Art and Computing

Nov 012022
 

Y6 Use j2e tools to recreate a book cover

Sep 152022
 

Typing.com

Africa book covers

  1. Go to “my files”, “shared files”, your class folder
  2. Look at the different book covers
  3. Move the cover you are doing on to the first page.
  4. Use the tools in j2e to copy one of them as accurately as possible.

Decomposition

We will start with the cover background colour and build it up in layers.  Break the problem down – decomposition

1 Cover shape, blocks and colour

  • Trace the shape of the whole book cover with the rectangle tool
  • Do the same for the red bar at the bottom
  • Select each shape and change the colour by using “fill”

2 Text

  • Type the different bits of text
  • Choose the best font
  • Resize and position them exactly on the book cover

3 Shapes

  • Use the “spiky” shape tool or other shape tools to trace around the any other shapes.
  • Change the fill and outline colour

4 Images

  • Search for images using several key words – search what you see
  • Use this website to take the background away in you need to
  • OR
  • Search for the picture and drag onto j2e
  • Go to JIT5 paint
  • Start a new painting with the checkerboard background
  • Put the picture on the page
  • Fill any white backgound with “invisible paint”
  • Save image as gif (top right of image)

6 Improve the text

Finished?

  1. Start another contrasting book cover.  What different skills do you need?
  2. Recreate 3 contrasting book covers
  3. Choose one book cover – create the back cover and spine in the same style, matching colours, fonts etc
  4. Create your own book cover on Africa or an aspect of Africa.

Y4 Salisbury book covers 1, 2 and 3

Sep 122022
 

Typing

Salsibury Book cover 1

  1. Go to “my files”, “shared files”, your class folder
  2. Open Salisbury book cover
  3. Trace the outline and the three blocks using the rectangle tool
  4. Change the outline and fill to be the right colour
  5. Add the text
  6. Get the picture from shared pictures – crop and resize to the right size.
  7. Send it underneath using the layers buttons

Salisbury book covers 2 and 3

  1. Open “Salisbury book cover 2”
  2. Arrange the elemnts to match the book cover.
  3. You will nned to
    1. Crop the image = drag the blue squared on the sides/top/bottom
    2. Resize the image = drag the corner blue squares
    3. Resize the text

Finished? Have a go at Salisbury book cover 3

Salisbury book cover (with the reflection)

  • Go back to the first book cover.
  • Try to search Google images for a good image
  • Or, use the image in shared images in j2e5
  • For the text, use Cool Text
  • In j2e5 stretch the text to the right size by holding the “shift key as you drag.

iLearn2

Internet Research – code on the board.

Y5T1 Stormbreaker book cover

Sep 072022
 

New year – expectations

Typing

j2launch

  • Shared files – Stormbreaker book cover
  • Copy
    • the book shape
    • Red bar at the bottom
    • Text
    • Match colours

Y4: Creating a book cover in j2e5

Sep 012022
 

LF: j2e tools

  1. Go to “my files”, “shared files”, your class folder
  2. Open the Salisbury book cover and edit
  3. Use the tools in j2e to copy it as accurately as possible.

Steps:

  1. Trace the shape of the cover.  Do the same for each rectangular block.   Break the problem down – DECOMPOSITION
  2. Finding the picture:  Use 3 OR 4 KEY SEARCH WORDS to find an exact picture match
  3. Copy and paste images from the Google Chrome (or drag onto j2e page)
  4. Choose fonts carefully
  5. Use layers (like a paper collage) = piles of paper tools bottom right
  6. Keep improving…

Useful tools…?

Stormbreaker sphere video:  https://drive.google.com/open?id=17c6qWtFTbxyR4Oob5jG59-uxL6naW2ti

Finished?

Have you copied the book cover exactly?

  • Layout
  • Spacing
  • Colours
  • Pictures
  • Fonts
  • Positioning

Choose a contrasting book cover to copy.

What have you learned about good cover design?

Y5 Learning for life week

Jun 212022
 

Find out about different jobs

Create a job poster

Include

  • title
  • pictures
  • equipment
  • what it involves
  • good bits
  • bad bits
  • skills
  • personal qualities

Or create a jobs comparison

What would your perfect job be? Invent a new job and create a job profile.

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