CH 6: Presentation- Showing Off What You've Learned Through Video
This class has served as a brief introduction to the Digital courses the High School offers. For our exam you will be presenting a digital video presentation of your entire portfolio. Each student will create their own individual exam presentation. You will not be allowed to work with partners. Some students will present on the day of the exam, while others will present the last class before the exam. See details below.
Your Assignment
Learning Target: Create a 3-5 MINUTE digital video presentation of your entire portfolio of Digital Media works along with a verbal summation of how you met the class criteria. Present the digital portfolio as a final summative exam that synthesizes and evaluates your development as a digital artist. It MUST be created using iPad iMovie app. Turn in your final exported video in the Google Drive Folder for your class called FINAL EXAM
Include all of your final digital works in the :
Include all of your final digital works in the :
- Digital Selfie
- Typographic Design
- Animation ( you will need to make sure that the animation plays within your presentation, if you worked with a partner both should include the piece in their presentation).
- Personal Logo Design (by itself)
- One free choice (could be a play date item or some other iPad item you created this term, thumbnails, other sketches for animation or other versions of projects.)
Tips for Getting Organized
- Consider writing an exam paper script. This allows you to have all the points you are supposed to make in one place. Make sure you are analyzing your progress as a digital artist, not re-critiqueing each project.
- Use your past artist statements to help you recall the previous analysis you did for each unit, but make sure you are synthesizing and summarizing your progress with each unit towards becoming a digital artist.
- This class was a pre-requisite for all the other digital classes the art department offers. Explain how it prepared you for further study of digital art. What was your favorite unit and why?
- What did you learn from each unit? This would be helpful to discuss.
- What made your designs unique from all others in class?
- Record your voice using the tips down below about getting sound or music into your movie. Read from the exam script that you've written to help you cover all of the points you needed to cover.
- Refer to the printout on the iPad cart regarding Elements and Principles of Art
- Remember that compositional techniques are not elements and principles. (compositional techniques included: leading lines, rule of thirds, level horizon, fill the frame, framing or unique point of view)
- The principles of animation (12 of them including staging, squash and stretch etc. reference chapter 4 in iBook for more) were different from the Elements and Principles of Art.
- Minimize the Ken Burns effect so your still images display the way you want. The Ken Burns effect is named for a film director who makes documentary movies known for their zooms on still objects or photos. This can be a cool effect, but if over used it becomes irritating. On still images the effect may crop your image in a way that you don't desire. See the class demo on how to get rid of this effect.
- Play with overlaying several audio clips and play with the volume of each clip to emphasize the ones you want to be louder. You could have your voice with soft music beneath it. See class demo for how to do this or the video below.
iMovie Tutorials and Tips
iMovie allows you to combine text, still images, recorded voice, and video clips to create a unified and beautiful finished presentation. It also allows you to use interesting video effects (FX) and unique animated transitions. There are also opening titles and closing credits, which can give your final movie a very professional feeling. Watch the embedded video here to learn more about how to use iMovie. Here is the main iMovie Help Page with detailed Tutorials on all things iMovie
Adding Music to Your Movie
Soundzabound is a great website that PHS has subscribed to. Use it to find sound effects clips and music clips for your video projects. The clips are search-able by type of music or length of the clip.
PHS students can use the following information to log into the site and have full access to it.
Username: pewaukee
Password: pirates1
There are a few extra steps for using Soundzabound on the iPad. Watch the movie embedded here for details on how to import sounds and music.
PHS students can use the following information to log into the site and have full access to it.
Username: pewaukee
Password: pirates1
There are a few extra steps for using Soundzabound on the iPad. Watch the movie embedded here for details on how to import sounds and music.
Other Ways to Get Music Or Sound In
In iMovie you can also live record music to get it into your movie. Make sure you are aware though of the copyright restrictions when using somebody else's music. For educational purposes it is ok to use 30 seconds of copyrighted music. Don't use more than 30 seconds. Make sure you site your source at the end of the video in your credits.
- Simply use the camera icon in iMovie and record a video of your iPod or other musical source playing the music you want. Make sure it is turned up loud and that the sound in the room is quiet so you don't pick up a lot of extra noise.
- This also works for recording your voice. Simply speak while recording the movie.
- Choose the video you just recorded by clicking use video. It should bring the clip into your iMovie video.
- Click on the video and click DETACH (in bottom right hand corner) to detach the audio from the video.
- Click on the audio clip and move it over away from the video, preferably over to another section of images or video.
- Click back on the video that you detached audio from and click DELETE. The video image is gone and all that remains is the sound.
Survey on Exam Day
Once you've completed your critique/exam please take the following survey. Your honest answers are appreciated. This is NOT an anonymous survey, however you will NOT be graded. It is just a way for us to improve the class.