Congratulations to the following 7th and 8th grade Chute Media Arts students who had their work displayed at the Northshore Center for Performing Arts last week for the SOAR Art Exhibit. Amelia Crowe Grace Fay Greta Ingraham Nina Laurent Kyle Kersnar Brianna Nielsen Chimere Riley-Garrett Chris Wolfe Chute Media Arts student work on display at the Art Show. Students are so excited to use our new large green screen and lighting equipment to produce amazing green screen videos! 6th graders are using the green screen to make stop motion movies using apps such as DoInk's Green Screen app. 7th graders filmed artist statements about their portraits in front of the green screen and used Final Cut video editing software to place themselves in front of their photo portraits while describing them. 7th graders also used the studio lighting and DSLR camera to take photos for their Photoshop portraits. Some of the 8th grade Advanced Media Arts students are also using the green screen to create their six word story videos, in conjunction with the Inside Out Project. We can't wait to see their finished creations! See students working below! Special thanks to Mrs. Kushner's 1st period class for assembling the green screen and lighting equipment! They displayed great teamwork as a class and quick problem solving skills to put everything together in one class period!
Congratulations to the following students who had their work displayed at the District 65/202 Art Show at ETHS last week: Media Arts:
Visual Arts:
View the original poem by Toly Walker that inspired students' work.
A Video Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.- by Charlie Krause, Adv. Media Class of 20131/16/2014 Write your comments below!
Do you remember when Mr. McHolland made this speech last year? What do you think his message is? How can we make Dr. King's dreams a reality today? Which images or clips from Charlie's movie do you think were most powerful? Why? We've been quite busy in Media Arts this month! Our biggest news is that we have officially moved into our new Media Arts classroom space, the former computer lab, room 109. In addition, students have been working hard on many exciting projects. Here are some highlights from this month:
Advanced Media Arts students and some 7th grade students (led by Shannon) began working on the volleyball shirts. First they cut 12 x 12 sheets of freezer paper and stuck it onto the mat for the cutting machine (called the Silhouette Cameo). They typed last names in Photoshop and dragged them into Silhouette Studio, which is the program that tells the cutting machine where to cut. The machine cut stencils of the last names, which students ironed onto the backs of the shirts. When the freezer paper was adhered, students used foam brushes and fabric paint to paint in the names. After they dried, students pulled off the freezer paper and turned the shirts inside out to heat set the letters permanently on the shirts. Then Mrs. Kushner had to create a screen with the logo for the front of the shirt. This proved difficult. Our next step will be silkscreening the logo onto the fronts of the shirts! Another group of Advanced Media Arts students took on the task of painting Chute's snow plow for the 8th annual Paint Evanston Plows contest. Inspired by the theme "Get Active: Run, Walk, and Play", students came up with the idea to have a snow globe with silhouetted figures displaying the activities people enjoy during the winter. Before painting the plow, students did some test paintings in class to learn how to paint snow, the globe, and trees. After a few days of experimenting, students began painting the plow. To paint the silhouettes perfectly, students found silhouetted images of active people online, then we used the Silhouette Cameo to cut stencils of the figures. You can see Tiera painting in the stencils above. Great work, ladies!
Join us at lunch Wednesday, Oct. 30 and Thursday, Oct. 31 for Halloween pictures during your lunch time. Using a tutorial by Meredith Blaché, Advanced Media students learned how to use the layer mask to mask out parts of their body to make it appear that they are walking out of a portal. Students then experimented with filters to create the inside of the portal and change their background. Nice work! Check out the latest Photoshop work from our Advanced Media Artists! Read student blogs under the 6th period menu to learn more about these projects! |
Artist of the Month:
Jesse Joshua Watson Biography compiled from http://jessewatson.com/about/ by Jacob V. Watson's is a father of two boys, a dancer, and an artist. He has illustrated children books, CD covers, and magazines. A couple books he illustrated that we are reading here at Chute are Chess Rumble by G. Neri and Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri. He visited Haiti after the earthquake in 2010 and wrote a book to raise money to support the Haitian people, called HOPE FOR HAITI! View Jesse speaking with our 7th grade Media Arts classes via Google Hangout on October 3rd at this link. Categories
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