Embrace your mistakes as intentions; Outcomes
LEARN - AKO:
This term we are taking all of our knowledge of composition - focal point, leading lines, colour, balance - and applying it to a digital context to create our magazine pages
We are going to be learning design principles of text hierarchy, layering, colour and balancing objects as well as digital skills in Adobe Photoshop of basic editing and adding text to create a page
CREATE - WAIHANGA:
We are going to be finding resource imagery, scanning and uploading our work and adding text in a photoshop document to create one A4 page each for our magazine remembering which word or section you are a part of
SHARE - TOHATOHA:
We are going to be printing these and selling them online and to community where there is a market
There will also be some time set aside for those of you who have not quite finished the printing, to get that sorted (Friday).
LEARN | AKO - to know:
What reflects your overall theme visually?
CREATE | WAIHANGA - to act:
I would hope that you have included the following;
Layered elements
A play on transparency and opacity
Font that reflects your theme
Unity is considered - colour, repetition, togetherness
A paragraph written about your theme in te Reo or English.
SHARE / TOHATOHA - to value:
Your blog post from last week needs to be published if it has not already. one other student from within our class needs to comment on it this week.
LEARN | AKO:
What is resource imagery and why is it important?
CREATE | WAIHANGA:
Get your brainstorms out
Does your design reflect your thumbnail sketches so far?
Does your design reflect the feeling of your topic?
Do you know where your leading lines are?
Do you know what your focal point is?
Have you played with layering of your visuals?
Have you figured out screenshotting your progress?
Is there a 'thing' you want to know how to do, but don't? have you googled it or asked?
USE your thumbnail sketches
SHARE / Tohatoha - to value
a blog post that reflects on some or all of these points. we will do this in lass in a fairly structured way.
Make sure there is layering, transparency/opaque and a clipping mask featured in your work.
Recapping good and bad design layout for a DPS (double page spread)
Student blog post expected here.
LEARN | AKO:
What is resource imagery and why is it important?
CREATE | WAIHANGA:
Get your brainstorms out
What is your colour palette?
How many people in your group? Whose page is going to contain what information? What do you want your readers to know about 'A day in the life of a year 10 at Hornby High?'
As a group, create a drive folder with all your inspiration and images from things you have scanned in (your own art) and images you have found. Share this with all your group members and with me.
IMPORTANT: If you are getting images from google they need to be HIGH RESOLUTION - go up the top to tools, click size and click large - this means the highest resolution images are at the start of your search
You can also use this website (free stock images) https://unsplash.com/search/photos/paint
USE your thumbnail sketches
LEARN | AKO:
What is resource imagery and why is it important?
CREATE | WAIHANGA:
Get into your groups again and brainstorm what your section is going to look like
What is your colour palette?
How many people in your group? Whose page is going to contain what information? What do you want your readers to know about 'A day in the life of a year 10 at Hornby High?'
As a group, create a drive folder with all your inspiration and images from things you have scanned in (your own art) and images you have found. Share this with all your group members and with me.
IMPORTANT: If you are getting images from google they need to be HIGH RESOLUTION - go up the top to tools, click size and click large - this means the highest resolution images are at the start of your search
You can also use this website (free stock images) https://unsplash.com/search/photos/paint
Create thumbnail sketches of some layout ideas for your pages
shift command 4 - press these keys together on a mac keyboard to take a photo of a selected area of the screen.
LEARN | AKO:
What is resource imagery and why is it important?
CREATE | WAIHANGA:
Get into your groups again and brainstorm what your section is going to look like
What is your colour palette?
How many people in your group? Whose page is going to contain what information? What do you want your readers to know about 'A day in the life of a year 10 at Hornby High?'
As a group, create a drive folder with all your inspiration and images from things you have scanned in (your own art) and images you have found. Share this with all your group members and with me.
IMPORTANT: If you are getting images from google they need to be HIGH RESOLUTION - go up the top to tools, click size and click large - this means the highest resolution images are at the start of your search
You can also use this website (free stock images) https://unsplash.com/search/photos/paint
Create thumbnail sketches of some layout ideas for your pages
Student blog post expected here
Practical Knowledge and Understanding context: Lino printing, Sonja terk Delauney, colour theory
Practical Knowledge: Layers, Orphism, colour theory, mark-making, printmaking techniques, Developing ideas: working on how to make two plates from one design. Working towards switching plates with your class members and experimenting with other layers.
Communicating and Interpreting: Updating your blog, commenting on another students work
Lino cut exemplar same design; two blocks.
Practical Knowledge and Understanding context: Lino printing, Sonja terk Delauney
Practical Knowledge: Layers, Orphism, colour theory, mark-making, printmaking techniques, Developing ideas: thumbnail sketches, leading lines and focal points
Communicating and Interpreting: Your work, your ideas, on your blog, a final collaborative piece of work for the term that is exhibitable.
Student blog post expected here
By the end of term one, we all should have our own mixed media pieces of work, that shows design process (thumbnail sketches) demonstrates that are self managing and that you used typography, planned your ideas with thumbnail sketches and annotations and showed the confidence to not start again, but to work through any 'mistakes' by making them your intentions. We will be photographing and uploading work regularly on here and on the Art department Facebook page also.