7th Media Arts: Pattern and Fashion Design

Vocabulary
Go to this website: Artlandia, to find the definitions to the following words: symmetry, geometric, organic, pattern, ornate, textile, client, mass market.
Research

Try the two activities linked from caarts.blogspot.com

1. Symmetry Activity
   
2. Symmetry Activity 2
3. Paternico
4. Practice making some patterns

Now lets look at some examples of print and pattern designs:
- The Pattern Library
- Print All Over Me
- Pattern Designs

Look at some Columbia Academy student work

Sketch your ideas
Draw 9 designs that will be turned into repeating patterns

Design
Follow the directions on your worksheets to design 3 different patterns and apply them to 3 different items. 

NEXT: Create an original fashion design! Ms. Fowler will give you directions

Haute Couture "high sewing"

Warm Ups:
Create a polyvore inspiration board for your client. 

Spread Shirt (Design a T-shirt)

EXTRA TIME ACTIVITIES:
Champion Hoodie Remix (design a hoodie)

Nike iD (design a shoe)

  F A S H I O N   D E S I G N   D E M O N S T R A T I O N   V I D E O. 

Videos

Skill Share: Designing Patterns
4-year old Fashion Designer
YouthDigital, Fashion Design

What does it take do be a fashion designer?

Parsons Fashion Design

Brief History of High Fashion Kicks


Student Examples:
Fashion Designs
Fabric Designs

8th: Motion Graphics

How can typography (the art of designing letters and words) bring a sentence to life? We will be creating typographic movies of a favorite quote, saying, line from a movie or song lyric.

Research and Planning

Go the the Graphic Design Dictionary and write the definition for some key terms.

font, frame, graphics, layers, opacity, pixel, RGB, typography

Pick a short poem, a quote, a famous saying, a song lyric, or a line from a movie. You want people to get it so pick something recognizable, or something emotionally powerful.
Try these links:
100 Short Poems 
100 Songs Best Lines,
RollingStoneBestLyrics ,
famous quotes,
inspirational quotes,
famous lines from movies or search on your own.

Video: All of the Lights
Video: History of Animation and Motion Graphics (Off Book PBS)
Video: GCF Typography basics

Off Book: Typography

Typographic motion graphics video examples.

Create

1. Sketch a storyboard (plan out what will go on each slide).
2. Download fonts and background graphics. All images must be copyright free!

Design

Follow Ms. Fowler's demonstration.
Download background music:
Bensound here
Free Music Archive

Present

Online and to the class

Reflect and Critique

You will participate in a class critique and use a critique form to evaluate classmates.

Student Examples 1 

Student Examples 2

Student Examples 3

Convert a youtube video into an mp3 for your project here

6th Media Arts: VIdeo Haiku

Haiku Introduction (video)
Introduction video 2

1. Complete the introduction worksheet on haikus
2. Nature Word List
3. Write it down
4. Storyboard your haiku
5. Design your backgrounds in sketch.io
6. Save each (4 minimum- Title, line 1, line 2, line 3) as jpegs
7. Put together your you pictures with music and words in iMovie

Video

Warm Ups:
Video Haiku 1
Video Haiku 2
Jhaiku animation

Haiku Battle

Buttons and T-shirts for a Social Issue

For this project you will be designing T-shirts with a message. You should address a social issue you feel strongly about and create a design that reflects your feelings. First complete the Research and Planning worksheets. 

Vocabulary

Use the dictionary on your computer to look up the following words: social justice, *communicate * persuade * protest * issue * propaganda

Research

1. Look at these Links as a class:

• Pintrest page of T-shirt Designs.
• Graphic Advocacy Posters

2. Look through the links on your own. Pick your favorite three designs and answer the questions on your worksheet.
Iconsforchange.com

Makayla W.

NoGodsNoMasters T-shirts
Spreadshirt Activist Ts
AllRiot T-shirts

3. Now research a social issue that you would like to address. This link may help. Circle one of the subjects on your worksheet, or write in your own

4. Sketch 12 different designs.

5. Create a document to try some different fonts and text effects.
Tutorial video on basics of working with text
How to design a T-shirt in Illustrator (Adobe Tutorial)
Design a T-shirt in Illustrator (video)

6. Download symbols or pictograms here: TheNounProject.com
Use your school email and password.

Choose one design to create in Adobe Illustrator. Show Ms. Fowler to "okay" before you begin on the computer.
Follow the design directions on your worksheet.

Warm Ups
Video: Design of Dissent
Video: The Art of Protest
Video: Posters of Protest
Video: Graphic Design Fundamentals
Podcast: Protest Posters

8th Media Arts: Claymation

Research

1. Try a practice animation:

• Animation game
• Flipbook Animate
• Toonator

2. Find a claymation to share with the class

Claymation Videos  

Vimeo Claymation Staff Picks
TheKidsShouldSeeThis
ThisIsColassalClaymation

3.Vocabulary

4. Plan your claymation
Making Claymation in the Classroom

Warm Ups:

Pingu
Fresh Guacamole
Making of the Corpse Bride
Frankenweenie Featurette
Making of the Nightmare Before Christmas
Marcel the Shell

Make a Stop-Motion with Kristen Lepore

Planning

Pick a partner

1. Watch How to make a stop-motion
2. Draw your storyboard. Your character(s) must transform and move. There will be no dialogue. There will be a music background or overdub. Keep your idea simple-the characters morphs into different shapes? Maybe your character(s) dances?
3. 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. Both are in charge of editing the movie together.

Create

1. Download some photo options for your green screen set at PEXELS or Pixabay. Or use Google image search but be sure your image is large.
2. Create a title sequence, or other practice sequence.
3. Make your characters, and anything else you need.
4. Take pictures
5. Edit your photos in iMovie
   

stop-motion in iMovie

SaveSave

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

8th Media Arts: Into the Woods

8th graders have been hired to design "Into the Woods" T-shirts and Posters.
Chosen designs will be featured as the actual T-shirts and Posters for this year's CA musical.
video clips
trailer

From Ms. Lorence--

I’d like to stay away from a white or black t-shirt as that is what we have had in the past.

My overall vision for the production is dark woods for a background with bright colored costumes and a storybook feel (see attached images). Some main themes and or objects we see throughout the play are:

-          The dark woods

-          Cow as white as milk

-          Cape as red as blood

-          Slipper as pure as gold

-          Hair as yellow as corn

-          The phrase “I wish…” 

Hope this gives you a good start! Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks! Ms. Lorence

1. Research and sketch ideas

Research "Into the Woods" Tshirts
Into the Woods Jr. Search                                                                                                                                                             

Research "Into the Woods" Poster designs

2. Design

We will use Adobe Illustrator to create your designs. Follow the steps in your packet.

- Symbols at thenounproject.com. Log in using school Google.
- Background image: pexels   or   pixabay
- Add filters and effects to photos on pixlr.comhttps://pixlr.com/express/
- Fonts at dafont.com.  or   behance.    or.   https://www.1001freefonts.com  

T-shirt printer

6 Media Arts: You Are What You Eat!

Research and Planning Worksheet

1. Questions 1-5: Guiseppe Arcimboldo
2. Go to Blast off
3. Student Examples     
4. Search for food photos
5. Go to roll-a-die to pick your theme

*If you have extra time, try these nutrition games:

Nutrition for Kids

Videos

Work of Archimboldo

Art with Mati and Dada: Archimboldo
Garbage Selfies KQED

Extra Credit: create a "Super Crazy School Lunch"

Choose a theme for your lunch tray (for example: gross lunch, bear lunch, treasure lunch, zombie lunch, dream lunch, alien lunch, shark lunch, etc.).

7th Media Arts: Animation and Cartoon

The Animated History of Animation from MC on Vimeo.
This animated gif project relates to the animation projects we will try later in the semester.

1. Watch a video on the history of animation: The Animated History of Animation

2. Create a Thumbatrope

3. Research GIF art and animated gifs
GIF Artists:
Kevin Weir
30 Best animated gif artists
Gif artists to know
Mr. Div
Stereoscopic GIFs

Gif pal examples: One, Two, Three, Four, Five

Michelle Mendez Bravo's website

STUDENT examples: Look at these examples from last year

4. Create your own Animated GIF
You can make as many as you like. Be creative and original! Turn in your best gif(s) to the HAND IN WORK folder.

Create an Animated Pixel GIF

1. Draw your pixel art
2. Draw how it will move (animate)
Here is a link to PIXEL Art Ideas

3. Use this websites to make and animate your pixel. Piskelapp
4. Download and turn in to Fowler Classroom
5. Upload to Seesaw as a mp4 file

CARTOON Yourself:

This project will introduce you to some basic Photoshop tools and using mouse control. We will use Photoshop to trace a digital photo and show an expressive and emotive cartoon face.

Rotoscope
How to Rotoscope Video
Rotoscoped Music Video (Sims, LMG)
Skateboard rotoscope

Cartoon examples 1
Cartoon examples 2

Try it:
If you have extra time, try-
Flipbook Animate
Zimmer Twins Make a Movie
Art Pad
ABC Animate
FlipAn
Toonator
Mixamo
Voki

Other gif makers:
-- Gifmaker
-- Imgflip
-- CreateMeme

Articles:
Coco up for Oscar

Award winning animations:
Fox and a Mouse
Piper
Dust Bunnies
Sweet Cocoon
Fox and the Whale

2017 Oscar Shorts
2018 Oscar Short Nominations

Warm Up Videos: The Story of Animation
History of Animation
PBS Off Book: The Art of Animation and Motion Graphics
PBS Off Book: Animated GIFs

8th Media Arts: GarageBand Sound Design

Videos

1. What is a foley artist?
2. Foley artist CBS News
3. Vimeo, Portrait of a Sound Design artist. Youtube
4. Music Technology
Extra:Audio Engineer and Producer: Chris Monsanto

Research

1. Vocabulary
           public domain
2. Pick a famous music producer. Write a few sentences about them.
3. Read Jay Z article and answer questions.

NPR story "Beat Kits" Producer

NPR Godzilla Sound

Making your soundtrack- videos:
Air Music Video
Bon Iver, Hinnom, TX
Garageband Sample Track
Student Example Video
Jordan, 6 year old
Artists and bands who use garageband

Choose a video

1. Find the Materials folder in the Fowler Classroom folder with the "GarageBand CC videos" videos.
2. Or, if you have extra time, download a video from the Moving Image Archive
 * Download as a MP4 file or a Mpeg. Follow Ms. Fowler's directions to either loop it or edit it to make it between 1:30 and 2:00 minutes.

Garageband Help

You tube, Working with loops Video

GarageBand Manual

EXTRA TIME:
Audio Sauna
Button Bass
Incredibox
Patatap
Soundation
Soundtrap
Noisli

Halloween Sounds

6th Media Arts: Puppet Movie Trailer

Research:
Video Example: Puppet Movie Trailer Proposal
iMovie Trailer Planning worksheets

Design:
Creating a Trailer in iMovie

Best movie trailers of the past 20 years.
5 attributes of a good trailer.

Trailers:
Where the Wild Things Are
The Shining
Lilo and Stich (mash ups)
Blair Witch Project
Guardians of the Galaxy
Cloverfield

8th Media Arts: Monogram Logo Design

Research and Brainstorming:

1. Watch the presentation on logo design.

2. Look up vocabulary words: logo, monogram, vector graphic.

3. Look at the websites  and watch the videos below: Logo Lounge,    Simple Logo Designs,   Vintage Logos,   Logo Awards,  Logos 99

Videos: Draplin Logo Design
The Art of the Logo Design (PBS)
Hidden messages in logo designs (video)
Logo Animation
What makes a truly great logo?
Logo Design Process by Swerve
Monogram Logo Design, video 1
Article: Controversial Cleveland Indians Logo


4. Look through the printed out logo designs on your tables

5. Fill your page with different monogram designs
and go through the folders with samples for some logo design inspiration

Create on the computer
Choose your final design. Use Adobe Illustrator to carefully design your logo. Use precise geometry. When your logo is final, try different color and layout variations on the billboard/cup/hat/shirt image below.

Student Examples

Extra time?
Try
Fontstruct
Shape type
Typing Games
Sky chase

7th 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