Filmmaking Group Project - Sandwich Land

The last project for the Spring 2017 Filmmaking class was to make a short narrative movie. The entire class helped to create this odd little movie. It's sort of a twist on Alice in Wonderland. Senior Shelby is such a wonderful actor. 

Behind the Scenes Photos

Sand Mandalas

I had my cultural art class learn a little about Buddhism and mindfulness. We explored the art of Tibetan Sand Mandalas and used it inspiration for our own sand mandalas on 12x12" cardboard. Of course, ours were not made to be destroyed because we glued the sand down, so the concept was not completely the same. They did turn out absolutely beautiful. It is a really relaxing and fun project. 

Sam T. and her excruciating detail.
The finished product is beautiful also. 

Erinn W.

Kaleigh L.

Kaylee L. 

Madisen P. 

Marriah S. 

Paige T. 

Danielle Z. 

Camera Obscura

I am always so proud of my photography class. Some days they just aren't feeling it, but many days they show me photographs that simply amaze me. At the beginning of the year we were figuring out how cameras worked. We created a giant camera obscura from the computer lab window and a white sheet. It actually worked for the most part. The flipped image was a little blurry, but you could still see things happening.

We taped up black paper and garbage bags to conceal the window. There is a tiny hole in the bottom left corner. 

I had some students go outside and see if we could view them from our projector. This is looking through the window hole. 

 The white sheet made a good canvas to see what was happening. The image stayed blurry, which could be caused by multiple factors (aperture size, distance, brightness).  Overall we made a pretty good projector.

Last year we made pinhole projectors from Pringles cans. That also worked pretty well on bright days.