Website Elements

Website Elements:

Link

Link

Link

Understanding Design Principles

Balance- is a description of equal visual weight.
Alignment- an arrangement forming a straight line.
Emphasis- an accentuation of importance.
Proportion- a scaling of objects in relation to each other.
Movement- a directed path of optical motion.
Pattern- an orderly repetition of an object.
Contrast- a juxtaposition that accentuates difference.
Unity- a harmonious arrangement of elements.

Balance/Contrast

This cover is equally distributed all over. The color contrasts with other colors and balances the rest of the page out. The visual aspects of it catches the readers eye with everything smoothly balanced out from side to side.

Rhythm/Repetition

The repeating elements with this cover photo is the colors, the colors have the repetition of similar consistent manner of an irregular jagged pattern. Both size and space stays consistent throughout the image.

Emphasis/Alignment

What draws the readers eye towards this type of picture is the middle piece, "the eyes", "the words" and the "colors" although there is a couple focal points they go together really well. A bold title also makes this piece have emphasis.

Unity/Proximity

Repeated color and shape, these elements go together and group together creating a contrast. the pattern weighs out by texture forming unity.

Copyright (Fair Dealing)

Camera Composition Techiques

What is Public Domain and Creative Common?

Public Domain and/or Creative Commons Material

Videos: Youtube

Youtube is a video-sharing website. The site allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report and comment on videos. Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and documentary films, audio recordings, movie trailers and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, but media corporations including CBS, the BBC, Vevo, and Hulu offer some of their material as part of the YouTube partnership program. Unregistered users can only watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos and add comments to videos. The default settings when uploading a video to YouTube will have a copyright on the video for the uploader, but since July 2012, it has been possible to select a Creative Commons license as the default, allowing other users to reuse and remix the material if it is free of copyright. 

Images: Google

Technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products that include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google Images is a search service owned by Google, that allows users to search the Web for image content. The default settings when looking for a Creative Common image you can set when looking for a Creative Common license photo.

Sounds: SoundCloud

SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform, that enables its users to upload, record, promote, and share their originally-created sounds, SoundCloud's content is music and other audio. Some of SoundCloud's features is the ability to allow artists to upload their music with a URL. Within SoundCloud, Creative Commons license, creators have the choice to give up certain rights associated with copyright, while retaining others. If you would like to apply a Creative Commons license and you have a respective SoundCloud license there are six different licenses that provide users with different levels of freedom. After you upload a track or playlist, you can select which license you would like to use for your content on SoundCloud. 

Fair Dealing and Copyright in Canada

Four of the Eight Fair Dealing Purposes

1. Research-

Research is the systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach conclusions. You may copy a article from each issue of a article for the purpose of private study or research. If you are planning on publishing your research, you are not allowed to include a copy of the article that you got the information with your publication. So you are researching for an article that you have decided to undertake, you find this site that gives you everything you need for your research article. You finally finish and decide to publish your work, the only thing you can't do is cite your source from where you got the information.

2. Education- 

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquiring of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. If an article is placed in class handout you can copy up to a full article for the purpose of education. So if a teacher wanted to pass out an article to his/hers class for an example of the work they wanted to do in class, they are allowed to copy. However, if the work is being distributed to an open audience or in a way that is not well defined such as commercial or advertisement is restricted.

3. Review- 

The analysis and judgment of a authors work. You can copy an entire article as part of a research process and include portions within your work. As part of your critique, review, or news report, you must mention the source and, if provided, list the authors or creators. So if you were to publish work and critique other sites work in your own you have to list the source and the authors or creators if given.

4. Other (public distribution, commercial use, profit, entertainment)- 

You are not allowed to use the copyright-protected work if it is not for the purpose of education, research, private study, satire, parody, criticism, review, or news reporting; OR Intended to be used for commercial activity, profit, entertainment, or public distribution. So if you would like to use music for non-educational purposes, for example, as background music,  or at a school event, licences should generally be obtained from the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada.

Copyright Decision Tool

1) What type of published work is it?

Audiovisual

For what purpose is the work being used?

Education

How will the work be distributed?

In class- This suggests that the use is permitted under fair dealing. You can present an audiovisual or sound recording in class as long as it was obtained legitimately (owned, borrowed, rented) and your audience consists only of students or instructors.

2) What type of published work is it?

Poem, Musical Score

Is the work from a copyright-protected work containing other such works?

Yes

For what purpose is the work being used?

Education

How will the work be distributed?

Class Handout- This use is permitted under fair dealing. You may copy the entire poem or musical score for the purpose of education.

3) What type of public work is it?

Artistic Work

Is the work from a copyright-protected containing other such works?

Yes

For what purpose is the work being used?

Education

How will the work be distributed?

Other- If the work is being distributed to an open audience or distributed in a way that is not well defined, contact your school's principal for further information and assistance.