Photography Shorts

General

Pictures
Is Instagram the best thing that has happened to photography

Portrait

Portrait Photography Documentary
PBS Off Book, The Art of Portrait Photography

Landscape

Dark Side of the Lens5 minutes of jaw dropping imagery and intense inspiration. Dark Side of the Lens is a quick peek into the life of surf photographer, Mickey Smith, as he endures freezing cold waters and terrifying waves to do what he loves—photograph.

Portrait of a Landscape Photographer

Street/Documentary

Creator's Project, The Gravity Defying Photography of Li Wei
Jamel Shabazz
Alec Soth PBS NewsHour
Issue Enomoto
Ethan Sprague: The Camera and the Cage

American Indians (Then/Now):

Edward Curtis
 562 Matika Wilbur

Reely and Truly

Nature Photography and Quote design

The Project: Combine a quotation with an original photo

Examples

Chose a nature quote

Find quote here: Brainy Quote, GoodReads, QuoteGarden
Make sure you attribute the author

History of Photography Video

1. Camera Contract-read and sign
2. Camera Settings
3. Lessons to teach your child about digital photography
4. Basic Vocabulary

Extra time: Be a Wildlife Photographer Game

Step 1: Take a nature photo

Directions

Types of shots

types of shots 2

Using camera angles to take better photos
The science of camera angles
Step 3: Design in Photoshop

1. Download a font or fonts
2. Directions: Ms. Fowler will demonstrate

6th Media Arts: Sketch Up Sculptures

Claes Oldenburg sculpture at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN

Research:
1. 2. 3. Go to THIS PAGE for sculpture videos and examples. Ms. Fowler will present.
Minneapolis Sculpture Garden (new sculptures)
Franconia Video
Olympic Sculpture Park
Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Other videos:
Creator's Project Underwater Sculpture park
Theo Jansen

Sculpture Garden websites:
Walker Sculpture Garden
Franconia
Olympic Sculpture Park

4. Outdoor Sculptures

CA students at the Walker Sculpture Garden

5. What is scale? Scale (Element of art)

6. Pick two random adjectives to incorporate into your sculpture. Pick the first two, no cheating!

Past student examples

Design:

Google Sketch-Up tutorial video

Extra Time games:

HomeStyler
Architect Studio 3D (might not work)
My Imaginary City

Dream Destination Prezi Presentation

Vocabulary (use dictionary application)

Planning

1. Location

• Go to Google Maps and look through this list of major cities of the world. Pick a city from a foreign country.
• Use Google image search and save a map of your country, showing your city

2. Introduction

• Use google to look up your city's history, size, characteristics, etc.  

3. Climate

• Look up the weather for your chosen city. Google your city and "average weather" or try World Climate. Save a chart or graph showing average temperatures (in Fahrenheit), precipitation, etc.
• When is a good time to visit?

4. Crops, Economy, Exports

• What are the major business or companies? 
• What are major crops or exports?

5. Arts and culture (everyculture.com)

• official language
• typical food (Food by Country website)
• traditional clothes
• traditional music/dancing (try finding a youtube clip or an mp3 to download)
• sports
• traditional arts and crafts

6. Tourist Attractions
7. Travel

• Find the average flight cost. Go to KAYAK
• Find an average hotel cost

8. Gallery

Use prezi.com to design your presentation. Use your SCHOOL GOOGLE EMAIL: Your name + apps.isd13.org, and your password should be chps+ your school ID number.

Student example
Dallas K. Kingston, Jamaica
Lilly R. Madrid, Spain

Extra Time:
Draw a Stickman
Simple Machines

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