This course enables students to create media art works by exploring new media, emerging technologies such as digital animation, and a variety of traditional art forms such as film, photography, video, and visual arts. Students will acquire communications skills that are transferable beyond the media arts classroom and develop an understanding of responsible practices related to the creative process. Students will develop the skills necessary to create and interpret media art works.
Unit content and sequence of delivery
Photography basics (25 hours)
Learn the Elements and Principles of design
Learn how to use the composition rules in photography
Use their phone or DSLR camera to apply what they learned
Create a set of images with a cohesive theme to explain E and P in Photography explore their own style of photography
Camera Basics (25 hours)
Learn the three important part of camera Iso and aperture and shutter speed
Explore new knowledge in their photography techniques
Create a Portraiture by using new techniques
Stop motion (20 hrs)
review what animation is
be introduced to different types of animation and its history
apply one design principle to a studio design task
study and create one stop motion animation in a basic level recognize famous stop motions animation artists and the main reason of their success
Character design (20 hours)
study the history of comic books and character design
compare how the human body was portrayed in the ancient cultures
create a character and story board based on their own story line
recognize key works different famous comic books artists and their success
Video Basics (20 hours)
Learn the history of video art and its difference with movie making
Observe a demonstration on how to work with camera
Design and create their own functional short video with its story line
Try to edit the video based on the narration and composition of the frames
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