Fowler Arts: March 2015

Thursday, March 19, 2015

8th grade Garageband Project

Introduction Videos

Foley artist CBS News
Foley artist, Today Show
Vimeo, Gary Hecker Sound artist
Vimeo, Sound and Time
Vimeo, Portrait of a Sound Design artist
NPR Godzilla Sound

1. Complete the Research and Planning worksheet

Vocabulary
For "track" and "loop" use this link

2. Choose a found video to compose music for. It must be 1:30 minutes or longer.

3. Wikihow instruction and video

4. GarageBand Manual

Music videos:
Air Music Video
Bon Iver, Hinnom, TX

Other videos:
Student Example Video
Jordan, 6 year old
Artists and bands who use garageband

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

7th Media Arts: Stop Motion Animation

Research

1. Try a practice animation:

2. Watch some stop-motion examples: Stop-motion Animations

The story of stopmotion
3. Find a cool stop-motion to share with the class.Vimeo stop motion animation. or Google stop-motion animation.

Watch How to make a stop-motion

Planning

Watch How to make a stop-motion
Fill out planning portion

Draw your storyboard STORYBOARD EXAMPLES

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 set, characters, lettering, and anything else you need.
2. Create a title sequence
3. Take pictures
4. Edit your photos in iMovie

stop-motion in iMovie

If you finish early, try these games:

Quizlet.com, home of free online educational games

Study these flash cards | Study history flash cards

Student examples
More student examples
more ore student examples

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

8th Media Arts: Double Exposure Portraits

Double Exposure Examples

Follow the demonstration to combine two photos in Photoshop to create a "double exposure"

Student examples

Thursday, March 5, 2015

6th grade: Legendary Creatures

Introduction

We will write a story about a made-up Legendary Creature, then use Adobe Photoshop to collage together photos to illustrate our creature. Here are some examples from last semester.

Directions

1. Vocabulary

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

2. Research

a. Mythical Creatures (answer the questions in your packet)

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

c. Look at these professional examples:

Photoshop Animals 1

3. Sketch

Sketch in your packet

4. Write

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

5. Design

Go to Morguefile.com to collect your photos

VIDEOS

Photoshop tutorial

Photoshop animals

How is Photoshop used to trick us? Is anyone model perfect?

Disney Legends
The Tortoise and the Hare
Mythical Creatures part 1, part 2
Cows, cows, cows
Animal Planet: Monster Week

*Extra time activities: SwitchZoo, Build Your Wild Self

Monday, March 2, 2015

Use one of the 3 online apps to create a sound project.

Lullatone Raindrop Melody Maker

Incredibox

Patatap

Theremin

Once you have tried them all, and found one you like, practice on creating an interesting piece of music. Then use Quicktime Player to record a screencast. (Ms. Fowler will demonstrate).