Monday, January 8th

Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Monday and Week 18! Let’s make our folders.
Mrs. Wilson is going to be sitting in with CAWD this morning. Say hello.
Web Development college course signups will happen THIS week:
- TOMORROW– Emmy comes in and gives an overview – you need your social security number!
- Wednesday – Emmy comes in and we take a pre-test and sign you up.
- You will need to know your Social Security number tomorrow and Wednesday. Use AM production to email parents / text parents / call parents if need be so you can snag it.
We have two weeks to end Quarter 2. Notice how we are putting away Agency / DH’s so that we can really focus on the Capstone.
- This week (Week 18):
  - Capstone
  - 2nd half of Summative Perspective Sketch
  - No Agency
- Next week (Week 19 – 4 day week starting Tuesday)
  - Capstone
  - No DH
  - No Agency
Connie – Work Keys makeups Wednesday E109 at 10:15 AM. Maybe you are doing college signups Tuesday only? Another time? I don’t know, but this is what Mrs. Workey’s and Emmy said. I am just the messenger!

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Last Looks

Summative Capstone Work
- (lastName)AnimationPitch.jpg
- (lastName)GamePitch.jpg
DH17: Summative Perspective first draft
- (lastName)DH17draft.jpg
Week 17 Agency / Pin Design 3rd Draft
- lastNamePinPrint.jpg (make sure you keep the AI file)
  - … or …
- (lastName)Agency_1.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_2.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_3.jpg

10:35 Illustrator

Clipping masks review
Blob brush vs brush
Arrange / vertical / just layer manipulation for scrubs
A Mrs. Wilson themed “Badge”

10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)

10 Minute break – you have to exit the room.
When the door near the TV is open, you are welcome to come back in.

11:00 Critiques

Each week we will upload our work on Monday as a class. I will then present your work to the class. Every week we will pick a new student to proactive giving constructive criticism. Constructive criticism is a type of feedback that offers specific and actionable advice to help employees to improve. In the professional setting we need to be to talk professionally about the work, even if you don’t “love” the person who created it.

If selected, you will pick 1 thing that works, and 1 thing to improve upon next time. Remember we are separating the Design from the Designer. We are looking for actionable input.

Today Toby will give Constructive Criticism. Tomorrow Mia will.

11:30 DH 18 2nd Draft (Final) Summative perspective sketch (for portfolio)

This week you will complete the second half of your Final Summative Perspective sketch.

You will turn in this week both your 1st draft AND final draft, and we will put the before/after up on the screen to gauge progress.

Filenames to turn in:

(lastName)DH17Draft.jpg – what you did last week, nothing to “do” here.
(lastName)DH18FinalPerspective.jpg work product from this week.

11:35 Capstone

As you know the final 2 weeks of the semester are going to be working on your capstone. I don’t tell you what to do on this project, you decide the medium, you demonstrate your skills the best you can.

Use the pitch as your guide
This is your final audition for SkillsUSA partnering
You are being assessed on the full production, including:
- Story (is it a good story) / storytelling (was it told well)
- Animation skills artistic – camera angles, timing, animation exaggeration (and other principles), etc. Does it have the “look” you were going for?
- Sound Design
- Animation skills technical – shot length, clipping issues, quality of animation labor

For Week 18 save your draft animation as (lastName)SummativeAnimationDraft.mp4. This will be the first half of your work product.

Use the pitch as your guide
This is your final audition for SkillsUSA partnering (I think I heard that somewhere before…)
You are being assed on the full production, including:
- Lore – why are we doing this? How do you explain it?
- Game Art
- Programming – everything that we have done in class should really show up in one way or another. (titles, interactive elements, different levels, menus, etc)
- Presentation – what you create in OBS can be sound designed if need be in Premiere (kinda cheating, but they do it all the time in the industry).

For Week 18 work and save, and then to demonstrate your first draft create an OBS recording (good centering, big) as (lastName)SummativeGameDraft.mp4. This will be the first half of your work product.

You get to choose your focus – Animation or Game Design.

What you DO over the next 2 weeks really should inform which Design Competition, College, and career you are thinking about.

12:25 Lunch

No food in the room / eat in the Cafe.
You are welcome to return to the room when you have finished eating and work / hang out.

12:55 Attendance and Article

1:00 Steve Jobs Biography

Read along with Mr. Cronin. Improve literacy, word decoding, enjoy a nice story, and unplug from the world.

1:20 Afternoon Break (10 minutes)

10 Minute break – you have to exit the room.
When the door near the TV is open, you are welcome to come back in.

1:30 Speed Design

Speed Designs are 10 minute sprints in CAWD where we practice. It could be any medium – 3D, 2D, video, programming, etc.

1:45 Afternoon Practice & Production

Capstone
- (lastName)SummativeAnimationDraft.mp4
  - or
- (lastName)SummativeGameDraft.mp4
DH18: Summative Perspective final draft
- (lastName)DH17Draft.jpg – what you did last week, nothing to “do” here
- (lastName)DH18FinalPerspective.jpg work product from this week

2:20 Dailies

2:25 “19 Minutes”

4 of 5 days per week we will end our day in CAWD with the “19 Minutes” of silent reading. Closing down our day with silent reading provides many benefits:

Improve Literacy Skills / Reading Stamina
Create space for a small reading meditation where we can disconnect from the world and get lost in a story
Unplug

At 2:44 each day I will come to 3 students and ask for a 1 sentence explanation of what happened in your story over that day’s reading session. It is neat to hear little pockets of a story, here and there.