Projects

Digital Photography & Photoshop

We do a variety of photo related projects as we learn about Photoshop.

·         Photoshop

·         http://www.picsearch.com

·         http://www.abcgallery.com/  

·         Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York

·         National Gallery of Art

o        Great Work of Art

o        Light Bulb: Photoshop the light bulb image from the handouts folder any way you wish. Examples may include changing its shape, merging the light bulb with some other object or animal, including the light bulb in paintings. These are just some ideas.

·         Animated Gifs hhttp://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/ 

 Digital Camera

Using the Cameras

• Watch the PowerPoint: Using Digital Cameras

Photography Techniques

§         Project- Techniques PowerPoint:  Part 1  Part 2

Camera Photo Hunt: Click the camera for directions.

·         Photo Hunt PowerPoint Directions/ Rubric

Storyboarding

·         Storyboard Outline

·         Blank Storyboard (Paint)

The Bee and Jupiter 

  A BEE from Mount Hymettus, the queen of the hive, ascended to

Olympus to present Jupiter some honey fresh from her combs. 

Jupiter, delighted with the offering of honey, promised to give

whatever she should ask.  She therefore besought him, saying,

"Give me, I pray thee, a sting, that if any mortal shall approach

to take my honey, I may kill him."  Jupiter was much displeased,

for he loved the race of man, but could not refuse the request

because of his promise.  He thus answered the Bee:  "You shall

have your request, but it will be at the peril of your own life. 

For if you use your sting, it shall remain in the wound you make,

and then you will die from the loss of it."  

        Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.  

·         Assignment 1: Individual Storyboards

Go to one of these websites and choose a short Historical Vignette, Fable, Folktale, or Fairy Tale for your claymation:

American Timeline      Æsop's Fables           Greek Myths          Folklore, Myth & Legend   HansChristianAnderson  Grimm's Fairy Tales

Each of you need to create your own set of storyboards for your story. There must be at least 9 scenes which will use at least 3 storyboard pages. Name the paint files story1, story2, story3 etc. and save them in your work folder.

·         Assignment 2: Tell A Tale

Using Frames to do a Claymation

Click on this link for directions in using Frames for Animation

Click on this link for directions in using Chroma Key in Frames

Click on this link for directions in using Frames for Digital Storytelling

·         Creature Feature: create a character based on an animal or an inanimate object and animate it.

1.      Write a short script with the character telling about it's life (in first person) or discussing it's feelings on a topic. Use an idea similar to the Creature Features that Ardman Studios produces. The character must show several emotions; for example sadness, happiness, fear, anger, loneliness, disgust, confusion, or rage.

2.      Create the character out of clay; keeping in mind: plan first, keep it simple, make it stable, and have expressive features.

3.      Photograph your character making small adjustments between photos showing expression changing and mouth changing to match the dialog you wrote. Keeping in mind the 5 priciples: SQUASH AND STRETCH, STAGING SHOTS, SLOW-OUT AND SLOW-IN, SECONDARY ACTION, and EXAGGERATION.

4.      Transfer the photos to a folder in your My Pictures folder named Clay1. Rename the pictures with a word and a 3 digit number, I.E. clay001, clay002, clay003, etc.

5.      Using Video Blender, create a movie with a title slide (including your first name with last initial), ending credits, and sound.

o        For a better than average (C) grade; be creative with your idea, put more effort into creating an interesting character, show more emotion, use a variety of shots (wide, medium and closeups), use special effects and more sound.

Facial Features and Expressions Link

Advanced Animation

·         The 5 Basic Principles of Animation

Web Page Project

·         Web page project directions

Click the rolling bullet for an example:

PowerPoint

o        Intro- Click for directions

o         Quiz Game

NOTE: When you revisit a slide in a presentation, PowerPoint only shows the slide as it was finally revealed at the end of any animations, sounds, or movies on the slide.

There's no direct way to re-start the animations and view the slide from the start, but if you insert a blank slide ahead of the slide with the animations, set it to automatically transition to the following slide after 0 seconds delay, you can jump back to this slide, it will automatically play forward to the following slide (the one with animations) and you're in business.

o        Biography (If time allows)