Storytelling around the Globe

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 09.01.10

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Objectives
  3. Strategies
  4. Additional information about Trailers
  5. Highlights in the History of Filmmaking and Movie Posters
  6. Activities
  7. Lesson Plan 1: Ten Thumbnail Sketches for the Poster
  8. Lesson Plan 2: Demonstration of and Experimentation with Different Media and Techniques
  9. Lesson Plan 3: The Creation of the Movie Poster
  10. Notes
  11. Bibliography for Teachers
  12. Reading List for Students
  13. Materials for Classroom Use
  14. Delaware Sate Art Standards and their Implementation

Movie Posters: Capturing the Essence of a Story

Karen Ruth Sturdy Yarnall

Published September 2009

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Delaware Sate Art Standards and their Implementation

Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques and processes.

Applying what they have learned, students will be able to select appropriate materials and use the proper techniques and processes necessary to turn their thumbnail sketches into movie posters.

Standard 2: Using knowledge of structures and functions:

The students will apply their knowledge of the principles of design and elements of art to effectively convey ideas in their posters.

Standard 3: Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols and ideas.

After careful exploration and evaluation, students will choose images, symbols, graphics, and ideas to convey the meaning of their movie posters.

Standard 4: Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and culture.

After studying storytelling and graphic art traditions in the context of the cultures from which they originate, students will better understand these traditions from other counties and our own. They can then incorporate these understandings into their poster designs.

Standard 5: Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

The students will reflect upon, analyze, assess and evaluate a film, film trailers, famous movie posters and their own progress and that of their peers during the poster design process and upon completion of the posters.

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