Media Arts 2009 - 2010

Media Arts (9, 10, 11, 12) Full Yr., 1 Cr.
Media Arts teaches students to manipulate photographs, create illustrations, and produce digital videos. Students will use state-of-the-art mac computers, Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and imovie.

"If you use your hands to work you are a laborer. If you use your hands and your head to work you are a craftsman. If you use your hands, your head, and your heart to work you are an artist. "

- St Thomas Aquinas

Quarter One - Adobe Photoshop

Digital Photography

Jodie Coston's Online Digital Photography Course

Portrait Photography Lesson

Painting in Photoshop

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/vgwel.htm

Download Van Gogh Illustration Lesson

Quarter Two - Adobe Illustrator

Introduction to Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Adobe Illustrator Portraits

Quarter Three - Video Production

Introduction to Garage Band and imovie

Students create a sountrack for their first video assignment in Garage Band

Theme Project or Autobiography movie choice: Download Lesson Plan

Class Critique

Online Resource for Garage Band

Introduction to Film

Video Scavenger Hunt movie: Download Lesson Plan

Class Critique

Quarter Four - Video Production

Visual Narrative Film

Visual Narrative movie of a song, poem or short story: Download Lesson Plan

Class Critique

Final Project

Choose two of the following - 1) Stop Action, 2) Silent Movie, or 3) Short Film

Download Lesson Plan

Your ideas should be mapped out on a storyboard!

Download Storyboard

Class Critique