Tuesday April 13th

Our last day... Pizza Party!

Tuesday March 6th

Fun with stop motion!


Jumping...

Fuji Instant Film!

With our limited time remaining, we decided to shift gears a bit, and focus more on projects that can be completed in one or two class periods. Today, we learned a bit about the history of photograph, the mechanics of cameras, how to use light meters, etc.

Here are a few images of our experiments and some of the results:

Tuesday March 30th

New Students!

Today we got more students to our class, so the day was spent bringing them up to speed with the project and deciding on characters for their movie.

Tuesday March 16th

Today we continued to create characters and develop the stop motion story.

First Day of Shooting

Today we continued with set construction, with hot-glue guns as reinforcements. With the first set constructed, we began shooting the first scene of the our movie. Here's a sneak peek at our first set-up.

Set Construction

Today we worked on set construction in our class. Designing specific sets will allow us to immerse the viewer into a more believable environment. Using simple materials for backgrounds and props, we are creating the interior of a spacecraft for one of our scenes.

Story Boards

Cubee creating

More Cubee craft creating

Continuing with Storyboards

Teams continued to work on stories for their Cubeecraft movies.

Storyboarding

In the process of creating a video, film, animation, etc., one of the key steps is storyboarding. Think of it as a visual script that gives the cameraman a map of the shots necessary to tell the story. This week we introduced the idea of the storyboard, and began adapting our scripts to visual language, translating the stories we have into 2-dimensional space.

Stay tuned for some of the images...

Working on Storylines

Tuesday Feb. 9th

Artspace students at Genesis continued to work on their storyboards and continued to create their Cubee craft characters.

Fundred Dollar Bills, Ya'll!

Today in class we participated in The Fundred Dollar Bill Project (click the link for more information). Mel Chin, an internationally recognized artist, created this project to help remove the lead from the water supply in New Orleans. By asking for collaboration from students, teachers, artists, virtually anyone, the goal of the project is to collect 3,000,000 Fundreds, which he hopes to trade in for the estimated $300,000,000 it will take to clean up all the water in New Orleans. Here are some examples of our efforts today: