core to the experience of the company’s
entertainment products.
Skills that I have for this job:
The skills that I already have for this job are;
The ability to design detailed game mechanics from inception
to completion.
The ability to work as a team, including artists and
programmers to fine tune these game mechanics.
An understanding of video game production;
Verbal and written communication skills
Diligence and attention to detail
A passion for console and PC games
An interest in designing experiences for younger audiences
Skills that I don’t have and can still learn.
All though I already pretty much have this skills that are
required for this job there are still some skills that I can still learn that
are still relevant to the job. The skills that I and still learn for this job
are;
Illustrator
Photoshop
Adobe InDesign
Other design programs.
Although this technically is and is not a skill ti learn for
the job it is required regardless. This is that I must have at least 2 years’
worth of experience in working within the video game industry.
Besides finding employers through advertisements another way
that you are able to meet a potential employer is at a games convention. Here,
a company will set up a stall where they have demos of their latest games in
development , then you can enquire about the job or alternatively companies
will go to these conventions to look for
people to hire.
applying for jobs: part one
The average
salary for the interactive media industry in the UK is only £38,750. However
the average salary for the IT industry is allot higher. The average salary for
the IT industry in the UK is £50,000. However this is seen as a generalisation
for both the interactive media and IT sectors and the actual amount will vary
from job to job.
The amount
of interactive media jobs that have been advertised on the itjobswatch.co.uk
website over the past 3 months to now is 41 permanent jobs. The amount of
contract interactive media jobs that have been advertised on the website is
only 28.
90% of all
the interactive media jobs that are advertised on this website are likely to
only be junior positions. This can be found out because the average salary for
90% of the interactive media jobs is much lower compared to the other 10% where
the salary is allot higher as the job is
likely to be of a senior position.
The areas of
the UK that have the highest amount of interactive media is in London and the
south east.
The top 3
examples of computer applications that are the most in demand at the moment in
the interactive media industry are: Photoshop, Ms Office and illustrator
After
clicking find jobs on the itjobswatch webpage another page form a job agency
pops up. The top 3 jobs that this page comes up with is: software developer,
front end website developer and test automation engineer
A rearmament
job is a job where you get paid a yearly salary every month of a pre-determined
amount. A permanent job is so because you stay in that job unless you get
sacked, made redundant or leave. However a contract job is different. A
contract job is a job where you are given a task r project to work on and you
have an amount of time to do it, which is one of the agreements of the
contract. The other difference is you get paid considerably more money than a
salary job, but you only get paid after the task is completed.
the principals of interactive authoring
This essay is about the principals of interactive authoring. the essay will cover the following topics: the difference between authoring and programming, examples of authoring tools, what they are used for and review complexity, the definition of ‘assets’, what timelines, slideshows, buttons etc. are and what they can be used for, the limitations of authoring applications and the debate of whether or not to bother with learning a real language such as C and C++, which will also cover how close the basic language is to c.
The difference
between authoring and programming
Authoring and programming could be considered as similar
things, as this is because they both have a similar outcome, you will always be
able to create something from them both. However, authoring and programming are
actually completely different. The main difference between authoring tools and
programming tools is that authoring tools require less technical knowledge in
order to properly master. Below, are the definitions for authoring tools and
programming tools.
Authoring
Sometimes known as authorware, authoring is a program that
helps you to create or write hypertext (web pages) or multimedia applications.
These programs are known as authoring tools. These authoring tools usually
enable you to create a final application merely by linking together objects,
such as text, images, video or sound. This is done by defining the objects
relationships with each other and then sequencing them in an appropriate order.
Authors (those who use authoring tools) are then able to produce attractive and
useful graphics applications. Although it doesn’t have to be used, most authoring
tools support a scripting language which can be used to create more advanced
applications. http://www.webopedia.com/term/a/authoring_tool.html
Programming
Programming however is completely different from authoring.
Programming is the process of developing and implementing various sets of
instructions which are defined as code, for example, Basic, used in GL Basic, and
ActionScript2&3, used in Flash, and enable a computer to complete certain
tasks. These instructions are considered to be computer programs and can help a
computer to run smoothly or specific code that will run a program. The coding
languages that are used in programming can be complicated and ranges firm easy
programs such as Flash, GL Basic and Dark Basic. To harder, very complicate
languages such as C++ and independent languages that are used for the creation
of videogames, for example GOOL. (A programming language that was once used by
the company Naughty Dog, for the creation of crash bandicoot, 2 and 3.) these
programming languages cannot be understood unless they have or are able to
learn them. Computer programming has become increasingly more desirable as the
internet and media continues to expand and is no longer restricted to just
being used for videogames
Gl Basic is also considered
a programming tool. This however, is by far the most complicated authoring tool
as technically qualifies as both a programming and authoring tool. This is
because the main feature of this program is its unique programming language
known as Basic. Using this tool, you are able to create programs and mobile
phone (iPhone and Android only) applications. In this tool you have to write
your program using this special language and then run your program to see the
results.
Assets are anything that is used in order an application
what it actually is. An asset is something that is put into an application.
Assets are everything from images, sprites, and backgrounds, the code (if
needed), and sound effects, Music, text and anything else that’s created for
use with the applications. The created assets belong to the developer or
developers of whoever created the application in the first place. For example, the assets used for my
iPhone/Android game, the assets for my game include backgrounds, sprites, and
music. My character for my game is one of my main assets. The assets that
compose my game make my game what it is. Otherwise it would look like a black
screen with nothing happening in it.
Interactive elements
of applications
Interactive elements within applications mean that you are
able to interact with the application itself. Buttons, sliders, pop out boxes
and a host of other things are used in most if not all flash applications. Slideshows,
timelines and effects are also interactive elements that are used in many
applications.
Buttons
Basically, a button is an image of any shape, size or colour
which is then placed onto the stage or workspace. It is then converted into a
symbol which Flash uses for animations. The button can then be given what’s
known as an Instance name, which is what the object gets referred to as in the Action
Script code. Then layers are created with pages, a layer for buttons and one
for pages. On the layer with nothing on it, the user can then input code which
will give the button commands such as moving to different frames or ‘pages. Any
button can be given any command as long as you know its input code.
Timeline
A timeline is a long series of frames which an animation will
be made up of. Each frame contains a still picture or a motion tween (a feature
which allows for smooth animation of movement) and when it it played the
computer will play each one in a sequence making up the animation. A timeline
can be used for other things as well. A timeline can be used to contain
information such as separate animations, script code or even features of
webpages. There is a timeline in both Adobe Flash and Adobe after Effects. There
are timelines in many animation programs also.
Slideshow
A slide show is a series of pages with text, images and video
clips that move consecutively one after another. Each page or slide can have
images and texts thrown together and then played either automatically over a
period of time, or manually by clicking when finished with each slide
Effects (in PowerPoint, etc)
There are many effects that can be
used to make a presentation look a lot more interesting. There are two main
types, transitions and normal animations. The stage animations or slide
transitions are used for slide transitions. The slide animates away so that a
new slide will be animated onto the screen. The normal animation effects can be
applied to virtually everything that’s within the slide. The effects consist of
many animations of three type’s animations, intro, exit and emphasis. All three
types of animation have different animations within them, including different motion
paths that can be used so that every animation is customisable.
Limitations of authoring tools
Although you can make professional
looking applications, presentations, animations or web pages, all these
programs have their limitations. For example, with PowerPoint, there is only so
much that you can do with the animations available and they are only
customisable to some degree. Another
example of a limitation of authoring tools is with some programs you have to
mput up with the layout of the program itself.
C and GL basic
It can be argued that one one side, there would be no point in learning C, which is allot more complex than Basic, as the code within Gl Basic is compiled into C and then run as the program anyway. However, on the other hand, there is only so much you can do using the Basic code, and there is also a limited amount of memory that’s available to use when running a program. for example I had to limit the amount of levels within my game as I already had used up loads of the memory. There’s allot more that you can do using C, the downside is you have to learn a new and extremely complicate programming language, but n the upside, if you master it ten you are able to create pretty much anything, as well as have the expertise to code in other languages.
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