University Projects

I attended the Graduate Recruitment and Placements Fair at the University of Hertfordshire. At the Workfest there were three companies that Jo recommended we speak with, as they were interested in students studying Digital Media Design. These companies included: DMS ( http://www.dmsukltd.com/ ) DMS were looking for students in all different courses. The position that related most to my course was applying to be a motion graphic designer. This fits really well with the course because of our upcoming motion graphic live brief with Ocado. DMS wanted individuals with basic knowledge of Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro, which I will be learning within the next few months. They stated that they were unsure whether they were accepting internships/placements, but if they were; they would be publicised in January. DMS' Contact Details Salmon Limited  (https://www.salmon.com/en/) I had quite a negative experience with Salmon.  I immediately got the impressi...

Today's session on SASS & Node.js After downloading Node.Js we checked that it had installed using the terminal. By entering "node --version" this outputs the version that is installed. We then needed to install Sass. On windows using "npm install sass -g" and on Mac using "sudo npm install sass -g" because without entering my password, I didn't have permission to download sass. This successfully installed Sass. SASS allows us to import files and both SCSS and SASS allow us to use variables unlike CSS. We can use the terminal to convert a SCSS file into a CSS file. I made a few mistakes however I managed to convert the SCSS file into a CSS file using the terminal. The "cd command and the file path of the folder" allowed the terminal to find the folder. The command "ls" displayed the contents of the folder. The command "sass test.scss test.css" converted the scss file into a css file w...