STUFF TALES PROJECT. 2n ESO

We start the 2nd Term with a new project.  I've called  it "Stuff Tales Project" because we're going to film fairytales made with stuff.

Do you remember the work we did last year emulating Hanoch Piven?  We tried to do creative portraits using different kinds of stuff.

The Stuff Tales Project is inspired on another Hanoch Piven's work.  Did you know that he illustrated some fairy tales in the TV program "Una mà de contes"?  Here you have one of them:"Tatxí-Tatxó i la draga Draga"

http://www.super3.cat/unamadecontes/demo/show_video/85

Hanoch Piven has also cooperated in other tales. One of them, “Un autoretrat?”, tells the story of a boy with TDAH.  That tale was filmed because of La Marató de TV3 in 2008.  You can find it here.  And this is its story script.

Here bellow, there are more stories illustrated by Piven.  You can get some inspiration from them:

• El bosc quan es fa fosc.
• Els germans Ferretti.
• La meva iaia no viu sola.
• Llami llami
• Pinxa-punxa

They are really very creative and different from the stories we use to watch on TV.

OUR PROJECT

The aim of the project is to shoot and edit a short movie,  and show it to the students in 1st and 2nd Primaria. These are the instructions:

1. Work in groups (3-4 people)
2. Watch some of the Hanoch Piven's movies to get inspired

3. Choose a classic fairy tale.  It must be an easy, not very long story, because it will be explained to the students in 1st and 2nd Primaria.  Here you have some useful links:

- Storynory: Fairytales from Brothers Gimm, Perrault, Andersen...  You can listen to the audio and read the transcription of the story.
-  Grimm's Fairytales: 209 written tales collected by Brothers Grimm. 

- Fables, fairytales and stories: fables from Aesop, Collodi, Andersen, Brothers Grimm and Lewis Carroll.
- Written short stories with audio: they are classified by age.
- You can also choose a tale in catalan, but you'll have to translate it, of course!

Before doing anything, you must share your choice with your teacher.

4.  Tale's screenplay or script. It must contain:

• Characters
• Dialogues
• Stuff needed
• Voic-over/ narrator
• Music
• Remember this should be a short movie (maximum lenght 8 minutes)

You can read the story scripts of “Una mà de contes” in the web page. Perhaps they can be used as a model. The same with the tale chosen: the teacher must know any part of the script before start shooting.

5. Shooting: filming the movie and recording the voices and dialogues. We will need a video camera and a microphone.
6. Editing.
7. Showing.

Of course, you can ask me any question. If you need, you can write a comment in the blog.
I think it'll be a nice work to do! So, let's start!



Good luck!

RESULTS OF RECYCLED PORTRAITS. 1st ESO

These are the artworks resulting from the activity "Recycled Portraits". The pupils had to choose a celebrity and paint it in Hanoch Piven's style. I was really surprised about them. They are very good!

The labels show the name of the artist and his or her subject. Enjoy them!

PHOTO EFFECTS ONLINE. 2nd ESO

There are some photo editors online that let apply photo effects, edit, enhance, filter pictures and photos.

BEFUNKY
Free photo editor online.  Very easy to use, with no signup necessary.  You can upload and save your pictures in your computer.  The picture can be converted in a drawing, an oilpainting, and old photo, a cartoon...  Hundreds of possibilities!

In the left side there is a menu with all the options:  edit, effects, artsy (art effects), frame, text and goodies. Going to effects, you can transform the picture in a black and white drawing (B&W), a charcoal drawing, change the colours, apply pop-art style, etc.

For example, we can apply "old photo" in "effects":

 The result could be such as this:

Or if we apply "charcoal":

You can also try to transform a selfportrait and you're going to get something like that: