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Media Arts Majors, 05-20-2024

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THIS VIDEO GOES OVER TODAY'S EXPECTATIONS! (96 days until the 1st day of next school year!) (Barring additional All Major Days, we will have 10 more classes together this year.)

  1. Warm-Up: 
    1. 2024-05-20 Warm-Up: Photo Interpretation
      1. What can you see clearly What can you tell is there, but not see clearly?
      2. Photographers often choose to have only parts of the image in focus in order to make them stand out more. This can be done with almost any camera, but is easier with one that has a "macro" setting or allows you to change the lens' aperture. The smaller the "F-Stop" number, the wider the aperture, and the shallower the depth of field. If you were tasked with duplicating this technique, what subject matter would you use?
      3. What would you keep in focus while everything else remained blurry?
    2. Warm-Ups are usually a 5 point Independent Work grade if a written response is expected, or a 5 point Assessment grade if the Warm-Up is a quiz. They are due at the start of class and not eligible for late submission or re-submission.
  2. Monthly Incentives
    1. Monthly Media Arts Incentive:
      1. "Arcade Day" at the end of the month.
        1. May's Arcade Day is scheduled for 05-29-2024.
      2. Students remain eligible unless a Notice of Concern has been earned that month for grades or behavior, though a student who missed out from low grades can earn back their Arcade Day privileges if they bring their grade back up.
        1. Check SchoolMax - if your avg is 70% or above, you're probably eligible.
      3. Ineligible students should be working on a project re-submission or their next project.
  3. Q4 Project deadlines:
    1. Q4P3 (Student Choice): Re-Submits due by 05-24
    2. Q4P4 (Retrospective): 05-24
      1. Rubric:
        1. 25% Video spends 1-1.5 minutes each showcasing 3 projects submitted by the student for a grade in this course this school year.
          1. No video project may be longer than 5 minutes. If you are adding a title and credits (as you should...), your video will be over 3 minutes long even if doing the bare minimum.
        2. 25% Video includes what the student learned while working on each project being showcased.
          1. (If there is a project where nothing was learned, then a different project should be selected to be showcased.)
        3. 25% Video includes what the student would do differently if attempting a similar project.
          1. (If the answer is "nothing," this is an admission that the student would hand in the same work twice, expecting two grades. Such a statement is not likely to earn credit.)
        4. 25% Citations for all content not owned by the student are included in the credits, including the media name, creator's name (if known), and where the media is from.
          1. (Remember, Pintrest and TikTok don't give permission for reuse elsewhere. Google is a search engine, not a source to be cited.)
      2. 05-15: Piano/Chorus Spring Concert (6:30 PM to 7:45 PM)
        1. Majors needed to record evening show (Show up at 6pm, expect to be done around 8pm.)
          1. Student can volunteer if their parents reach out to Mr. Smith.
          2. Thank you to K.G., C.M., and T.J. for volunteering!
      3. 05-16: Pre-Production Due
        1. Select your 3 projects.
          1. They should be assignments without copyright infringement where you learned something while making them.
        2. Use the rubric above write out a script.
          1. You need 60-90 seconds of content for each of the 3 projects.
          2. TIME YOURSELF.
          3. If you can't talk for a minute about a project, you didn't learn anything while making it.
      4. 05-20: Production Due
      5. 05-22: Post-Production Due
      6. 05-24: "Put out Fires" Day
      7. 05-29: Critique Day?
      8. 05-30: Elementary Band/Orchestra Spring Concert (6:30 PM to 7:45 PM)
      9. 05-31: Arcade Day?
    3. Projects are 100 point Classwork grades, and are not eligible for late submission.
    4. Feedback from the critiques is provided in the Canvas assignment for that project.
    5. Projects are eligible for re-submission, but only once. They must be resubmitted using the same form as before, and no later than 10 days after feedback has been shared with them in Canvas. The 4th project of each Quarter is not eligible for resubmission due to its proximity to the end of the Quarter!
    6. Deadlines for future projects are not adjusted. Students are encouraged to not put off starting Project 4 because they've decided to work on redoing Project 3 from scratch.
  4. Exit Ticket
    1. 2024-05-20 to 2024-05-24 Exit Ticket
      1. 4 pts Proofread your work.
        3 pts What did you accomplish in Media Arts this week?
        3 pts What did you learn in Media Arts this week?
      2. NOTE: If you do not describe WHAT you did while working on your project, saying you worked on it is not enough information to earn credit.
    2. Exit Tickets are always 10 point Classwork grades and not eligible for late submission or re-submission. They are due during the last 10 minutes of the last class of the week.