Year One Tech - Proposal for Digital Surrealism Assignment

1. POST YOUR PREZI! Please remember to post your surrealism presentation on your blog - embed it, so that it is playable from your blog. You will get a mark for this, or no marks if you haven't done it!

2. WRITE ABOUT YOUR IDEAS! Please submit a written paragraph (printed - not on your blog) about your ideas for your digital surrealism assignment. Refer to the assignment to make sure you've met all the requirements.
SUBMIT WEDNESDAY to Ms. SILVERMAN!

Lynda.com tutorials free through toronto public library!!!

Just found out that if you have a library card (and if you don't you should get one!! It's free!!), you can access lynda.com for free. If you're not familiar - it's a world of tutorials and learning videos on everything you need to know about software and media techniques and other stuff.

go to this LINK here to access the online videos.

Year One Tech - Photoshop Continued...

Remember that your Justin Trudeau mash-up exercise MUST have the following elements in the PSD file:
You MUST use a mask to reveal Justin Trudeau and HIDE the background
You MUST use a New Layer Via Copy (Command J) to create a copy of the new background in the shape of the Justin Trudeau cut out.
This layer should go on the top layer and use blending modes (colour) and low opacity to reveal a hint of the background colouring.
Also try to match the contrast and lighting to your background by adjusting the Justin Trudeau layer's levels or contrast.

Once you have done this - as it is done in the video then you should try using some of the other techniques shown in the video.

Particularly using masks for adjustment layers and trying out blending modes.
Spend the period reviewing the tutorial and trying out one or two other techniques as shown in the video. Save your work and submit the psd files to the CyberARTS Year One folder. The first person to drop off should make a folder called PHOTOSHOP EXERCISES.

Put all finished work in that folder.
Title your finished work with your name and the technique
ie. Name_MaskExercise_Trudeau.psd

Music Videos through the decades - Year 3 Tech

YEAR 3 TECH: Music videos over the last 3 decades

Check out the technology used in this music video. You need to open it in Google Chrome. It uses HTML 5.

www.thewildernessdowntown.com

Also, please take a look at the history of music videos - which began in the 1980s with MTV. According to U.S. Time magazine, these are the best 30 music videos of all time.
Best 30 Music Videos

Here is another "Best 30 Music Videos of All Time" by Music Radar
These seem a little more underground. Also more contemporary. Check them out as well.
Check out #22 Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar for some amazing editing and perfect sync-ing.

Take a look through both the Arcade Fire video and the article on the 30 best music videos. Watch a minimum of 9 of the videos and read the summaries below - making sure you watch at least 2 per decade. There are 10 per decade in the article.

Exercise:
FIRST Write a blog post...
1. Summarizing your thoughts, opinions and inspiration from the 9 videos you watched.

2. Which ones do you consider works of art in their own right? and Why? Note: The first video - Talking Heads "Once in a Lifetime" was exhibited in New York's Museum of Modern Art.

3. Also, comment on the types of changes you noticed through the decades. (Lighting, editing, sophistication, pace etc.)

4. How does the Arcade Fire video compare to the earlier decades?

5. What's next in music videos in your opinion?

THEN...

Embed one video (the ones you find the most compelling, artistically) into your blog post
1. Comment on the pacing, artistic style, lighting and artistic intent/meaning of  the posted video.
2. How does this video visually express the emotional theme of the music? Look at specific imagery, pace, style, lighting as well as cinematography (composition of the shots).

Finish this assignment and then move on the following chapters in Digital Overdrive
Click HERE or Go to www.clouddoi.com
Click on Existing User - Find your school - Lakeshore
User name - lakeshore
password - lci2016! (don't forget the ! )

You will need to review the following chapters and complete the tests at the end of each section. Put in your own email address and the results will be emailed to you. Once you receive the email, forward the results to me at lisa.silverman@tdsb.on.ca

Chapter 6 - Intro to Cinematography
Shooting Style
Rules of Cinematography
Basic Lighting

After completing all three sections, complete the review questions for the chapter.
We will be reviewing some of the key points on Monday. Please make sure you complete all of this by Monday!

Photoshop Tutorial #1 - Monday Nov. 23 2015

Photoshop - 10 things everyone needs to know

This tutorial covers 10 things you need to know about Photoshop
 CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK. This video is about 40 minutes long, but worth watching. 

Watch the video and take notes if you need to. In particular pay attention towards the end where he removes the subject from the background and replaces the background.

Then go to the RICK MERCER PHOTO CHALLENGE and see what you can do with the photo you can download of our new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.  Have some fun with it. This is just an exercise to get you warmed up. Try using masks and other tools you learn from watching the Photoshop Tutorial. You can finish this on Tuesday when the final presentations are over. Wednesday we will return to more Photoshop learning and planning your Digital Surrealism Photo.

When you are finished, post the Rick Mercer Challenge photo on your blog, briefly explaining your procedure.

 

Surrealism Research - Year One Tech

Digital Surrealism - Year One

Surrealism is an artistic movement that was founded in the early 1920s. It's influences include Sigmund Freud (famous psychoanalyst who was fascinated by the subconscious mind and dreams). "Surrealism style uses visual imagery from the subconscious mind to create art without the intention of logical comprehensibility." In other words, it doesn't make sense in the real world, only the surreal world. Surrealism includes an element of surprise and uses unlikely juxtapositions and blends dream and reality.

Please research Surrealism in Art and/or photography and create a prezi presentation that includes the following: (Please post your finished presentation on your blog by Tuesday November 17, 2015. Ready to present please!)
Presentations will begin on Tuesday and will probably carry on to Wednesday's class.

1. What is Surrealism? (In your own words please!)

2. Pick one Surrealist artist and:

• Briefly discuss their view on surrealism (or their ideas and thoughts about the kind of art they create)
• The years they produced art (or birth-death)
• How they got started (school, apprenticeship, studying under other artists etc.)
• What their interests were as artists--subjects they addressed, issues they focused on
• Were they part of other artistic movements? If so, which ones?

3. Show 8 examples of Surrealist art by the artist you have selected. Choose ONE to analyze based on elements and principles of design, composition, what you like about it, how it's a good example of surrealism (if it is).

4. Please include any and ALL links that you have used to find your information. Please do not copy and paste directly from these links!! That's called plagiarism and it's a big fat NO-NO!

5. You can include a reference list at the end of your presentation, but you MUST embed a minimum of 3 links (they could be videos, audio interviews or just other websites with more information) into your prezi presentation.

6. Make the presentation surreal to some degree in terms of design, but make sure we can clearly see and identify the artist's works, as well as the text that answers the questions above.

Please pick one artist each so that we can cover all of them. Or, you might find one on your own.

• Max Ernst
• Andre Breton
• Man Ray
• Maurice Tabard
• Dorothea Tanning
• Salvador Dali
• Rene Magritte
• Joan Miró
• Marcel Duchamp
•  Giorgio de Chirico
• Leonora Carrington
• Alberto Giacometti
• Hieronymus Bosch
• Yves Tanguy
• MC Escher
• Erik Johansson (modern day photographer)
• Jerry Uelsmann (modern photographer who worked with negatives to create surrealist photos)
• Dada (the movement)
• Zev Hoover
• Martin De Pasquale
• Thom Easton
• Roby Dwi Antonio
• Jean Giraud "Moebius"
• Alastair Magnaldo
• Charlie Davoli

FYI - More info on infographics YR 4 Homework.

As some of you are submitting your infographics (by the way it's infographic and not infograph), I'm wondering how much time was spent researching infographics and whether you've explored the links in a post below on tips for infographic design.

Nonetheless, I thought I'd try yet again to give you more insight into the infographic.

Check out this link. It's 11 infographics about infographics. Brilliant.

As a homework assignment, I'd like you to explore this link and report back. Post on your blog the 11 most important elements you think an infographic MUST have.

Due: Thursday November 12th - KKSA day.

Digital Photography Part 2 - Year One Tech

Go back to Chapter 14 - Traditional and Digital Photography.
Choose Digital Photography and read this section of the chapter.

When you are finished, please complete the handout (Worksheet 14.3: Digital Photography) to submit to ME
Due: Tuesday Nov. 3 - at the end of class. Please give your worksheet to the substitute teacher.

Also, take the test at the end of the section and have the results emailed to me.
lisa.silverman@tdsb.on.ca

NEXT STEPS: Complete the Review Questions for the entire chapter. Put my email address at the top so they are emailed to me.

Read through the History of Photography portion of the chapter. We went through it quickly at the beginning of this unit, however you should read through it again.

You can keep the chapter open while doing the review questions - it's "open book".

Due: Thursday Nov. 5, 2015 (emailed to me by the end of the day)
We will NOT be working this in class on Wednesday so you MUST finish it for homework.