VIDEO OVERVIEW OF MAJOR 

 

Adobe Certified Expert and MOUS: Students will use the Microsoft Office Suite in a study of typography and font styles. Advanced techniques in Power Point and Adobe Illustrator will be used in this project based course. In the second part of the course, students will learn to use Adobe Photoshop on projects such as photo manipulations and colorization of works produced in Elements of Design course. Students proceed to learn InDesign to study proper layout techniques and spatial relationships between text and image. Students will produce restaurant menus, professional advertisements, and an autobiographical book cover.  Students will take the industry certification examinations for Adobe products including InDesign, Acrobat, Photoshop, and Illustrator as well as the Microsoft Office Certification Exam in PowerPoint. 

 

AP Studio Art 2D: The AP Studio Art portfolios are designed for students who are seriously interested in the practical experience of art. AP Studio Art is not based on a written examination; instead, students submit portfolios for evaluation at the end of the school year.  Topics include learning to create artistic images using the elements of design: Line, Shape, Value, Space, and Color. Heavy emphasis is placed on shading techniques, composition and spatial relationships. Students will draw still lives using a variety of artistic styles and mediums. The first semester culminates in portraiture and figure study. Students will also use Adobe Photoshop as a virtual darkroom to produce and manipulate digital photos. Heavy emphasis is placed on composition and subject matter. Students will incorporate multiple perspectives, lighting technique, and figures.

 

Flash & Dreamweaver: Students will design websites using Adobe Dreamweaver. In Dreamweaver, the students will learn how to create professional looking pages using CSS and proceed to learning Flash. Emphasis is placed on learning how to create flash animations as well as action scripts.  Students will take the Adobe Certification Examination in Dreamweaver.

 

Graphic Marketing: This course integrates all coursework from the junior year and requires the students to complete two significant design projects. The first is the redesigning of an advertising campaign for a major company. The second project is a self created project on a specific concentration of their choosing. This project will culminate in a Gallery show.  

 

Final Cut Pro: In this course you learn to perform basic editing functions while familiarizing yourself with the user interface. Topics include basic setup, adjusting and customizing preferences and settings, capturing video and audio, various editing and trimming techniques, ripple, roll, slip and slide tools, audio editing and audio creation, finishing and final output. Advanced topics include hard-to-find advanced editing and finishing techniques. Learn how to create polished transitions, fix screen-direction errors, edit multi-camera projects, work with nested sequences, create fantastic effects, use filters creatively, color-correct your video, and composite like a pro. This course also covers Soundtrack Pro, managing clips and media, and working with film.

 

Animation: Students will learn how to create characters and tell original stories. The students will learn how animation follows basic film production rules. The students will learn how to give their animations texture and depth by applying the principles of design they learned the year before. The students will be expected to create multiple short animation projects. Student projects will be entered into both local and national competitions.