Lesson Plan, Old and New: Video and Sculpture
Objective: Through the creation of a mixed media sculpture and experimentation with a digital video camera and editing, students learn to experiment with video manipulation and taking their sculptures one step further with digital media.
1. Mixed media sculpture. Using found and recycled objects, students will create a structure exploring view points - may be related to a house, or model (?). Exploring the materials and how they can create "spaces" that we will later explore with the camera.
2. Exploration: Change the Photo. Exploring the upclose - what happens when we zoom in? Crop things out? Using found images, students will experiment in their sketchbooks with different ways of cropping, rotating, and transforming (analog) with scissors. Students should reflect verbally or written about how the image and its meaning changed.
3. Video: Initial shooting. Students pair up and explore their sculpture with video - can incorporate moving objects but should focus on exploring how the sculpture changes from different perspectives, view points, and angles using the video camera.
4. Editing: Manipulation via iMovie. Students take footage from the sculpture and learn to manipulate and edit in iMovie, creating a new way of looking and interpreting their sculpture, perhaps structuring a narrative or else pairing the video with music to create an entirely new work.
Objective: Through the creation of a mixed media sculpture and experimentation with a digital video camera and editing, students learn to experiment with video manipulation and taking their sculptures one step further with digital media.
1. Mixed media sculpture. Using found and recycled objects, students will create a structure exploring view points - may be related to a house, or model (?). Exploring the materials and how they can create "spaces" that we will later explore with the camera.
2. Exploration: Change the Photo. Exploring the upclose - what happens when we zoom in? Crop things out? Using found images, students will experiment in their sketchbooks with different ways of cropping, rotating, and transforming (analog) with scissors. Students should reflect verbally or written about how the image and its meaning changed.
3. Video: Initial shooting. Students pair up and explore their sculpture with video - can incorporate moving objects but should focus on exploring how the sculpture changes from different perspectives, view points, and angles using the video camera.
4. Editing: Manipulation via iMovie. Students take footage from the sculpture and learn to manipulate and edit in iMovie, creating a new way of looking and interpreting their sculpture, perhaps structuring a narrative or else pairing the video with music to create an entirely new work.
