Thursday, January 16, 2025

Make sure you have the teacher look over your final video before putting it into your folder.

Finished Everything? Find an object ( heart, circle animal shape ect.) and trace the shape, then zentangle (create patterns) inside the object.

















The Kayak: a short animated film


Tuesday, January 07, 2025


Please check that you have the following work in the folder on the computer: 

  • 5 headshots edited 

  • Photo of doodle 

  • 10 Candy shots edited 

  • Photo of ornament 

  • Headswap 

  • Xmas card (extended) 

  • Pattern sheet/cupcake marked by Ms Chase 

  • Final Video about Me on M Drive/Media Arts 8/ under AAFinal saved by first and last name 

 Steps Needed for Photo Slideshow ( you have 4 classes to finish this, but it can be worked on at home!!!!) We will show these in class Tues Jan 21 and Wed Jan 22

1. Take 11 photos: 5 candy shots, 5 shots about you, 1 of you
2. Move photos from phone to M drive personal folder
3. Open Canvas with your school login credentials
4. Go to Video Project 1080p
5. Pick a front template, change it so it has your name on it, use the text tool to change the text
6. Go to UPLOADS on the left and upload all of the photos you need from your M drive folder. ONCE YOU HAVE DONE THIS YOU CAN WORK ON IT AT HOME.
7. Drag and drop each photo into the video template DO THIS BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING else.
8. On the bottom of each photo there is a button to add a transition in between each photo CHOOSE A DISOLVE ONLY no crazy transitions.
9. To shorten each photo, grab on the right side of the photo and drag left to shorten or right to lengthen. The first slide should be 5-8 sec and all of the other slides should be 3.5 sec in length.
10. You can add Audio two ways: 1. by choosing a song from Canva, go to ELEMENTS and choose a song. 

When finished...show teacher then go to SHARE
then to DOWNLOADS (give it time to download), go to DOWNLOAD folder on computer
right click EDIT COPY
go to the file FINAL video and then click EDIT PASTE, right click RENAME, and rename the video by your first and last name

Sunday, October 20, 2024

WED/THURS OCT 23/24

Show students the sample video in Canva....the first step is to upload all of the photos into Canva and then go to create video. It should be no longer than one minute in length and the slides should be timed to 3.5 seconds.

Link to: Sample Grade 8 About Me video slideshow

Thursday, December 19, 2024

Priority today

  •  Ornament finished and uploaded
  •  Old work
  • Christmas cards
  • Pattern sheep
  • Canva


Wednesday, December 04, 2024

Wed Dec 4

Candy Macros: Using your phones, you will set up 10 interesting compositions to take 10 candy photos.

Criteria:

  • must all be clear and in focus
  • should not be overly cluttered
  • should not be the same as your partner's photos, you must take your own photos
  • try to create interesting compositions using backgrounds in the class or the light tent
  • photos should be edited for cropping and lighting

The following should be in your folder:

  • 5 headshots cropped head and shoulders
  • Photo cropped of your doodle
  • HEADSWAP: where you swap your head with a celebrity
Done for marking before Christmas:
  • 10 candy photos
  • Ornament

Tuesday, December 03, 2024

Tues Dec 3

1. You need to have all of your headshots taken and take a photo of your finished doodle sheet.

2. Watch how to upload your headshots and doodle pic

3. Try uploading  using the phone cable.

4. Steps for uploading.

Steps for uploading:

1. get a phone cable from the teacher

2. Plug the usb into the computer

3. Plug the other end into your phone

4. an allow button should pop up on your phone, click allow

5. Then look for your phone on the left side of the screen where all of the drives are located.

6. Click on and you will be brought to a folder called INTERNAL STORAGE click on this, and alot of folders will be brought up. Move all the way down to the last folder which will be the most recent. You should see the three photos you just took.

7. Select the three photos and right click COPY, go to your MDrive folder, then click EDIT PASTE.

Come see me if you have problems doing this. 


Monday, December 02, 2024

Steps for Headswap

 1. Find a photo of a person on the internet. When using google to find the image, get the largest size photo possible. ( ie superman, famous model or celebrity) no animals or cartoons. Right click COPY, open Photoshop, File NEW, edit PASTE


2. Bring in the Headshot of Yourself or a friend. Go to file OPEN and open from your file on the MDRIVE. It should automatically open in Photoshop.

3. Bring in both photos to Photoshop. Go to IMAGE, IMAGE SIZE and change the photos to both be close to the same size.Height 11 INCHES. If one is way bigger than the other it will be difficult to do the assignment.

4. While under ADJUSTMENTS, you can also change both photos to BLACK and WHITE.

5. The photos should be open in different tabs.


If you get all of this done you can continue.

6. Next go to the SELECTION TOOL,(4th tool down on the left, right click) and using the tool, move the tool around the head of one of your photos, then click on EDIT CUT and go to your next photo.

Note: It is probably more interesting to put the student head on the celebrity body, but it does not matter which head goes where. Also if you do not have a head shot that works for the swap, simply go out and take a shot of someone in a similar pose and distance away from the camera.

7. When on the next photo, click on EDIT, PASTE. This will put the head on the page. Then to resize the head, click EDIT, TRANSFORM, SCALE. This will put a box around the photo and allow you to change the size of the head, you can also slightly rotate the head if you go to ROTATE under TRANSFORM tool.

8.. Then you want to tweak the image by moving into place with the pick/move tool, or use the eraser tool to clean up the edges.

Note: SAVING the file: If you need to continue working on the head swap, save as a COPY Photoshop file so you can come back and work on the image. It is always a good idea, to save your edited photos as Photoshop files as a backup in case you need to go back and make changes. However, if you think you are done you can save as a JPEG ( which is save as copy). 

Thursday, November 28, 2024

Friday Nov 29

 

For discussion

The video is called Glued, why do you think they named it this?

What issue is this film trying to address?

Do you think the filmmakers got their idea across well?

Continue working on your doodles, make sure you have coloured them with pencil crayon. If you finish, take a photo of your artwork on your phone and ask the teacher for some extension work or work on homework from another class.

Make sure you have the teacher look over your final video before putting it into your folder. Finished Everything? Find an object ( heart, c...