Workshop Curriculum: Moment in Time.

         I love this lesson and I like the so creative strong idea for teaching art.

What I like in this curriculum is the idea of combining art, photograph and movies.

I love how the instructor designs this lesson to engage her students into the life.

Moment in tome is a movie project that divided into two part; motion picture and frozen picture.

“Students were asked to film six short scenes in succession, about 5-10 seconds in length, and then give the video camera to another student, who would then shoot his or her six scenes. They were encouraged to connect visual images that lacked any apparent story or plot.” The students have to capture a moment from their lives that they think it’s important. The photograph could be altered to express a person point of view. And to let the viewer know how important that moment was.

“The second part of the project explored the image frozen in time, using the video footage already taken. After viewing and discussing Robert Heinecken’s videograms, students played back their unedited videos and selected one of the six scenes they had filmed. Then, using the freeze frame feature on the video player and a digital camera, students photographed three successive frames of video directly from the video monitor. These captures were downloaded to a computer and manipulated using image editing and painting software.” This project can reflect the truth of the life. Sometime the image in motion could capture our attention. For the student, they will learn art, photograph and movies. It is an interesting topic for students especially high school students. And they will learn some important issues of their lives and others live.“Students will learn how to use video cameras and utilize in-camera editing to create the video scenes.

- Students will learn how to use the video storyboard to "direct" their video scenes.

- Students will make choices about sequencing video scenes without relying on conventional narrative structures.

- Students will be able to capture and manipulate their images using Adobe Photoshop and Painter.”

Finally, they will learn to be creative. 

“A Moment in Time Video project encourages students to consider the potential interplay between still and moving images. Students use moving images as a source from which to abstract still imagery.”