Shadow Art Photography

 

Take a camera and a team to capture at least 10 shadow art photos.

Use people or objects to create interesting shapes to photograph.

Load your images into photoshop and adjust the brightness/contrast and hue/saturation levels to make you shadow are stand out.

Bonus: Use your editing skills to create a faked shadow image.

Brooks Hallway Horror

Your task is to create ONE horror film shot for each member of your group of  a Brooks hallway/location.

1) Take several photos of  Brooks Hallways and locations. Only members of your group may be in the photo. Think about angle, framing, perspective, guiding lines.

2) Pick your 3 best photos and load them into Photoshop. Use the Adjustment settings to darken the image or make it black and white. Crop the photo if necessary.

3) Add the image below as a second layer in Photoshop/Paint.net, or find images of smoke online on your own. 

Photoshop - Add a layer mask and adjust the overlay/opacity settings to create a dark, mysterious, smokey scene.

4) Touch up the edges of the smoke/layer mask with a soft brush/eraser

5) Optional: Add another layer with a creepy partially hidden face/character/monster/etc

Brooks Dance Poster

 Create TWO posters for the next Brooks dance.

First Poster: Use Illustrator or Photoshop

Include: 

A Title

Name of School

Date - April 25

Time - 6:30-9:30

Snacks

School ID required

Cost - $2

Second Poster: Use https://new.express.adobe.com/

Ableton Live - Remix Challenge

 Create a remix 

Download the files attached to the link below.

Insert the samples in to Ableton and create new drum patterns and bass lines to create a remix.

Notorious B.I.G - Mo Money Mo Problems

Illustrator - Pattern Maker

Create a uniqe pattern using Illustrators tools and pattern maker.

1) Follow the instructions below to create a pizza pattern.

 https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-make-a-colorful-pizza-pattern-in-adobe-illustrator--cms-28720

2) Create your own pattern.

Post both examples to your Portfolio.

Term 3 - Media House Project

Project:

Your task is to create an original piece of art for the Brooks Media House presentation in April.

Your artwork could be:

A set of photographs

A set of digital artworks

A short video/animation

An song/audio recording

To Do:

Part 1 - Brainstorm

Part 2 - Proposal - Submit your idea to Mr. Clark

Part 3 - Rough Draft

Part 4 - Review

Part 5 - Good Copy

Part 6 - Presentation

Ableton Live - Drum Patterns

Search in your PC apps for Ableton Live 11 Intro

In the left panel click on "Drums"

The list of drum kits will appear - Drag the "909 Core Kit" into column number 1 labelled 1-Midi

Double click on the top "Cell" of the "909" Column and a keyboard should appear at the bottom of the app.

Click on the headphones icon and try adding some notes by double clicking on the sequencer grid.

You can adjust the length of your loop in the "clip" section on the left and you can adjust the tempo in the top left corner of the app.

Try: 

Creating a few different drum patterns and different tempos

Using different drum kits to explore different drum sounds.

Illustrator - Intro

1) Find 4 examples of artwork made with Adobe Illustrator.  Post your examples to your portfolio with a link to website where you found it.

Illustrator - Basic Shapes

Open Adobe Illustrator:

Create a new project - Choose "web-large"' for your art board size.

1) Create Shapes: Use the Rectangle, Ellipse and Polygon tool to create shapes.

2) Create Lines: Use the Line Segment tool, Pen tool and Brush tool to create lines.

3) Combine Shapes: Use the "Shape Builder Tool" to combine shapes. 

4) Challenge: Can you create a toucan?

Text Photo Art

 

Create TWO text photo art graphics. Use ONE online image and ONE photo that you have captured yourself.

Create 2 Layers in Photoshop:

On the first layer, import a photo of a landscape or closeup

On the second layer - add text that is big and bold

Place the photo layer on top of the text layer.

Hold down "Alt" and then click on the line between the two layers in the layer panel.

2024 Media - Top 5

 Create a slide for your portfolio which highlights some Media Art that you are excited about for 2024.

Create TWO - "Top Five" lists which feature media that has been released or will be released this year.

For example.

Top 5 2024:

Movies

Music Albums

Music Events

TV Shows

Books

Graphic Novels

Web Series

Chrome Song Maker - Use Headphones

Open chrome

Go to https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/

Create 3 songs with 3 different tempos:

90 BPM - Hip Hop

130 BPM - Dance

140 BPM - Dubstep

185 BPM - Drum and Bass

Save your song to OneDrive

Select "Copy Link"

Paste your song song link to your blog