Monday, September 25th

Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Week 5! Let’s all make our folders.
Tomorrow I have to go to a teacher meeting … in Fairlee Vermont of all places. So I won’t be here, let’s review what Tuesday will look like for you. In essence it is a gift to get your DH and Agency done, and we are going to hit Wednesdays / Thursday / Friday hard.
Be respectful of the teacher, she will be writing notes and giving me feedback. Standard CAWD rules apply – though she may not kick you out at breaks, up to her.
FreeSound.org is a website that gives us … get ready for it … free sounds to use. Everyone make an account, its free, we will need on Wednesday.
Anyone have interests in Student Council? I heard from nobody – and that would be too bad, but it’s up to you. Again, looks great on college apps. Find a friend and go together? Will be a once every couple of weeks meeting, and likely they will feed you. First meeting is this Thursday. We are looking for a President and Vice president from CAWD.

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Last Looks

I am going to give you 15 minutes to get your Week 3 work uploaded (organized, with correct file names) to the public drive. This will happen each Monday at the start of class.

Farm Animation and Game Environment

(lastName)(lastName)FarmAnimation.mp4 – in one partners folder
(lastName)(lastName)FarmGameEnvironment.mp4 – in the other partners folder

DH4: Harvest

(lastName)DH4.jpg

Week 4 Agency

(lastName)Agency_1.jpg
(lastName)Agency_2.jpg
(lastName)Agency_3.jpg

10:25 Blender

Animation Review
Stretching and squishing time in the timeline proportionally – where the time slider is matters
Samples / Sure Cycles is pretty, but how can we speed it up?

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 Lee will give Constructive Criticism.

Since I will be gone tomorrow I will look at the rest of the work myself after school, we need to use the rest of the week as efficiently as we can due to the lost time tomorrow.

11:30 DH5: Free Sketch

I won’t be here tomorrow – make sure you have your sketchbook! DH5 will be a free sketch to honor your “independence”. Sketch anything you wish, any medium, pen, pencils, marker, etc.

Sign and date (in the scan) with your file called (lastName)DH5.jpg.

11:35 Adobe Premiere Test

This works, right? We will need on Wednesday…
Let’s do a quick walk through test, from importing an animation, adding a sound, and making a final file.

11:45 Photoshop

Post production of renders
Histogram – lets take out some of the subjectivity our of art if we can and rely on some objective measures
Adjustments – lets improve the historgam

12:15 VLC!

I have never been a fan of either the Windows or Apple native media players. Let’s all install VLC.

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 A Gentleman in Moscow

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

Work on assigned CAWD work, get questioned answered, work on CAWD English, explore and create.

DH5: Free Sketch

(lastName)DH5.jpg

Week 5 Agency

(lastName)Agency_1.jpg
(lastName)Agency_2.jpg
(lastName)Agency_3.jpg

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.