Your CPE Project and the Rest of the Semester

I hope it was an enjoyable break for all of you!
We will have a couple of photography assignments remaining for the rest of the break, while you simultaneously work on your CPE project.
This week we will be focusing on the following components of your CPE project:

1. Creating templates for your DVD artwork, which includes the Front, Inside, Spine, and Back artwork.

2. Creating an iMovie Project in the 'Previous Version' of iMovie software. This will include learning all about the 'Ken Burns Effect' if you choose to use this for your CPE movie.

3. Exporting your CPE movie to iDVD.

Your CPE project is due by the last day of the semester on January 29th.

IMPORTANT! YOUR C.P.E. MUST BE TURNED IN WITH YOUR COVER, INSIDE COVER, AND BACK COVER CUT, AND INSERTED INTO YOUR JEWEL CASE. PROJECTS UNCUT AND WITHOUT A JEWEL CASE CAN ONLY RECEIVE A MAXIMUM OF 75%. REMEMBER TO WORK ON YOUR COVER EARLY SO YOU CAN PRINT IT OUT AND NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE LAST MINUTE RUSH TO PRINT.

For this project you will be turning your photos into a video using iMovie. You can use the Ken Burns effect to navigate around individual photos or use your photos as stills, it's up to you.
You will give this project a face and name of your very own choosing and use it on the album cover, that will have a cohesive design with the text and imagery used on the inside of your cover. The end result will be a nicely packaged DVD that you will burn using iDVD.
What will your project be about?
Will you keep it, or give it to someone else as a gift?
Either way it should be something of meaning that you or someone you know can look back on when they're old and remind you about the little things that make up life in the year 2009/2010.

Here are the Requirements:

1. The C.P.E. DVD must be a minimum of 6 minutes long with the title of your project and your name at the beginning of the video.
2. The C.P.E. DVD must have an audio track of at least 1 or more songs of your choosing. (I find that it's always best to find music that fits the mood or theme of the photos you're presenting, but that is not a requirement for the C.P.E.)
3. The C.P.E. DVD must have a cover that you design in Photoshop CS3. The project template will be 9.50 in Wide x 4.75 Height with a resolution of 300. Use your 'Ruler Guide' to mark the center of your project. This is where you will fold your project to make the Cover and the Inside Cover. Both will have a cohesive look them that will add to the overall look of the C.P.E.
4. The Back art is 5.85 inches Wide X 4.75 inches High. You will place a ruler guides at 0.240 inches across and at 5.600 inches across to mark where your spine artwork will be located. You will include your name and the name of your project on both of these spines.
5. The C.P.E. will then be burned onto a DVD using iDVD.
The C.P.E. is dueby the last day of the semester and must be cut and inserted into a jewel case to receive full credit.
NOTE: Some of you might want to start out by designing your cover art and print it early so you don't get stuck on the final rush to print (which as you very well know takes a long, long, long, long, long, long time.) Think about it.
Without cover art the most you can get on this project is a 75%.
Don't wait on this project! Get out and take some great photos, Rock the C.P.E., and most importantly, have fun!