Week Eight Assignment 1

8/1 Stop Motion Animation

This is my stop motion animation based on the idea that "you can get what you want just by typing it into the machine!". To be honest, I cannot find my tripod for my phone so I had to hold the phone manually instead (sad)...

Process:

       When I came up the idea that I want to make a money machine, I started to think what kind of machine it is and what else it can do. So I chose type machine and want to record the images of I typing "money" on that machine to make money.

      Step one: Draw this machine!

I prepared a blue pen and a piece of paper and copy what type machine looks like.

      Step Two: Prepare all the thing I need in this shooting

All I need is my hand which will type the letter into the machine, money which will be the thing "coming out of the machine", and the "machine" itself.

       Step Three: Shooting!

  All you need in the beginning is moving your hand slowly and slowly to each letter and don't forget to write down the letter when you point on it.
  When you type all the five letters, put one piece of paper money to cover "money" to show the process of "making money" then record. And then put another one on the board and then record...After tens of time, thumb up to show your satisfaction！

      Step Four: Reviewing 

      Please review and double check if you record every details before you export the gif, otherwise you will find there is something missing and the action would not be as smooth as you want. If you find anything missing, record it at the same place at the same height (or if you have tripod you can just put your phone back to the tripod) then implant the pics at the place you miss. 

      Step Five: Done!!!!

      Share the gif with your friends and have hun in the process:)

Week Eight Assignment 2

8/3 Two Takeaways from reading

• Creative Coding in Art education: I truly believe that it is no need to be proficiency before we go ahead on our coding projects. Thanks to all the easily navigable coding platforms - for example, Scratch for coding beginners, Codepen.io for front-end beginners - coding is not a high-barrier skill anymore for it is not necessary to understand how computer works and binary computing, while instead what people need to learn is how to manipulate blocks of code and put them all together grammar-correctly. The simplification of code significantly saves ton of times and efforts for users to completing projects based on code and enables the possibilities of creative coding in art education - students can make their projects only by learning different functions of blocks and outcome of putting them together. The easy accessibility and operability of coding have great potential to give more freedom for students' creativity and design ability. What is more, the visuality of code - like scratch - enables students to quickly get hints on how the code works and observe where the bug is hidden. I am always wondering what will happen in the future when more and more teenagers start to learn code, even the basic Scratch. The future art work could be more digital and interactive, and maybe having more fun, like Grentch Andrew, the google search engine artist who programs her art with keywords on google search engine to grow more and more search results about her work as result. I cannot wait to see how students will make their coding designs creatively. 
  
• Using familiar materials to make unfamiliar projects: As Chris Anderson said "We are all designers now. It is time to get good at it." Design is not far away from us, no matter physically and mentally, while how to make our art work creatively is what we need to think in the next step. it is habitual to design with familiar materials and see how is the designing going well, so when I read "using conventional materials to make familiar materials to learn in unfamiliar ways", I found it is quite compelling for if we do not design in unfamiliar ways, we would all be trapped in a small box. How to define unfamiliarity and how to broaden the range of creativity in design requires scientific guide in the beginning, which means art teachers need to know how to trigger creativity and guide students to jump out of the box.

8/2 Lesson Idea for Stop Motion Animation

      Target audience: Elementary level students in art class;
      Lesson idea: Based on their travel experience, teacher can encourage them to make stop motion animation to recur one of the most memorable experience with the material of plasticine. Under the guide of teacher, students will firstly encourage students to share their travel stories to each other and evaluate the possibility of making it as stop motion animation. Then teacher will teach them how to knead the plasticine into the shape of people and buildings or landscape. Then teacher will allow each students to use their phone and stop motion app to capture the process and make it into a stop motion animation. The final step is having students show up their animation in front of class and give comment on the others.
       Lesson Object: To practice student's operational ability in playing with plasticine and story telling ability in making animation. Sharing ideas can broaden their range of imagination.

Week Seven Assignment

7/1Creative Assignment

This is the creation of the sound of environment nearby. I recorded the sound of what I heard in library, what I heard at home and what I heard in restaurant and each of them is almost 30 seconds long. While when I tried to combine these three together, I found the sound of restaurant is so loud that it covers other two sound tracks. I tried to mute the restaurant sound track a little bit but I failed.... I then recorded the instrument of me clapping my belly (LOL)with rhythm and put it in the remix.

7/2Reflection

From the sound I recorded, I felt what I heard in restaurant is super noisy while I did not pay any attention when I was sitting there talking to my friends. What I heard in library is way quieter than the sound in restaurant, but it also has a little bit uneven noise that I did not notice when I was busy working on my work. It feels like when I am focusing on my job, no matter on formal situation or not, I would not pay attention to the background noise (or music). Actually, when I heard the sound of home, I felt truly relax because I feel safe in my subconsciousness when I am at home and heard the weak background noise from streets. While when I heard the sound of restaurant, even though it is really loud and mixed with background music, people talking and laughing, it does not annoys me for it makes me feel like I am with the crowd in the gregarious society and I am not alone...I somehow love the noise sound in restaurant...

Week Six Assignment

Creative Assignment:

This is the video I created based on template of animation MV.

Future Potential of Video and What Can It Do for Art Class

1. With the practice of shooting video and editing video clips, students can learn videography and video editing skills which is valuable for their future career. They can complete the shooting and editing in group while in the progress group members would learn from each other and then on the next class, teacher can share each group's work on class and encourage them to give each other comments.

2. Video also has potential to help students practice acting before camera. Teacher can give each group one theme or they can choose their own theme and each group would create one original video based on that theme. Students will be the actor, video shooter, editor to experience the process of video production. In order to express the theme, teacher can encourage students to act in a free way to open their boundaries and be creative.

Week Five Assignment

5/1 Ebook Creation

First Book - All you need

Second Book - Disappear

5/2 Potential for Scanography in Teaching

Scanography has great potential in art education to encourage creativity and collaboration. Teachers can ask students to make scanography together in a group of two to three students (like what we did in class) with items each from there belongings or their bodies. Then each group can share their work in front of the class and play an activity of guess which items consist of that scanography. Because scanopraghy is really easy to make and it saves more space for individual creativity in the process than digital photography which only pictures what is in reality, it allows teachers to guide students practice scanography in the class with limited time or even students can do scanography at any place or time to practice their own ideas without traditional tutorial to restrict their creativity.

5/3 3 Takeaways from the section readings

• digital remixing: I did not notice we are in an age of remixing until I read this reading. Photoshop, Imovie, Voice Editor and other applications are already embedded in our daily life and creation. It's also an important part of culture in that internationalisation opens the boundary of perspective to view our own culture. Remixing does not mean blending two things into one thing but beyond; it means changing what is deeply rooted in our culture and adding something new to fit it into new world.
• old forms re-envisioned: The new technologies enables youth to re-design, re-create, re-decorate, and remix traditional art forms and generate new ideas and forms of art based on the tradition. Because of the limitation of find arts in virtual forms or other formats, there is somehow a sort of gap between formal arts and popular culture youth favorite. While the re-envision closes the gap, and adds the sustainability of art in virtual art, dance, music to pass on through generations. The re-envision itself also makes it sharable to others and therefore, invites more youth to re-create old art forms to "new art" that fits in the spirit of time.
• digital storytelling: Other than traditional storytelling practices in education, students can use stock media and new technologies to creative powerful storytelling in a new way.  For example, imovie, Adobe Premier, Adobe Special Effects and other filmmaking softwares enables students to edit their videos in their personal computer without extra efforts in screening, and cutting films manually on special machines. And photography can be edited by photoshops and collected in flipsnack.com to make ebooks, which saves much more time in manual editing and gives more space in creativity. I feel it is really lucky to be born in this digital age and have more practices in digital creativity.

Week Four Assignment

Creative Assignment

Idea 1

The idea is that what's in the mirror reflects something that does not show up in reality. In this case, I use SpongeBob and Patrick Star to show that mirror can reflect supernatural things in a musing way.

Idea 2

In the second post, I cutout the mirror reflection and thought eyes can also reflect what we saw so that I start to think, why can't the mirror be an eye ball? So I choose a night-ish background that has different tone than the daytime mirror and set it as an pupil with cartoon face.

Then I showed the ideas to my boyfriend, what he answered is kind of out of my surprise - he said he can understand the first idea while he had trouble in understanding the second one for the pupil is too small to see clearly what's inside. He mentioned that the first idea is sort of "all of a sudden" that there is no comparison of the difference of what is inside the mirror and outside the mirror.

In order to show this is a magic mirror that can reflect things differently, I some illustrator of sponge, starfish and a shirt to show that mirror give life to all those static stuff.

Impact 25

My teammates: Yuke and Yiting. After brainstorming for one-whole week, we finally narrow down the impact to teach people to not to fiddle their phone while walking. So we want to play one pedestrian to show the unintended consequence of "blink walking" and film the other passersby's reaction.

 

Digital Photography

1: For Physics Education: In order to make students understand image principle of camera, teachers can ask them to equip with camera or phone with camera and picture photos from near to far to see the digital image change.

2: For Art Education: In order to help them practice photoshop and design, teacher can ask them to photo two images during the weekend, no matter indoor or outdoor, selfie or landscape, and then, teach them how to collage the two images all the together by photoshop. At the end of class, ask them to share their collage with each other and describe their ideas.

3: For Liberal Education: In order to encourage students to write more and make up stories, teacher can ask students to take a photo that they think include a story, or at least a piece of it. After collecting all the photos, teacher can randomly allocate each student a photo and then encourage them to write a story about what the picture implies based on their own imagination.