Period 2
What are we learning today?
1. Last Project Ideas
2. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
CD Jacket
- Choose a band/artist and album
- Brainstorm ideas for graphics & photos
- Draw thumbnails for the cover, back, inside & spine
- Layout the CD framework in InDesign
- Print the layout & draw rough into it
- Vector image(s)
- Take your photo of the product
- Simple background & strong lighting
- Try different angles & take extra shots
- Make a practice selection
- Make a selection of your photo
- Compose your type in InDesign
- Add graphics & photo to InDesign file
- Export the file as a Print PDF & upload it to Schoology
3. Cleanup
4. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: None
Period 3
What are we learning today?
1. Photo Day
2. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
Logo
- Choose a name or image for your artist
- Brainstorm & draw 4 thumbnails using that name or image
- Choose your favorite thumbnail
- Develop that design into a large, clean, colored rough
- Scan the rough
- Place the scan into an Ai file, lock layer, create second layer
- Vector your logo with shapes & pen tool
- Add color to the logo
- Save as an Ai file and upload the image w/thumb, rough to Schoology
Website
- View sample sites
- Determine what things you like about the examples
- Sketch a plan for a pages & site map (min of 5 pages)
- Build the site with Weebly or Wix
- Prepare photos for site
- Publish the site and share link through schoology
Panoramic Photo
- Open Photoshop & use the Automate>Photomerge function
- Follow the steps on the handout to correct distortions
- Crop the completed merger
- Save & upload the completed project to Schoology
3. Cleanup
4. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: None
Period 4
What are we learning today?
1. Week’s Photos
2. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
Cropping
- Open one of your photos in Photoshop
- Choose the crop tool & set it to a 3:1 aspect ratio, position & commit
- Save as a PNG, upload the PNG to Schoology
Film Strip Collage
- Choose 6 photos for the film strip, one for the background photo
- Crop each of the strip photo so they are are all the same aspect ratio
- Crop the background photo to 8 x 10
- Build the photo strip in Bridge
- Add the strip to the background photo
- Create the film
- Make the film wave
- Save as a PNG & PSD
- Upload the PNG to Schoology
3. Cleanup
4. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: None
Period 5
What are we learning today?
1. Typefce Search & Typography Due Today
2. Review Quiz & Screen Printing
3. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
Screen Printing
- Choose a name or image for a company
- Brainstorm and draw 4 thumbnails
- Choose your favorite thumbnail
- Develop that design into a large, clean, colored rough
- Obtain, label, & degrease a screen
- Coat the screen
- Convert the vector to black & white, email to Mr. Tate
- Expose the screen
- Wash out the screen with a cone spray of water
- Patch Pinholes
- Block out the screen
- Cut paper to print on
- Cut out the comprehensive, center it on cut paper, tape in place
- Print the design
- Reblock the screen
- Reclaim the screen
- Mat the best print
- Paperclip thumb, rough, comp, 2 prints, matted & rubric
Type Search
- Obtain and label four sheets of paper
- 5 Roman, 5 Square (page 1)
- 10 Sans Serif (page 2)
- 10 Script (page 3)
- 1 Text, 9 Novelty (page 4)
- Cut out examples and glue them into the correct section
- Print cover page
- Staple all pages together
- Turn in Search to bin
Personifying a Word
- Choose a word from the list
- Brainstorm ways that you exemplifying the words meaning
- Draw four thumbnails of different ideas for your word
- Develop the best thumbnail into a rough
- Create your word with type & a simple graphic
- Save the file a a PDF
- Upload the PDF to Schoology
Typography Assignment
- Download the starting file from TechGeek.Pro
- Create your own text in Illustrator that matches the example
- Save & upload the file to Schoology
4. Cleanup
5. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: None
What are we learning today?
1. Last Project Ideas
2. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
CD Jacket
- Choose a band/artist and album
- Brainstorm ideas for graphics & photos
- Draw thumbnails for the cover, back, inside & spine
- Layout the CD framework in InDesign
- Print the layout & draw rough into it
- Vector image(s)
- Take your photo of the product
- Simple background & strong lighting
- Try different angles & take extra shots
- Make a practice selection
- Make a selection of your photo
- Compose your type in InDesign
- Add graphics & photo to InDesign file
- Export the file as a Print PDF & upload it to Schoology
3. Cleanup
4. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: None
Period 3
What are we learning today?
1. Photo Day
2. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
Logo
- Choose a name or image for your artist
- Brainstorm & draw 4 thumbnails using that name or image
- Choose your favorite thumbnail
- Develop that design into a large, clean, colored rough
- Scan the rough
- Place the scan into an Ai file, lock layer, create second layer
- Vector your logo with shapes & pen tool
- Add color to the logo
- Save as an Ai file and upload the image w/thumb, rough to Schoology
Website
- View sample sites
- Determine what things you like about the examples
- Sketch a plan for a pages & site map (min of 5 pages)
- Build the site with Weebly or Wix
- Prepare photos for site
- Publish the site and share link through schoology
Panoramic Photo
- Open Photoshop & use the Automate>Photomerge function
- Follow the steps on the handout to correct distortions
- Crop the completed merger
- Save & upload the completed project to Schoology
3. Cleanup
4. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: None
Period 4
What are we learning today?
1. Week’s Photos
2. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
Cropping
- Open one of your photos in Photoshop
- Choose the crop tool & set it to a 3:1 aspect ratio, position & commit
- Save as a PNG, upload the PNG to Schoology
Film Strip Collage
- Choose 6 photos for the film strip, one for the background photo
- Crop each of the strip photo so they are are all the same aspect ratio
- Crop the background photo to 8 x 10
- Build the photo strip in Bridge
- Add the strip to the background photo
- Create the film
- Make the film wave
- Save as a PNG & PSD
- Upload the PNG to Schoology
3. Cleanup
4. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: None
Period 5
What are we learning today?
1. Typefce Search & Typography Due Today
2. Review Quiz & Screen Printing
3. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
Screen Printing
- Choose a name or image for a company
- Brainstorm and draw 4 thumbnails
- Choose your favorite thumbnail
- Develop that design into a large, clean, colored rough
- Obtain, label, & degrease a screen
- Coat the screen
- Convert the vector to black & white, email to Mr. Tate
- Expose the screen
- Wash out the screen with a cone spray of water
- Patch Pinholes
- Block out the screen
- Cut paper to print on
- Cut out the comprehensive, center it on cut paper, tape in place
- Print the design
- Reblock the screen
- Reclaim the screen
- Mat the best print
- Paperclip thumb, rough, comp, 2 prints, matted & rubric
Type Search
- Obtain and label four sheets of paper
- 5 Roman, 5 Square (page 1)
- 10 Sans Serif (page 2)
- 10 Script (page 3)
- 1 Text, 9 Novelty (page 4)
- Cut out examples and glue them into the correct section
- Print cover page
- Staple all pages together
- Turn in Search to bin
Personifying a Word
- Choose a word from the list
- Brainstorm ways that you exemplifying the words meaning
- Draw four thumbnails of different ideas for your word
- Develop the best thumbnail into a rough
- Create your word with type & a simple graphic
- Save the file a a PDF
- Upload the PDF to Schoology
Typography Assignment
- Download the starting file from TechGeek.Pro
- Create your own text in Illustrator that matches the example
- Save & upload the file to Schoology
4. Cleanup
5. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: None
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