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5th Grade, Holmes’ HR, 10-17-2023

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THIS VIDEO EXPLAINS THE EXPECTATIONS FOR TODAY!

Today's Agenda:

  1. Announcements
    1. Audio Lesson 1, Audio Lesson 2, Audio Lesson 3, Audio Lesson 4 and Audio Lesson 5 are now PAST DUE.
    2. Video Lesson 1, Video Lesson 2, Video Lesson 3, Video Lesson 4, Video Lesson 5, and Video Lesson 6 are now PAST DUE.
    3. You get two attempts per project, but if nothing's there when I grade it THAT COUNTS as the first attempt!
    4. NO late work will be accepted after October 19th (2 weeks before the end of the Quarter.) To allow late work later than that would not give me time to grade it.
  2. Today's Lesson: Graphic Design 1: Movie Poster
      1. Grading Rubric:
        4 Points Image Text has very few spelling and/or grammatical errors. Proofread!
        3 Points Picture included relates to the text.
        3 Points Little to no unused (negative) space exists in the image.
        1. Today, Mr. Smith is going to show you some basics about making a movie poster. These include:
          1. Text should always be as readable as possible!
            1. The value (how light or dark something is) of the text should be very different from its background.
            2. Larger text is usually better.
            3. TYPE IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS! (Language Arts rules for titles are different from Media Arts rules for titles.)
          2. Empty space is often wasted space.
            1. You can add more stuff to fill the space, but sometimes, it's better to take something that's already there and make it larger.
        2. There are many tools we can use to make a movie poster, but today we're going to start off simple with Google Drawings.
          1. https://drawings.google.com/ 
          2. (If you need to find your drawing again, you can look for it in your Google Drive.)
        3. Students are usually told to start with a screenshot of their movie, but because we started with art sourced from OpenClipArt.org we already have higher quality source material than you can get from a screenshot.
          1. The Character Art
          2. The Background Art
        4. Make your background fill all of the available space.
          1. It's OK to have it go over the edge! Just make sure you don't crop off anything important.
        5. With your background in place, add your text!
          1. What's the movie name?
          2. Who's the star of the movie?
          3. Is it easy to read the text where it is? (Most students don't make their text large enough. Movie names are LARGE AND IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS!)
        6. Now that your background and text in place, add your characters. 
          1. Again, it's OK if they go off the edge, but we do need to see enough of them to recognize them.
        7. With your image and text in place, download your poster as a png file by going to "File" --> "Download" --> "PNG."

          1. (That video tutorial at the top of this page shows how to do this.)
        8. Now that you have a poster downloaded, use the Reply button in Canvas to share your poster with the rest of the class!
          1. Remember the button for adding images looks like two mountains under a sun. We are NOT using the same button we use to upload video.
        9. You will only have two attempts to hand this in. If your first attempt does not earn a 10/10 you will receive feedback on how to improve it.