About Your Artist

December 18, 2008

Find Information on the Internet and then write IN YOUR OWN WORDS.

  1. Artist’s background & important information about life
  2. How did this person become an artist? (Who/What were influences?)
  3. What school or type of art was this artist most known for?
  4. Did this artist make major contributions to the world of art? What did critics and art historians say about your artist?
  5. Select two pieces of artwork created by this artist. For each one: What is the name/date/media used for this artwork? Why is this work important? Or why is it good? Or why is it considered great?
  6. What are your opinions about this artist? What do you like? What don’t you like? Why?

POWERPOINT SLIDES

  • Maximum 40 words on a slide
  • Maximum 5 bullet points on a slide
  • Maximum 12 words in a bullet point
  • Bullet points do not need to be written as complete sentences

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Design Your Homepage

December 15, 2008

  • On a basic HTML website your homepage is named index.html
  • Design in Photoshop. You can choose 800px width or make it wider.
  • To use one of your GIF backgrounds as the background in Photoshop, choose the GIF image and go to EDIT > DEFINE PATTERN. Then use Paint Bucket and choose PATTERN (instead of foreground color).
  • Open your 600px wide Photoshop JPGs and save them again at half the size so they’re 300px wide.
  • Leave space for buttons 800px wide X 50px ht. There need to be button links to: color.html, bgtiling.html, artist.html and persuasive.html.
  • You will also use the same design and same page header for a page called persuasive.html that will include PERSUASIVE ESSAY you wrote in Ms Peters’ class. Make sure to illustrate with Photoshop image.
  • On your index.html page
  1. Page Header
  2. Name Logo
  3. Galileo Logo
  4. Landscape
  5. Twins Picture
  6. “If I could speak to 1,000,000 people”
  7. “If you really want to know me…”
  8. Button links to color.html, bgtiling.html, artist.html, persuasive.html
  9. Do you want to include another HTML page? You can take any work you did for another class and put it on a web page (maintain the same background etc) with illustration and link it.

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Proposal for Video

December 4, 2008

STEP ONE:

    Choose ONE of the questions below and write approx. 100 words to answer:

  • What’s the most important thing you learned in the last year?
  • Talk about a time you lost someone or something precious to you
  • What scares you?
  • What issue is so important to you that you’d be willing to go to jail for it?
  • Talk about someone who was a major influence on your life?

PROPOSAL FOR DOCUMENTARY (non-fiction):

  1. TOPIC: What is the subject of the video?
  2. QUESTION/CONFLICT: What question will you be exploring? Or what conflict will you be explaining?
  3. WHO TO INTERVIEW: What people (or groups) will be interviewed to help tell your story?
  4. WHAT QUESTIONS: List the questions you will ask these interviewees. Make sure they are active questions.
  5. WHAT SCENES: What locations or things or activities will you be videotaping?
  6. OUTLINE: Describe each sequence in order from beginning to end

PROPOSAL FOR FICTION VIDEO:

  1. SUBJECT: What is it about?
  2. CHARACTERS: List and describe the characters
  3. CONFLICT: What is the dramatic tension? who vs what?
  4. RESOLUTION: How does the dramatic tension resolve? The conclusion? The climax?
  5. OUTLINE: List the sequences

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Beginning CSS

December 3, 2008

1. save a TextEdit file to your Portfolio Folder. Name it artist.html and type in:

<html>
<head><title>Mr Machtay artist page</title>
<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”styles.css” />
<head>

<body>
<div class=”church”><img src=”images/tamaro01.jpg” align=”left”>
<img src=”images/tamaro02.jpg” align=”right”><br>
<h1>Church at Mount Tamaro</h1>
<p class=”text”>Mario Botta designed this church in Italy. When you move around the church, it looks different from every angle.</p>
</div>

</body>
</html>

2. Save another TextEdit file to your Portfolio folder. Name this one styles.css and type in:

body {background: url(images/bg7.gif); color: #660099}
h1 {margin: 0; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 18.5px}
p.text {margin-top: 0; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Verdana,Arial}
div.church {position: absolute; margin-top: 50px; margin-left: 100px; width: 430px}

3. Use the CSS CHEATSHEET handout to change the font sizes, faces and colors. Choose your own background and colors.

4. Now create a new DIV tag in artist.html file. Name it <div class=”household”> and insert the images “images/chairs.jpg” and “images/pitchers.jpg”. Then in the same DIV type in this text: Aside from designing buildings, Mario Botta also designed household items like chairs and pitchers.

5. In styles.css set positioning for div.household. Work on the page to make it look nice and reflect good design.

6. In artist.html create one other DIV tag named <div class=”sfmoma”> and insert the image “images/sfmoma.jpg”. Then in the same DIV type in this text: Mario Botta’s first building in the United States as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

7. In styles.css set positioning for div.sfmoma. Work on the page to make it look nice and reflect good dsign.

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