10.7 - making the montage

Warm-up - 15min

1. Vocabulary
2. POTD

Montage Assembly - 25min (students will compose their 60-90 second technology montage in the Soviet tradition)

Exporting audio from Garageband

Importing to iMovie

Editing on beat to create a metric montage

Juxtaposing images to create upper-level montages

Examples in Eisenstein

5 Methods of Montage Eisenstein

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F9953E53D9A8241C

More links to montage theory:

http://filmplus.org/film/editing.html

http://www.maikito.com/montage.html

http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/filmnotes/eisenstein.html

10.5-6 iMovie Review and Montage

Warm Up - 15min

QOTD
UD ONLY:

LD ONLY: How do your top 5 most influential technologies fit with your most influential institution you selected in English class? How are we going to make these align?

POTD

Vocabulary:

1. Split clip
2. Trim to selection
3. Join clip
4. Theme
5. Import
6. Export
7. Snap to ____
8. Playhead
9. Transitions
10. Titles
11. MADX
12. .mov
13. ,m4v
14. .avi
15. .mpg
16. juxtaposition
17. montage

Adding a montage to your Prezi - 5min

Adding media

Intergrating your music/soundtrack (drag and drop your mp3)

using images and video to create a montage in your prezi

Collect images for your montage based on your top 5 technologies

TttT - 20min

Read the following 2 articles on montage and respond to the questions on your blog:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montage_(filmmaking)

1. How is this idea of montage different from the Soviet version?
2. Name a movie that you have seen that uses this type of montage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_montage_theory

1. Describe the 5 types of montage in your own words.

Collect Images relating to your top 5 tech - 25min

You will be able to collect high quality images that demonstrate a point of view when juxtaposed.

image quality (more pixels better quality)

search terms (more terms, less crap)

On desktop create folder - Tech Montage Media

Save all imges and video to this folder.

Drag to STUDENT SERVER AT END OF DAY!!!!

Search for images of the technologies themselves, people using them, people misusing them, the effects of these technologies and whatever else you can think of.

Find AT LEAST 20 images in these 20min. (DON’T BE TOO CHOOSY)

iMovie Intro - 15 min

You will be able to navigate and use imovie to create a simple audio montage.

• using iMovie 09 - the 4 windows: project library, Event library, monitor, media browser
• intro video + website
• drag and drop media from the media library or the desktop to your project
• Saving to your server (MOVIES > iMOVIE PROJECTS and iMOVIE EVENTS)
• Drag these files to your Tech Montage Media folder
• Drag the folder to Student Server when finished

Assignment -

1. Create a montage with the images you found online.
2. Rhythm of editing should match with the rhythm of your music (tempo + on-beat).
3. Take a screenshot of your iMovie once you have added your 20 + images and your soundtrack. (It's OK if this isn't your final draft of your montage, in fact I'm sure it's not!)
4. Name the screenshot "MONTAGE_YOUR NAME"
5. Drop in your teacher's drop box

9.30/10.1 - Soundtracking

Warm-up - 15min

Q: How comfortable are you with the state of your prezi? how would you feel presenting it today? Next week?

P.O.T.D.

Vocabulary List

Test - 10min

Vocab test 6

classmarker.com

THE USERNAMES:

classmarker%20users.numbers

Lesson - 40min

• Open "Drums" in Garageband
• Duplicate each track
• Add variety by changing your patterns (drum roll, bass drum pattern change, half or double-time hi hats, )
• extending your beat, by placing these breakdowns and fills
• quantize the same as duplicated track to preserve feel of beat
• EXPORT new beat as MP3 and put in my drop box as "extended drum_YOUR NAME"

Work Time - 20min

• Integrate drum track with Technology Soundscape
• Get Prezi Up to date and polished
• Download images relating to technology (for next week's project)

Week 6 - 9.28-29

-syncopated, indeed!-

Mon/Tue 100 min

Warm Up 15min

Name a few of the producers (people who make the music for the singers/rappers (e.g. Quincy Jones made the music for Michael Jackson's "Thriller", Dr. Dre made the beats for Snoop Dogg's "Who Am I?") you appreciate. If you don't know which producer you like, think about a song you enjoy for the music, then use your search tool to find the producer of the song.

P.O.T.D.

Vocab List

1. split
2. loop
3. cycle
4. sample
5. track
6. balance
7. musical typing
8. metronome
9. count-in
10. ducking
11. automation
12. tempo
13. MP3
14. WAV
15. AAC
16. KBPS
17. mute
18. solo
19. lock
20. quantize

Lesson - 60min

Garageband - Creating a Midi Drum Track
Do it together (students will be able to create a drum track that is compiled from multiple parts; each part being soloable and mutable, to enable diversification on the rhythm)

1. metronome - on
2. count-in - on
3. new software instrument track
4. select instrument type - Hip-hop drum kit
5. open musical typing, find sound
6. record & play
7. edit and quantize (quantized per need - 1/4 = Snare, 1/8 = hi hat, 1/16 swing = bass drum)
8. rename track (snare, bass drum, hi hat, etc)
9. Change Project tempo if necessary.
10. REPEAT x 3 (each track a separate sound, separation = control; 4 tracks or more, one sound per track)

Work Time 55min

At the end of the period please export to disk a copy of your beat, and a screenshot of your prezi to a folder renamed “YOUR NAME” and drop in the appropriate drop box.

name the beat - “drums_YOURNAME"

name the shot - “prezi update wk6_YOURNAME”

9.24-25 sample this!

Warm-up (15min)

1. What does "technology" look like? What does it sound like? What does it ____ like?
2. Vocabulary
3. POTD

Lesson 1 - Finishing PS review (20min)

Outcome: produce a self portrait and top 5 technologies title that demonstrates their proficiency in selected aspects of photoshop.

1. Finish your self portrait, post to your blog
2. Finish your top 5 title, add to your prezi

Test (10min)

classmarker.com

Vocabulary test 5

Usernames:

classmarker%20users.numbers

Lesson 2 / Work Time (55min)

Garage Band - Create a technology themed audio piece

Outcome: student will demonstrate proficiency in garageband. Create a musical piece that addresses a theme. Transfer of ideas to material (sound) manifestation.

1. About sampling (Intro)
2. Brainstorm some ideas of what technology sounds like
3. Detail how to find specific sound effects, http://www.findsounds.com/, in garageband browser
4. Examples of sample based music that uses sample and instrumental to create soundscapes (negativeland, art of noise).
5. sample yourself saying something that relates to your top 5 technologies
6. download and import a sound effect that somehow relates to technology
7. add a drum track (loops are ok)
8. add a bass track (loops are ok - key should match synth/lead)
9. add a synth (or other lead) track (loops are ok - key should match bass)

Wednesday, Kanye vs Joe

new air yeezys, now in stores

Warm up - 15min

What was a more offensive event: Kanye & Tylor Swift or Obama and Joe Wilson?

Kanye’s incident is getting more attention, why is that?

Vocab

POTD

Lesson 25

Using text in PS or AI (do in AI)

New

WEB (RGB)

DPI (300 standard)

Landscape

dimensions for web (800x600)

Type tool (t)

type

type vertical

type on path

font

(esc)

document set-up

transparency

effects

rasterizing (raster vs. vectors)

filters

cropping

optimizing (gif vs jpeg etc)

exporting

Week 5 - Time to Shop

What is this?

Warm-Up 15min

• If you had extra time to work on this technology prezi, what would you do to make it better?
• POTD
• Vocab List (definitions and example sentences)

1. filter
2. history
3. jpg
4. gif
5. character
6. dpi
7. crop
8. clone
9. burn
10. dodge
11. magic wand
12. layer
13. canvas
14. lasso
15. marquee
16. citation
17. MLA

Part 1 - 25min

Review of what should have complete in prezi so far

• top 5
• benefits and costs
• hot and cool
• images
• meaningful form
• factors and effects

Part 2 - 25min

Ways to create a meaningful form (see showcase)

• using frames
• using text
• using scale
• designing a background

Part 3 - 25min

PS tuner - making your photos look like some non-crap

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Cool Down 10 min

• what has been the best part of DMA so far?
• the worst?
• what do you want to do more of?