Here is another post of my adventures between each schools. For a quick view of schools that I have went so far.

Bedok West Primary School
Unity Primary School
Tanjong Katong Secondary School
Assumption Pathway School
St Margaret Secondary School
Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School
Shuqun Secondary School
Poi Ching School
CHIJ Toa Payoh Secondary School
NUS High School

This week for Unity Primary, is their filming of their Claymation. Finally the webcam drivers are installed, some of them managed to finish filming. While some of the groups still have not done any, due to 3 people missing in the group. Moreover those who are absent are the ones holding the clay. They are told to follow on the story for The Wizard Of Oz. Therefore they don't have the lion, scarecrow, dog, and witch. At least most of groups have tried out how to shoot a frame-by-frame video. One of the group has tornado. In fact, I didn't knew that in the story has tornado till I read it. However I am not sure how the students are going to make that tornado animated. ;D

What happened for CHIJ Toa Payoh was actually a lot of students were quarantined. For safety precaution of just slight flu or fever. We had two classes there, so one of the class had 16 students being quarantined. While the other was 9 students. It was their lomo-shooting. They are given film to shoot around the school compound for practice, before the real shooting comes. As usual, it is cam-whoring for girls. And you know that a film can hold 36 shots. So you can see that they can 'ka-cha' and use them up very fast. They aren't really following what was instructed to them. They have to take shots of different colours, so that they can be pasted on their silhouette drawing. Imagine taking shots of just plain colour, then four shots in that image will be flat colour. It just defeats the purpose of using Lomo Cameras.

I get to use both digital camera and the DSLR for Photo Journalism at Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary. The DSLR was Sony a200, same as Mr Justin. I still prefer Mr Christian's Nikon D50, it is much easier to use. This is the second school shootout for them, so they get better results this time. Interestingly I managed to use the digital camera to make a close-up macro shot of red ants on branches! My lead trainer, Lina was quite stunned that her camera can do such results. :D

Then when we are teaching Adobe Photoshop for them how to edit the photos that they have taken. At first we used Smart Blur, so the surrounding of it is being blur. There is this malay guy, say "Wah! Like Power Ranger". After that we applied Motion Blur, the effects are being blurred in a moving direction. Then he said "Now going evolution!". The way they spoke in malay is very funny. :)

I didn't managed to go Unity Primary for Thursday. I had mistaken the timing for Monday which was afternoon, whereas it was in the morning. The lesson for Shuqun Secondary this week was alright. The boys finally came. At first we thought would be quite hard, since the class we are teaching. In the end, they still do our work even though they might still see them playing game. Some of the students are quite weird. We are teaching them Adobe Flash, the cartoon they have done is already animating. Yet they say they can't see it animated.

For NUS High School for Mathematics and Science is damn marvellous. At first my lead trainer, Stephanie, and me said "We are going to see geeky and nerdy students". When I went into their Art Room, in fact looking at them do really seem nerdy. In fact when asking them if anyone knows what is Manga Art, only 2 of them knew what it is. Then when telling them the mistakes that mostly students make in drawing Manga, was the angle of the head being tilted and direction of eyelashes. Their expression was those monotonous clap, like penguin clapping. :D

However overall the students are able to learn quite fast, in terms of drawing them in a perspective view and the proportion for each parts (eyes, ears, jaw) of a head. Usually at other school, I will get abnormal proportion. It is either big eyes or broad shoulders. Even small body with long legs. Maybe it is because they do learn Fine Art, since I saw them having a book 'Basic Figure Drawing'. They are quite good and behaved, though maybe due to maturity so the responsiveness isn't that fast.

After lesson I told Stephanie, "Smarter people have higher foreheads. So maybe our right brain is better. We have lobe-sided right brain". Imagine a head with only your right portion being pop up higher. :D

Schedule
Assumption Pathway - Claymation Sec 2 (15 students) L3/10 1215 - 1500 Eka
Southview Primary - Claymation Pri 4.8, 4.10 1630 - 1830 Alan
CHIJ Toa Payoh - Lomo Art Sec 2/5, 2/6 L3/5 1150 - 1410 Lina
Southview Primary - Claymation Pri 4.1, 4.3, 4.5 1500 - 1830 Alan
Southview Primary - Claymation Pri 4.2, 4.6, 4.7, 4.9 1500 - 1730 Lina
Unity Primary - Claymation Pri 5F L7/7 0800 - 0930 Alan
Kranji Sec - Digital Art Sec 2I NT L5/12 1115 - 1225 Aida
Southview Primary - Claymation Pri 4.4, 4.7, 4.9 1500 - 1830 Alan

Posted by Purity And Simplicity at 08:52