One of my projects at UTA allowed me to choose a book related to art curriculum and delve a bit deeper into its readability and then create a book trailer to promote our findings.
I took this opportunity to explore the book My Hands Sing the Blues, Romare Bearden's Childhood Journey by Jeanne Walker Harvey. This is an amazing book that every art teacher would benefit from having in their art room. The wonderful illustrations connect to artist Romare Bearden and his collage technique. The words reflect jazz which helped influence Bearden's work. It is also a great opportunity to connect to American history as it describes Romare's experience during the Great Migration. Through our research, we determined that the book can be introduced as young as second or third grade, as it has simple word selection. however, the sentence structure is geared more toward fourth or fifth.
To promote the book, we also created a short video. I loved this because it gave me an excuse to create another stop motion. Together will my partner, we created a storyboard(as seen to the right), then split the scenes to shoot before editing the video in Adobe Premiere. because we shot the scenes separately due to schedule conflicts, the style of the photos for the stop motion is not consistent throughout. However, we broke it up in a way that fits our narrative. This taught me that collaborative projects can be done when teammates have busy and conflicting schedules. I was fortunate to have a great partner (Alan Galvan) and I was proud of our two-part project.
For my part of the video, I recreated scenes from the book with a variety of craft paper and photocopies of characters from the book (as seen to the right). I then made certain parts of the scene move. The full video can be seen below!!
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