6th 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 year.

Directions

1. Vocabulary

Use the Dictionary application for 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

 Photoshop Animals 2

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?

*Extra time activities: SwitchZoo

7th Media Arts: Fashion and Pattern design

Research

Try the two activities linked from caarts.blogspot.com

1. Symmetry Activity
   
2. Organic and Geometric Shapes
3. Patterns 
4. Practice making some patterns

Now lets look at some examples of print and pattern designs. Go to: Print and Pattern. Look through all of the examples (you can also go through the archives). Pick 3 and describe them. 

Look at some Columbia Academy student work

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

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

Champion Hoodie Remix (design a hoodie)
Nike iD (design a shoe)

Videos
The Art of Making Red Dress
fashion career
Advice on becoming a fashion designer
Parsons Fashion Design

Painting and Drawing: Collage Portraits

1. Watch presentation and take notes
Mark Bradford videos, Mark Bradford Vimeo
Romare Bearden

2. Explore these websites:
Romare Bearden website
Collage Maker

3. Take a picture of yourself. Save it to the Fowler>Classroom>Paint/Draw folder. Ms. FOwler will print it. Trace onto white paper.


Extra Credit: Humanimal collage

8th Media Arts: Alice in Wonderland Posters

Your class has been hired to design posters for the musical "Alice in Wonderland Jr.".

Research 

First watch some movie clips and look at what other designers have done.

Links

Alice in Wonderland Jr poster designs

Video Clips

Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland

Vimeo A in W

Alice in WOnderland (Disney)

Disney- Down the Rabbit hole

Plan

Sketch an idea. You can design using copy-right free photos, or scan a drawing and edit on the computer

Design

Start by using the template. Go to Fowler-Classroom > Materials and copy the poster template to the desktop.

Evaluate and Critique.

One winner (or more) will be chosen to print professionally. Write an artist statement and do an online critique.

Videos
Poster Design

7 Media Arts: Photo Scavenger Hunt

History of Photography Video

1. Camera Contract-read and sign
2. Camera Settings
3. Macro Photos
4. Practice uploading photos
5. Worksheet
1. Link 1
2. Link 2
6. Photo Scavenger Hunt
7. Create iMovie of photos: Examples

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

Extra time: Be a Wildlife Photographer Game

Class Dojo

Class Dojo Video

6th Media Arts: Creature Photographs

Creature Photographs
1. Make a monster
2. We will photograph our monsters in the wild! You must photography your monster in a minimum of 5 different habitats
3. Make a slideshow

Here are some links to help inspire you:
Lots of monsters
More Monsters

Painting and Drawing, Oct. 1

1. Finish your "expand a picture"
2. Contour line drawing

3. Drawing animals using basic shapes
4. Animal practice
5. Charcoal value scale

Sept 27, 8 gold 2. Be a Media Critic

8th graders, YOU HAVE NEVER DONE THIS PACKET! Don't even try to act like you have. You can work in partners or alone. Use headphones if you have them. This packet must be completed by the end of class, or it's a zero!!!

Go to Artopia to complete the packet.

Watch the One Minute Movie

Click on Be a Media Critic

Photography

1. Click on "photography." Choose 1 photograph and write about what you see on your worksheet.

2. Click on "do more", the "write about it." Write about how 2 different elements or principles of design are used.

3. Write your opinion of the photo in complete sentences.

Radio Production

4. Listen to one radio production and write about what you hear

5. Write about how the producer expresses the message

6. Write about your opinion of the production

Film Production

7. Choose a film and make a list of what you see

8. Click on "more" under your film clip, the click on "do more," then "write about it." How are two elements or principles used? (use the "word back if you need too)

9. What is your opinion and how did it make you feel?

Vintage Television

10. Choose a TV clip and make a list of what you see

11. Click on "more" under your film clip, the click on "do more," then "write about it." How are two elements or principles used? (use the "word back if you need too)

12. What is your opinion and how did it make you feel?

Electronic Arts- Keep it Real Website

13. make a list of what you see and hear

14. How are two elements or principles used? 

15. What is your opinion and how did it make you feel?

How to Be a Critical Viewer

Sept. 27, 7gold 3

1. Finish your "Cartoon Yourself " project.
2. Open MS Word and write an artist statement to go online with your project. It must be one paragraph- a minimum of 3 sentences.

• You might want to write about what you learned (vocabulary words, software, tools, etc). You could write about what you think you did well or what you could improve. You could write about why you chose the expression you did, or what background details you chose to include. It is up to you what you want to share in your artist statement with the viewer.

3. If you finish, download another photo and create a cartoon out of it. You could chose an animal, a celebrity, or some kind of scene. You can download copyright free photos from morguefile.com ( we will talk more about copyright law later).

8 Media Arts: Klimt-inspired Portraits

"The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt, 1907

One of the most reproduced paintings

1. Watch a slide show of past student work.

2. Read about Gustav Klimt and answer the questions on your worksheet.

3. Go to Art Lex and search "Art Nouveau." Read and look through examples. Then use the dictionary to complete the Vocabulary section.

4. Start your design. Watch the demonstrations and follow the directions on your worksheet.

Video: How to use patterns in Photoshop

Download Photoshop Patterns

5. If you have extra time, explore iKlimt

or Color a Pattern

Klimt's portrait "Adele Bloch-Bauer I" sold for $135 million, the highest price ever reported on a painting

7 Media Arts: 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.

Look at these examples from last year

We will practice writing an artist statement to go along with your project.

Media Arts Procedures

Read through worksheet

Log on to assigned computer

Complete the worksheet. You will need this link and the flashcards:

• Find it Game
• Go to these computer knowledge games

Writing Practice: How to be a Critical Viewer

Go to this link. Choose one cigarette advertisement and answer the questions on the screen. When you are finished, sign up on the board so Ms. Fowler can come and print it. Grab it from the black and white printer, sign your name, and put in the HAND IN WORK basket.

Try it:

Try these Media Arts activities: Media Studio

Painting and Drawing, Illuminated Letters

Illuminated Letter Forms

Inspirational Videos

Inspirational  Videos for Students

Dalton

Kid President

Get Results

Live Young

Don't Argue with Idiots

People are Awesome

How to be Amazing

Science of Happiness

Media Arts Introduction Videos

Portfolio of Media Arts, Polyester Studios
Portfolio of Motion Graphics

One Minute Movie: The History of Media

Media Arts Academy

Extra time activities: Media Studio

Elements of Media Arts: Discuss and look at "LMG" by Matt S.

Painting and Drawing, Intro

Welcome to painting and drawing.

Art is not just about having a great piece of work at the end, it is about the process and what you learn and discover along the way.

For our first exercise, see what you can discover...



Instant Face Maker from FaceHeads on Vimeo.

7th Media Arts, Student Stew

Student Stew

1.  Answer the questions on the form

2.  Look at typography examples

3.  Create a design with your answers

Planner: Write the definition to “typography”

8th Media Arts, Classmate Collage

Classmate Collage (What is a collage?)

1.  Interview a partner

2.  Use their answers to create a collage

3.  Introduce them to the class

Planner: Write the definition to “collage”

6th Media Arts, Coat of Arms

Student Scavenger Hunt

1. When Ms. Fowler says go, take your sheet and something to write with around the room. 
2. Ask everyone questions. Find someone to sign each category

Introduction "Coat of Arms"

1. Read about the meaning of a "coat of arms"
2. How can you show your personality and what is important to you?
3. Use symbols and colors in each panel
4. We will use these to introduce a partner to the class.

Planner: Write the definition to “digital art”

CA Technology Videos

CA Technology videos

Introduction

Haiku deck presentation

Technology Survey

Secondary Technology Survey

7th Media Arts: Design a Magazine cover

1. Research

Research Magazine Covers

Pick one magazine and answer the questions on your worksheet

2. Vocabulary

you can use your dictionary application

3. Sketch your own original magazine cover
Examples

4. Start designing in Photoshop

7th Photo Scavenger Hunt

1. Camera Contract-read and sign
2. Camera Settings
3. Macro Photos
4. Practice uploading photos
5. Worksheet
1. Link 1
2. Link 2
6. Photo Scavenger Hunt
7. Create iMovie of photos: Examples

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

6th Media Arts: Mascot Designs

Columbia Academy needs a mascot! We will be learning Adobe Illustrator to create mascot designs.

What is a mascot?
Use the dictionary to write the definitions to you words on your worksheets.

Brainstorm. Use these links and brainstorm idea designs on your worksheet:
Mascot Examples 1
Mascot Examples 2
HYLANDER MASCOT

You can start with existing vector graphics from vecteezy.com, but you must alter it to make it your own!

6th and 7th Media Arts

Design a cover for next year's planner!

The winning design will appear on hundreds of student planners!

• Look at the links for some inspiration
• Planner Cover Designs
• Student Planners
• Sketch your idea
• Then design on the computer
• Follow the directions on your worksheet closely!

Videos:What is Graphic Design1What is Graphic Design 2

8th Media Arts, Soundtrack

1. Complete the Research and Planning worksheet

• Vocabulary

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

3. Read directions and watch a demo video

4. GarageBand Manual

Example Video 

Jurassic Bark: How Sound Design changed our Imaginations

8th Media Arts: Nature Quote Designs

Steps

1. Pick a nature/spring quote. Find one that is meaningful to you, not too long, and you must include the author. Search on your own, or use these links:
1. Pintrest Nature Quotes
2. Quotations Page, nature
3. Brainy Quote, nature
4. Earth day quotes
5. Spring quotes
2. Take a photograph for the background 
1. We will try lots of different kinds of shots- First look up each shot here
2. Ms. Fowler will demonstrate some
3. Shoot pictures. You will choose one of your photos to use as the background to your quote.
3. Design in Photoshop 
1. Use effects, color adjustments and filters
2. Add your text. You may want to download a custom font. You can find some free fonts here. Or any of the other "Free font" links on the right-hand side.
4. When we are finished we will save as "YourLastName Quote.psd" to the HAND IN WORK folder, and save it in your own folder.
5. Write an artist statement
6. Display and critique

*If you have extra time, go to

Pixlr-o-matic

PhotoOp

6th Media Arts, Digital Cartoons

For this project you will design cartoon characters, then choose one to make into a digital comic strip.

1. Research (watch a slideshow of last years characters) (or see more here), and Vocabulary

2. Brainstorm characters and cartoons. Draw a different design in each box of your brainstorming worksheet.

3. Try these online games

    Comic Creator

     Flipbook

     Domo Animate

4. Illustrator Tools practice

5. Design your frames

6. Create your movie

Videos:

Laylah Ali

How to create cartoon characters

8th Self-Portrait Photography

1. Complete the photography worksheets using these two links:

13 Lessons to teach your child about photography

Photography Vocabulary

2. Check out cameras. Follow Ms. Fowler's directions on setting up your camera

3. Take 20 to 30 pictures that show who you are. Try close-ups, blurry or out of focus shots, different expressions, disguises, etc. You are trying to show the real you. Delete the pictures you don't like.

4. Import pictures to your computer

5. Create a collage designs of your photos using Photoshop. You can cut your pictures up, add words, repeat things, change the color, etc. The size should be "U.S. Paper" or 8.5 inches wide by 11 inches tall. 300ppi.

6. Save your collage to the HAND IN FINAL WORK folder as "YourLastNameCollage".

VIDEO OF EXAMPLES

Have fun!

6th 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 year.

Directions

1. Vocabulary

Use the Dictionary application for 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

 Photoshop Animals 2

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

*Extra time activities: go to Remix Art Studio or Pixlr-o-matic

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