Rundown: Week Ending 11/8/13

1st Period Graphic Design

Now this class has shown that they're pretty comfortable with Photoshop and turing in digital assignments, an important transition in the class is beginning.  Now, we're working toward our work in students learning design principles to make their future work even better than before.  Now, they'll become real designers!  The first step of this process is for students to do a mostly unguided design for a band flier.  The assignment can be found HERE.  These first posters will serve as the baseline for students to base their design growth.  As we worth through the design principles, students will be redesigning this flier several times.  

2nd Period Graphic Design

Students have been working on the pre-assessment stage of our upcoming design princlples work by creating a band flier.  As we work through our exploration of design principles that will greatly improve their work, students will be revising this first flier several times, resulting in a final, well-designed piece.  A few students have taken extra classtime to create artwork for our school's ASB t-shirts.

4th Period Graphic Design

Like first and second period students, the period four team has been working on the pre-assessment stage of our upcoming design princlples work by creating a band flier.  As we work through our exploration of design principles that will greatly improve their work, students will be revising this first flier several times, resulting in a final, well-designed piece.  A few students have taken extra classtime to create typographic quote artwork.

5th Period Animation Lab

 

If you haven't seen it, the MMS Animation Lab YouTube page has been updated with this year's first showcase of student animation work.  19th century pre-animation toys, known as Thaumatropes, can be seen spinning HERE.

This week, students turned in their final zoetrope drums and animation strips.  Video of this great work will show up on the YouTube site, soon!  Following zoetrope work, the team started watching the second part of the "Forging the Frame" series.  For students needing to complete the worksheet, the video can be found HERE.

6th Period Graphic Design

1st Quarter's 6th period class ended on Wednesday.  For the week, students spent their time making sure that they had any loose ends tied up and work turned in. This was a great group!

2nd Quarter's new class met only for a short while, but in that time we did a brief drawing exercise in which students drew pictures for certain words and for others, were asked to draw the word in a way that expressed the word's meaning (example, for "cold" they might draw the letters as ice).