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5th Grade, McCrae, 10-21 – Graphics 1

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THIS VIDEO EXPLAINS THE EXPECTATIONS FOR THE DAY!

Our 1st semester will focus on media creation, while or 2nd semester will focus more on coding.

Regardless of the lesson, FouloisTech.info should be your destination every time you come into class. This space will be used to provide announcements, lessons, and other resources.

  1. Objective:
    1. Students will create movie posters to segue from their video unit into their graphics unit.
  2. Announcements:
    1. Arts Assessments are December 2-December 6! These will determine your major for next year! Be ready!
      1. If you picked Media Arts as a 1st or 2nd choice, BE READY! This document goes over what's required!
    2. The deadline for late work was Thursday, October 17th!
      1. While most/all of you are caught up on your work, every assignment for the rest of Q1 is due on the day it's assigned and CANNOT be handed in late without an excused absence!
      2. This deadline is 2 weeks before the end of the Quarter. That time is needed to ensure all late work handed in before then is graded in a timely fashion.
    3. Audio 1,  Audio 2, Audio 3, Audio 4, and Audio 5 are past due!
    4. Video 1, Video 2, Video 3, Video 4, Video 5, and Video 6 are past due!
    5. All assignments up thru Video 2 will be on the Progress Report.
  3. 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 Canvas to hand in your work!
  1. 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.
  2. This is an IN-CLASS assignment, NOT HOMEWORK. Please stay on task to complete this work by the end of class!