Monday, December 18, 2017

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
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

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

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.

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.


Tuesday, December 5, 2017

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