Halloween Week with Audacity

This week the students will be creating a Scary Halloween Soundscape in Audacity.  The students will be watching the tutorials below and then creating their own mixes.

Their Scary Soundscape will be graded as follows:


Use of at least 8 different Sound Effects taken from freesound.org ........ 8 pts

A Soundscape clip that is a minimum of 4 minutes in length .................. 8 pts

Professionalism ......................................................................................... 4 pts

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Total                                                                                                            20 pts


Tutorail 1




Tutorial 2






Tutorial 3





Tutorial 4






Should be a fun week before Halloween.

Hello.........Audacity

We are officially moving beyond our Photoshop Unit.  The students will be diving into Audacity by watching the Tutorial below.  They will then be logging into freesound.org and begin downloading Sound Effects to give us a Class Bank to work out of.

freesound username:  SalkComputerApps2

Password:  student1

ADOBE Photoshop Final Project - DUE 10-20

Students will be completing their final projects this week.

Their final projects will display their skills in 5 different editing techniques in Photoshop.

They will be creating a Virtual Art Gallery.  Using Sketchup they will either build or download an Art Gallery to display 5 different pieces of work.

The work has to consist of 5 different photos and each photo has to include a different editing technique that we covered in class.  The art will be displayed inside of the virtual studio and a 3D virtual walk through will be conducted.

The students may either take their own photos or use any of the class bank of photos created in class.

They will be graded as follows:

25 points for the 5 edited Works of Art.
8 points for the Virtual Studio
3 points for the Virtual Walk Through
4 points for Professionalism
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40 points total for the project.

Sketchup Tutorial Series Below

Finish Name Badges, Start Andy Warhol Project

We are headed into the final week of Photoshop Work before the final project starts.  This week the students will be finishing their name badges and then beginning their Andy Warhol color manipulation project.  Once the students finish their Name Badge they will be printed off and the students will be able to go take a photograph of themselves or a friend to create the Andy Warhol pop art below.

 

The Andy Warhol Project will be graded as follows.

Ability to take a themed/staged photo for the Andy Warhol production ..................  8 pts
Ability to edit the photo down into its base state for editing ....................................  4 pts
Finished product with Andy Warhol Effects ..........................................................   3 pts
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Total Points                                                                                                             15 pts

When the students finish this project, they will be able to use their extra time to take some additional pictures and practice any of the photoshop effects they have learned to date!

Name Badges for Production Class

This weeks project will involve the students making a unique name badge to use as their production pass for the rest of the semester.  The passes will be printed on 8.5" by 11" paper and will be left in the classroom.

The students will take a Self Portrait of themselves to complete this project.  They will then use the following as the text for the name badge.

Line 1:  Their Favorite Color
Line 2:  Their Favorite Food
Line 3:  Their Favorite Songe
Line 4:  Period (of production class)
Line 5:  First Name
Line 6  Last Name
Line 7:  Production
Line 8:  Hall Pass

Here is the tutorial.




When finished they will save as a JPEG and send to either

michaelr@spokaneschools.org

or

stevenc@spokaneschools.org

Time to Get the Cameras Out - But First We Must Learn the Basics!

This week in Productions we will be getting the Cameras Out.  However, the students will first have the opportunity to learn some tricks and techniques that will help them excel!  We will be watching the following Tutorials and taking a test on the techniques shared within at the end of Class on Tuesday.  Students must pass the test on Tuesday in order to be able to use Cameras outside of the classroom.

The tutorials are listed below.

Additional Tools you can Self Teach in Photoshop

As we are finishing our Photoshop Unit I wanted to take the time and give you some additional editing you can self teach yourself.  If you finish your existing project early feel free to start learning from some of the tutorials listed in the playlist attached!

EMAIL COMPLETED WORK TOO: michaelr@spokaneschools.org