Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Welcome to Tuesday!
- Good job with WorkKeys, we will get back at it next Tuesday.
- Due to WorkKeys we will continue to have a slightly adjusted schedule today. Let’s take a look.
10:05 Attendance and Article
10:10 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.
10:?? Morning Break – as soon as we can get through Critiques…
10:??? Switch Sound Design
This morning we are going to work on our first Switch project of the year.
A switch project is where partners work at 1 machine, and every 5 minutes we change who can touch the mouse and keyboard. Only 1 student – the student on that turn – can touch the mouse and keyboard, and only during their rotation.
This project really drives home the idea of communication between partners. Communication of:
- What are we doing? What is the goal?
- How does this sound? (feel free to blast audio in the headphones and share)
- How do you do that? Indirect learning student to student.
The goal is that we Sound Design the supplied clip as realistic as possible, done as professionally as possible. We don’t want to hear start / stops of sounds. We don’t want to hear gaps in the production where there is no sound – too artificial. We want the viewer to think that this is the original audio. Consider what could be used to make it feel real?
- background audio?
- different clips for the different camera shots?
- audio transitions so we don’t hear stop / starts?
- volume adjustments so it all fits?
- don’t use the same sound over and over as it sound repetitive?
- slow motion sounds for the slow motion?
- crowd noises? There is a crowd? Who knows…but this shot is in the clip you are sound designing…
You can’t do anything to the MP4 – just audio adjustments. Nothing to the video!
When complete you are going to export your final project as “lastNameLastName.mp4” and place in the same “switch” folder as you found the initial clip.
Once we hit 11:55 – any partner can finish the project, the Switch element is passed.
We present this at 12:25 today!
Remember we are always creating our brand. Be protective of it. In this project you want to demonstrate that you are a hard worker, creative, flexible, and a good communicator – all the things that you will need to carve out your life in the 21st century.
Partners (work on the student in Bold’s computer, and the student on the LEFT is who starts the first 5 minute rotation):
- Jayden / Bourdeau
- Piche / Jackson
- Melissa / Quang
- Wyatt / Young
- Shelby / Amanda
- Asher / Isaac
- Ben / Michael
- Bubba / Bubba (let’s see if anyone is sick before we figure this out, may have you work solo, may have you work with a GAWD2 student)
On the public there is a folder called “switch“. Inside you fill find a file called “switchStarHere.mp4“. Copy this to your G drive to start. It is this same folder that your complete project needs to be upload to.
Folder copied down at 12:25 sharp! (If you have to use lunch, use lunch.)
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 Switch Presentations
Once complete we move onto a quick Graph Editor review in Blender before we read.
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
