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   View Standards     Standard(s): [ARTS] MED (4) 1 :

1) Conceptualize original media arts products, utilizing a variety of creative methods.

a. Use brainstorming and modeling.

Example: Draw a design of a multi-purpose tool and create it out of foam or cardboard.

[ARTS] MED (4) 3 :

3) Arrange varied content and components to convey purpose and meaning in different media arts productions, applying associated artistic principles.

a. Use artistic concepts of balance and contrast.

Example: Recreate a short scene depicting Hansel and Gretel running through the forest, with some students representing static trees and others performing the moving characters. Balance is created by composition of figures in the frame and contrast is shown by static and moving characters.

[ARTS] MED (4) 4 :

4) Demonstrate intentional effect in refining media artworks, emphasizing elements for a purpose.

a. Use elements of design to communicate through metaphor.

Example: Photograph shadows of repetitive lines to represent imprisonment.

[ARTS] MED (4) 5 :

5) Demonstrate how a variety of academics, arts, and media forms (content and media) may be mixed or coordinated into media arts products.

Example: Perform and record a narrated dance.

[ARTS] MED (5) 1 :

1) Present original ideas and innovations for media arts products, utilizing personal experiences and/or the work of others.

[ARTS] MED (5) 3 :

3) Design and combine components to express purpose and meaning in a variety of media arts productions, utilizing sets of associated principles.

a. Use emphasis and exaggeration.

Example: Photograph the transition of a portrait, using caricature to change facial features demonstrating emphasis and exaggeration.

[ARTS] MED (5) 4 :

4) Determine how elements and components can be modified for clear communication and intentional effects, then revise media artworks to improve clarity and purpose.

[ARTS] MED (5) 5 :

5) Create media artworks through the integration of multiple contents and forms.

Example: Create video using storyboarding, site locations, filming, and background music to promote "Read Across America."

Students will share book talks through digital storytelling.  They will add images, text, narration, music, and effects using Microsoft Photo Story.  This unit includes six lessons. 

   View Standards     Standard(s): [ARTS] MED (4) 1 :

1) Conceptualize original media arts products, utilizing a variety of creative methods.

a. Use brainstorming and modeling.

Example: Draw a design of a multi-purpose tool and create it out of foam or cardboard.

[ARTS] MED (4) 5 :

5) Demonstrate how a variety of academics, arts, and media forms (content and media) may be mixed or coordinated into media arts products.

Example: Perform and record a narrated dance.

[ARTS] VISA (4) 3 :

3) Generate ideas and employ a variety of strategies and techniques to create a work of art/design.

[MA2019] (4) 27 :

27. Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles (right, acute, obtuse), and perpendicular and parallel lines, and identify these in two-dimensional figures.

Students will use an iPad app, Amaziograph, to create digital media artwork.  They will use angles and lines on a rotation grid to create their art.  This lesson was a collaboration between a math teacher and an arts integration specialist. 

   View Standards     Standard(s): [ARTS] MED (3) 1 :

1) Develop multiple ideas for a media arts product, utilizing a variety of tools, methods, and/or materials.

[ARTS] MED (3) 8 :

8) Exhibit standard use of tools and techniques while constructing media arts productions.

a. Use storyboarding, scripting, musical selections, and movement.

Example: Draw comic strips in sequential order of the story from beginning to end.

[ARTS] MED (4) 5 :

5) Demonstrate how a variety of academics, arts, and media forms (content and media) may be mixed or coordinated into media arts products.

Example: Perform and record a narrated dance.

[ARTS] MED (4) 8 :

8) Demonstrate use of tools and techniques in standard and novel ways while constructing media arts productions.

[ARTS] MED (5) 5 :

5) Create media artworks through the integration of multiple contents and forms.

Example: Create video using storyboarding, site locations, filming, and background music to promote "Read Across America."

This unit plan includes four lessons using a storyboard to create an ebook. In the first lesson, students will use a storyboard to plan an ebook for a short three-part story of their own choosing. In the second lesson, students will develop their understanding of how storytelling can be enhanced using visual arts techniques. In the third lesson, students will be able to take an image using an iPad and use it effectively in an ebook. In the fourth lesson, students will record sounds to accompany the text and images for their ebooks.