HALF TERM: research

Starter::  
Look at: bitetheballot.co.uk, what is their 'message' How do that get there message across?

Main Task:

Discuss half lesson and half term tasks:
1 IN LESSON: complete an A3 page moodboard ANNOTATED of political posters you like.  Maybe chhose some from the recent general election.
2 IN HALF TERM: Write an A3 page on BITE the BALLOT
3 IN HALF TERM: Write an A3 page on your own artist, with response, drawing or painting or collaging your response in their style.

FOR FULL DETAILS SEE THE LSIT BELOW: 

After your moodboard (which should be done by now and MUST be in your books by Friday) complete an analysis on an artist your your choice.  This artist analysis will be related to your final VISUAL ideas. Choose from the images and list below and answer the questions on the sheet above.

Katherine Hamnett (Influential Fashion designer: Slogan T-shirts)

 Keith Haring (Influencial graffiti and graphic artist)

 Jamie Reid (Graphic designer: punk works)

 Picasso (Guernica: the painting and its meanings)

 Banksy (Street artist using stencils)

  Stuart Semple (Contemporary fine art painter)

 Keith Piper (Multimedia artist, activist, founder of BLK Art movement)

 David Shrigley (Contemporary multi media fine artist)

  Lazlo Moholy Nagy (influencial graphic designer and photographer)
 Filippo Marinetti (founder of futurist movement and influential typographic artist)

  Tony Cragg (Contemporary fine art sculptor)

 Aleksandr Rodchenko (influencial photographer and graphic artist)
 Grayson Perry (Contemporary fine artist)
 G
 GIlbert and George (Contemporary fine artists)

Google Doodle: Final week!

WEEKS AIMS:

• To create a A4 sized (minimum) Google Doodle that answers the brief of the unit.
• To record in your sketchbooks the development of your Google Doodle and how your Doodle visually changes in stages. 
• To annotate your stage by stage development reviewing how your ideas and visual development has been changed, by any peer feedback have received.
• To write an evaluation of your final design as homework and place that evaluation in your sketchbooks for marking by Wednesday 11th March.

LESSON ONE: TUESDAY

STARTER: 10mins

1. Recap the brief:  
2. Discuss as a group 4 words in the brief that relate to M2 'demonstrate a considered approach to producing purposeful ideas and solutions in response to briefs, presenting work coherently and effectively. what do they mean? Write down in the back of your sketchbooks, in the sheet given the word and description and how you aim to achieve it.

MAIN TASK: 45mins

1. Exchange books 
2. Continue to create Google Doodles
3. EXTENSION TASK: create an animated gif, a Google colour variation or an A3 page of different colour versions for your design.  Use this link to the tutorial: http://creativetechs.com/tipsblog/build-animated-gifs-in-photoshop/  THESE TASKS ARE ALSO ON MOODLE.

PLENARY: 10mins

1. Recap progression, where am I? Where am I going? what am I going to do between today and tomorrow to get there? Write a further target on your target sheet.

LESSON TWO: WEDNESDAY

STARTER: 10mins  THE CRITERIA: how to meet them?

LOG ONTO: kahoot.it

MAIN TASK: 40mins THE TASK: How to complete it?
Use the targets you set yourself yesterday and updated. And set yourself SMART goals for today.
Continue to work on your designs.
During the lesson, or when you have completed your design ask your peer to assess your design, what MORE could you do?
When you have finished you need to email to: proposals@google.com

EXTENSION TASKS (as above): create an animated gif, a Google colour variation or an A3 page of different colour versions for your design.  Use this link to the tutorial: http://creativetechs.com/tipsblog/build-animated-gifs-in-photoshop/  THESE TASKS ARE ALSO ON MOODLE.

PLENARY: 15mins THE REVIEW
Recap progression, where am I? Do I need a workshop to complete my design?

LESSON THREE: WEDNESDAY

STARTER: 10mins RECAP

1. Discuss as a group what we find hard in written evaluations.  List your own issues and discuss in 1 to 1 tutorials with the teacher how to overcome them.

MAIN TASK: 45mins THE TASK

1. Continue to create Google Doodles
2. EXTENSION TASK: create an animated gif, or an A3 page of different colour versions for your design.

PLENARY: 10mins REVIEW

1. Recap progression, where am I? Do I need a workshop to complete my design? 

HOMEWORK:

Complete the word frame Evaluation on the project.  As an extension think how we could further meet D2 and demonstrate and individual presentation of our evaluation. 

Google Doodle: Final ideas

STARTER: To discuss criteria above and how we can meet that criteria
What is considered?
What is coherent?
What is effective?
What is perceptive?
What is innovative?
What is engaging?
What is sophisticated?

LESSON AIMS:
To discuss criteria above and how we can meet that criteria
To review progress and peer assess each others ideas
To respond to peer feedback and use in final design.
To respond to feedback in sketchbooks and set individual targets for communicating and presenting ideas

MAIN TASK: Final designs
Peer assess each others work, record that peer feedback in your books and then use that feedback to progress onto your final designs.  Setting targets to complete designs by end of lesson 1 NDV lesson next week.

PLENARY: To respond to feedback in sketchbooks and set individual targets for communicating and presenting ideas
Discuss what literacy could be used in communicating and presenting our ideas.

Hever: Initial ideas

This weeks lesson aims are:
To review the work completed so far
To discuss and record individual ideas in page layout drawings over two A3 pages that explore your ideas and respond to the brief.

Starter: 10mins
We will recap the brief and make sure it is placed into sketchbooks, updating old briefs.

Responding to the brief: the criteria

P2 use graphic media, techniques and technology to meet a design brief

M2 use graphic media, techniques and technology diversely to coherently meet a design brief

D2 use graphic media, techniques & technology independently & innovatively to meet a design brief

P3 present design outcomes using graphic media, techniques and technology

M3 effectively present and review design outcomes using graphic media, techniques & technologies

D3 present & review design outcomes imaginatively using graphic media, techniques & technologies.

Responding to the brief: the brief

The shop and information Centre has commissioned you to create a stylish graphic photography book, inspired by the castle, its surroundings, events and family friendly atmosphere. You will produce your graphic photography book using a range of traditional and contemporary media, techniques and technology and design it with an exciting yet harmonious style and layout.

Main Task: 40mins

Using inspiration from your own designs and the review you MUST have done for this lesson complete a range of exciting layout ideas over a DOUBLE A3 page in your sketchbooks.  These ideas must combine images and text together to present the following information, taken from the Hever Castle website.

You will need: 8 interior pages and a cover / back cover:

INTERIOR PAGES: Please follow the PAGE TITLE and BODY TEXT attached for the text/words needed for your pages.

Page: 1 and 2 HISTORY

• Experience 700 years of history at the romantic double-moated castle once the childhood home of Anne Boleyn. The splendid rooms contain fine furniture, tapestries, antiques, an important collection of Tudor paintings and two prayer books inscribed and signed by Anne Boleyn herself

Page: 3 and 4 GARDENS

• Discover magnificent award-winning gardens set in 125 acres of glorious grounds. No matter what time of year you visit you are guaranteed a breath-taking display.

Page: 5 and 6 FAMILIES

• Children can let off steam in the adventure playground, while visitors of all ages enjoy the challenge of finding their way through the Water Maze and the 100 year old Yew Maze. There’s a fascinating collection of Miniature Model Houses, a boating Lake and a warm welcome awaits you in the shops and restaurants.

Page: 7 and 8 EVENTS

• You can witness spectacular jousting in an authentic arena, complete with Royal Box. Come and have a go at the ancient sport of archery, enjoy a garden tours with a member of the Hever Castle gardening team and paint your very own shield to take home as a memento of your day out.

Plenary: 10mins

Discuss the brief, your understanding of the brief, are you: 

GREEN: fully understanding the brief and what is required as an outcome.

ORANGE: not understanding one of either the brief OR what is required as an outcome. 

RED: understanding NONE of the brief OR what is required as an outcome.

YOUR BOOKS WILL BE COLLECTED TOMORROW AND PLACED IN THE RESOURCE AREA ON FRIDAY FOR COLLECTION

Hever: Review

The lesson aims are:

1 To review the work completed so far

2 To identify what images, designers, ideas you like and what to use

3 To discuss how to successfully complete outcomes to meet the brief

10m STARTER: 

Briefly review experiments completed so far. What should you have that you can include?

40m MAIN TASK: Review experimentation

20m GROUP TASK: Start your review of your experimentation to summarise what is most effective to include in your final graphic outcome. In groups discuss what has worked well and how can you further develop and refine what you have so far.

20m INDIVIDUAL TASK: Work on your own and start to build your 2x A3 'HEVER BOOK DESIGN IDEAS' pages.

HOMEWORK: Present this review in your book using the guidance sheet provided to help you.

10m PLENARY: 

Discuss as a group the logistics of completing outcomes. How to work to the deadline, any potential problems and how to produce quality outcomes and the importance of the review.

Hever: Typography experiments

This is the final week of experiments, the LAST CHANCE to record processes and techniques before the independent phase of this project 'the photo book'.

The lesson aims are:

1 To be able to describe the 'Totally London' work of Oscar Wilson

2 To respond to the work of Oscar Wilson by creating Calligrams from primary or secondary photographs

3 To record findings in sketchbooks in a clear and aesthetically pleasing A3 page layouts

10m STARTER: Briefly discuss Oscar Wilson, who he is, what he does? (GROUP TASK)

Record ideas and incites in your sketchbooks for use later

20m MAIN TASK: Creating Calligrams from primary or secondary photographs (GROUP TASK)  

Open up your sketchbooks and use the brief and your research pages (Hever review page, Hever leaflets) to make a list of words on a A5 sheet of paper that describe Hever, your experiences of Hever and what Hever is about.

20m MAIN TASK: Use the computers to find and print out 2 pictures (A4) to use for your own Calligram

10m PLENARY: Discuss where we are going, how we are to get there, what we need to bring to the next lesson and next weeks lesson.

Hever Response: the darkroom

In this lesson you will:

Discuss the Typography work of MM Paris
Respond by making 1 x A4 photoshop version of their work HEVER
Respond by making 1 x A4 darkroom version of their work with the word HEVER
Relate to your own ideas by discussing and reviewing your title page 'UNIT'



STARTER: 10m
Look back at your books, what typography do you have?  You should have UNIT - Illuminated text. If you do not then make sure you have collected your versions from NDV.

Was the hand made grid system hard?
How did it relate to the brief and Hever





MAIN TASK: Stenciled and Vignetted Text: 10mins
Use the Pictures provided and in groups of 4 discuss and then individually annotate the following: How could the pictures be made:

• In photoshop?
• In the darkroom?

MAIN TASK: 20mins

Making Inked Text to be used in Stenciled and Vignetted Text Experiments: 20mins

1.  In groups of 4 Paint the word Hever with water
2.  Quickly drop large drops of ink onto your HEVER water words to create 'fluid' Hever texts that use Red, Yellow and Blue inks
3.  Take photos of your words MAKE SURE THE PHOTOS ARE TAKEN DIRECTLY ABOVE
4. As an extension combine colours

PLENARY: 20mins

While TWO Members of each group upload the photos to the ARTS and MEDIA Drive, please discuss the work of MM Paris Typography and record ideas on:

1 what images that could be used

2 how you could use Illuminated Type to create your own typography and use as a stencil in the darkroom

3 what other objects could you use as stencils in the darkroom?

Save on in your drives and print out for your sketchbooks