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What is Digital Media?

Welcome to Digital Media! I am very excited to get started with some fun and exciting projects. Please read through my syllabus before Wednesdays class.

The Syllabus For digital Media 09/10

[ES1] Paul Ferraris

pferraris@es-cat.org

Office hours are at lunch

Course Overview:

Digital Media Studies is a two-year course of study that provides students with a first-rate introduction to media literacy and digital media production. We will be studying different types of media in order to understand how their products are constructed and how they impact our lives. We will be using our understanding of how the mass media creates, distributes and exhibits its products to inform the production of our own digital media texts. Students will gain visual, verbal and written analytical skills and will become critical media practitioners.

Semester Coursework Outline:

Essential Question	Project	Outcomes
How does light create mood? What is the digital darkroom? ESGP	Student Studio portrait project. Students will use lights, photography and Photoshop to create emotion and mood. Students first use an SLR camera a studio lights to create a silhouette of them. They then create layers within the image in Adobe Photoshop to create a collage within the silhouette.	Students will be able to articulate and interpret feelings through photography. an advanced understanding of layers, blending, and masks.
Why do color and composition matter? ESGP	Students will study color and composition and apply theory to a logo for themselves using Adobe Illustrator. Students will use Nike shoe templates to design new colored and textured shoes.	Students should understand basic assumptions of the world that guide the design practice, and affect the arrangement of objects within a composition.
How are media texts constructed? ESBP	Students will watch a news stories presented by multiple media sources, both print and from TV. Students will then be given a specific perspective in which to create two news casts about an event or series of events. Students will film a 2-4 minute segment. Students will then edit the newscast and add graphics and music. Students will look at the Ruth Goldberg machine and create a short movie based on action and reaction	An understanding of how media influence our lives. An understanding of angle, impact and video composition Student should understand framing, continuity, sound and the editing process.
What goes into a house before it is a house?	Student will create use a Computer Aided Design program (CAD) to design blueprints for a home or building. Students will use an actual lot and design a home within the parameters of local building codes and restrictions.	Students will understand basic principles of home design.

Leadership Skills
Think Critically	Students will be challenged to think about media and its purpose.
Solving Problems	Students will be encourages to approach technology in unique ways.
Manage Projects Effectively Collaborate Effectively	All work is project based and many assignments are group projects, students will be expected to actively participate in their group projects, and contribute to a timely completion.
Express Self Creatively	Students will always be pushed to think of new and unique ways of creating beautiful media projects.
Communicate Effectively & Persuasively	You will communicate through multiple media sources and using both visual and auditory senses.

Classroom Expectations

Be Creative

Be present

Help your classmates

Be respectful of the hardware

Don’t even think about eating or drinking anywhere near the computers

Have fun

Exhibitions

Digital Media Studies supports all of the Exhibitions throughout the school year. We will be incorporating the school-wide curricula into the DMS classes. One exhibition will be based around issues of media literacy.

Reflections

Each project and student will be required to keep an online blog or journal, and a paper back-up in their file, reflecting on their theoretical learning and the development of their practical productions. Journals will be reviewed and discussed in class.

My students have described me as “strict but nice.” I think you will enjoy this class.

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