Archive for August, 2012

Photo Color Editing

Posted: 31st August 2012 by e10391 in Uncategorized

I asked you to create a color palette for your movie.  Here’s some suggestions of how you can apply it to your photos: On Photoshop, adjust: Hue/Saturation Desaturate, Add Color Draw on Top Change Color of Selected Area

Photo Shoot!

Posted: 29th August 2012 by e10391 in Uncategorized

Today I am giving you class time to do a photo shoot of your object.  Have fun!  Be Creative!  Be productive!  Remember your COLOR PALETTE! Photograph your piece from 3 different angles Get close, crop out some of your object 3 shots of You with your object A Shadow of your object Some sort of […]

6 Word Story

Posted: 28th August 2012 by e10391 in Uncategorized

Sometimes simple is good.  In the 1920s, Ernest Hemingway’s colleagues bet him that he couldn’t write a complete story in just six words. They paid up. Hemingway is said to have considered it his best work. “For sale: baby shoes, never used.” – Ernest Hemingway Write a 6 word story about your object and post […]

Color Palette in Film

Posted: 27th August 2012 by e10391 in Uncategorized

  “Human responses to color are not purely visual responses; they are also psychological or even physiological” TAOWF This means that when you see a certain color, it not only affects your eyes but your mind and your entire body.  “Decorating restaurants in red apparently stimulates the appetite and results in increased food consumption.  Blue […]

Object Story

Posted: 24th August 2012 by e10391 in Uncategorized

 Directions:  Please copy and paste what is below into a new post.  Answer the questions about your object, using complete sentences.  Write in a descriptive way so that your audience can feel, see, smell, hear and taste what you are talking about.  Remember this is storytelling and should also reflect you!  Let your voice and […]

Digital Stories

Posted: 23rd August 2012 by e10391 in Uncategorized

  Our first project will be a Digital Story, Using still photographs and focusing on your personal object.   Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, […]

Point of View Scavenger Hunt

Posted: 22nd August 2012 by e10391 in Uncategorized

Goal: To build an understanding of point of view and to encourage students to look at a familiar setting in new ways-through the eyes of photographers:   A Crane’s viewpoint is from above looking down, and a worm’s eye viewpoint is from below, looking up.   Find and photograph:   A tree from a worm’s […]

About Me

Posted: 21st August 2012 by e10391 in Uncategorized

 My name is Bethany Waggoner and I am the Art teacher at Seward High School.  I grew up in Anchorage but have spent time in Colorado, Montana, Mexico, Sicily and Peru.  This is my fourth year teaching here at SHS and I love my job and living here in Seward.  I like being outside, socializing, […]