2 Hour Rough Draft

Lindsey Western
EQ: What is the best way to succeed as an Entertainment Design Artist?

Classroom theme:
The room will be filled with movie posters, game posters, themepark designs, and also storyboards. Basically it will be filled with various art works having to do with Entertainment Design Art.

Sponge Activity:  (3 min)
The activity will be a video that will contain pieces of movie and game trailers and gameplay, etc. It will be roughly 2 minutes and the remainding minute will be for the students to tell me the games and movies that they recongized.

Introduction:  (3 min)

• Introduce myself and why I chose my topic: Entertainment Design Art
• Define the terms in my EQ like succeed, entertainment design etc
• Go over the agenda via powerpoint

Foundation:  (5 min)

• Explain some of the history of Entertainment Design Art

Answer 1:  Strong Traditional Arts Background (time:15 minutes)

• Explain what Traditional Arts is
• Explain what Interviewees and research findings said about the importance of having a strong traditional arts background
• Refer to Frank Hsu's art classes and what he taught and lectured on
• Teach a little bit of the basics of sketching, color theory, and also explain the different mediums used: paint, pastel, ect
• Connect the importance of Trad. Arts in the Entertainment Industry and tie it back to the EQ

Activity 1: (time:10)

• The Students will sketch, outline, and color their own Characters.

materials needed: Paper, pencils, pens, colored pencils.

Answer 2: Learning and Keeping up with the Technology (15 min)

• Explain about how movies and games are using Computers to do their VFX
• Explain how most of the industry is using Photoshop
• Talk about what my research told me about how many different programs are being used
• Explain what the Interviewees said about learning about photoshop and the other programs
• explain why they need to keep up with the changing technology
• Explain the importance of learning the technology in the Entertainment industry and tie it back to my EQ.

Activity 2: (8 min)

• Students will all recieve copies of a digital painting tutorial and circle all of the terms that confuse them and see if they can figure out what they mean

Answer 3: Network with other artists (15 minutes)

• Define what networking is
• Explain how I overlooked this answer
• Explain what Michael Bourne (Fourth Interview) said about Networking
• Explain what the other articles said about networking
• Explain why it is important to network with other artist in being able to succeed as an entertainment artist

Activity 3: (10 min)

•  Students will be divided into 2 groups. Team 1 will be a mock Movie Art department and will be busy drawing out sketches of environments and characters for that made-up movie.
• Meanwhile Team two will have to go through a series of tasks where they will try to network with people in the Team 1 and get into the mock company. The first one to get into the company wins. (Still a work in progess activity)

Best Answer: (5 min)

• Traditional Arts background
• Explain how my experiences at my Art class and my interviews and research finalized it
• Explain how learning the technology and using photoshop still require the knowledge of traditional arts
• Explain how Trad. Arts is more important than networking

Three Sources:  (60 sec)

• Michael Bourne (4th Interview)
• Frank Hsu- Art Class
• Article: Gnomon School: Ron Lemen Interview

Product: (3 minutes)

• Explain how through the senior project I have a better understanding of the Traditional arts and the importance of it and how I have alot to learn if I want to get into the Entertainment Industry as an Entertainment Design Artist.

Conclusion:  (2 min)

• summarize 1st answer
• Summarize 2nd answer
• summarize 3rd answer
• summarize the best answer and its importance to being a successful entertainment artist
• Conclude and ask if there are any questions

Clean up the class room