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What is CGI?

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Title:

What is CGI?

URL:

https://wonderopolis.org/wonder/what-is-cgi

Content Source:

Wonderopolis

Type:

Learning Activity

Overview:

Are you a movie fan? Do you like animation or live-action? Do you watch movies in 3D? It makes the special effects seem so real! Have you ever WONDERed how moviemakers do it? It‘s not magic! Many times, they use Computer Generated Imagery (CGI). In this learning activity, students will learn about CGI and how designers put the images in films. The students will also learn about some of the films that include CGI. Finally, the students will identify CGI in a movie and discuss how it affects the experience of the audience.

Content Standard(s):

Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 4 Media Arts	11) Identify, describe, and explain how messages are created by components in media arts productions. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Responding Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work. Process Components: Perceive Essential Questions: EU: Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves one's artistic appreciation and production. EQ: How do we 'read' media artworks and discern their relational components? How do media artworks function to convey meaning and manage audience experiences? Skill Examples: After watching a commercial for a car, respond to teacher questions to identify, describe, and explain how the messages were created by the individual components. After watching a series of commercials for shoes, respond to teacher questions to identify and describe the various methods and styles and the effect on the class. With guidance, watch and respond to a series of political ads. By responding to teacher questions, tell the purpose, meaning and message of each and how interpretation is affected by context. Using a class made checklist for basic principles, processes, and context grade one of your own media arts products and make changes to make it better.
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 4 Media Arts	12) Identify, describe, and explain how various forms, methods, and styles in media arts productions manage audience experience. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Responding Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work. Process Components: Perceive Essential Questions: EU: Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves one's artistic appreciation and production. EQ: How do we 'read' media artworks and discern their relational components? How do media artworks function to convey meaning and manage audience experiences? Skill Examples: After watching a commercial for a car, respond to teacher questions to identify, describe, and explain how the messages were created by the individual components. After watching a series of commercials for shoes, respond to teacher questions to identify and describe the various methods and styles and the effect on the class. With guidance, watch and respond to a series of political ads. By responding to teacher questions, tell the purpose, meaning and message of each and how interpretation is affected by context. Using a class made checklist for basic principles, processes, and context grade one of your own media arts products and make changes to make it better.
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 5 Media Arts	11) Identify, describe, and differentiate how message and meaning are created by components in media arts productions. Example: Change musical underscoring to affect the message. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Responding Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work. Process Components: Perceive Essential Questions: EU: Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves one's artistic appreciation and production. EQ: How do we 'read' media artworks and discern their relational components? How do media artworks function to convey meaning and manage audience experiences? Concepts & Vocabulary: Differentiate Message Meaning subtext Components Experience Interpretations Intention Consider Context Criteria Evaluating Constructive Skill Examples: After watching a commercial for laundry detergent, identify and describe how the messages were created by the individual components. Responding to teacher questions, discuss the differences in meaning and message. After watching a series of commercials for toothpaste, identify and describe the various methods and styles and the effect on the class. Responding to teacher questions, discuss the difference meanings given by form, method and style. Watch and respond to a series of political ads. By responding to teacher questions, tell the purpose, meaning and message of each and how interpretation is affected by context. Using a class made checklist for basic principles and processes, grade one of your own media arts products. Score the product in two different contexts and compare the results, and make changes to make it better.
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 5 Media Arts	12) Identify, describe, and differentiate how various forms, methods, and styles in media arts productions manage audience experience. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Responding Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work. Process Components: Perceive Essential Questions: EU: Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves one's artistic appreciation and production. EQ: How do we 'read' media artworks and discern their relational components? How do media artworks function to convey meaning and manage audience experiences? Concepts & Vocabulary: Differentiate Message Meaning subtext Components Experience Interpretations Intention Consider Context Criteria Evaluating Constructive Skill Examples: After watching a commercial for laundry detergent, identify and describe how the messages were created by the individual components. Responding to teacher questions, discuss the differences in meaning and message. After watching a series of commercials for toothpaste, identify and describe the various methods and styles and the effect on the class. Responding to teacher questions, discuss the difference meanings given by form, method and style. Watch and respond to a series of political ads. By responding to teacher questions, tell the purpose, meaning and message of each and how interpretation is affected by context. Using a class made checklist for basic principles and processes, grade one of your own media arts products. Score the product in two different contexts and compare the results, and make changes to make it better.

Tags:

CGI, Computer Generated Imagery, movie, special effects

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Tiffani Stricklin

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What is CGI?