Painting and Drawing, Nature Pastels

First: Flower oil pastels

Second: Outside drawing from observation

We will be using oil pastels to draw from nature.

Supplies: Drawing board, paper, oil pastels, paper towel

Look for: an interesting composition. Maybe focus on something close up.

Study the light and shadows, the textures, and the color. What colors might you need to blend? How can you change your pastel marks to show the texture?

Fill the page, edge to edge.

Painting and Drawing

Famous Paintings Photo Booth
(examples):








Directions:
1. Work in groups of 4. Choose a painting
2. Research your painting and answer the questions on your worksheet
3. Project and trace your painting
4. Paint
5. Cut out the face holes
6. Decide how the booth will be set up for photos

7th Photo Scavenger Hunt

1. Camera Contract
2. Camera Settings
3. Macro Photos
4. Practice uploading photos

5. Photo Scavenger Hunt
6. Create iMovie of photos

• Upload photos to computer
• Watch example movie
• Import photos to iMovie
• Edit down to best 10-15 photos
• Add titles, captions and credits

Elements of Media Arts

Space, Motion, Sequence, Image, Sound, Time

Breaking down a video into elements

Painting and Drawing, Friendship bracelets

Candy Stripe

Basic Knots

Inverse Chevron

8th Media Arts, Video Poems

For this project your will be creating a video poem using iMovie and video footage. Use this blog post to complete your research and planning packets. Ms. Fowler will show you examples.

1. Use the dictionary application to write the definitions to the words on your worksheet

2. Find a poem (or write your own original poem!).

Poetry Foundation for teens

Poetry 180

Story It Poems
Kenn Nesbitt
Famous Poets and Poems

Make sure it is one you really like.

2. Storyboard. Plan out your video on the worksheet. Write down what words will be on the screen at the same time (break the poem up into stanzas), and what kind of video may will go with it. Fill a minimum of 6 frames.

Student Example 1

Student Example 2

Student Example 3
Student Example 4

3. Shoot your video and upload to your computer. Copy files to your folder as back up. You can also use copyright free photos or your own original art work. (You could try drawing in Photoshop or Illustrator!)

4. Put it all together in iMovie. You will have to import your video and type the captions or record a voice over. Choose transition effects, video effects and titles/credits. Choose animation effects for your type. Change the fonts and colors.

5. Think about the pace of your movie. Try using a variety of shots: close-ups, far away, color, black and white. You should still make sure your images relate to each other. They should look like they belong together.

6. Try adding background sound or music. You can make your own music in GarageBand

7. When you are finished, Go to Share > Export Movie. Save it as "YourLastNameVideoPoem", and the size "Large", to the Desktop. Copy the file to your folder, and the HAND IN WORK folder.

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