Blog Final

The class that I would have would be an art class that was based in digital photography, Photoshop, imovie and potentially basic computer animation. The first thing that would happen would be to meet and explain how to use the digital cameras. Then the students would go out and take photos and just get used to taking pictures and being creative. The second thing that would happen would be teaching them how to use certain effects on the camera itself like sepia, black and white and color filters. After they learned this they would take more pictures using the special effects or recreating pictures that they like and think would look better with some of the filters. After the mastery of these techniques and the building up of the students’ portfolios we would move on to Photoshop. We would start with a basic summary and then have them fool around with it and try to get it to work either using photos they have taken or images from the internet. The next class we would go more in depth with some aspects and then I would probably give a Photoshop project so that they can show what they learned. This project would be either multiple simple projects or one very elaborate one along with a paper describing the techniques used to create each layer of the photo. After this project I might have a fun class about how to spot doctored photos if the class were interested. We would then move on to imovie and learn the basics in class (basic editing, titles, and transitions) and then I would have the students shoot film and come back the next class to use the film to make a short movie of about 30 seconds. The next class we would go into more detail about special effects with audio and video and learn about idvd. Next would be another project, a movie from 3 to 5 minutes and a paper explaining the artistry and symbolism shown in the project. If we had time and if I learned how to do it we would start something in computer animation and the basics of that. The final would be a project that was based in one of the things that we learned or some combination of them. A completed digital photo portfolio or 10 minute imovie are a few examples. The last day I would show the students, if they didn’t already know, how to put everything up on to the internet on Snapfish or Youtube for example. The texts that I would be using would be the Dummies Guides to imovie, Photoshop, digital art photography and computer animation. They really would only be used as guides for the student for when I wasn’t around or if I couldn’t answer their question well enough. There are also a few magazines one for digital animation called Animation Magazine, which has all of the latest news and advice on digital animation and another for video technology, which also has advice and even a chat room. Both of these magazines have websites as well, their URLs are http://www.videotechnology.com/new0606.html and http://www.animationmagazine.net/. They wouldn’t really have to do anything special with the texts or with the websites just to use them as references if they need them. I would hope that the students would correctly learn how to use all of the programs that we use, to be creative and how to produce good works of art.