Rain, rain, go away, come again another day… A cold, wet and gloomy day at Artspace couldn’t dampen our enthusiasm: there were more stories to be told, illustrated, and captured on video. Class began with a cut-and-paste session. Remember those painted stories from two classes ago? Tales such as the “Yellow-muscled Alien” and the “Girl Who Made Friends with A Giant” were originally painted as part of a large canvas combining many individual stories. Today students tore into those large canvases with scissors, retrieving bits and pieces of their own stories so they could reconstruct and illustrate them later on.
Second, the students continued illustrating their group-project storyboards. While many of the stories were nearing completion, many of the illustrations still contained a lot of empty white space. When there’s empty space on the paper, the best solution is a box of crayons. Out came the crayons and soon there were broad arrays of blue, orange, green, red, yellow and purple filling the gaps.
While everybody continued drawing, Mr. Ben and Mr. Matt interviewed one group at a time on camera. Students got the chance to film their storytelling efforts by talking, answering questions and pointing out how their artwork was worth a thousand words.
During all of the ArtSpace sessions to date, Mr. Ben and Mr. Matt have been filming students working, playing, creating and telling stories. In the next few days they will be piecing together all of those video clips and setting them to music in order to recount the course of Moya ArtSpace this fall. The result of this video editing effort will be on display at the Moya holiday concert, December 16 @ 6pm.
ArtSpace Moya Fall09 Storyboards from Matthew Mosher on Vimeo.
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