This project may be completed by the following students:
All Elementary Media Arts Students.
Note: These lessons may or may not be taught, as not all absences are planned in advance. See your class announcements page to see what is assigned.
Lessons
Plan 1: "Where's Your Teacher?" Storyboard
Objective: Students will complete a plan for a video (storyboard) to demonstrate their creativity and storytelling skills.
Grading Rubric:
4 Pts Storyboard dialogue has very few spelling and/or grammatical errors and is in the boxes BELOW the drawings.
3 Pts Storyboard shows and imaginitive, fictional redition of where the Media Arts teacher is and what they are doing.
3 Pts Storyboard includes a title panel, credits panel, and slight differences in characters and camera angles to emphasize that they are not just standing in the same place for the entire story.
Your teacher could not be here today, but that doesn't mean you have a day off from learning. Instead, you're going to create a storyboard.
Storyboards are like comics, in that they use both pictures and words to tell a story.
Expectations for storyboards vary among grade levels, but all hold these basic guidelines:
Storyboards are made up of a series of boxes that contain drawings showing the actions taking place.
Each box has words near it to show anything that can't be seen (like words being spoken).
Storyboards aren't required to be finished artworks! They're rough drafts for videos. Stick figures are OK to draw so long as the viewer can tell where and how the person is standing.
Now that you have an example (see above, near the rubric), overview, and template, let's get started on your graded work for this lesson.
Begin by thinking about where your teacher might be today instead of being in class. You may have been told something already (Example: If your teacher is out because of a field trip), but you might not have that information.
You will have to make up any details you don't know. You read that correctly. This is a fictional story, so there's no need to keep your story plausable.
Leave the first box blank for now. Your title will go there.
Write out your script in the spaces provided for text. You won't have a lot of room in any one space. When you run out of room, move on to the next box!
Read over your script. Do you like it? Is everything spelled right? Make changes if you need to do so.
Illustrate your story. Every box that has dialogue should have a DIFFERENT related picture. Stick figures are OK, the same stick figure in the same pose for most boxes is not OK.
With this done, draw out a title on the first panel (you left the first box blank, right?) and put your credits in the last panel.
Check your work and find the Sub Plan assignment in Canvas to hand in a photo of your storyboard. Make sure that what you've written can be seen clearly in the photo. (A blurry image cannot earn credit. If it can't be read, it can't be graded!)
Note: Depending on the nature of the absence, the assignment might not be there, yet, and/or class might not be held in the computer lab. The teacher in charge will collect the storyboards if that is the case.
Plans 2+: Additional Storyboards
Objective: Students will complete a plan for a video (storyboard) to demonstrate their creativity and storytelling skills.
Grading Rubric:
4 Pts Storyboard dialogue has very few spelling and/or grammatical errors and is in the boxes BELOW the drawings.
3 Pts Storyboard covers the assigned plot (see below for full list).
3 Pts Storyboard includes a title panel, credits panel, and slight differences in characters and camera angles to emphasize that they are two characters intended to be played by the same person.
See the lesson above for expected structure of today's lesson. That subject might be repeatable, but additional plot hooks are listed below on the off chance that your teacher is out of school for more days. While the plot hooks below ARE numbered, they might not be assigned in this order. Check the announcements page or with the teacher covering this class to determine which plot hook should be used.
"Where's Mr. Smith?" Use the boxes to make a comic about where you think Mr. Smith is and what he might be doing. (This is the same as the first lesson.)
"Super Me!" Use the boxes to make a comic about if you were a superhero!
"The Future!" Use the boxes to make a comic about how you think we'll use computers when you're an adult.
Use the storyboard template to tell a story about something impossible happening at school.
Use the storyboard template to tell a story about the work you intend to do in your chosen major.
Use the storyboard template to create a commercial for a homework completing machine.
Storyboard a 30 second commercial encouraging people to visit your personal website.
Storyboard a 30 second commercial encouraging people to join your selected major. (This is for grades 3-8)
Storyboard a 30 second commercial encouraging people to recycle.
Check your work and find the Sub Plan assignment in Canvas to hand in a photo of your storyboard. Make sure that what you've written can be seen clearly in the photo. (A blurry image cannot earn credit. If it can't be read, it can't be graded!)
Note: Depending on the nature of the absence, the assignment might not be there, yet, and/or class might not be held in the computer lab. The teacher in charge will collect the storyboards if that is the case.
All Elementary Media Arts Students.
