Animash Your Spring Break


You will learn an online application called Animasher for making a simple story and animation.

Assignment rules, requirements:
Each student will work on their own animashion, no groups or partners.

Each Animashion Must Have:
-at least 5 or more "scenes"
-at least 2 moving elements per scene.
-at least 2 images you import yourself
-text to communicate story
-entire Animashion should be at least 20 seconds long (hoping for 30+ sec)
The Grade

The Assignment:Welcome back from spring break, our assignment is to learn and make an animation (meaning moving pictures) we will be using free software that is on the Internet called a web-app, the animation will tell your spring break story. This story could be completely true or could be exaggerated truth if you wish. Basically keep it in the bounds of reality while allowing fictional imagination to dominate the story telling process.

To learn how to use animasher, it is detailed out in a tutorial when you click on "LEARN".

To get started simple click on this link, or in the address bar type animasher.com

Sign up for your own account (you do not need to enter an email)
REMEMBER YOUR OWN ACCOUNT  -  I will write it down for you IF you want, but you are a big kid now and need to learn to remember your own login and passwords.

*As tempting as it might be to let creativity fly and break the school computer acceptable use policy, keep in mind all content must stay school appropriate, you should know what this means by now. Usually I have to remind students no guns or other similar violent weapons or imagery.



Timeline - 1 week
Day 1:Intro, WATCH TUTORIALS - LEARN HOW TO ANIMATE! Learn how to use the timeline, storyboard in your mind, form your story, start scene 1 continue till finished with scene 2 and SAVE as MORE, and status NOT DONE.
Day 2: Import picture with proper attribution, Continue scenes till entire 5 scene Animashion is completed.


Mr. Hurst Example




REMEMBER
Save Often (save as not done yet), Tell and show the story, If you want sound you can bring your own headphones.

Yearbook - 6 of 6

Today is our LAST day on the yearbook,

We are going to go over the final draft of the pages and make any changes.

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Pick out a cover design.



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Free time !!! You did it, yearbook is now done!

Yearbook - 5 of 6

Yearbook team group photo

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Pix Mix
imagining a bag of pictures spilling out,

what we need:
picture of a bag spilling out
logo of chex mix, then I can make it say pix mix and put it on the bag.

like a bag of chex mix spilling out

this is still in the idea stage so I'm open to other suggestions.

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Baby picture's scan

Yearbook - 4 of 6

Today we are going to spell check, and face check the yearbook photos.

We are checking to make sure each face is with the correct name and spelling.

If you wanted you could also add captions, funny sayings etc at this time, just write directly in the margins.
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Bieber Fever

In this folder is some examples of putting Bieber hair on teachers,
X:\Media\2010-2011\yearbook not done yet\bieber fever

You are to put Bieber hair on at least THREE different teachers,

If you have completed all three teachers then you could also if you wanted to put THE HAIR on some students that you think would laugh along with the Bieber Fever.

Use GIMP,
Open a picture of a teacher and then also drag into the picture, or open as layers the Bieber hair.

Resize, move, flip picture, etc to fit.

SAVE TO YOUR Y DRIVE.
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One or two people can work on the 8th grade best of the best page and put that together.
Raw photos are in X:\media\2010-2011\yearbook not done yet
Also GIMP file 36_8th_grade_bests.xcf in same folder.

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Yearbook - 3 of 6

BEFORE we get on the computers.
Count 8th Grade best of the best poll results.
Suggestion to have a scratch paper list with names and tally marks.
                focus on ONE subject at a time.
Multiple people in a row working on different subjects.

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Make a txt conversation to go on the index page of the yearbook.
To save the finished conversation open Picasa 3, press the prtscn key, crop and save to Y drive.

BEST conversation will be put in the yearbook.

http://www.fakeiphonetext.com/
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Brighten this picture up using GIMP

First go find the picture X:\Media\2010-2011\peacemakers\CM 2011_needs_to_be_brighter.JPG
Open it in GIMP. (launch GIMP, drag into gimp, or open with gimp).
Use the tools/settings:
Colors > Curves
Colors > Brightness-Contrast

Everyone does this project, the one that looks the BEST will be put in the yearbook.
Feel free to add other GIMP extras like blur tool to blur the clothes in the bottom left, and the other parts of the picture that are not the subjects.

See example below, the left half has corrected brightness / contrast, reason easier to see people wearing dark clothes when the picture was taken indoors under low light.

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Yearbook - 2 of 6

NOTICE IF YOU ARE ACTING MALICIOUS IN THESE GROUP PROJECTS BY MESSING WITH OTHER STUDENTS WORK OR DELETING PICTURES THAT WERE NOT CONTRIBUTED BY YOU, THE CONSEQUENCE IS NO FREE TIME ON THE COMPUTERS AND I WILL FIND EXTRA WORK FOR YOU TO DO, OR YOU WILL JUST HAVE TYPING PRACTICE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY.



3 to 5 students work on this goofy celebrity picture collage.


Remember you are all working TOGETHER to accomplish the picture collage, don't let one student do all the work, also DO NOT delete or erase or mess with ANY OTHER students work.


Insert > Images from URL once you find pictures online of goofy looking celebrity yearbook pix.


Step one: find at least 3 celebrity yearbook pictures that look GOOFY


Step 2: insert them into this collage, Goofy looking celebrities yearbook pictures.


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Another group of 3 to 5 does student government collage.


Use this website and upload images for the 5 student government elected positions.
find pictures in folder X:\media\2010-2011\pictures
students: President - Warren Yoakum
8th vice president - JW Saetern
7th vice president - Andres Bernal
Secretary - Fernando Ramos
Treasurer - Enrique Estrada


Step 1: use this website to make www.festisite.com/money


Step 2: insert them into this collage, student government

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Spirit Week