Spring Final Application Example

Thesis Project (due May 27)

Product Proposal

1. Essential Question (create your own):

2. Which medium(s) will you explore? Digital Illustration, Video, Animation, Graphic Design, Audio, Web, or Other

3. Which Software Application(s) will you use? 

4. What is your final product (3-5 sentences)
   

5. List the 5-7 steps of your creative process to make your product
6.  Post Notes on blog.
   

Masters Research Notes

1. What is the name of the Master artist(s)?

2. During which decade(s) was this artist(s) most influential?

3. Named three world events that were happening around the time of that this artist was most influential?

4. What works is this artist best know for?

5. Describe the artists’ creative process, or how they went about completing a project? (3-5 sentences)

6. What equipment did this artist use to complete projects?

7. In what ways did this artist innovate? (3-5 sentences)

8. Post Notes on Blog

Create Product

Follow your product proposal to create a high quality digital media product. Post on blog when done.

Tutorial

The point of the tutorial is to share a technique that your discovered in creating your Thesis Product. In the tutorial, you will document this process of applying the technique so that others can learn to do the same.

1. See tutorial examples: example 1, example 2, and example 3
2. Pick one technique you used to create your Thesis Product
3. Choose whether you will use screen shots (shift+command+4) or video capture (Camtasia) for your tutorial
4. Write out all of the steps explaining how to do the technique
5. Capture the tutorial
6. Post on your blog

Tutorial Tutorial

Overview: Students will practice creating tutorials in groups by making tutorials on how to create screen shot and video tutorials. They will finish by posting their tutorial to their blog.

Instructions

Screen Shot Tutorial

1. Arrange your desktop to take a screen shot of an image of your choosing
2. Take a partial screen shot using shift+command+4
3. Open your blog and start a new post
4. In new post, include 3 steps of creating a screen shot (arrange desktop, shift+command+4), rename screenshot on desktop) along with the screen shot picture you took. Also include your screen shot image
5. Title post as Screen Shot Tutorial Tutorial

Video Tutorial

1. Go to spotlight, type in Camtasia, and open Camtasia
2. Choose "Full Screen"
3. Hit Record button and record voice explaining how to take video capture using camtasia as your demonstrating on the computer
4. When done, go to Share>Export, save as videoCapture to your desktop
5. Open your blog and start a new post. 
6. Insert videoCapture video and title post as Video Tutorial Tutorial

Audio Narratives from Pirate Cat Radio!

Here is the podcast of Metro students delivering their Audio Narratives at On Air at Pirate Cat Radio Cafe:http://podcasts.piratecatradiocafe.org/EnAltavoz_MetroTechHS.mp3

The Typeface Challenge

Overview: The point of this assignment is to harness digital technology to persuade an audience. Students will study choose and study a particular typeface. Students will research the history, anatomy, and uses of the typeface. Through their research students will create a 5-7 slide Multimedia presentation promoting a particular typeface. Best presentation will have their typeface used as the official typeface of Digital Media for the rest of the semester. Due 3/15.

Example: http://prezi.com/jkevlnnwzwlk/typeface-challenge-example/

Steps:

1. Complete Typeface Brainstorm
2. Choose a Multimedia Application: Prezi.com, Google Presenation, Keynote, or Powerpoint
3. Create a Multimedia Presentation with the following slides:
1. Title Page
2. Typeface Anatomy (describing the body of your typeface)
3. Origins (who, what, where, when)
4. History (what was going on in the world when it was created)
5. Uses (what do people use this typeface for)
6. Identity (if this typeface were a person, who would they be? -or- compare it to different typeface
7. Hard Sale (why this typeface should be adapted as the official typeface for Digital Media)
4. Prepare a speech written on notecards and rehearse your speech
5. Present in Digital Media class, 3/15, 3/16, or 3/17
6. Upload Multimedia piece to blog either as a quicktime mov, or export as pdf, upload to Google Docs, and post the link on your blog

Audio Narrative Reflection

Overview
To prepare your work for Portfolio, show your teacher your understanding, and solidify your learnings you will write an Artist Statement reflecting on your work on the Audio Narrative project. Share with Zeb on Google Docs to get your reflection graded by 5pm, Friday, Feb. 18.

Audio Narrative Blog Upload

Overview:
When you have completed the Audio Narrative, please upload it to your blog. Here's how you do it:

1. When done, go to Share>Export Song to Disk and save as an MP3
2. Open iMovie HD, Spotlight>iMovie. 
3. Create new project, saving to desktop. 
4. In iMovie HD, File>Import, and import your mp3, add pictures if you want (optional)
5. Export video to your flash drive in "web streaming" format
6. Create new blog post and upload Audio Narrative as a video.

Audio Narrative Project

Overview

The point of this assignment is to harness digital technology to communicate stories of creation. Students will form pairs, consisting of one story editor and one sound engineer. Together the pairs will use vocal recording and instrumentation to create an 3-5 minute audio narrative (See definitions). Pairs will begin by completing brainstorms together. Each person in the group will start by filling out this Project Brainstorm.

Here are the steps:

Choose your pair, decide on roles and choose a narrative idea	1/21
Complete first draft of non-fiction Narrative and Score	1/28
Finish non-fiction narrative recording and score and exchange each with your partner	2/4
Export Audio Narrative Project from Garageband and each post on your blog	2/11
Guest DJ at Pirate Cat Radio.  2781 21st Street in the Mission. Wednesday, February 16, 2:00 - 4:00. Your group will introduce and play your audio narrative live On Air.	2/16

Audio Narrative Listening Assignment

Overview:
To prepare to create your own creation-themed Audio Narrative, you will choose one of the following, listen for tone of voice and music.


http://www.radiolab.org/2008/apr/07/

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/sites/all/play_music/play_full.php?play=294

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/sites/all/play_music/play_full.php?play=38

Scored Animation Final

Break Beats Assignment

Overview:

The point of this assignment is to learn Garageband real instrumentation and track editing. The beat will be a re-creation of an original famous break beat: funky drummer or amen break. Also include a sample of your choosing.

1. Listen to the Funky Drummer and Amen Break at this blog and pick which break beat you want to re-create.
2. Find the tablature: funky drummer or amen break,
3. Open Garageband Project and save as name_beats to flashdrive
4. Create one software instrument track for each instrument that will be included in the beat
5. Follow tablature to create the break beat
6. After re-creating the beat find a sample you add sample from one of your Radio Demo songs
7. When done, go to Share>Export Song to Disk and save as an MP3
8. Open iMovie HD, Spotlight>iMovie. 
9. Create new project, saving to desktop. 
10. In iMovie HD, File>Import, and import your mp3, add pictures if you want (optional)
11. Export video to your flash drive in "web streaming" format
12. Create new blog post and upload Break Beast Assignment as a video.

Example:

Radio Demo Project

Overview:

The point of this assignment is to learn basic Garageband techniques and voice recording by creating a Radio Demo. A Radio Demo is a recording that radio DJs use to showcase their DJ skills. Students will create a three song Demo with prelude, two interludes, and a postlude:

1. Open iTunes and go to Zeb's music library and note 3 songs you like on Radio Demo Plan Sheet.
2. Fill out Radio Demo Plan to record song info and write your commentary
3. Show Radio Demo Plan to Zeb and he'll download the songs to your Flash Drive
4. Create a new Garageband project and save as: name_radiodemo
5. Import three songs to Garaband file from flash drive
6. Create a real instrument track and record four clips of your voice: prelude, two interludes, and a postlude based on the commentary you wrote on your Radio Demo Plan
7. When done, go to Share>Export Song to Disk and save as an MP3
8. Open iMovie HD, Spotlight>iMovie. 
9. Create new project, saving to desktop. 
10. In iMovie HD, File>Import, and import your mp3
11. Export video to your flash drive in "web streaming" format
12. Create new blog post and upload radio demo video as a video.

Example:
Radio Demo from Giles Peterson

Ready Set Project (12th Grade)

Overview
For the Ready Set Project students will harness digital technology to bring the Senior Exhibition play to life and use animated imagery to explain complex ideas. Students will create a series of animated Sets that will be rear-projected on the evening of the grade 12 exhibition. Here are the steps:

1. Open Flash File
2. Save as name_exhibitionRough
3. Use flash tools to create a creative set design
4. When done with the design, Show to Zeb
5. Animate background
6. Revise background based on class feedback (due November 19)
7. When done, export from Flash as Animated GIF movie and upload to blog as image and give a copy to Zeb as well
8. Write your reflection and submit electronically to Zeb (due December 3)
   

Example:

Transformer Exhibition Project (10th grade)

Overview:

The point of this assignment is to harness digital technology to demonstrate the nature of transformation in Literature, Science, or History. Students will create a three-scene, 30-second, 360 frame, Flash animation piece detailing the stages of transformation from Antigone, Species Evolution, or a Political Revolution. Here are the steps:

1.  Read and complete the brainstorm and animatic sheet
2. Create a new Flash document and save as name_transformer.
3. Create the characters. Make sure each part of the character that moves has it's own layer
4.  Create the backgrounds for each scene
5. Begin to use keyframes and tweens to create a 360 frame, 30 second Tranformer Movie
6. When done with a draft submit to Zeb for critique
7. After critique, revise your movie (due November 19)
8. When done, export from Flash as Animated GIF movie and upload to blog as image when done
9. Write reflection and submit to Zeb through email (due December 3)

Example:

Computermation Assignment

Overview:
Students will create a three-scene, 10-second Flash animation piece detailing the function and process of one type of computer hardware. The point of this assignment is to improve Flash skills and to understand computers better.

1. Students will begin by completing the Computermation Animatic to lay out their ideas. 
2. Once they have completed it and have had their Animatic approved they'll open up Flash to begin their Computermation. 

Save as name_computermation. Export from Flash as Animated GIF movie and upload to blog as image when done

Example

Toon Motion Assignment

Overview
Save as name_toon. Students will choose their favorite animated character, draw it in Flash, and then animate the character using tweens and symbol animation techniques. They will first open a Flash document default size, draw each moving part of the body on a different layer. Then they will animate each later to create their final animation. When the animation is complete, export from Flash as an animated GIF movie, open safari, upload to a new blog post as an image.

Example

Blog Masthead Assignment

Overview

Using Flash students will create a 700x200 pixel masthead, with 72 resolution. The masthead must include one graphic image as well as the student's name. When the student has finished creating the masthead they will export the masthead as a jpeg and load it to the header area of their blog. Save as name_masthead.

To create and upload your masthead on your blog, follow these instructions:

1. Open Safari and go type mail.es-metro.org in the URL bar
2. Enter user and password (Name_lastName, 123456). You might have try a couple of times
3. In “account settings” changed password to a 8-digit password that you will remember 
4. Open new tab and go to blogger.com
5. Click the big orange button that says, “Create A Blog”
6. Fill in all fields in “Create a Google Account” page. Use metro email and password. Accept terms of account and continue.
7. Verify account by entering your cel phone #. Google will text you with the code to continue. You may look at your phone.
8. Fill in Blog Name with something creative referring to your work in digital media. The url will be your full name.
9. Go to “design” or “template design” to style your blog
10. Add your masthead by going to “design” and going to “edit” in the header

Example

Ten-Finger Typing Quiz

In our modern world, having strong typing skills is a sure way to move forward and be successful academically, professionally, and even socially. Because of the design of our hands the most efficient way for a human to type is by using all ten fingers. Because ten-finger typing is so important in Digital Media class and the outside world, it will be required that all students type at a minimum of 25 words per minute. Students may use http://freetypinggame.net/ to practice and to take their final quiz.

Welcome to Digital Media at Metro!

It's fit to be an exciting year in Digital Media as we tackle animation, audio engineering, multimedia presentation and more. See below for the semester plan: