September - October Newsletter

General announcements:

Hello SDSCPA Family:

General Announcements:

Welcome all families enrolled in SDSCPA High School and Middle School Visual and Media Arts programs including Fine Arts, Photography and Cinematic Arts. We look forward to working with students and parents by building relationships, building skills and establishing greater communication this year.

This newsletter contains updates and information on happenings within our classrooms and happenings within the San Diego Arts Community. We provide information on upcoming auditions, exhibitions, guest speakers, arts competitions and other opportunities for students and families. This year we will also be updating parents on additional resources when available to assist students furthering their arts education and also personal well-being. With that in mind, we welcome you to our first newsletter of the school year and we wish everyone the best. Let’s grow together and stay creative!

National Portfolio Day - Nov 7 - Westin Hotel San Diego Downtown

https://nationalportfolioday.org/schedule/

All NPDA events are free and open to the public. Students and members of their communities are welcome to attend these events.

Registration is required for entry and must be completed online at the National Portfolio Day Association website: nationalportfolioday.org

SHOW YOUR WORK

Meet one on one with professional representatives of accredited colleges and universities and receive valuable feedback and guidance on your portfolio prior to submitting your application. No admission decisions or scholarship awards will be offered at National Portfolio Days. Some college and university representatives may accept your portfolio as the visual portion of your application. Others have restrictions that prohibit them from making a definitive portfolio decision at the time of your review.

If there is a particular school you are hoping to meet with, please visit that school’s website to learn more about the dates they will be available.

RECEIVE WORDS OF WISDOM

All representatives will be happy to discuss their specific programs of study and provide answers to questions about the availability of scholarships and financial aid. National Portfolio Day is not an examination or competition and is about an exchange of information. Representatives want to learn about you, your work, and your post-secondary plans, all while informing you about their college or university and application requirements.

NPD is put on by LCAD: Here are more details about schools attending

https://www.lcad.edu/npd_2021

PHOTOGRAPHY - Photo Imaging 1, 2, 3, 4 with Ms. Tancredi-Baese:

Photo Imaging students are working on lighting, and Photoshop skills.

Digital Mixed Media with Ms. Tancredi-Baese:

Digital Mixed Media has been focused on learning the elements of design, and page layout.

Senior Art Studio with Ms. Tancredi-Baese:

Senior Art Studio students are working on the Senior Project. Here is a sneak peak at the projects.

PHOTOGRAPHY - Photo 5,6 with Ms. Tancredi-Baese:

Photo Imaging 5, 6 is also learning how to alter images in Photoshop, and do image transfers. Some of the projects are currently on display in room 404.

Ind Art Studio with Ms. Tancredi-Baese:

Ind Art Studio - Students learned new techniques, and then created their own zine in Photoshop. The work is currently showing in the main office.

Cinematic Arts

Artist in Residence Course with Mr. Raines
Juniors and seniors in this advanced video production course are learning how to write, shoot and edit informative, yet entertaining, video content for a possible school television show. The students have already produced narrative style and digital art-focused 20-second pieces, and they have just started their first one minute, documentary-style spotlight pieces about people, activities, and events at SCPA.

Video Production 1 & 3 With Mr. Raines
Video Production level one and level three 10th and 11th grade students join together in this course to learn valuable, real-world production skills through project-based learning. Video production level three students are teamed in groups with video production level one students to serve as leaders with their level one classmates as they work together on projects. Students are currently training on camera operation and editing, as they produce commercials, PSAs, and a school promotional video.

Broadcast Journalism with Mr. Raines
Students in this Visual Arts class are learning some of the basic skills they would need to be professional working artists in the multimedia industry, especially focusing on broadcast journalism. Students are exploring using technology to create, display, and share their digital artwork. These images are an example of the students’ “Creative Brain” assignment, an Adobe Photoshop project based on the documentary The Creative Brain with Dr. David Eagleman. “...we can take advantage of what it is to be human, to drink in the world and produce something, anything, that has never existed before.” Eagleman makes it clear that it’s innate in all of us — and it’s achievable.

Film Arts with Mr. Raines
Film Studies is a course intended to familiarize students with the history of film from its beginnings through the contemporary films of today. Students are learning to observe film with a critical eye so that they can analyze film as a visual art form. So far, students have focused on the key elements of a good story, documentary storytelling, movie acting, and comedy character analysis. A favorite documentary film the students analyzed recently was the Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy (2004): Behind the making of the Star Wars Trilogy.

Cinematic Arts with Mr. Raines
The seniors in this course are working their way through the entire process of producing short films. So far, all students in the course pitched their own original film idea, then six pitches were selected to move-on to the scriptwriting process. Students formed teams to write the six scripts, then presented the rough draft of their scripts to the rest of the class for critique and input. Revisions were made based on the class input, and final scripts were presented for consideration. Three films will now be selected to enter the production process. Students in Cinematic Arts are also working on an independent project, the Self-Introduction Video Essay, a college-entrance-based portfolio piece.

Design Mixed Media 1, 2 with Ms. Choi:

Line Practice with sumi Ink

Design Mixed Media 3, 4 with Ms. Choi:

5-hand Drawing with Contour Lines

AP 2D Studio Art and Ind Art Studio with Ms. Choi:

AP Theme Develop Brainstorming Student’s Sample. Student Sample of the 1st critique.

Color and Design with Ms Choi:

1st critique Piece under the theme

Art 1, 2 with Mr. Gonzalez-Zarzuela:

Symbolic portfolios

Drawing and Painting with Mr. Gonzalez-Zarzuela:

Atmospheric perspective ink drawings

Graphic Design 1,2 with Mr. Patton:

Graphic Design 1, 2 students have started creating artwork in Adobe Illustrator! Students are studying different text effects that can be applied in the program. This “Hello Darling” piece shows the exploration of color applications to texts, using fonts, applying color and simple ways to emphasize text elements in graphic design. Students are also studying digital illustration. Check out these owl pieces!

Honors Graphic Design with Mr. Patton:

Advanced class working on digital illustration and creating a Personal Logo.

Foundations in Visual Art with Mr. Patton:

Foundations in Visual Art and Design students began studying the Elements of Art while learning new digital art tools and techniques. Students created original artwork for each element of art and created a poster showing their understanding. Students have created their own weebly website pages to showcase their artwork created at SDSCPA

8th Grade Art 1,2 with Mr. Patton

8th Grade Art students have created some exceptional shoe drawings! Students documented their creative process while showing the brainstorming stages, thumbnail sketches, prototypes and final draft development. Thumbnail sketches include a minimum of 3 studies in different compositions before beginning prototypes and final drafts. These shoe drawings can be used by students for the SDSCPA High School Visual and Media Arts auditions. Nice work!

7th Grade with Mr. Gonzalez-Zarzuela
Elements of Art group posters & presentations

6th Grade Art with Ms. Choi
Creating a self portrait in the style of Cubism through the use of line, color, and space. Bamboo Brush calligraphy -writing name in Korean