Collaborative Project: “Music Mash-Up”

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Objectives:

  • Students will work in groups to produce a single piece of high quality artwork.
  • The artwork will visually contrast two, separate pieces of music (School appropriate).
  • Each student will independently study the following graffiti techniques to incorporate into their artwork:
    1. Letter Design & Construction
    2. Character addition
    3. Overall Composition or Format
    4. Backgrounds & “Tag Clouds”
  • Student Teams meet DAILY to Brainstorm ideas and make progress towards their goal.
  • Teams will create a presentation to show the class (after Nov. 20th).  Each team presentation will have:
    1. Overview of their process (How it started, evolved and ended)
    2. Samples of the two musical pieces
    3. Finalized Completed Artwork.

IMPORTANT Dates and LINKS:

Nov. 3rd: Project Overview, Group Formation, Letter Design Investigation (“Creating Graffiti Letters” PowerPoint and Mini-Projects)

Nov. 4th: Daily Meeting /  Continue Graffiti Letters / Character Addition investigation

Nov. 5th: Overall Composition and Format

Nov. 6th: Backgrounds, Tag Clouds, Colors & Values

Nov. 9th – 13th: Final Group Artwork: in process

Nov. 20th – All Team Artworks DUE

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