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7th Media Arts: Stop Motion Animation

Group stop motion. We will use not sets or props. Just our bodies, cameras, tripods and whatever you can find at the park.

Youtube Examples

Student examples:

6th Media Arts: Nature Face

Bring some goggley eyes to the park.
Make as many different faces as you can.
Take a minimum of 40 pictures.
Pay attention to framing and focus.

Painting and Drawing: Still Life

1. Perceive Artful Writing: Jonas Wood

2. Research
Still Life Painting-An Introduction from Frank Curkovic

VIDEO

Jonas Wood and Paul Wackers

What is contemporary art?
Elements of Art packet
Article: Famous Still Life Artists of the 20th century

KQED Elements of Art Videos

3. Inspiration
     Plant collage Pinterest
     Jonas Wood
Video: Jonas Wood

Strange Plants, Sculptures inspired by Terri Chiao & Adam Frezza

Terri Chiao & Adam Frezza website

Forrest Video
Cochella Installation Video

Paper Mâché Steps video

Image Search
More Images

demo videos:

1

2

Warm Ups:

video: paper plants

video: paper mâché cactus

Sight Unseen
The Art of Dr. Suess
paper mâché artist

7th Media Arts: Nature Photography

Gissel I., 6th grade

Research

1. Research Worksheet (green):

1. Photography Tips: Lessons to teach your child about digital photography
2. Photography  Vocabulary

Videos:
History of Photography Video
Taking Pictures, animated short
History of Photography in 5 minutes
A Brief History of the Camera
Nature's Best Photography
The Art of Portrait Photography (Off Book)
Documentary Photography (KQED)

Article: Why do photographs have so much meaning?
Ansel Adams Article.  Photography

1. Camera Contract-read and sign
2. Camera Settings

Step 1: Take Photos

Take photos of nature using your Nature Scavenger Hunt checklist. 

Keep in mind the camera settings, focus, and the framing tips we talked about ahead of taking our photos.

Step 2: Create a slideshow in iMovie

Upload your photos to your computer. Edit down to your best 10. Create a slideshow using iMovie. 

Your slideshow should include: 

·      Title

·      Music or sound

·      Credits. 

·      Optional: Effects, transitions and captions

Student Slideshows
iMovie Guide

Step 3: Write an artist statement (slideshow).

Step 4: Critique (slideshow)

Step 5: Design a Nature Quote Poster

Pick a nature quote, saying or poem that is meaningful to you, not too long, and you must include the author. Look at the links on the blog.
Find a quote here: BrainyQuote. Buzzfeed Nature Quote. GoodReads Nature. Make sure you attribute the author!
Use Canva.com to design

Step 6: Create an Animated Photo GIF

4. Design and create an Animated GIF in Photoshop

use pixlr.com for filters and effects.

Stereoscopic Photographs

Extra time: Be a Wildlife Photographer Game

Painting and Drawing: Draw a Map of a Fantasy Island

WHO HASN’T OCCASIONALLY DAYDREAMED OF leaving it all behind and running away to your own very special island?

If you could make an island to your exact specifications, what would it look like? What would make it unique—the true island of your individual dreams?

Maybe your island is made entirely of recycled bottles, or only accepts currency featuring Darth Vader. Perhaps your island is set up as a villains’ lair, or populated with magical creatures that don’t exist anywhere else in the world. Is your island an expansive paradise that will take years to explore, or a simple spot of sand surrounded by boundless ocean? Does it have a treehouse? A mansion? Is there a skull-shaped cave? A water park? A hidden base in a volcano? Mischievous monkeys? Pirate ghosts? A lost society of evolved super-beings?

Create an illustration of your perfect dream island, using the paper, pencil, and watercolor pencils provided. Upload to Seesaw and caption with a 4-5 sentence description of what makes your island special.

How to use watercolor pencil

6th Media Arts: Legendary Creatures

Directions

Vocabulary

Go to wordcentral.com and look up the definitions to the vocabulary words.

Research

1. What are myths? What are legends? What are folktales?
2. Mythical Creatures (answer the questions in your packet)

3. Myths, Legends, Fables and Folklore (answer the questions in your packet)

4. Look at these professional examples:

Photoshop Animals 1

Student examples

3. Write
Follow the directions on your worksheet, and us MSWord to write your legend.

4. Sketch

Sketch in your packet

5. Design

Collect Photos: Go to Morguefile.com , Pexels, pixabay to collect your photos. Copyright law: A Fair(y) Use Tale

VIDEOS

Photoshop animals

How is Photoshop used to trick us? Is anyone model perfect?
PBS Off Book: Photoshop

Disney Legends
The Tortoise and the Hare
Mythical Creatures part 1, part 2
Cows, cows, cows
Animal Planet: Monster Week
5 Mythical Creatures That Could Actually Exist
5 Unexplained Sea Creatures
10 Mythical Creatures Caught on Camera

article
Scholastic

*Extra time activities: SwitchZoo, Build Your Wild Self, Creature Creator

Painting and Drawing: Process-based and Experimental Drawing

We will use a variety of methods and techniques to explore the process of drawing and experimental drawing.
"Play" in Art presentation

Videos:
Kevin Champing on "Making Art" Series
Art 21: Arturo Herrera 

Pinterest video links-Fowler


1. Bulletism Drawing
Demo Video

2. Appropriation Collage
3. Directions Collage
4. Exquisite Corpse
5. Humanimal Collage
6. Collaborative Drawing (with tools)

Experimental Drawing Exercises

Oil Pastel Blending

Other Oil Pastel Videos

1

2

Collage Art by Adam Hale

7th Media Arts: Green Screen Landscape

We will digitally create a landscape in Photoshop. Then record you walking, floating or dancing in front of a green screen. We will impose the green screen footage over you illustration using iMovie.

Complete the research worksheet

What is a green screen?

How does a green screen work?
Princess as Small as a Grape Green Screen

landscape definition

Landscapes


Videos:
Timelapse creating an illustration in Photoshop
Applying filters in Photoshop

Sculpture: Wearable Sculpture, Ceremonial Dress

For this project we will look at wearable sculpture art and ceremonial dress and regalia. Then create our own wearable art works in small groups. We will present designs as a fashion show and videos.

Research
Vocabulary: regalia, ceremonial, embellishment,
Pinterest Examples

Videos:
Nick Cave
Nick Cave Art 21

Phyllis Galembo

Native American Dance and Regalia MN Original
Ivory Coast Mask Dance
Tibetian Snow Lion Dance

6 year old fashion designer
Fowler Museum


STEPS: Research, Plan and Sketch, Construct base, Add embellishment and decoration, Video movement of full costume on green screen, Fashion show!

Painting and Drawing: Neo Folk Art

Painting Practice:

1. Research. 
First research "Folk Art" Use the links below

• What is folk art?
• Go to the American Folk Art Museum, or the International Folk Art Museum website.  or the Craft and Folk Art Museum. Choose an artist. Answer the questions on the worksheet.
• Videos: Carlos Arredondo Folk Art
• Alebrijes of Oaxaca
• Neo Folk Art with Kristin Farr
• Research folk art from your own culture. Choose one example and post an image with a caption on Seesaw

2. Presentation: Neo Folk Art with Kristin Farr

Hex signs by Pennsylvania Dutch

3. Design. Draw your thumbnails in color. Pick your design and measure out your circle in pencil. Paint showing value and intensity.

4. Photograph and add to Seesaw with your artist statement

Video: Symmetry

Demo Videos
1. Thumbnails and Final Sketch

Warm Ups:
Symmetry basics
The Science of Symmetry
Symmetry Video

Ethiopian Baskets

Kristin Farr Painting Hecksagons

Kristin Farr, inspired by Pennsylvania Dutch

2. Painting your Final Design

6th Media Arts: Sketch Up Sculptures

You will be researching sculpture gardens, then planning and designing your own large-scale art for the outdoors. Think about materials, location, scale, environment and design You will use Sketch up to design your model, along with landscaping.

Research:
Pinterest: THIS PAGE may be blocked for you. Ms. Fowler will present.
1. Minneapolis Sculpture Garden (new sculptures)
2.Franconia Video.  CA Franconia Trip
3. Olympic Sculpture Park
4. Yorkshire Sculpture Park
5. Creator's Project Underwater Sculpture park

Warm Up Videos: Theo Jansen

Sculpture Garden websites: Walker Sculpture Garden.    Franconia.    Olympic Sculpture Park

6. Outdoor Sculptures

7. What is scale? Scale (Element of art)

8. Pick two random adjectives to incorporate into your sculpture.

9-12 in packet

Past student examples
Franconia sculpture park videos

Video: Getting Started in SketchUp

Extra Time games:
HomeStyler,       3Dtin,     My Imaginary City

Sculpture: Textiles, Fiber Arts and Weaving

On your own Research: Art History: Ancient Practice of Textile Art and How It Continues to Reinvent Itself

Artists: Genevieve Griffiths
Ana Teresa Barboza

As a class we will watch the videos.
Video:  The Art of Making a Tapestry

Video: Tanya Aguiniga

video: Faith Ringgold


Design:
 Video:Stiching on plastic canvas
Plastic Canvas Stitches videos

Warm Up video:
Olek

7th Media Arts: Stop Motion Animation

Research

Choose a Study ModeScatterLearnFlashcards

Study these flash cards | Study history flash cards

 How to make a stop-motion
1. Try a practice animation:

• Animation game
• Flipbook Animate
• Toy Theater Stop Motion Animation

2. Watch some stop-motion examples: Stop-motion Animations. Post a link of a stop-motion you like to Seesaw. VIMEO Stop motion, Or try youtube stop motion animation, Google stop-motion animation.

The Project:

WatchLip Syncing animation
Creating Lip Sync animation

Planning

Form groups of 3 or 4.

      Person 1- Director: Oversees the filming and production. Follows the storyboard.

      Person 2- Camera-person: Makes sure each shot is properly lit, in focus and steady.

      Persons 3 (and 4)- Actors: Either act in the movie or control the set/characters/objects.

Create

1. make your character, make your face parts. You need at least 3 sets of eyes and 5 mouths.
2. Think of a short voice over (4-5 sentences?). You can add this at the end.
3. Take pictures. At least 100 minimum
4. Edit your photos in iMovie

stop-motion in iMovie

Warm-up videos

The story of stop motion

Make stop motion with Kristen Lepore

2015 Student examples

2014 Student examples
2014 More student examples
2013 student examples

CA Poster Design Competiton "Friendship and Kindness"

The theme for March's Poster-Making Competition is Friendship and Kindness! Design a poster that fits this theme. The winning poster will be enlarged, duplicated, and put up around the school. The designer of the winning poster will get lunch provided by Student Council for themselves and two friends.

Submit your designs to Ms. Scott by Friday, March 16 to be entered into the competition. Physical submissions can be on regular computer paper and turned into room 209. Digital designs can be sent to scottc@colheights.k12.mn.us. If you have any questions, see Ms. Scott or ask a Student Council member.

Use photoshop or illustrator to design, or try these websites to make poster designs:

Canva

Crello

Sketch.io

Adobe Spark

PosterMyWall

Vennage

BeFunky

Desygner

Vectr

6th Media Arts: Green Screen Landscape

We will digitally create a landscape of an imaginary world. Then record you walking, flying or dancing in front of a green screen. We will impose the green screen footage over you illustration using iMovie.

Complete the research worksheet

What is a green screen?

How does a green screen work?
Princess as Small as a Grape Green Screen

landscape definition

Landscapes

Sketch.io

to create your landscape

Sketch.io Tutorials