CRAZY MAY! SO MUCH GOING ON!

 We created a set with backgrounds, prompts, camera, and we played a travel channel tv show, where students were offering trip packages to the most popular and most exclusive places where to go on vacations.  Nice production, nice organization, thank you everyone for such a nice activity.

  Then we had several collaborations that even though the students were not merely there creating and projecting, they were witnesses of each one of the projects since they were contributing with their opinions and feed backs.

 Students and teachers, deserve a day to celebrate this project we both are immerse, and there's nothing better than seeing happy students with happy classes. No matter how hard, boring and tired we can feel, still we gotta keep it up and give the best of us.


 

  Student's day was celebrated with a rally where each team had to design a t shirt, we took this activity as a part of our class and we experimented things that we had learned during this class. Stencils, Paint, sketches, logos, brainstorms. It was great to get see that students could use this as a tool to create something unique.

Infinity War movie developed this great sense of what is an enemy and what to do to destroy it. We decided to create a villain and see the dark side of us, by describing and generating an idea that we normally don't enjoy by creating the "negative" side of a concept but we gotta keep it real and admit that two energies make the world spin so we enjoyed creating a villain.

Storyboard

Our new project consists in creating a Scene using a storyboard template.


Each one of the students developed a short story or scene sketching 8 frames in a story board format.
Each one of the frames had to be described and they added arrows pointing in specific directions for the camera to be directed.

Students had to talk about costume design and elements useful for their short films.

They had a template that helped them out with framing the image and justifying the shoot.

Close up, Full Shoot, Establishing shoot, Bird view, worm view  etc.

  

EXPO Ciencias

CCS is not a subject, it's a workshop that is open to Students - Teachers collaborations, and in this case we had the chance to work a poster and a flyer as well as giving advice to few students who were designing brochures for this event. Working during class and sharing emails and proposals for students it's really exciting, that make us set up apart the idea of an academic requirement and it turns into a fun interesting activity.

Art show on the floor

As we get ready to enjoy spring break and not starting a new project, this class was about having an art show displayed on the floor of our GYM.  I presented the students a tiny part of my portfolio in order for them to understand the creative process. From sketching to planning, also letting them see different techniques, some of them that we have used in class. It was fun having them outside of the classroom and giving them the chance to touch, observe and try materials as a part of the formation in this creative workshop that more than an art class it's a way to appreciate and being able to explore their talents and potential.

Claro Oscuro

 

During this experience, students were able to represent several textures, such as glass, candle light, skylines and animals hiding in the dark. By just the simple act of switching a white crayon on a black surface, each one of them got the sense of understanding how light creates volume or bi-dimensional effects. .

Our new experiment consist in making a twist in how we look at things in our everyday life. This time objects are coming from darkness being shaped by light in quite an elegant or mysterious way.

Anatomy Diagrams

If you have worked with teenagers or just been around them, you know how they can easily get on your nerves, most of the time they tend to go against what ever means "work", however there are days when they wake up with this pro active spirit and they just get on this smooth and amazing attitude that surprises everyone. We had an amazing class, we even asked to our English Teacher Norma to let us take the second hour to keep going and we ran our two hours so peacefully and focused. This group was at 7:45 am excited and happy, and you know teenagers love to sleep. THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THAT NICE MORNING START.

Pixels to another level

We took pixel art to a bigger scale, and as annoying as it could be for the students to map grids and cut pieces of paper, the idea of this activity was to work on teams and let them interact with different responsibilities, but over all, we worked on TO BE PATIENT.
Now a days students want everything fast, everything done in a couple of clicks and they have no desire for things that can be built step by step. Sometimes we forget to teach and learn basic habits such as cutting, measuring and even getting hands dirty, another thing, is that after a long and cold winter, working outside under the sun breathing fresh air, also give us a different feeling and class dynamic.

What does anatomy has to do with a CCS class?
Pretty simple, our body where we live is the first communication tool we have, not only thru verbal resources but also body language. Learning about the container where we live, is appreciating and being aware of our potential and our possibilities to create.

PIXEL ART

 

 For them to understand better their platforms and resources. Terminology changes with it, and PIXEL as a word and concept it's just a common word such as APP,  DOWNLOAD, UPGRADE among other words. In this exercise, students will understand topics such as RESOLUTION.

Points of light in a screen is what makes perfect images in video games, tablets, cell phones. Mapping images makes us understand where everything comes from in things that we see in our every day life. Such as when we study THE CELL in a chemistry class.

CCS WORKBOOK

 This is the first CCS Work Book, where we summarize our work of six months and our activities previously publish in our blog. As we work in class, the manual and artistic activity comes in hand with either art history, science, or additional information of our every day life. Having a manual or a work book, help us to solidify this program.