How Does a Green Screen Work?

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

Arts Education

Grade(s)

4, 5

Overview

Students will read about how a green screen works.  They will watch a weather forecast and identify how the green screen works.  They will research a movie and what special effects were used.  

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 4 - Media Arts

AE17.MED.4.12

Identify, describe, and explain how various forms, methods, and styles in media arts productions manage audience experience.

UP:AE17.MED.4.12

Essential Questions

EU: Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves one's artistic appreciation and production.
EQ: How do we 'read' media artworks and discern their relational components? How do media artworks function to convey meaning and manage audience experiences?

Skills Examples

  • After watching a commercial for a car, respond to teacher questions to identify, describe, and explain how the messages were created by the individual components.
  • After watching a series of commercials for shoes, respond to teacher questions to identify and describe the various methods and styles and the effect on the class.
  • With guidance, watch and respond to a series of political ads. By responding to teacher questions, tell the purpose, meaning and message of each and how interpretation is affected by context.
  • Using a class made checklist for basic principles, processes, and context grade one of your own media arts products and make changes to make it better.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 4 - Media Arts

AE17.MED.4.13

Determine and explain reactions and interpretations to a variety of media arts productions, considering both purpose and context.

UP:AE17.MED.4.13

Essential Questions

EU: Interpretation and appreciation require consideration of the intent, form, and context of the media and artwork.
EQ: How do people relate to and interpret media artworks?

Skills Examples

  • After watching a commercial for a car, respond to teacher questions to identify, describe, and explain how the messages were created by the individual components.
  • After watching a series of commercials for shoes, respond to teacher questions to identify and describe the various methods and styles and the effect on the class.
  • With guidance, watch and respond to a series of political ads. By responding to teacher questions, tell the purpose, meaning and message of each and how interpretation is affected by context.
  • Using a class made checklist for basic principles, processes, and context grade one of your own media arts products and make changes to make it better.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 5 - Media Arts

AE17.MED.5.12

Identify, describe, and differentiate how various forms, methods, and styles in media arts productions manage audience experience.

UP:AE17.MED.5.12

Vocabulary

Differentiate
Message
Meaning
  • subtext

Components
Experience
Interpretations
Intention
Consider
Context
Criteria
Evaluating
Constructive

Essential Questions

EU: Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves one's artistic appreciation and production.
EQ: How do we 'read' media artworks and discern their relational components? How do media artworks function to convey meaning and manage audience experiences?

Skills Examples

  • After watching a commercial for laundry detergent, identify and describe how the messages were created by the individual components. Responding to teacher questions, discuss the differences in meaning and message.
  • After watching a series of commercials for toothpaste, identify and describe the various methods and styles and the effect on the class. Responding to teacher questions, discuss the difference meanings given by form, method and style.
  • Watch and respond to a series of political ads. By responding to teacher questions, tell the purpose, meaning and message of each and how interpretation is affected by context.
  • Using a class made checklist for basic principles and processes, grade one of your own media arts products. Score the product in two different contexts and compare the results, and make changes to make it better.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 5 - Media Arts

AE17.MED.5.17

Research and show how media arts productions and ideas relate to personal, social and community life.

UP:AE17.MED.5.17

Vocabulary

Resources
  • internal
  • external
Culture
  • society
  • values
Research
  • question
  • compare information
  • cause and effect
Ethics
  • fair
  • prudent
  • law

Essential Questions

EU: Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, and various contexts.
EQ: How does media arts relate to its various contexts, purposes, and values? How does investigating these relationships inform and deepen the media artist's understanding and work?

Skills Examples

  • Combine two art forms to describe a memory of a news event along with research about the event into media arts product and show effect on culture.
  • Share with the class a favorite media arts production (i.e., YouTube video, etc.), and include the meaning and message of the event along with its effect on culture at large, specifically through changing daily language and behavior.
  • Through teacher-led discussion and by responding to questions, describe how media arts productions experienced everyday are part of the school community and affect family life.
  • Cite sources in any media arts products using APA Style and forecast the possible interpretations and reactions to media arts products.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

CR Resource Type

Learning Activity

Resource Provider

Wonderopolis

License Type

Custom
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