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Cycle Four: Media Literacy Wrap Up
Cycle Four: Media Literacy Wrap Up
Happy Black History Month! For this cycle, we are closing out Quarter 2 and finishing up our 2D and 3D Social Design Unit. Now that we’ve had time to focus on how to use design software, we’ll further examine media literacy as we become more experienced designers! Media literacy helps us hone critical thinking skills designers need whenever they design anything to tell a story to their audience.
SEL Warm Up
Visual Journaling, grounding yourself in the moment with Sketch.io Explore a range of emotional symbolism with a range of mark making, color gradients, and clip art.
We've had so many events happening in the news between Cycle Three and Cycle 4. Sit, reflect, and explore your takeaways with images or words that come to mind. You can explore typography if words come to you first.
SEL Warm Up:
SEL Warm Up:
Pick a meditation led by Dr. Chelsea Jackson Roberts to guide your reflection.
Media Matters: PBS's Beyond the Noise
Media Matters: PBS's Beyond the Noise
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Content creation is an artform that changes minute to minute! Let's take time to pause and think about how different creators approach storytelling methods. Would you approach this differently? Which of Miles' approaches would you want to try?
Media Matters: Representation w/ Aaron Phillip
Telling a variety of perspectives in storytelling is important for ad campaigns.
Storytelling is important because it helps us understand one another.
You can make stories by writing, making movies, and even modeling!
Aaron Philip is the first black, trangender model with a physical disability to be represented by a major modeling company, Elite Model Management in 2018.
Representation in Media:
Representation in Media:
Sezay Altinok
Sezay Altinok
We’re going to review different versions of the “Find Your Greatness” ad campaign for the 2012 London Olympics by Turkish director Sezay Altinok. Vote on your favorite, and we’ll add screen grabs to our video lookbook.
Media Matters: Black Lives Matter and Motown
Media Matters: Black Lives Matter and Motown
Learn how the power of visuals shape social change. Compare and reflect on the two videos below. Black Lives Matter movement started by three radical black women activists-Alicia Garza, Patrice Cullors, and Opal Tomati and the Motown Records model started by Berry Gordy. How did both organizations both use the power of visuals to change the narrative being imposed upon them by mainstream media? Think about digital storytelling methods that we've used in the past three cycles we could use to tell their story--an animation in Scatch? A video in our Video Editor or
Instructional Resources
MS_Janurary_HybridDayBaerELEElemMiddleHighSchoolArtr2021.pptxJanuary2021Middle_ School LessonPlan_Mazurek (1).pdfVirtual Field Trip
Explore one of Maryland's HBCU's, Bowie State's renowned Digital Arts Program. Recently, Bowie made the news for being chosen by Laika Animation as a home for a new stop motion animation studio. They have also hosted legendary Black Panther Party graphic designer Emory Douglas and had professor Jennifer White Johnson present at Harvard.
Explore one of Maryland's HBCU's, Bowie State's renowned Digital Arts Program. Recently, Bowie made the news for being chosen by Laika Animation as a home for a new stop motion animation studio. They have also hosted legendary Black Panther Party graphic designer Emory Douglas and had professor Jennifer White Johnson present at Harvard.
Library of Congress Citizen DJ Archive
Library of Congress Citizen DJ Archive
Most design projects for the web call for visuals and sound to be fully accessible. Build in songwriting components to your class with weekly sample libraries from Citizen DJ. A lot of design terms overlap and can help students practice translating skills across multiple platforms--a valuable artmaking and design skill. Build songs with layers, patterns, colors, moods, and linear rhythms.
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