Create > MEMES

Create > MEMES

Goal: Create a MEME for each studio activity below.

Westosha Examples > https://goo.gl/photos/GuFbybbhWd2qFd7x8

Create > Ermahgerd Meme

Goal: Create an exclamation using phonetically written captions on a derp image

Concept:  Phonetic dialogues and derp images have expressive qualities

Trigger Mechanisms:  Humor, Creativity, Contemporary Issues

Studio Activity:

Watch > Know Your Meme: Ermahgerd > https://youtu.be/Ggl2voBzeS8     

Search > http://webtrends.about.com/od/reddit/tp/Meme-Generator-Tools.htm

Create > Ermahgerd Meme

Visual Examples:

Create > Face Swap or Face Bomb

Goal: Digitally swap faces of two or more subjects or use one face in a group and swap it for all the others in the image

Concept:  Face swapping and bombing confuse and create dissonance   

Trigger Mechanisms:  Humor, Creativity, Contemporary Issues

Studio Activity:

Read > How to Face Swap in Photoshop > https://goo.gl/4Z0FIy

Watch > How to Face Swap in Photoshop > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0cISpZmhcE     

Create > Face Swap or Face Bomb images

Post > Both the original and the manipulated images to the album.

Visual Examples:

Create > Contemporary Meme

Goal: Research and create a meme based on current events

Concept:  A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas with a mimicked humorous theme      

Trigger Mechanisms:  Humor, Creativity, Contemporary Issues

Studio Activity:

Search > http://knowyourmeme.com/ - Internet Meme Database

Search > Contemporary Memes or best memes of 2016-17 etc…

Find > Contemporary issues or current event source material

Create > Remix meme

Visual Examples:

Create > Creative Finger Photos

Create > My Life Photo Essay

Create > My Life Photo Essay

My life essay connects people that are important to me to a memory associated with the book cover double exposed on their face, For example my dad and I both read Divergent and were able to have in depth conversations about it. We also watched the movie in theaters together and got to have the this wasn't in the book debate.

Concept:  

• A photo essay tells a story using a series of linked photographs.  

• A photo essay expresses an author's personal point of view on a specific topic.

Goal:

Create a series of 12 related images investigating the topic; My Life.

Access Prior Knowledge:

Instructional Strategy

• Cues and Questions

Learning Activity

Social Dialogue > Socratic Seminar > What defines you?

New Information:

Instructional Strategy

• Cooperative Learning

Learning Activity

Research >

• How to Create a Photo Essay > https://goo.gl/8F5vp3
• Understand photo essay > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo-essay
• Read What is a Photo Essay > http://goo.gl/8nspw

Apply Knowledge & Skills:

Instructional Strategy

• Non-linguistic Representations

Learning Activity

Create > My Life Photo Essay

Trigger Mechanisms: Introspection, Symbolize, Contemplate

Studio Activity:

1. Make a series of 12 linked images that cover the topic ‘My Life’.
2. This series of images can be literal or metaphoric in nature.
3. Review compositional techniques that make great images (ex: close-up, simple background, move it from the middle).
4. Include a 50 to 100 written word essay when you share your essay.
5. These pictures must be public school appropriate.
6. Focus on the positive.  These photographs may not be negative.  
7. Use image editing programs and filters to enhance your photographs..
8. Print out your images and written essay.  
9. Frame and arrange your images on heavy tag.

Visual Examples:

 

Generalize, Reflect & Publish:

Instructional Strategy

• Evaluate the results

Learning Activity

Reflect > Should I go back and rework anything?

• How did you combine art elements (line, color, shape, texture, value)  to develop art principles? (Unity/variety, balance, emphasis contrast, rhythm, proportion/scale, figure/ground relationship)

• Where are the dominant shapes, forms, colors, or textures that carry expressive significance?
• Why Is the work ordered and balanced or chaotic and disturbing?
• What gives the work its uniqueness?
• Is symbolism used in the work to convey meaning other than what one sees?
• Does the work evoke any feelings?

Instructional Strategy

• Providing Recognition

Learning Activity

Publish > Share your album to our G+Community > Concepts & Creations category

Display > Add your photos to the Event

Instructional Strategy

• Providing Feedback

Learning Activity

Critique >

• Give positive feedback > +1 every image that deserves it
• Give peer feedback > Give 2 peer images a VTS critique > http://goo.gl/1WWmBY

Self-assess >

• Evaluate > Thinglink Rubric Scoring Guidelines >  http://goo.gl/ejQq7B or AP Padlet Scoring Guidelines >  https://goo.gl/a70ikP
• Life Skills Survey > http://goo.gl/iEUqr (responses > http://goo.gl/8YDnYF)