6th Media Arts: Legendary Creatures

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. 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

*Extra time activities: SwitchZoo, Build Your Wild Self, Creature Creator

Fashion Design

This project has two parts. First design textiles or fabrics. Then designing clothing/outfits with your textile designs.

Student Examples:
Fashion Designs
Fabric Designs

Vocabulary
Use this dictionary (or the one on your computer) 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. Organic and Geometric Shapes
3. Patterns 
4. Practice making some patterns

Now look at some links to textile and pattern designs. Pick 3 and describe them in you packet. 
- print and pattern designs
- Google Print 
- Google Pattern. 
- Print and pattern blog
- printallover.me

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!

Create a polyvore inspiration board for your client. Email a link to Ms. Fowler: fowler@colheights.k12.mn.us

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

Sketch your fashion design ideas. Look at some haute couture for inspiration.
Haute Couture "high sewing" Dresses
more Haute Couture

Videos

1. 4-year old Fashion Designer
2. One Look: Dior Dress
3. The Art of Making Red Dress

4. Project Runway Designs

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

Custom Ink
Construct

Extra:
fashion career

Parsons Fashion Design

Famous Fashion Designers, Bio
Fashion design career

Stop Motion Animation

Research

1. Try a practice animation:

• Animation game
• Flipbook Animate
• Toy Theater Stop Motion Animation

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

The story of stop motion

3. YOU Find a stop motion. Find a cool stop-motion to share with the class. Click here for: VIMEO Stop motion, Or try youtube stop motion animation, Google stop-motion animation.
Make stop motion with Kristen Lepore

Watch How to make a stop-motion

Planning

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

Draw your storyboard
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:

• Animation game
• Flipbook Animate
• Toy Theater Stop Motion Animation

Choose a Study ModeScatterLearnFlashcards

Study these flash cards | Study history flash cards

2015 Student examples
2014 Student examples
2014 More student examples
2013 student examples

Media Arts: One Hour of Code

Complete one of the following:
Flappy Birds Code
Lightbot Code
Minecraft

Extra time:
Try Code Combat

6th Media Arts: How to Movie

1. Research. What could you make instructions for? Could be funny, could be serious, must be simple.
Video: "The rise of web comics" PBS Offbook
2. "How to" cartoon movie examples
more comic movies
3. Write and storyboard your story
4. Design your frame in Adobe Illustrator. Save a copy of each as a jpeg
5. Import into iMovie
6. Add a title, credits, captions, music, sound effects. etc.
7. Export and hand in!

Extra time?
Explore some digital comics:
Homestuck
Daisy Owl
Rice Boy
Dinosaur

Make more comics:
Comic Creator
Chigger
Comic Master

7th Media Arts: You are what you Eat!

Research and Planning Worksheet

1. Questions 1-5: Guiseppe Arcimboldo
2. Make a 5 Star Meal! Once you have, draw what is on your plate. TRY HERE
3. Go to FoodNMe.com and follow along on your worksheet
4. SMASH YOUR FOOD!
5. Make a practice food face!
6. Student Examples 
7. Search for food photos
8. Go to roll-a-die to pick your theme

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

Fit Teens

Nutrition for Kids

Videos

Work of Archimboldo

Sculpture inspired by Archimboldo

Till Nowak

6th Media Arts: Typographic Self Portrait

1. Presentation- What are fonts? 
2. Presentation- Typographic Design
3. Take a look at last year's student projects
4. VIDEOS: Movie "Typolution", An Intro to Typography, What is Typography?
5. Writing Assignment
6. Demonstration- creating and starting your project

Typographic" means made of type or letters.

This picture is all letters. Can you figure out

which ones?

• Work time

If you have extra time, try 
Design a Font
Kern Type
Shape Type
Type Fight
Font Game
TypeWar
What Type Are You?

7th Media Arts: An introduction to animation and cartoons

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

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.

5. Write an artist statement
6. Critique

Extra video: The Story of Animation

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
Piskelapp

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

Computer Procedures

1. cagallery.blogspot.com

2. Google.com

3. Saving and Naming Practice

Vocabulary

• Find it Game 

Media Arts Intro Quiz

1. m.socrative.com
2. enter room ca157
3. click "join room"
4. wait for Ms. Fowler to begin

5. 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 check it.

Try it:

Try these Media Arts activities: Media Studio

Go to these computer knowledge games

Yearbook: Photography

Online sales link

TIPS for great YEARBOOK photos

10 Tips for Better Photos (Kodak)

Taking good Portraits

JOSTENS videos

Photo tips PDF

WorldBeat Survey from Jostens

Yearbook: Graphic Design Basics

Article on the basics of graphic design

Introduction

Julie Fowler - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Portfolio of Media Arts, Polyester Studios
Media Arts Portfolio pdan

Portfolio of Motion Graphics

One Minute Movie: The History of Media

Media Arts Academy
Art Institutes Commercial

Food Rap "What's Cookin"
To This Day

Media Arts student work examples

Painting and Drawing: Parody in Art

Very famous works of art are often parodied in pop culture. We will research parody and create our own parody drawing.

1. What does parody mean?
2. What is pop culture?
3. Watch the presentation and label each famous work of art.
4. Create some sketches of your parody ideas.
Famous Art Parody Google search
Famous Art Parodies 1

Videos:

Apple Store
The Scream Parodies
American Gothic Parodies


Hunger Pains


Extra time:
Famous paintings parodies game
Link 2

"Painting Puzzles"

8th Media Arts: Double Exposure Portraits

1. What is a double exposure?

Double Exposure examples

More double Exposure examples 

Student examples

Demonstration video 1

Demonstration video2

2. You will need to download a copyright free nature or landscape photo from here

Directions:

Follow the steps in the direction worksheet and demonstration to complete the project.

Folk art and Zentangles

Research. First research "Folk Art" Use the links below

1. What is folk art?
2. Go to the American Folk Art Museum, or the International Folk Art Museum website.  or the Craft and Folk Art Museum. Choose an artist. Answer the questions on the worksheet.
3. Videos: Emilio Sosa Medina,   Oaxacan weavers,   Tanya Aguiniga   Contemporary folk art of Oaxaca,      Video 1 (extra)
4. Research folk art from your own culture. Choose one example and sketch it on your worksheet.
5. What is a zentangle?
6.  Research Zentangle patterns

MAKE: Create a background.

• Collage with simple shapes. Hills, trees, streams, etc.
• Draw in zentangle patterns.

Draw an animal. WeDrawAnimals.com

• Start with simple shapes. Draw in pencil. Fill your page.
• Go over with Sharpie. Erase pencil lines.
• Fill with zentange patterns.
• Cut out and place on your background.

Past student work.

Zentangle Animals

8th Media Arts: Type Motion Graphic

How can typography (the art of designing letters and words) bring a sentence to life? We will be creating typographic movies of a favorite 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

History of Animation and Motion Graphics (Off Book PBS)

Pick a song lyric, a line from a movie, a quote or a famous saying. You want people to get it so pick something recognizable, or something emotionally powerful. The more words the longer it will take to make it, so stick with something short.  Try for between 6 and 12 words. If you need some ideas, try 100 Songs Best Lines, ThinkExistSongLyrics, RollingStoneBestLyrics ,  famous quotes, inspirational quotes, famous lines from movies or search on your own.

All of the Lights

Off Book: Typography

Typographic motion graphics.

15 great videos

more videos

kinetic typography
vimeo kinetic type channel

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.

Present

Online and to the class

Reflect and Critique

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

Example:

Painting and Drawing: Experimental Drawing

We will use a variety of methods and techniques to explore the process of drawing and experimental drawing.


1. Bulletism Drawing

2. Appropriation Collage

3. Directions Collage

4. Exquisite Corpse

5. Humanimal Collage

6. Collaborative Drawing (with tools)

Lion King Posters

1. Research
Images
Video clips

2. Design
Go to Fowler Classroom > Materials and find the "Lion King Template". Copy to your desktop.
You must: -Change the font (stick to 2 or 3 fonts), -Add color (stick to 2-3 main colors), -Add or alter images, use alignment.
You may: Draw your own artwork, Use other copyright free images.


PBS Off Book Graphic Design

8th Media Arts: Sound

Introduction Videos

What is a foley artist?
Foley artist CBS News
Vimeo, Portrait of a Sound Design artist
Audio Engineer and Producer: Chris Monsanto

Vimeo, Sound and Time
NPR Godzilla Sound

Music videos:
Air Music Video
Bon Iver, Hinnom, TX
Garageband Sample Dance Track

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

STEPS

1. Complete the Research and Planning worksheet

• Vocabulary: Use the Glossary in GarageBand Help

2. Choose a video to compose music for. You can use the public domain videos or the VJ loops.

3. You tube, Working with loops Video

4. GarageBand Manual

EXTRA TIME:
Audio Sauna
Button Bass
Incredibox
Patatap
Soundation
Thermin
Lullatone

Painting and Drawing: Texture Plant Still Life

Jonas Wood

1. Perceive Artful Writing: Jonas Wood
Audio Example

2. Research
Still Life Painting-An Introduction from Frank Curkovic

VIDEO

What is contemporary art?
Elements of Art packet

3. Inspiration
     Plant collage Pinterest
     Jonas Wood
Video: Jonas Wood

** Extra Time: MOMA art games

Painting and Drawing: Assemblage

1. Work with a partner from your table.
2. Use the found materials from nature or recycled objects to create a character.
3. It does not have to be glued.
4. Ms. Fowler will photograph it when you are done, then
5. Make another!

Inspiration
Wasteland Trailer
Wasteland News story

8th Media Arts: Klimt-inspired Portraits

1. Research: Artful Writing Activity: "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt
 audio for "Perceive: artful writing"

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

3. Klimt Video (optional: Art Nouveau presentation)

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. Look at some past student work.

*If you have extra time, explore iKlimt or Color a Pattern

Design Process

Design Process

Project Introduction

·    What is the project description?

·    Who is the client? Who is the audience?

·    What are the specifications (for example: size, amount of colors, cost, deadlines, etc.)

Research

·    Important vocabulary words

·    Concepts and ideas

·    Similar work and Inspiration

Plan

·    Brainstorming

·    Sketch and rough draft

Design

·    Demonstrations by teacher

·    Create using the computer

Critique

·    Self evaluations

·    Revisions

·    Evaluate in small groups or as a class

Display

·    Art show

·    Hang in the school

·    Display on class website (cagallery.blogspot.com), or personal page

Media Arts Overview

Computer Procedures

1. Complete Part 1 of the worksheet

2. Part 2: Vocabulary

• Find it Game 

3. Saving and Naming Practice

Follow the directions on your worksheet

4. Media Arts Intro Quiz

1. m.socrative.com
2. enter room ca157
3. click "join room"
4. wait for Ms. Fowler to begin

5. 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 check it.

Try it:

Try these Media Arts activities: Media Studio

Go to these computer knowledge games

RISE UP

Respect

Esteem for or a sense of the worth or excellence of a person, a personal quality or ability proper acceptance or courtesy; acknowledgment.

INTEGRITY

Adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.

Strength (video 1 ) video 2 (video 3)

The quality or state of being strong; mental power, force, or vigor; moral power, firmness, or courage;

EXCELLENCE 

The fact or state of excelling; superiority; eminence; an excellent quality or feature.

UNDERSTANDING, video 2 (video 3)

A state of cooperative or mutually tolerant relations between people

skill in dealing with or handling something.

PRIDE

A dignified sense of what is due to oneself or one's position or character; self-respect; self-esteem; pleasure or satisfaction taken in something done by or belonging to oneself.

Inspirational Videos for Students
Cross the Line

Painting and Drawing: In my mind

Create a drawing/collage that expresses your internal self. What do you think about? What worries you? What makes you happy? What do you daydream about?

1. Take a photo of yourself in black and white, thinking
2. Save it to the "Fowler Classroom > Painting and Drawing" folder
3. Carefully cut out your photo and glue to paper
4. Use drawing tools and/or collage to create your artwork

Collage Art Videos:
5 Artists in 5 Minutes
1958 Collage in Art film
Making a collage
Vik Muniz

Beth Hoeckel

8th Media Arts: Monogram designs

Research and Brainstorming:

1. Watch the presentation on logo design.

2. 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)
Change the Way you look at logos (part 1 buzzfeed)
(part 2 buzzed)
Logo Animation
Designing a logo in Ai


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

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

Make your Monogram Calling Cards
Choose your final design. Redraw on final template. Draw carefully in pencil first! Be a perfectionist! Go over your lines with Sharpie. On the back of your card, design your phone number or email or screen name or twitter. Some kind of contact info. Create with collage or by hand.

Video:Textures and Type

Painting and Drawing: Introduction

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.

What is Art? (Creature Comforts)


What are 8 ways to look at Art?

What is art for? Video
What is Art (Short animated video)

Making Art

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

Instant Face Maker from FaceHeads on Vimeo.

Fingerprint Art

History of Graffiti- Vandalism to Art
Use Graffiti Creator to design your portfolio

Icebreaker: Collaborative Doodle

Directions:

1. Ms. Fowler will group you up.
2. Draw a doodle for each category. 
3. Talk with your group about your answers.
4. Share something about 3 other people in your group.

Doodles:

1. Draw your name
2. Draw your favorite food
3. Draw your favorite animal
4. Draw something you like to do for fun
5. Draw a goal you have for the future
6. Draw someone close to you
7. Draw where you want to visit someday
8. Draw a made up creature
9. Draw 3 words others might use to describe me
10. Draw something that makes you happy

Introduction

Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Portfolio of Media Arts, Polyester Studios

Portfolio of Motion Graphics

One Minute Movie: The History of Media

Media Arts Academy
Art Institutes Commercial
SIMS LMG
Food Rap "What's Cookin"
To This Day

Media Arts student work examples