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4th Quarter Assignments
3/27 Watch Discipline Animations. Post your animation to your website as well as any other 3rd quarter assignments. Write 2-3 sentences about what you learned and what the assignment is about. Add a recent announcements gadget to your homepage to show your animations on it.
3/29 Walk Cycle, Draw your character.
3/30 Walk Cycle, draw your character in all frames.
3/31 Walk Cycle.
4/3 Create a movie symbol and paste all your character frames into it. Create a graphic symbol and draw a panoramic background. Friday photo assignment: Portrait. #slamportraitphoto
4/26 Animation and video. Create a video that includes at least three shots with either animation added to video, video added to animation, or both. You may work in teams of no more than four. Due May 12. Here are two examples: Small Halls, Where I'm from by Phillip Stanley.
5/12 Turn in Animation and Video Project Here
5/14 C4D Render First Image. Post your render on G+ #slamfirst3d
5/18 Watch animation and video project. Update website with latest projects, Get Cinema 4D running on your computer.
5/22 Animating with C4D and rendering a movie
Final Project
Website
3rd Quarter Assignments
1/19 Color Replacement Tool, Analogous Color | #slamanalogousphoto tomorrow!
1/20 Complementary Color Photo | #slamcomplementaryphoto
1-23/24 Monday/Tuesday: One Take Challenge Planning
1-25/26: Wed/Thursday: One Take Challenge shooting
1/27 Friday: One Take Challenge edit (add title and credits) and turn in here. No photo due ( complementary photo due next Friday)
1/30 Monday: Watch One Take Challenge videos.
2/2 Post your One Take and recent photos to your website. Remember to write about each assignment.
Also, post your Fast for Nonviolence work! Post your video, link to your Fast website, your social media, your presentation. For best results, take screenshots and link to them.
2/3 Photo Assignment: Backlight. #slambacklightphoto Also, sign up for WriterDuet and start writing a script. Share with tonyfarley@mac.com
2/6 Create a script with at least one conversation between two people. You will film the conversation (not the entire script) tomorrow.
2/8 Film a conversation. It can be a conversation in your script, a joke, or just a conversation. Record a long shot of the conversation and two over the shoulder shots of the same conversation. Don't forget: Camera Sound Settings
2/9 Edit your conversation using: Editing Dialog with Multicam Editing
2/10 Upload your conversation to Youtube and fill out this form to turn it in. Everyone must edit and upload their own edit.
2/13 Record Macbeth's Soliloquy and create an experimental film. Due 3/2
2/14 Happy Valentines Day! Watch Conversations.
2/17 Critique Backlight Photos. New photo assignment: Experimental Photography (you may use photoshop for this one). Experiment with light, shutter speed, Macro (we have a macro lens), blur, compositing, or whatever. The assignment is to experiment and create a creative image. Due March 10. #slamexperimentalphoto
3/2 Experimental Due. Turn in here.
3/6 Read comments here on Experimental and fix all issues. Turn in fixes Thursday. Turn in here.
3/6 Getting started with animate
3/7 Create a background and animate something in it.
3/10 Post your animation to YouTube, G+ #slamfirstanimation, and to your website using Exporting an animation as a movie. Remember to turn in your fixed experimental video and your experimental photo also.
3/11 Tracing an image. Assignment: Discipline Policy Animation
10/23 Our Values Propaganda Poster
10/27 Getting Started With After Effects
10/28 Form #slamformphoto
11/1 Create a new Effects page and add text video to it.
11/2 Begin Obiwan
11/3 Garbage matte and green screen keying Obiwan
11/4 Space Photo Assignment and Form Crit
11/7 Creating and animating a light saber for Obiwan
11/8 Fast Kickoff 2nd and 3rd
11/9 2nd Create sabers for Grievous in Obiwan
11/14 Premiere Pro with Obiwan
11/17 Exporting from Premiere Pro
11/30 Disappear shot
12/1 Exporting from Photos and Importin to Premiere, Setting in/out points to edit the shot.
12/2 Make at least three meaningful comments on three food photos that do not have three comments already.
12/5 Add sound and titles with Final Cut Pro
12/6 Add latest projects to your effects page on your site.
12/8 Greenscreen Compositing with Final Cut Pro
12/9 Photo Assignment: Primary #slamprimaryphoto
12/11 CodeCombat for the Hour of Code
12/12 Finish Codecombat level, get out of dungeon.
12/13 Fast Research on forum
12/14 Fast Graphic on forum
12/16 Analogous Color #slamanalogousphoto
12/19 Write the Voiceover for your Fast project.
12/20 Create your social media account for your Fast project. Turn it in here.
12/21 Create your Fast website using the New Google Sites. Here is a good tutorial on the new Google Sites. Turn it in here.
12/22 Create a Google Slides Presentation for your project or get access to the presentation. Turn it in here.
Semester Final: Your website should, at a glance, show your work and progress this semester. You should have pages showing your photography, photoshop, effects, and a page showing your Fast for Nonviolence work.
Also: Your Fast for Non-violence project is due Jan 19th. You will present your project to the class on the 19th or 20th then present to a non-slam class on the day you fast.
1st Quarter Assignments
8/18 Logging into your computer and getting it set up.
8/18 Getting Started With GarageBand
8/19 Log in to your Google Account and posting hello message #helloslam
8/23 Photoshop Getting Started, Erasing, and Compositing #myfirstcomposite
8/24 Find images that represent different things about you, who you are, and what makes you happy.
8/29 Quick Selection Tool and Refine Edge
8/30 Magnetic Lasso, Magic Wand, and Quickmask
8/31 Start Collage
9/7 Post Collage to G+ with #slamcollage
9/9 Voice Recording with Garageband
9/12 Pixel Art
9/15 Animation and sound with Photoshop
9/16 Posting to Youtube
9/22 Post all your photoshop work to your website. Include a few sentences about each assignment. What you learned, what you did, and how you feel about it. Fill out this form to turn your website in.
9/23 Composition, Focus, and Light photo assignment
9/24 Create a Photography page and post your first image to website
9/24 Create a Photography page and post your first image to website
9/30 Line Photo #slamlinephoto
10/4 Add A Banner to your Google Site
10/6 Adjusting the colors of your site / Fill out this form to turn your site in if you haven't yet!
10/12 Add Recent Post gadgets to your website
10/13 Cropping, image size in Photoshop #slamcropping
10/14 Shape Photo #slamshapephoto
2nd Quarter Assignments
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