Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Welcome to Week 4! Let’s all make our folders…
- WorkKeys Begins today!
- We are all over the place – see below.
- Late break, and the entire AM is dedicated to “Last Looks”.
- Critiques start after lunch! WEIRD. We will get through it.
10:05 Attendance and Article
10:10 WorkKeys or working with GAWD2 students
or
If your name is:
- Shelby
- Amanda
- Ben
- Wyatt
- Quang
- Piche
- Isaac
You head to GAWD2.
If your name is:
- Goyet
- Jayden
- Young
- Asher
You head to E109.
If your name is:
- Bourdeau
- Melissa
- Bubba
- Jackson
You stay here.
We will keep lights on / the room silent until everyone has completed. When you have completed, move onto Last Looks / Production.
11:15 Morning Break
11:25 Last Looks
Last looks is when I give students about 15 minutes time to upload their completed work to the weekly folder on the public, in a folder that is your last name. Remember we aren’t doing any work today – this is just when we turn it in. Plan on not doing more than scan / upload each Monday morning – and the scanner may have a line!
Animatic of Waking Up
- lastNameAnimatic.mp4
DH3: Theme Park Design Competition
- lastNameDH_3.jpg
Week 3 Agency
- lastNameAgency_1.jpg through lastNameAgency_3.jpg
11:55 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.
12:25 Attendance and Article
12:30 DH4: Preproduction Storyboard for new Introduction to “Covered Bridges” local production
I reached out to Phill Gatenby about seeing if we can improve the introduction to his “Covered Bridges” project that we read about last week. Specifically I wanted to see if we could generate an introductory bump that could be use at the start of their show – think intro credits.
This is what he has initially:
It is just a static image. What I would like to see is a 4 cell introductory animation where the final frame (the 4th cell) has the words “Vermont’s 100 Covered Bridges” to match up with the existing branding.
How could you more creatively have this intro? Would you just use text? Would you model a bridge and a river scene, some trees? Completely up to you so long as your animation makes sense to the brand – no palm trees, no MLG air horns, no Millennium Falcons.
Include timing and sounds – as we will be making this into an animatic, and the best designs will go into production. We will be pitching our work to the client.
Sign and date, save your file as lastNameDH_4.mp4.
12:35 Critiques
Each week we will upload our work on Monday. I will then present your work to the class. Each project I will pick a student to practice 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.
12:50 A Gentleman in Moscow
A Gentleman in Moscow is a reader’s dream — a wonder-full, nuanced story full of wit, insight, and imagination.
Read along with Mr. Cronin. Improve literacy, word decoding, enjoy a nice story, and unplug from the world.
1:10 Afternoon Break
1:25 Speed Design
Speed Designs are 10 minute sprints in CAWD where we practice. It could be any medium – 3D, 2D, video, programming, etc.
1:40 Afternoon Practice & Production
DH4: Preproduction for Covered Bridges Intro
- lastNameDH_4.jpg
Week 4 Agency
- lastNameAgency_1.jpg through lastNameAgency_3.jpg
2:15 Dailies
2:20 “19 Minutes”
Every day in GAWD will end with “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 the end I will 3 students and ask for a 1 sentence explanation of what happened.
2:40 Dismissal
