(HW)12-4 Revised Lesson Plans & Comments on Others

Lesson Plan #1: Relay Digital Collage / Drawing / Painting


The goal of the class: exploring digital collage and experience how the process and the mechanism of digital collage are different from traditional collage. 

The elements in digital collage can be easily copied, reproduced, and retouched as well as the making-process can be easily seen through "history" function.

Target students: High school or college level 
Program needed: Photoshop


0. Exploring the basic tools on PhotoShop for digital collage


1. Starting 
option 1-1. students can start to draw images or find images from the Internet to start.
option 1-2. all students start from the same image to manipulate. 
  - see how they create the outcome with different ways of handling and manipulating the image. (given time: class time duration - time for step 0 & 4 / the number of students*)

2. Passing the file to others
  After first 10 minutes of exploration, students pass the file to the one who sits next. Start working on other's outcome (For example, if there are student A, B, C, and D, student A's image is passed to student B, student B's image is passed to student C, student C's image is passed to student D, and student D's image passed to student A). (given time: class time duration - time for step 0 & 4 / the number of students*)


- Make sure the original file that each student work on is saved. When a new student starts working on new images, duplicate the layer(s) of the image and work with duplicated one. It will allow students to see the each student's process of digital collage.


3. Continue the step 2. Working time for each image (class time duration - time for step 0 & 4 / the number of students*) is allocated by the number of students. Distribute time equally for each drawing. 


4. After all, students work on each image, look at the images together. Using the layer and history functions, see and discuss how the image has transformed by different students.



Lesson Plan #2: Performing scanography

The goal of the class: Exploring scanography - in the relationship with performance 

Understanding the mechanism how the scanner works and create images, and thinking about how this can be related to the other forms of art activities. In this class session, performance will be focused as a primary form to be explored with the scanner. 

Target students:  First-year art college students who are in the phrase of exploring several medium and methods of art-making. 

what are needed: Scanner


0. Explore the basic function of scanner to understand its mechanism.


1. Play with several factors that affect on the light of scanner, such as reflective materials, moving objects, etc. 


2. Use one's body movement, experiment performative scanography

- While scanning, freely moving stuff or your body on the scanner to test how the movements are captured. Try several different ways playing with time, space and speed of movement.


3. Create the story of movement in one scanography


4. Understand the relation between movement and narrative


5. Discussion





Lesson Plan #3 Performative-sound Performance

The goal of this lesson is to understand the performance in conjunction with the sound and be conscious on how to perform sound in daily settings.


Target students: art college students (first or second year)

Needed material: recorder (or smart phone), speakers

1. Being familiar with sound: observing, creating, finding, exploring and mixing the sound.
 1-1. observing the sound
 1-2. finding a sound
 1-3. creating sounds
 1-4. exploring the sound
 1-5. mixing sounds
 1-6. playing with sounds

2. Make a connection between the movement and the sound
 2-1. observing the movement of the nature
 2-2. observing the movement of artifacts
 2-3. observing the movement of others
 2-4. observing the movement of oneself
 2-5. observing the movement of the air

3. Creating performative sound

4. Design a movement and sound in the space
 4-1. exploring the space
 4-2. imagining the sound and movement in the space
 4-3. deciding on the materials for sound performance
 4-4. experimentation. 

5. Execution

6. Discussion



commnets:
To Gina:
Hi Gina, I like your lesson plan ideas as they let students be more conscious on their everyday lives. The first one, however, is not clear to me as I think it needs several class times. I wonder how each class would be organized since it seems like there are several different technical explorations are required including the traditional painting, digital painting and scanning.
To Anita:
I really like your combination of new and traditional media in laser cut woodblocks lesson. Tele-movie lesson is also interesting, but I am wondering how the process is going after first two students. The third student makes another new 15-second video that response to the first 15-second video and audio that made by first two students, or only the audio that made by the second student?