CTE MULTIMEDIA TEACHING PORTFOLIO
Image Credits: Mrs. Girot's Multimedia Students
CRITIQUES
All student work is shared via critique. Please click on the images below to link to the critique slideshows.
Digital Arts
Critique: Science Textbook Cover
This project addresses our school-wide STEM initiatives. This is the first vector graphics project students do in Digital Arts. It allows them to explore the basic rectangle, ellipse, star, spiral, and text tools in a meaningful, real-world way. The Science textbook covers are then shared with our Science Department teachers so they can see what an awesome impact they have on our students! Our STEM Coordinator also submitted this Lesson and Student Work as evidence for this year’s STEM Grant Application.
Critique: Op Art or Pop Art?
Students are challenged to use the Pencil or Bezier tool to create a design based on Bridget Riley’s Op Art or Keith Haring’s Pop Art.
Critique: Pencil Tool | Trace and Fill
This project taps into the students’ diverse interest levels allowing them to choose their own subject matter. Not all students enrolled in Digital Arts are confident about their artistic abilities. Teaching them to trace sets them up for success. They can use one of their own pencil sketches, or they can find a public domain image on CreativeCommons.org. They are asked to choose something challenging enough for their own ability level (not too easy, not too hard).
Critique: Bezier Tool | Trace and Fill
This project allows students to take their skills to a higher level. You can see a huge increase in their ability to create beautiful designs as they master the Bezier tool.
Critique: Create an OC | Original Character
This enrichment project asks students to challenge stereotypes in order to make an Original Character. They learn the design process professional animators use in order to bring their characters to the big screen.
Digital Photography
Critique: Explore Your Camera's Settings
In this first project, students practice using their shutter speed, aperture, and ISO settings to see what they can do!
Critique: Subject Photography
Next, students complete a self-directed learning project where they research different camera tricks and choose one to master. The goal is to use their new trick to emphasize their subject, intentionally applying the elements of art and principles of design to their compositions. Students are not allowed to use post-production editing tools at this point.
Critique: Landscape, Portrait & Street Photography
Students are introduced to the concept of finding beauty and meaning in the ordinary. We watch a video biography of Jay Maisel and apply his passion to the assignment. Students gain an appreciation for street photography, capturing the spontaneous, emphasizing the structures of architecture, and rendering scenes that mirror society. Students will submit one landscape, one portrait, and one street photograph.
Critique: Tell a Story
Students are challenged to start using their technical skills to tell a story.
Critique: Bokeh Photography
Students hone in on their Aperture settings for this challenge to capture the perfect bokeh shot. An alternative assignment for students who are limited to the use of a cell phone camera is to demonstrate a trick.
Critique: Light Painting
Students hone in on their Shutter Speed settings for this challenge to create a dynamic light painting. Students with cell phones can do this assignment, too, by downloading a long exposure app.
Critique: Black & White with a Pop of Color
In this assignment, students use the fuzzy select (Magic Wand) tool and alpha channels to create an image that is black and white with a pop of color. I have included a video tutorial that demonstrates my ability to use technology to help learners to master post-production editing skills asynchronously.
Video Tutorial: https://youtu.be/a-TRsQNSvqM
Critique: Making Meaning, Impact & Emotional Response
Students use their photography to evoke an emotional response from their viewer. In addition to making meaning, students are contextualizing events in their lives or in the world. Students use post-production editing in GIMP or Photoshop to effectively crop the space in order to eliminate distractions. They may also convert the color image to black and white, and even mask at least one area in color to create an impact.
Critique: Juxtaposition
In this assignment, students contextualize the use of juxtaposition beyond its typical place in the English Language Arts. Students are challenged to create a contrast that is unexpected, one that lures the viewer to think more deeply about the subject-matter presented.
Image Design
Critique: Colorize & Create a New World
Students learn to use the Lasso/free select and Magic Wand/fuzzy select tools in order to colorize at least three different areas of an image to create a new world. Students are challenged to consider color theory in their hue choices.
Critique: Vintage Zoo Poster
Students learn to trace and fill a photograph of an animal in order to create a vintage zoo poster design. They use an actual vintage poster to select colors for their design using the dropper tool.
Critique: Andy Warhol Inspired Design
Students are challenged to create a design that is unmistakably Andy Warhol inspired. There is a deeper meaning to Warhol’s work. Let’s see if the students can redeem his message in the twenty-first century.
Critique: Cubism
Students are challenged to manipulate photos using filters to achieve a synthetic or analytic cubism piece with a message.
Critique: Surrealism
Students are challenged to use everything they have learned in this class to create a surrealist artwork inspired by Freud’s subconscious world of dreams.