Green Screen Workshop with D15

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I had the honor of working with innovation teachers, STEAM teachers, and librarians from McHenry SD15 over Thanksgiving break as I conducted a green screen workshop based on the lessons I developed for my students. View my smore of GS lessons here. This smore page points to the lesson resources, tutorials, student examples and blog posts for each idea. I have another smore flyer that lists all my STEAM art lesson that I update regularly. View all 250+  lessons here.

We worked together in the newly renovated Innovation Center of Edgebrook Elementary School. The district remodeled and expanded the library with flexible seating and filled it with technology equipment and manipulatives to give students a wide range of STEAM opportunities. I love how each of the tables have screens with Apple TVs to share digital work wirelessly in small groups. This space certainly opened my eyes to new possibilities for our district perhaps one day.

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We used Do Ink Green Screen and the Brushes App for this Book Cover Photo Shoot effect

We used Keynote app to create this Pigeon Book graphic design

We used Word Cloud App and Do Ink Green Screen app for this self-portrait lesson

Used the masking tools in GS app to create a transparent space to layer video below

Silhouette Effect in GS app

We learned the technique I developed for creating a silhouette video in the Do Ink Green Screen app. (Hint: the complementary color of green is red). Once we preserved this effect we could layer it back into the app with a still or video in the background. Below you see the video produced from the Kaleido free app (great for teaching radial symmetry). The GS app has three layers, so I copied the silhouette to the remaining layer and had the girl dance side by side with herself.

Video layers in the Green Screen app to teach movement, silhouette, radial symmetry

We created a flipbook style ghost animation in the Do Ink animation app. Then duplicated, rotated, and viewed the holographic effect through a trapezoidal prism. This example shows an animation path with rotational symmetry.

We learned how to use the superimpose app for erasing green

We saved it as a png with transparency to use for animation

Combined an animated sky, still image and GS video to create the illusion of flying to connect to the story, I'm Here by Peter Reynolds

We used locker shelves to steady iPads for stop motion animation in the iMotion app. The teachers used my Keith Haring stencils to show movement in a collaborative movie making experience. 
Roles: Director, Photographer, and Animators all work together to help tell a story frame by frame. The app compiles the frames into a movie like the one here.

We learned about rotoscope animation (drawing over video frame by frame). This animation is a collaboration from 3 animators who shared their Do Ink animation files with me. I layered it over an animated background within the same app just like professional animators might.