The Kelliher School ArtSmarts Project (2011)

Project Re-screens: October 18, 2011

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We are please to announce a second screening of our award winning projects! Come to the Kelliher School Art Room on Oct. 18th between 6 and 8 pm. The projects will be viewed in rotation and on demand. While you are there, vote for our Edible Art contest winners!

See Ms. Deck for details or email: shelley@shelleydeck.com or shelley.deck@pvsd.ca

Monday, August 1, 2011 in the ITUNA NEWS

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Thank you to Mrs. Rugland for writing this article about our project:

Ituna News, Monday, June 27, 2011 - page 10

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Many thanks to Mrs. Rugland for writing this article that appeared in the Ituna News:

Project Screening, Take 2! The Pictures...

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Jordan helped with technical support and acted in the capacity of a judge. Thank You!

Kevin and Adam greeting at the door.

Alyssa helping Kevin and Adam with our project set-up. She was an amazing help!

Voted Audience Favorite

Voted Best Editing

Voted Best Photography

Voted Judges Favorite

Some Pictures From Our Celebration

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Tara Prystay Thiessen, PVSD Arts Consultant and Project Judge

Bob Grunert, Kelliher Cornerstone Credit Union

Our Masters of Ceremony

A close-up of "The Tracy" awards, front and back.

Mr. Rugland helped us out with the creation of "The Tracy" award bases. Ms. Deck finished them with Tracy's help.

Arts Smarts 2011 Screening Results

2011-06-29T09:13:00.000-07:00

Thank you to everyone who attended our Arts Smarts Stop Motion Animation Project Screening. Here are the results:

Best Audio Zombie Movie

Jada Windigo

Best Editing 2 Cars 2 Feuds

Zach Antoneshyn and Eric Cockwill

Best Photography What it Takes

Alyssa Anoneshyn, Kiana Papequash, Raylene Oochoo Manitopes

Judges Favorite Army Bloopers

Tyson Bellegarde and Braydon Keller

Audience Favorite

Battle of the Genderz

Sam Larson, Morgan Mandziak, Kevin Laurence and Ashley Lekach

Project Screening, Take 2!

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Kelliher School is hosting an Arts Smarts project screening on TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2011 at 9:30 in the Kelliher School Gym.

THANK YOU to the Kelliher Cornerstone Credit Union for their generous donation of five $50 prize awards for the projects! A panel of judges will award: Best Audio, Best Photography, Best Editing and Judges Favorite. Come watch the stop motion animations created by the grade 6-9 students and cast your vote for the fifth category: AUDIENCE FAVORITE!

Arts Smarts Winners will be announced in the afternoon at the Kelliher School Color Day awards show.

Thursday, May 26th, 2011 (2:30 & 7:00)

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Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions/concerns.

Hope to see you there!!!

Shelley Deck; B. Ed., B.A., M.Ed.

Middle Years Fine Arts and Student Support Services Teacher,

Kelliher School (306) 675-2112

Website: https://mailca.pvsd.ca/owa/redir.aspx?C=b66ca3688f5b49d8bf9a760b7f4b2fcf&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.shelleydeck.com%2f

Arts Smarts Grant 2011 blog: https://mailca.pvsd.ca/owa/redir.aspx?C=b66ca3688f5b49d8bf9a760b7f4b2fcf&URL=http%3a%2f%2fartsmarts2011.blogspot.com%2f

This blog post is to cordially invite you to our

2011 Arts Smarts Grant

Stop Motion Animation Project

Screening and Celebration

THURSDAY, May 26th

in the Kelliher School Gym

Daytime Screening: 2:30 (Students, Staff and Parents/Family)

Evening Screening: 7:00 (Everyone)

There will be celebration snacks...during the daytime show only. The show is expected to be a little under an hour.

Both stop motion animation project screening events will be B.Y.O.P. (Bring your own PRE-popped popcorn).

After the daytime screening (during period 5 - 2:30), the students will return to class to vote for the 'Audience Favorite ' before they leave the school at the end of the day. Votes will get handed into Ms. Deck to calculate before the evening screening.

The evening show will take place at 7 in the Kelliher School gym. The awards determined in the morning will be announced/distributed after the evening screening for the general public.

Categories are:

Best Audio
Best Editing
Best Photography
Audience Favorite
Judges Favorite

Editing Schedule

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The Arts Smarts Project Editing Schedule is as follows:

Friday, May 6th (Day 1)

10am - 12:15

Group 1 - Kevin (and maybe Sam)

Group 2 - Braydon & Tyson

Group 6 - Jewel

Group 7 - Jada

1:15pm-3:15pm

Group 3 - Alyssa

Group 4 - Lane

Group 5 - Natieshia

After this day, I will be able to tell you who will be working with Ms. Kovalench on Tuesday, May 10th.

Tuesday, May 10th

PLEASE NOTE: ONLY editors who have not completed their project will work with Ms. Kovalench on this day.

Workshop Wednesday, May 4th!

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Thanks Mr. Rugland!

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A big THANK YOU to Mr. Rugland for helping Ms. Deck make "The Tracy's" for our five major awards.

Project Day #5: Wed., April 6, 2011: Production Meetings

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Now that our large group work is completed, students will begin their small group work/production meetings with Tracy...starting tomorrow!

Here is the schedule:

10:10am - 10:40am - Group 1 - Ashley, Morgan, Sam & Kevin
11:15-11:40am - Group 2 - Braydon, Donald & Tyson
11:45-12:15am - Group 3 - Alyssa, Kianna & Raylene
1:20 - 1:45pm - Group 4 - Elizabeth, Angela, Lane & Adam
1:50-2:20pm - Group 5 - Jada, Teneisha & Nateesha
2:45-3:15pm - Group 6 - Jewel, Ariel & Nina

Our actual production starts Monday, Tuesday and Thursday of next week. Any materials needed had to be handed in (in list form) to Tracy TODAY.

The Identity Dolls and Mini-Artist Statements

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Arts Ed. 7/8: Arts Smarts Identity Project

Your assignment:

Take a look at the paper doll cutout examples handout. You may choose to alter the pattern example ANY way so that it represents YO or….create your own paper doll of you (see other examples)!

Due: Next Class. You have the weekend to work on this, but…it will be handed in/graded next class.

Possible Marks: 3/3

3/3 Others can tell who this doll was made by because it captures their identity. You can tell the student put a lot of time/thought into this product. Original use of materials. Innovative.

2/3 I figured out who the doll was made by because they put their name on it. Doll kinda captures their identity, but it could be stated stronger, visually. The student might have put some time into this project outside of class, but it was more likely done during class time. Kinda original. Maybe they materials other than those supplied in class.

1/3 Student started, but their doll was not anywhere near being finished. It looks like they rushed the project to just get the experience over with. Others can’t tell who this doll represents.

0/3 The student was absent/Did not attempt or use class time well.

The Rules:

There are no rules! Just be creative and keep the above marking rubric in mind. CUT OUT your doll and put your name on back.

Sample Ideas/solutions to this problem (Also known as how to get 3/3):

Use paint, markers, crayons, colored pencil, dried pasta, yarn, wire, beads, newspaper, magazine, photographs, rocks, make it into a cookie, cut paper, confetti, sequins, glitter, words/phrases, felt, fabric, lace, ribbon, or anything else you may have lying around your house. You may want to transform your paper doll to have moving parts or accessories.

On Monday, I will set up a little paper doll gallery so that you can share your creation. Creativity is key. Go wild! I look forward to seeing you all Monday with your “Mini-Me’s”! Prizes will be awarded for various categories in our gallery.

New Pictures in the Project Web Gallery

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Ms. Deck has posted some new project photos in the online gallery. You will need a password to view the pictures. Email Ms. Deck @ shelley.deck@pvsd.ca or shelley@shelleydeck.com to make a request and she will send the password to you.

Project Day #4: Monday, April 4, 2011

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Today was the last day of the full group work and project training. We had to combine the previously scheduled day 4 and day 5 because we had a snow day and lost a day. That day will hopefully permit Tracy to run some mini projects with the Fine Arts Club students, grade 6 and grade 9's.

Here's what was originally planned and collapsed into one day:

Class 4 – Thursday, March 31st, 2011
Day 6
Teachers: AM‐ Baade & Laurie;
PM – Baade
Morning
• Class check-in
• Photography exercise review & questions
• Writing exercises
BREAK
• Group check-in.
• Forming production groups, group ethic & roles within group
LUNCH
• Group check-‐in
• Project idea discussions & outlines
BREAK
• Storyboard overview
• Group storyboarding

Class 5 – Monday, April 4th, 2011
Day 1
Teachers:
AM-‐ Baade; PM – Deck & Laurie
Morning
• Class check-‐in
• Storyboard reviews & shot list information
BREAK
• Storyboard & Shotlist
LUNCH
• Project requirements to move into production
• Storyboard & shot list continued…
• Meeting times booked with groups
**NOTE: After this class, students will book a production meeting with Tracy for Class 6 (now 5).

Class #3: WED. March 23rd, 2011

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Class #3 – Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - Day 6
Teachers:
AM - Baade & Laurie;
PM - Baade
Morning
• Class check-‐in
• Equipment exercise review
BREAK
• Background, lighting, angles, composition
LUNCH
• Photography exercise ‐ manual techniques. (groups of 3 or 4)
Special requirements: *all cameras & tripods

*SD cards due at the end of class.

Information from Tracy about writing an Artist Statement

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Artist Statement - is a text composed by an artist and intended to explain, justify, and contextualize his or her body of work. Artists often have a short (50-100 word) and/or a long (500-1000 word) version of the same statement, and they may maintain and revise these statements throughout their careers.

Your artist's statement can be anything you want it to be, but primarily, it should help potential buyers, students or employers to understand what you believe to be the most important aspects of your art and the techniques you use to make it.

The statement should summarize these things in as few words as possible, preferably short ones, and not be a lengthy dissertation on your place in the future history of art. A paragraph of three or four sentences should do it. You won't keep your readers much longer than that.

For this project, we will be writing artist statements that directly speak to the stop animation project.

• What subjects did you use (human, claymation, lego, etc)? Why?

• What processes and techniques did you use? Why?

• How is your project different from others?

• What are you trying to communicate with this project?

• What do other people say they see?

• What are your goals and aspirations with this project?

• Who or what inspired you to create this project they way you did?

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist's_statement

http://www.nitaleland.com/articles/statement.htm

St. Patrick's Day Research

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Yesterday was our annual school ski trip to Mission Ridge. This morning, more than a few of us had sore bodies. Needless to say, it was a good time to do some sedentary research. Below, you will discover some of the questions we asked ourselves today.

For the record, no leprauchauns were harmed in the creation of this blog.

Artist Statements

1. What is an artist statement?

2. Who writes an artist statement?

3. Why write an artist statement?

4. Find/read 3-5 examples of an artist statement. Ask yourself:

a. What is important to this artist?

b. What is the message of this artist?

c. Future inspiration?

Other artist’s research about Identity/Location:

1. Who is involved in this research?

2. Who are our sources of information?

3. Possible identity/location survey questions:

a. What is your name?

b. How long have you been in the area?

c. What is your favorite part about living here?

d. What are your least favorite parts about living here?

e. What are the dangers of living in the area?

f. What are the perks of living in the area?

g. What is the weather like?

h. How far is it from home?

i. What can we get to eat?

j. What supplies do we need to survive?

k. Kinds of jobs?

l. Lots of single people or are they all married?

m. Average age of the population?

n. Any recent newsworthy events?

Class #2: Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

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Class 2 – Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Day 1

Teachers: AM‐Baade; PM–Deck & Laurie

MORNING

-Check-in
-Camera & tripod overview

LUNCH

-Equipment overview continued

-Equipment exercise (groups of 3 or 4)

Special requirements:

All cameras & tripods
SD cards due at the end of class.

CLASS #1: Wednesday, March 9 th, 2011

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Class 1 Wednesday, March 9 th, 2011

Day 3 Teachers: AM - Deck, Baade; PM - Laurie

• Introduction

MORNING

• Identity discussion & exercises

BREAK

• Stop animation examples & discussion

LUNCH

• Stop animation research exercise & presentations

Here are some examples of the various types of Stop Motion videos available on the internet (mostly on Youtube).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZTL0EKrKRM&feature=related (sticky notes) 0:35”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpWM0FNPZSs&feature=related (deadline – sticky notes & people) 1:55”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YBRCCVQ2qM&feature=related (white board) 1:50”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKNETHLBb2k&feature=related (white board 2) 1:41”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3c8LIWd9GI&feature=related (go karts) 0:54”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2pvO-FEqq4&feature=related (teenager sound effects) 1:39”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvLlCf-2or4&feature=related (girl’s hair) 1:36”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P2fgfm0oPQ&feature=related (drawing) 1:25”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-LqeRZwMC8 (guys in suits) 1:50”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE4JPozfxOI (sleeping bags) 0:15”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nszW4J9vdY&feature=related (Rubik’s Cube) 0:49”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=240Vq6tIxio (computer generated prints) 3:40”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY&feature=related (music video – her morning elegance) 3:36” and 2:36”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAHZxr3bkFs (student music video) 2:30”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOMFod_Qnhg&feature=fvwrel (studio inanimate) 1:29”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ5aZ8LiWFs&feature=related (students in theatre) 1:33”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1FdOF28GlM&NR=1&feature=fvwp (nice lighting, angles - two guys) 3:29”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwX7uEiEWx4&feature=related (music video – classic look) 2:30”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYUVpjrzvXc&feature=related (commercial) 0:30”

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

1. You need an idea. Try to stick with something simple for your first one – any action that can be split up into smaller parts works well. While brainstorming, keep in mind that you can expect to shoot around 10 photos for every second of film.

2. Once you have formally decided on an idea. Experiment by storyboarding your idea into specific scenes & shots. Once you have formalized your storyboard, create a shot list breaking up different scenes & shots to ease production. Time your shot list with estimated actual times it will take to produce your images.

3. You’ll need a digital camera & tripod. Since you won’t be printing these photos, you can set your camera to a small size image setting. This will let you fit more images on your memory card at a time. Depending on how long you’d like your movie to be, you may need to “fill and dump” your camera (copying the photos to your computer and erasing the memory card) multiple times before you are finished.

4. In order to turn your images into an animated video you will need video editing software like Apple’s iMovie. Don’t forget to include audio & credits to your finished project.

STEP 1: SHOOT YOUR ANIMATION

Let’s say, for example, that you would like to make that sock move itself across the floor. Start at the beginning: place the sock somewhere and take your first photo. Remember, you want to use camera (still frame) mode, not movie mode.

Using a tripod and only moving your object will make it appear as though your object is moving through your frame. Keeping the object in the same general area in each frame by moving the camera along with it will make it appear as though you are traveling with the object (the background will be changing).

After you’ve taken your first photograph, move the sock slightly in the direction you want it to travel and take another photo. Move it again by the same distance, and take one more. Continue this until the sock reaches where you want it to stop. You can manipulate your object in creative ways to add visual interest to your film, just make sure that whatever movement your object makes is done slowly over several frames.

Finally, if you make a mistake while shooting, delete that picture on your camera and take another. This will save you from having to edit your film later.

STEP 2: DOWNLOAD YOUR PHOTOS

Now that you’ve captured your images, you’ll need to get them onto your computer. We’ll be using iPhoto and iMovie for the Mac.

First, import your image files to iPhoto from the camera, and give them their own album. Once your photos have been imported & are moved to your album, close iPhoto.

STEP 3: FIND YOUR PHOTOS IN iMOVIE

Create a new iMovie project and call it whatever you like.

**Click on the camera icon (photo browser) in the middle of the right hand of your screen.

Locate & select your stop-motion album. All of your photos should now appear in order.

STEP 4: ANIMATE YOUR PHOTOS

In order for your animated short to play properly, you must tell iMovie how long you want each photo to appear before showing the next one. It’s kind of like creating a slideshow, except instead of giving each image a few seconds, you give it only a fraction of a second. The timing you choose will affect the overall tempo and length of your film.

Since videos you create in iMovie usually play at 30 frames-per-second, a setting of 3 frames-per-photo means you’ll see 10 photos every second. Now you can see why you have to shoot so many photos!

If you use the 3 frames-per-photo setting, you can easily estimate how many photos you’ll need to create a movie of a given length. In our example we used around 100 photos, for 10 seconds of video. If we wanted to make an animation exactly 30 seconds long, we’d shoot 300 photos.

Time in iMovie appears in “0:00″ format (see figure 3). The number before the colon is the number of seconds and the number after the colon is the number of frames (so 3 frames-per-photo looks like this “0:03″).

This next step is very important, so stay with us! In iMovie, select all of the photographs in your stop-motion album (the quick way to do this is to click on the very first photo and then, holding down the shift key, scroll down and click on the last photo.) Now click “Show Photo Settings” and type in “0:03″ for your duration in the floating window that appears. Click the Apply button and your photos will start getting sucked into the timeline at the bottom of the window. [Older versions of iPhoto let you set the duration in your editing window without clicking "Show Photo Settings."]

Once iMovie’s finished filling the timeline, hit play.

You just created your first stop-motion animated video short!

FINAL TOUCHES: MUSIC AND SHARING

To fine-tune your movie, you can slow it down by choosing to use more than 3 frames-per-photo. You can also add music to your short by dragging MP3s or AIFF files to the timeline, or browsing your iTunes library from within iMovie. You can also add sound effects and/or voice overs.

To share your stop-motion video, you’ll want to convert it to QuickTime. The steps in this process depend on which version of iMovie you are using. In general, look for “Export” or “Share” options, and try one of the default options.

That’s it! Don’t forget to save your project often as you go along.

Have fun, be creative and always EXPERIMENT!

References:

http://content.photojojo.com/tutorials/stop-motion-digital-camera/

Stop Motion Animation Project Rubric

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A Scene From Our Planning Meeting!

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The Arts Smarts Project began with a series of conversations between teacher-artist, Shelley Deck, and artist, Tracy Kovalench, last October. Here is a scene from the final meeting before our project officially started...two happy faces!

Recognizing Provincial Funding for Our ArtsSmarts Project!

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Funding for this project has been made possible by the following funding partners' support: The Saskatchewan Arts Board, the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education, SaskCulture Inc. and ArtsSmarts/GenieArts (with support from the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, Saskatchewan Lotteries Trust Fund for Sport, Culture and Recreation and program partners).

Locally, we have received additional funding support from:

Our Fine Arts Club Valentine's Gift Set Fundraising Event (with Cupid and the Kiss-ing Bandit)
Financial support for this project from our School Community Council and
Financial support from the Kelliher Recreation Board.

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE ARTS IN EDUCATION!

More Research: Flip Book Animation

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Here's a cool website where you can learn more about flip book animation:

http://www.benettonplay.com/toybox.php

Here are some examples of flip book exercises:

Project Research Links!

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Ms. Kovalench sent Ms. Deck and the grade 7/8's the following stop-motion animation examples to look at as part of our project research:

Breakdance Claymation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn-Ztku1Tzw&feature=related

Claymation With After Effects:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfrogVTsc7Y&feature=related

Stop Motion Animation Created With People:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ5aZ8LiWFs

Stop Motion Made With Some Inanimate Objects:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOMFod_Qnhg&feature=related

Post It Stop Motion Animation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pm-TXUCrrE&feature=related

Research Questions and Avatar Creation

2011-02-08T07:51:00.000-08:00

The students and Ms. Deck started their 'Identity and Location' research for the project today. Everyone is very excited to welcome Tracy to the school and to start working with her on the project. Ms. Deck is laying down some foundational information before she gets here, so that the students can get right to work with her. YAY!

To begin, students were given two 'artist's research questions' on two separate pieces of paper. The questions asked:

Page 1. What do we know about (y)our IDENTITY (past, present, future)?

Page 2. What do we know about (y)our LOCATION (past, present, future)?

I asked the students to keep those pieces of paper with them during the school day.

As they go about their activities, and they encounter information linked to either IDENTITY or LOCATION, they are to record it on the sheet as part our our collective brainstorming. We will be sharing our individual research in the coming classes.

Students were then then shown our project blog and asked to bookmark this URL to their 'Favorites.' Each student was invited to become a blog "Follower."

Next, Ms. Deck showed the students a variety of ways to make avatars. The avatars, Ms. Deck explained, could be used to represent their IDENTITY and LOCATION on the web.

Hilarity ensued! Here's Ms. Deck's South Park Avatar (above).

If you know of a good website for creating an avatar, please email Ms. Deck or write to this blog!

:)

In the Ituna News Monday, January 31, 2011

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From Volume 40 of the Ituna News Monday, January 31, 2011

Fine Arts Club Fundraiser Information!

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Welcome to Our Blog!

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This is the spot on the web where we will be posting updates and information regarding the Kelliher School ArtSmarts Project (2011) with Saskatchewan artist: Tracy Kovalench!
This upcoming film and video/stop motion animation project is possible because the Saskatchewan Arts Board approved the ArtSmarts Grant application that Ms. Deck submitted for us last October 2010.
Stay Tuned!