THE SYLLABUS/ FALL 2008

MLJ 210
Print Media
Spring 2008


Instructor: Ulises Gonzales/ Office: CA 273
Office hours: T 10-1/ 5-6 and by appointment)
Time: Tuesday 6 p.m.-9:30 pm
Room: CA 119

Office phone: 718-960-7805/ Cell: 718-7243787
e-mail:ulisesgg@yahoo.com
web: www.ulisesgonzales.blogspot.com


Tuesday 9-2
The Mac. Introduction/ Photoshop. Selection tools. CMYK and RGB/Duotone/ Resolution/ Getting images online/ Layers/ Colors/ The blog.

Tuesday 9-9
Photoshop Tools/Collage/Paste into/ Eraser/Feather & Crop/ Using the Stamp tool to fix an image.

Tuesday 9-16
Photoshop Tools. Getting images using the Pen tool/ Path. Presentation of Adobe Illustrator. Using Photoshop and Illustrator together. Exercises using Illustrator. The Illustrator Pathfinder window. Create the logo for your business card.

Tuesday 9-23
Finish your business card. Create two business cards (3.5” x 2”) Create a postcard (

Tuesday 9-30
NO CLASS

Tuesday 10-7
Quark Xpress. Tools. Boxes. Different kinds of layout. Fonts and layout. Designing your layout on paper.

Tuesday 10-14
NO CLASS (Monday schedule)

Tuesday 10-21
Creating the cover of a magazine using Photoshop, Illustrator and QuarkXpress.

Tuesday 10-28
Exercises using Quark Xpress tools.
Presentation of ½ of the final folder (Real examples of the use of Illustrator and Photoshop in print media)

Tuesday 11-4
Create a 1-page newsletter using Quark. Create a 4 page newsletter.

Tuesday 11-11
Working on your 4-page newsletter. Book and magazines layout: Exercises

Tuesday 11-18
Presentation of your newsletter/ The newspaper. Tabloid and Spread sheet newspapers. Layout of a newspaper. Tips for the layout of the front page of your own newspaper. Getting from Quark to the Web.

Tuesday 11-25
Exercise: The front page of the newspaper.

Tuesday 12-2
Exercise:The front page of the newspaper.

Tuesday 12-9
Exercise: The front page of the newspaper/Starting presentations of the blogs

Tuesday 12-16
Presentation of the blogs (Work during the semester). Presentation, in class, of the front page of your newspaper. Presentation of the portfolios (real examples of the use of Photoshop, Illustrator and Quark in print media.)

The blog, at the end of the semester MUST display: all the exercises worked in class during the semester , the final personal logo worked in the class, the final business card worked in the class, the 1-page newsletter, the cover of the magazine worked in the class, the first page of the 4-page newsletter. Every post should have your comments on your work.

The portfolio at the end of the semester MUST have: 5 illustrations worked with Illustrator, 5 images worked with Photoshop, 3 magazine covers, 3 newsletters, 3 front pages of different newspapers.

Grades:
Attendance 15%
Work in the class: 55%
Final Blog: 15%
Final folder: 15%