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Drawing II – Experimental Media:
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1. Drawings of Daily Life
Every week do should do one drawing from life, that is not copied from a photograph or something on the internet. This drawing, in pencil or pen, can be quite small. The aim is to make it lively. The drawing must include at least one living person or animal and the person must be somewhere, in a room or in a park or on the street. Basically, we are looking for a figure or figures situated in space.
Upload 2 Drawing of Daily life to your Google folder BEFORE Sunday September 12
MONDAY SEPT 27: A special In-Person Drawing Session, outdoors on College Campus – bring sketchbooks, pencils etc. as well as all the drawings you have done so far (Media Studies required/ Art Studio optional)
Upload one drawing of daily life BEFORE Sunday September 26
Upload one drawing of daily life BEFORE Sunday November 7
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2. A special Day: short graphic novel
Each student will create a short graphic novel based on an incident that happened to them or someone one they know. It must be a true story that happened to a real person who you can document, not “any girl” or “any boy”.
Students can combine drawing with cut-out collage.
It must be at minimum six (6) pages plus a cover that includes a title and an illustration. It should be illustrated in color. Each double page spread should be 11 x 17 inches. So each page will be 11 inches high and 8.5 inches wide.
Upload three paragraph story outline plus reference material documentation before Sunday Sept 19
Students upload pencil storyboard of entire graphic novel before Sunday Sept 26
Students upload pencil drawings of first two pages of their graphic novel before Sunday Oct 3
Students upload completed pencil version of the comic book before Sunday Oct 17
Upload 2 pages of colored drawings of graphic novel BEFORE Sunday October 24
Upload finished graphic novel BEFORE Sunday October 31
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3. The Drama of Daily Life:
A 4 minute movie
Students will use a story from daily life and turn it into a short film using miniatures. The first step is to write out the story in a series of scenes. The next step is to use corrugated cardboard and cardboard boxes to build a very basic table-top set. The set can incorporate real objects and/or objects that you make.
Next create the characters again using cardboard. Of course, characters and set should be painted colorfully. Acrylic paint works best. Collage can be incorporated. For example, figures can be cut out photographs of people stuck to cardboard.
You will film each scene with you phone positioned horizontally, not vertically. Attach your phone to a flex arm or make a home-made tripod.
You will animate the figures either using stop-motion animation or you can make them puppets or you can combine multiple methods.
You will edit your shots together in Premiere Pro or a video editing program of your choice. You will then add narration, sounds effects and music. All demos will be in Premiere Pro.
Free sound effects can be downloaded here:
http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk
Students submit:
** VERY IMPORTANT: PLEASE BE SURE TO PUT YOUR NAME AND DATE ON EACH FILE YOU SUBMIT TO US**
Upload story outline for Drama of Daily Life BEFORE Sunday November 7
Upload images of your diorama/stage set BEFORE Sunday November 14
Upload your work in progress movie BEFORE Sunday December 5
Final chance to upload completed movie BEFORE Sunday December 19
Students will need cardboard, matt knives and paints. Everyday objects can be incorporated. The only difference is that the students would use the set as a basis for some kind of animation or puppet theater.
Drama of daily life. Create a set or sets. In something like a table top diorama, use puppets as characters or do stop motion animation of figures and objects. Add sound effects or voices.
** VERY IMPORTANT: PLEASE BE SURE TO PUT YOUR NAME AND DATE ON EACH FILE YOU SUBMIT TO US**