CAWD

Class hours: 9:40am – 2:05pm
Mr. Cronin
Mr. Herr

Notes

• Quiz tomorrow!  Study!
• After speaking with Mr. Herr we DO have adapters to plug your headphones into your audio out on your systems.  So video -> monitors, audio -> headphones.
• Check out the cawd facebook page www.facebook.com/cawdvt to see who is coming, and to find out who were are forgetting.
• Students must have a C- or greater in CAWD to participate in our Tuesday game day.  I was also informed that we will now have a C- as a baseline for all classes.  If your science, English, math, whatever grade is lower than a C- you will be in student services working to bring it up.  As soon as your grade inflates to a C- and higher across the board you are free to come back to cawd to partake.  Get work done tonight / over weekend.  No sad face Tuesday when you aren’t at an appropriate level and Mr. Lance and Mr. Hill come down to bring you to student services.  Take care of your responsibilities now. 

9:40 Attendance and Article

9:45 Akira Part 5 Dailies Presentation

• Monitors off
• Present what you can, how much and the level of the work you present the higher your grade.  What YOU do here creates your grade.

10:20 Akira Project

Check back to the Week 10 Thursday dayplan for specifics.

10:45 Break (15 Minutes)

11:00 Thanksgiving Vacation Design Project:  Envelope

Over the Thanksgiving Vacation you are going to be assigned a design project where the medium will not be a digital screen, nor a piece of sketch paper, but an Envelope.  Adding creative design to objects typically not thought of as mediums for art can give your work a twist, making it stand out from the crowd.  Other examples include sidewalk chalk, art car, or a steampunk computer.

Today you will start a design project that can be used to make you stand out from the crowd when applying to college, getting a job, getting an internship, applying to CAWD2, etc.  Remember that your designs, what you create, are your calling card.  If you have a creative, high quality design, you will look like an creative motivated designer.  If as a designer your work looks rushed, lacking creativity, and without attention to detail, how will you come across to a potential employer or college?

Everyone is going to receive a humble Envelope to work from.  It is a blank canvas, for you do do whatever creative you want to it.  It could be something like the dog example above where the Envelope turns into an object, or the statue example where it is like a piece of paper, or the tropical and office scenes where your work is an environment, or a typography design where you use words as your design elements.  You are all designers (even if you don’t think so yet); design.  Play.  Explore an idea.

It will look more envelope-y if you create a name and address.  You could use your own address, but if you don’t want to share this, use something like John Smith, 1234 Main Street, Smithtown, VT, 10234.

This project will be due Tuesday November 29th after we return from vacation.  You will:

• Scan in the front and back.  Create a folder called “envelope” in Week 11 and upload two files “front.jpg” and “back.jpg”.  I am happy to show you how to use the scanner, you will need it throughout the year, very easy. 
• hand me the completed Envelope, which is its own separate grade.

Please do not fold, tear, or get your Envelope wet as it will ruin it -> especially after you have worked on the design. 

11:15 Akira Project

Check back to the Week 10 Thursday dayplan for specifics.

12:00 Lunch (25 Minutes)

12:25 Attendance and Article

12:25 Quiet Production Time

12:50 Akira Project

Check back to the Week 10 Thursday dayplan for specifics.

2:05 Dismissal