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Thursday, December 30, 2010

BWMS in the CF Chronicle for Academy Awards & Fashion Show

You can click on this image and check out the Carolina Forest Chronicle's coverage of the BWMS students during the Academy Awards and the Hip Hop Fashion show and how they were able to vote with their cell phones.

 

You can also click on the link to check it out as a .PDF

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Sunday, December 26, 2010

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Listed below are the films that my students created for art class.

These students studied silent films, as far as their impact on film history, and how they became obsolete with the advent of sound technology.

Each student picked one partner, and then they were paired up randomnly with another pair. The students divided up roles and responsabilities as far as director, producer, writer and cinematographer. All students practiced pantomine activities, as the actors were not able to use their voices, but had to act with their bodies and the exaggereated expressions on their faces.

The students only had one week to shoot their films, and they soon learned the difficulties of losing footage or not getting enough "coverage." At the end of each class, the students would dump all of their footage to Dropbox.com; which is an online storage site that would store their raw data of film clips.

Students would then have to upload to the website of Jaycut.com in order to edit their films, which required a lot of patience as they were frequently frustrated from slow internet connections and sometimes losing all of their work and having to start from scratch. But Jaycut also allowed them to insert the stylistic title cards, which were so prominent in silent films, but they were also able to add a few "special effects" too.

It is quite unfortunate that several students didn't complete their films, as some of them just couldn't work together and get passed basic team work issues. In the end, eight films were uploaded to You Tube and were then showcased to the entire school during the BWMS Academy Awards on December 17th, 2010.

At the end of the show, the entire school was allowed to vote for the best film by using their cell phones to text in their answers to the website of www.polleverywhere.com.

<script language="javascript" src="http://www.polleverywhere.com/polls/OTk0ODE3MTk3/chart_widget.js?height=250&results_count_format=percent&width=300" type="text/javascript"></script>

The winning student team received a $25 gift card to the local movie theater so that they could continue to learn about films and film making and hopefully pursue it more in the near future.

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Animoto - Art made through apps

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A collection of images that I created using a variety of apps and hope to do it with the kids in two weeks

Winning BWMS student film

Congrats to these students for working together, solving problems and creating this piece of art. I also had a great time working on the film with them, so be on the lookout for my bad acting in the cameo

Sunday, December 12, 2010

8th graders Peter Max figure studies and body paint


This is a collection of my students as they worked on a 1960's Pop Art unit.

First, they watched the Beatles' Yellow Submarine and studied the work of Peter Max. Next, teams of two designed twenty-four patterns which would then be painted within life sized contour drawings of a partner. While students completed the paintings of their figures and cut them out to be posted, one half of the class created tie-dye t-shirts while the other students created face paint art. To also set the mood of the time period, the students only listened to music from the 1960's such as the Beatles, Beach Boys and Motown's Greatest hits.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Create films with Picasa and Publish it with School Tube

Here is my first video which basically gives a layout of the program.

SchoolTube - Introduction to Picasahttp://bit.ly/o3iUwU



The basic layout of the Google program and how to add certain folders to your library

TUTORIAL 1

SchoolTube - Picasa Tutorial 1 - Movie Timeline and Soundzabound

Creating the actual movie time line in Picasa and registering for Soundzabound in order to get royalty free music




TUTORIAL 2 UPLOAD TO YOU TUBE & CREATE MOVIE
How to edit a film's contents in You Tube and other fine processes of creating your images into a movie file





TUTORIAL 3 UPLOAD TO SCHOOL TUBE

How to sign up with School Tube and uploading your video to the site



TUTORIAL 4 SHARING AND POSTING YOUR VIDEO

How to take your School Tube video and post them on other websites by copying the Embed code



Tutorial 5 - I had to upload this one via Jing/Screencast so not sure how it will look. BUT you can use this one to tag photos with names and create a face movie and then follow the previous tutorials on creating a Schooltube account and post it to Edmodo
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Sunday, December 5, 2010

Student artwork on Sculptmaster 3D and GIMP

My students made these images by using the Ipod's Sculptmaster 3D app, and they then incorporated it into a collage on GIMP that primarily featured other Gargoyle sculptures, Illuminated Manuscripts and Tapestries from the art history period for Medieval art.



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