Google Docs Folder for Teen Lab Files

Because this blog is not a good place to store document-type information, I made a folder in google docs (which I think I have shared with everyone) as a place to compile any thing we collect that isn't happy on the blog. For instance, if Catherine would upload the new syllabus (which I think she was sent in an email?) to the google docs folder, we could all have it in a more readable/printable format.

If uploading things doesn't work for ya'll I am happy to keep collecting things to scan in, and/or uploading things people email to me.

In the Google docs folder now are the:

1. Art as Avatar worksheet (1 page)
2. Storyboarding worksheet (1 page)
3. Animation Project Development packet (4 pages)

Updated Syllabus

Art Institute of Chicago – After School Matters

Fall 2010 Teen Apprenticeship Program Syllabus

Sessions:  Monday, Wednesday, Thursday – 4:00-7:00 pm
Location:  Art Institute of Chicago with the exception of field trips.
 
Instructors: 
Matt Woods, motep99@gmail.com, 312-890-8946
Annie Heckman, annieheckman@gmail.com, 847-977-3834

Art Institute Staff:
Robin Schnur, rschnur@artic.edu, 312-443-9328
Hillary Cook, hcook@artic.edu, 312-857-7142

Supplies:
pencils
sketchbooks (30)
whiteboard markers and erasers
colored card stock, assorted
white card stock, about 150 sheets
black card stock
tracing paper
chalkboard chalk
erasers
claytoon modeling clay
armature wire
poster board or Bristol board, 11 x 17 inches (10 pieces)
30 Xacto knives, + 60 replacement blades
watercolor – simple cake set, a few sets
brushes, assorted
containers for water, assorted
charcoal
artist or masking tape
glue sticks
markers

Suggested: 
green screen paint or green screen


Tech: 
small flash cards – more memory
more card readers
Quicktime Pro (rather than Quicktime Player) if possible

Guest Speakers:
Teacher programs staff to orient teens to educator resource center and online resources (for project research)
Marketing/Public Affairs staff to talk about marketing Teen Screen
Art Packing for behind-the-scenes tour
Curators from Prints and Drawings, Photography, Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design, or other curatorial departments
Legal department to talk about image copyright and fair use
Security staff

Special Exhibitions:
Ball Players, Gods, and Rainmaker Kings: Masterpieces from Ancient Mexico, 9/16/10-1/2/11
Looking After Louis Sullivan: Photographs, Drawings, Fragments, 6/19/10-12/12/10
Opening of Japanese Galleries, 9/25/10
Public Notice-3, Jittish Kallat, Grand Staircase installation, 9/11/10-1/2/11 (Grace suggested skyping with the artist)
FOCUS: Richard Hawkins, 10/24/10-1/17/10 (Collage focus- could be good for cut paper project)
Lewis Baltz: Prototypes/Ronde Nuit, 10/25/10-1/8/11
Palazzo Film Shorts,  Blackbox, 11/4/10-1/9/11




















 

Week 1
Monday, Oct. 4 Day 1	INTRODUCTIONS Group Building – Writing prompt, icebreaker + introductions Hand out sketchbooks After School Matters paperwork and housekeeping Review syllabus; talk about teen screen; guidelines and expectations Watch past Teen Lab animations
Wednesday, Oct 6 Day 2	STUDIO BALLET LIVE MOTION ANIMATION Check-in: writing prompt, short animation viewing **VISITING SPEAKER: 4.30pm, Grace Murray, Teacher Programs Coordinator, orientation to ERC and online resources, Jittish Kallat Galleries Intro to museum; gallery etiquette Ideas for looking Find examples of movement and implied movement in galleries, sketch + describe for Studio Ballet (give writing prompt) Building Community: #18 Find Your Mate Intro to camera technology and rules Collaborative Animation: Studio Ballet Students create a group animation. Each teen is assigned one object or being to move while one student takes photos. 4 groups Matt and Annie: share examples of our own work Materials Needed: Laptop Cart & Tripods
Thursday, Oct 7 Day 3	GEOMETRIC SHAPES STOP MOTION Check-in: writing prompt, short animation viewing Due: signed guidelines and expectations Studio B Watch the Studio Ballet become animated. Discuss.

 


 

Week 2
Monday, Oct 11 Day 4	Columbus Day- CLASS MEETS FINISH - Geometric Shapes animation Start: CHALKBOARD DRAWING + TEXT ANIMATION *Watch Wiliam Kentridge
Wednesday, Oct 13 Day 5	Visiting Speaker:  Gracy Murray on Jitish Kallat, 4.30pm Complete: Chalkboard Drawing + Text Animation
Thursday, Oct 14 Day 6	Introduction to TRANSITIONS + STORYBOARDING (Miller’s Crossing footage of storyboarding alongside finished film, examples of different types of shots + angles: long, medium, close-up, over the shoulder, birds-eye view, snail’s-eye view, tracking, panning) 4.30-5.00pm Gallery Activities  -- Finding different types of shots and angles in the collection. Break 5-5.15pm  Discuss types of shots. Begin iMOVIE ORIENTATION (can combine earlier animations) download into iPhoto, iMovie, how to save, remember your computer number; 100-150 photos; 6 groups Materials Needed: Laptop Cart & Tripods 1 blank cd per group Construction Paper Markers Scissors

Week 3
Monday, Oct 18	FINAL PROJECT INTRODUCTIONS: group work, brainstorming South Asian galleries: Avatars, theme of alter ego, animation = making something alive Watch animation examples Skype talk: 6:15: Teen Lab will use Skype to interview the contemporary Indian artist Jitish Kallat about his installation on the Grand Staircase of the museum. (http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/exhibition/kallat, www.jitishkallat.in)
Wednesday, Oct 20	STORYBOARDING in groups **VISITING SPEAKER: 4:30pm Teens will talk with Troy Kliber, the manager of Intellectual Property for the museum, about how they are able to select and use the museum's artworks as inspiration for their final projects. Materials Needed: Peg bars, Tracing paper, Pencils, Erasers
Thursday, Oct 21	INTRODUCTION TO AUDIO Create Teen Screen- what is the format, what do the teens want? What do they envision? How many people do they want to come? Think about how we want to organize the development of the event. Talk about portfolio day.

Week 4
Monday, Oct 25	GROUP WORK on FINAL PROJECTS create Thank You notes for Troy Kliber storyboard, work in groups introduction to iMovie
Wednesday, Oct 27	GROUP WORK on FINAL PROJECTS **VISITING SPEAKER (gallery talk): 4:30 Teens will visit the special exhibition Ballplayers, Gods, and Rainmaker Kings: Masterpieces from Ancient Mexico with Richard Townsend, the exhibition curator and Chair of the Department of African and Indian Art of the Americas. (http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/exhibition/Ballplayers) Clip: Darger “In the Realms of the Unreal”
Thursday, Oct 28

 

Week 5
Monday, Nov 1	GROUP WORK on FINAL PROJECTS
Wednesday, Nov 3	GROUP WORK on FINAL PROJECTS Chicago Teen Museum information session
Thursday, Nov 4	**4.30pm: Curator talk, Richard Hawkins Teens will talk with Assistant Curator Lisa Dorin in the exhibition Richard Hawkins-Third Mind. (http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/exhibition/hawkins). Gallery Each teen presents his/her work of art that they choose as inspiration for final film. They will discuss why they chose the work of art. Group will discuss film ideas for each work of art.

 

Week 6
Monday, Nov 8	Gallery visits Each student goes back to visit his/her artwork. Write/sketch ideas and begin character development for final film.   Begin creating final film.   Materials Needed: Laptop Cart Tripods
Wednesday, Nov 10	Break into two groups. Students go back to their work of art and pitch film ideas to each other.   Get with a partner to talk more about film ideas. Create film.  A group (people who are further along with their films) creates buttons to promote Teen Screen  Artist Talk in Price Auditorium
Thursday, Nov 11	Veterans Day- NO TEEN LAB Possible field trip day

 


 

Week 7
Monday, Nov 15	Work on Films.   Have teens get with a partner to show each other their films. Walk them through what will happen. Give each other feedback.   Work on Films.   Materials Needed: Laptop Cart Tripods   Take turns producing marketing materials for Teen Screen.
Wednesday, Nov 17	Work on films.   Materials Needed: Laptop Cart Tripods   In-process group critique of films.   Collect marketing materials for distribution to friends and family.
Thursday, Nov 18	Field trip Tour of SAIC and Cultural Center

 
 
 
 
 
 

Week 8
Monday, Nov 22	**4.30pm: Marketing speaker Work on films.   Materials Needed: Laptop Cart Tripods   Students will create artist statement, title for films.
Wednesday, Nov 24	Work on films.   Materials Needed: Laptop Cart Tripods   CLOSED BUILDING POLICY—must be out by 6:00 pm
Thursday, Nov 26	Thanksgiving- No Teen Lab

 

Week 9
Monday, Nov 29	All Films completed   Materials Needed: Laptop Cart Tripods
Wednesday, Dec 1	**4.30pm: Art packing/museum behind-the scenes speaker Materials Needed: Laptop Cart Tripods
Thursday, Dec 2	SAIC Field Trip/Art Packing     Materials Needed: Laptop Cart Tripods

 

Week 10
Monday, Dec 6	Art Packing/SAIC Group critique of films
Wednesday, Dec 8	Final preparations for Teen Screen
Thursday, Dec 9	TEEN SCREEN (STUDIO B)
Saturday, Dec 11	Meet at Gallery 37 from 1-4pm

Resources
Animations examples:
Cinderella, Georges Méliès, from 1899 -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYmCUFl96PQ
This uses people posed in different ways, so it might be interesting as an example for Studio Ballet; also is a very early example of the use of these effects.
The Merry Frolics of Satan, Georges Méliès, from 1906 -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRZwYsPuyTc&p=8EEBD393D61CF2D5&playnext=1&index=27
It might be interesting to look at the history of skeletons in animation and their relationship to the medium -- animating, giving life to something lifeless; Purves talks about this in his book but attributes this sequence to the earlier Cinderella.
The Skeleton Dance, a 1929 Disney short -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h03QBNVwX8Q
We won’t be using these techniques, but this would be another example of the use of skeletons; also makes me think of the potential of posing one of those paper skeletons that people put on their doors for Halloween.
Les Trois Inventeurs by Michael Ocelot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZdKG5SrHUA
This film is good for showing delicate cut-outs, sequencing of human + mechanical movement. YouTube has a short excerpt; entire film runs 13 minutes and is available on DVD.
The Pogles, animated series on BBC, this link for Episode 6, “King of the Fairies”  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFAFiiCMb_8
Great examples of objects taking on personalities -- a boot that moves and talks.
Terence Nance’s stop motion work -- I’ve requested he send me a copy/link of a project with lots of armatures and beautiful sets.


Books:
Barry Purves, Basics Animation 04: Stop Motion, Lausanne, Switzerland: AVA Publishing, 2010.
This book is particularly helpful, with lots of examples. The first chapter, ‘What is stop motion?’ (pp 12-45) has a great level of detail on the different types of stop motion, its history, and shows animators in action.

Sampling of Artworks:
Ellsworth Kelly, for animated cut-out shapes
Thorne Rooms, for miniature sets, environment ideas
Richard Hawkins, for collage, cut-paper animation
Joseph E. Yoakum, for diagrammatic + narrative drawing (not currently on display)
The Campana Brothers, for use of wire and everyday materials to make three-dimensional objects
Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, for use of space, setting,  and characters
Julia Margaret Cameron, Julia Jackson, for portrait/character
South Asian Galleries, Fragment of a Tableau with Avatars of Vishnu, Pala period, 9th/10th century, Bangladesh, for introduction of the theme of avatar, alter-ego