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Friday, September 1st

Friday, September 1st

Class hours: 10:05 – 2:45
Mr. Bohmann | wbohmann@ewsd.org

What? no rain…..

10:05 Today’s Notes & Attendance

  • Today is a CTE Blue Day – CTE students with afternoon classes begin at 1:25pm
  • Lunch is officially at 12:25pm for us. Lunch will last until 12:50pm
  • Library Did You Know:
    • AV assistance (cameras, video cameras, audio tools, etc..)
    • Interlibrary loans
    • Databases
    • Pathfinders (for topic searches)
    • Makerspace (3D printer, Cricut, Letter Press, Book Binding, Crafts)
    • Laminating
    • Printing
    • Audio Books
    • and of course – Books!
  • Monday is Labor Day – no school!
  • ESRB ratings – let’s see what is good for CAWD

10:10 Adobe Illustrator – Sketch to Template

Yes, you can make vector graphics from images and sketches. Let’s look at the workflow this morning while reviewing some of the work we did yesterday.

  • Importing as Template – there are some presets that can make this work faster
  • Importing as image tracing
    • We’ll use the Essentials Classic workspace to assist us (access to image trace menu)

We’ll look at how to clean up images with the eraser, using the direct selection tool, coloring, gradients and using the paintbrush.

Activity: You Try

Create a Sketch of your own. Import as image trace

10:50 Break

11:00 Digital Photography Introduction

rule of thirds
The Rule of Thirds

Digital Photography 1

Course Syllabus

Your Canon T3i and T7 are dependable cameras for shooting automatic and manual mode photography, including video.

Distribution of Cameras

Camera SetUp

You should have in your camera bag 2 lenses along with a strap, battery and battery charger. It is your responsibility to keep you camera in working order each day. We’ll practice assembling and disassembling the camera each day we use the cameras. Why? (because you might have to do it in the dark, or have to change lenses in the middle of a shoot – time is money!)

Activity – We’ll do some basics to properly set up our cameras. Starting with the menu button and then working our way around some of the button and icons around the body of the camera. Topics:

  • Camera SetUP
  • Menus / Formatting / Guide Overlay/ Shooting Formats (more on RAW later)
  • Focusing
  • Shooting Modes
  • Light (but only the basics)
  • Vocabulary

11:45 or so Photo Scavenger Hunt

We’ll head outside and move around between the small garden & fields.

Using Automatic Mode, practice some shots. Make sure you capture these eight elements:

  1. Light
  2. Shadow
  3. Line
  4. Shape
  5. Texture
  6. Color
  7. Size
  8. Depth

We’ll return to the classroom to view your shots. Select your favorite shot and name it by the element you captured.

Example: Light.jpg. Present on your screen before lunch for a gallery walk.

12:25 – 12:50 Lunch

tacos

12:50 Independent Reading

book covers

Today we’ll be visiting the library

1:15 Break

1:25 Design Challenge

1:55 Production Time and Guided Support

  • Zoo Animal Production time
  • Camera Exploration

2:40 Dailies

Dailies can be placed in the CAWD2 Dailies Folder on the CAWD2 Public Folders drive

2:45 Dismissal

GAWD Instructors:

Matt Cronin

Will Bohmann

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