Andy Warhol Pop Art

Today in production we are taking a shift from the Obama Poster duplication due to the limits of Photoshop Elements 10.  (Mainly the complexity of the work around)  However, the students will be exploring Elements in a similar way by creating Andy Warhol Pop Art Duplications.  Each student will be tasked with creating their own face using the tutorial below.  However, they will also be tasked with 3 other types of shots.

Face Shot -  Students will use one of the shots from the other day to create this effect in Photoshop.

Word Art -  Students will find lettering in either a book, sign, or create it themselves and take a close up using a camera.

Inanimate Object - Students will take a extreme close up of an inanimate object and use the same process.

Landscape Shot -  Students will take a Landscape Shot and create the same effect. 

By utilizing 4 different shots it forces the students to understand where this effect would be useful and where it would not be as useful.  It will also help the student focus on setting up shots and finding art inside of their surroundings.

The Tutorial is linked below:

Wrapping up our Photoshop Basics

This week the students will be putting the finishing touches on their movie poster and putting their photo editing on display.

They will be recreating the poster below by creating it with their own image.

This weeks project

This week the students will be working on creating a portrait of words, of themselves.  They will be watching the following tutorials and begin creating a Word Portrait describing themselves.  It will be challenging and probably will bleed into next week.

Project Parameters.

They have to come up with 25 words describing themselves, 12 motivational quotes, and 1 set of appropriate lyrics from a song.  They will use these as the basis of their photo project.  They will also be tasked with taking a picture of themselves, using the camera shot of their choosing.  They will use this photo as the basis of the project.

Camera Shots and Angles

How to make a Word Photo

Design Challenge: The Face Transplant

Today the students will continue to expand their comfort level inside of Photoshop Elements by doing a face transplant.

The tutorial is below.

I will post some of the students work later in the day!

Week Two Begins - Photoshop Elements Here We Come!

Today the students will be working in a flipped classroom model.  They will be interacting with two modules made on Educanon.com to help give them the basics of Photoshop Elements.  They will have base tasks to do at the end of each module.

Their Educanon.com sign in information is below:

username:  FirstNameSalk
password:  student1

Below are the tutorials they will be watching but they do not include the questions associated with them.

Should be a good start to a busy week!

Basics of Photoshop Elements - 1




Basics of Photoshop Elements - 2

Continuing to Build their City Street

Today the students will pick up where they left off yesterday by constructing a Downtown City Street Landscape.  However, we will quickly begin with a micro-lesson on Animating inside of Sketchup.  We will talk briefly about what it should include and I will show a few examples from the internet for the students to look at.  They will then finish their landscape and begin to think about scene design inside of the landscape.

Animating inside of Sketchup Tutorial

Day One: Step One to becoming Sketchup Novices!

Today we are diving into Sketchup and learning some of the possibilities of the program.  In Productions we will be utilizing Sketchup as a 3d Modeling, Animation, and landscape designer.  Today the students are learning the basics of the program and exploring its capabilities.

Todays Tutorial

Todays Application Challenge

Using the Tools that you learned today begin creating the exterior of a downtown city street.  You will be using this street in the future for inserting yourself into the landscape.  Explore freely with this mini challenge with the understanding you will have time to sharpen it in the future.

Welcome to the Productions Second Semester!

You have made your way to Mr. Robinson's Production Class Website.  This will be your home page for keeping track of what we are working on in class and what you need to brush up on.  This should be a fun semester!