Gr. 12 Media Art Introductory Photoshop Assignments

The Grade 12 Media arts class has just finished their Introductory Photoshop Assignment. They were to create a piece that expressed themselves in any way they wished. As you can see, all the students have a very different style from one another and it is looking to be a very promising semester.

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Sydney Pivato
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Gina Gavel  17 x 11 inches

Gina Gavel
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Ashlee Earle 11x17 Inches

Ashlee Earle
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Molly Goodfellow 11x17 Inches

Molly Goodfellow
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Emma-Lee Goulding 17x11 Inches

Emma-Lee Goulding
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Selena Benevides 11x17 Inches

Selena Benevides
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Ciahna Mazzeo 11x17 Inches

Ciahna Mazzeo
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Stu Mulholland 11x17 Inches

Stu Mulholland
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Melissa Reid 17x11 Inches

Melissa Reid
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Nicholas Walsh 11x17 Inches

Nicholas Walsh
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Alex Yuen 11x17 Inches

Alex Yuen
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Gr. 12 Media Art Culminating Projects

The senior students ended the year by creating some incredible experimental art pieces.  Students created a huge variety of pieces including Stop Motion Animations, GIF animations, Hybrid Paintings and Collages, Interactive Video Installations, Choose Your Own Adventure Graphic Novels, Children’s Stories and digital paintings.  Below is a sample of some of the great projects they produced.

Emma Goldstein explored Macro Photography and displayed her photos in a beautiful glass house with the orchid she chose as her subject as the centerpiece.

Sarah Sanders created a series of collages that combined digital and tactile elements.  The series of three pieces were created as a tribute to a very important family member and showcased all of the life lessons Sarah had learned from him.

Rhys Davies created a GIF Animation that plays off of the Photoshop toolbar and artboard.

Ahmed Omer combined video and digital painting to create this animated GIF.

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Lexa Poulos designed an interactive book where the viewer has the opportunity to choose the outcome of the story.  The story had an environmental theme and all of the images and characters were designed by Lexa using Adobe Illustrator.  Below is a sample of two pages from the book.

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Front Cover

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Back Cover

 

Alecz de Castro created a story with an environmental theme as well and used photography as well as digital drawing and painting to create the graphics for her children’s book.  Below is a sample of some of  the character’s in her story that go on a journey to  try and be recycled.

Gr. 11 Media Art Culminating Projects

Media Art students were given the freedom to create a piece of digital art of their choice for their final project in the course.  Below is a sample of some of the incredible pieces the students created.

Rachel Hall has developed into a great photographer.  She paired her photos with some of her favourite poetry.

Claire Beazeley experimented with 360 degree panoramic photography techniques and created the series below.

Shannon McCarthy used some of the photos she took on the school trip to Europe to create an interesting polaroid style piece that she then turned into an interactive jigsaw puzzle.

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Kriscia Acosta was inspired by the Pop Artists of the 1960’s and created digital drawings of Lana del Rey in the style of Roy Lichtenstein.

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Gr. 12 Media Arts Class Learns to Screen Print

Media Arts students took a trip down the road to Acme Screen Printing and Embroidery to watch the winning design from the Grad T-Shirt Design Contest be printed onto shirts for our graduating students.  George Merjavec, owner of Acme, showed the students how to transfer Emily Raite’s design from the computer, to a stencil, to a commercial screen and finally onto the shirts.  Students were able to try their hand at printing using the commercial equipment.  The shirts should be ready for distribution in homerooms on Friday, June 14th.

Gr. 12 Cinemagraphs

Cinemagraphs are best described as a photograph with subtle moving elements.  They are created from film footage that is edited in Photoshop using animation techniques.  Grade 12 Media Art students created some incredible cinemagraphs!  Click on a thumbnail image below to view the gallery.

 

CAPPA Awards

The annual CAPPA Awards were held last night at RND.  Awards were given out to students who exemplify excellence in the Arts.  Many students and parents came out to view the art exhibition by the Visual Art, Media Art and Communications Technology classes which was held an hour before the show began.   The event showcased performances by the Improv Team, Gr. 12 Guitar class and graduating art students who put together a touching medley of songs from the past four RND shows as a tribute and thank you to the RND community for supporting them in the arts over the past four years.  David Redner created a video that was played at the end of the night that showcased all of the great things happening in the Arts at RND.  The night was an incredible success and congratulations go out to all of the nominees and award recipients.

Click on one of the thumbnail images below to view the gallery of photos from the event.

CAPPA Awards

The annual CAPPA Awards will be held this Thursday, May 30th.  Come on out to see an incredible art exhibition, talented students showcasing their dramatic and musical talent and support all of the students who make the Arts at RND so amazing.

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