Aaaaaaaaaaand cut. Okay. You should be wrapping up your films and your commercials. Putting the final touches on your masterpieces. This was a group project for this whole year. Working with groups will be something that happens often in your life. Think about what you got out of this group project. Do some serious reflection. […]
Author Archives: Sara Fontano
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Feb
Feb
Editing Hey Friends- This week is going to be short and sweet so you have plenty of time to work on filming your movies and commercials. Some important reminders, date/deadline for these projects- You should be done filming very soon and get to work on editing. APRIL 17th will be our last day for this […]
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Jan
Jan
Acting Read Orbiting the Giant Hairball Chapters 11-15 Think about what you read. How do these chapters/stories apply to acting? What is the author encouraging you to do creatively? How can his ideas help you to be more creative in acting choices? Watch Acting – What is it? Ted Talk by David Wenham. Consider how […]
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Nov
Nov
Storyboarding Read Orbiting the Giant Hairball Chapters 5- 10 Think about what you read. How do all these stories apply to being creative? What is the author encouraging you to do? How can his ideas help you to be more creative? Watch Five Loaves and Two Fishes | Dallas Jenkins | 2024 Consider how failure […]
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Sep
Sep
!!!UPDATED – 9/27/24 4:30PM!!! – Hey Guys- I forgot your reading assignment for this week. Read the first 4 Chapters of Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon Mackenzie. Think about why perhaps people lose their willingness to be creative, or to consider themselves creative. In his book, Mackenzie uses a giant hairball as a metaphor […]
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Apr
Apr
DESIGN BASICS PART VI – Unity, Variety & Harmony It’s finally here. This is it. The moment we’ve been waiting for- UNITY, VARIETY and HARMONY in design. We’ve talked about all of the ELEMENTS that are used to create a design. And we’ve talked about all the PRINCIPLES used to make those elements work well […]
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Mar
Mar
DESIGN BASICS PART V – Pattern and Rhythm Are you ready? We are going to talk about PATTERNS and RHYTHM in art. We’ve talked about the ELEMENTS that are used to create a design. Last month we learned about Focus & Emphasis. This month we will learn how the importance of Patterns and Rhythm. WATCH […]
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Feb
Feb
✏Writing Class In all of your writing this week, remember C.O.P.S…. Capitalization, Organization, Punctuation & Spelling. DESIGN BASICS PART IV – Focus and Emphasis Here we go again. We are starting to learn about using the building blocks of art and design to create actual designs. We’ve talked about the ELEMENTS that are used to […]
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Jan
Jan
✏Writing Assignment Fill out the other three 4-square sheets (on Asia, lines & your ancestor) just like you did last week by taking the subtopics and details and putting one in each of the first 3 boxes. When you come to class this week you will have 4 separate sheets that look like the one […]
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Oct
Oct
✏ Writing Assignment This week you are writing your topic sentences for all 4 of your pages of notes that you have taken. Remember to get a full sheet of paper and fold it into 4 rectangles and add the box in the middle. Write a complete sentence in the middle box of each one […]