Monday, September 23rd

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

10:05 Today’s Notes & Attendance

Week 5

Welcome to Week 5- make those folders and get organized

20 % Showcase

–Tuesday, October 1st

A 20% project is the thing you are working/tinkering on. You are building towards something and learning in the process. We’d like you to share with us what that is.
For example: Animation in Blender using a rig, Disappearing effect in After Effects, 2D sidescroller in Unity. What have you been tinkering/learning about since we returned to school?

When presenting: Two Questions to respond to:

What are you working on/showing us?
What are your next steps? Where do you go from here? / What are you working towards?

Husson University coming to visit on Tuesday & Mx. Yopp is out so…

No English Monday (Today)
College visit Tuesday during English
English moved to Thursday at 11am
Mr. B – I am away from CTE Thursday / Friday of this week – I have to return to Wisconsin to help my family there.

First half of Q1 ends this Friday

National Technical Honor Society – Let’s do the numbers

Earn an A- (90%) or high3er for semester in all your program and academic classes at CTE
Demonstrate strong employability and leadership skills
Meet all requirements again (if returning member)
Great for scholarship applications and your resume
Industry recognition
Nominations is January

10:10 Monday Mail – Check Google Classroom and PowerSchool

10:15 Intro to After Effects & Field of Motion Graphics

Motion Graphics and Visual Effects are found in every show, movie, commercial and social media platform. At the core, motion graphics are designed to capture our attention and draw interest to the viewer. VFX (short for visual effects) are found everywhere. VFX are little animations.

Let’s kick off an exploration of VFX today. Over the next several weeks we’ll try:

Green Screening
Motion Tracking
Rotoscoping
Color Corrections
Compositor

(for each title above, you are looking at an entire career!)

Motion Graphic artists have a strong background in graphic design. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the field is expected to grow about 8% over the next ten years. Median annual salary is $99,000. (that’s about $1900/wk)

Adobe After Effects is a leading industry tool for animations, motion graphics and special effects editing.
Today we’ll look at Adobe After Effects – just the basics.
If I can get you to remember one thing (well, actually six things!) you will quickly become a master at After Effects.

There are Six Foundations of After Effects and the work in the following order as a workflow:

Composition
Layers
Animations
3D
Effects
Rendering

10:50 Break

11:00 No English today – After Effects continued…

Ok, let’s get some of the effects out of the way. There are a lot of effects in After Effects. For some guided practice, let’s take a look at some of the different effects including color, generative and distortion effects

For starters – we are going to make a descriptive effect together.

You cannot go wrong – effects can be layers and the combinations are endless!

Link to Google Doc with Steps if you get lost….

12:00 Photography Final Project Review

Timeframe: September 20th – October 31st
LTA – Long Term Assignment

Details: 10 Photos that capture Vermont during foliage (maybe Vermont’s finest season)

Vermont is beautiful this time of year. People pay good money just to come to the state and drive around looking at the changing colors, wander through quaint shops and reflect on small town life.

How lucky are we, we live here!

The goal of this assignment is simple. Capture Vermont during foliage. You will use your very best skills as a budding photographer to build a very nice portfolio of images that is unmistakably Vermont.
Example 1, Example2, Example 3

Requirements: 10 photos showing Vermont color & the following:

Tree/s
Farm, farm tools, farm equipment
Landscape
Macro (that’s a close up)
Urban color
Some kind of water (river, pond, lake, waterfall)
A Sign or Only in Vermont kind of thing
Your Choice 1
Your Choice 2
Your Choice 3

Description Contact Sheet: Every photo will have:

Shot Description (landscape, urban color, choice 1)
A unique Title
Description that discusses the location or meaning behind the photo
Metadata (like shutter, aperture, time)

Organization & Deliverables:

Trello Board with project details / deliverables listed (shared with me)
Description Contact Sheet (see above) – make with Google Docs
Slideshow with 10 photos (all converted to jpegs) (your choice on publishing – there are many options)

You have full access to tripods and the cameras. This is a long term assignment.

Do not keep cameras in your car or in an unsecured location. These are expensive pieces of equipment. Please take good care of them. If you ruin your camera, we do not have a backup for you.

Today, let’s create an organizational board with the project deliverables. We’ll use Trello for this.