In Your Arms (jellybean art music video)
Ok, some of you may have seen this already but I couldn't resist including it on here! All of the background scenes for this video were made over a period of 22 months with 288,000 jelly beans. My fieldwork teacher and I actually shared this video with her fourth graders and they were amazed by the entire process - it's set to catchy, child-appropriate song and includes a trailer which describes in detail the making of the video. Art, unconventional materials, music, computers, video production and creativity all together! I love it... students love it.... hope you all enjoy it too!
PS - in reference to my last post, yes, this is an example of an educational video from YouTube!
Laura,
ReplyDeleteThis video blew my mind. It was so amazing from the penguins to the fireworks to the outer space background. This is a great way to fuel inspiration of the mind and enrich students that art has a multitude of creative expressions that can revolutionize learning once mixed with technology. I would have loved art so much more in my schooling if this was a way to engage me as a student. If you think this video is great, you might also like these videos,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAY1UoQYMHk&list=FLHgz4ocU6JdYVuisCh1khMQ&index=5&feature=plpp_video
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpWM0FNPZSs&list=FLHgz4ocU6JdYVuisCh1khMQ&index=41&feature=plpp_video
Art is everywhere. These are further examples of how creativity spawns from such simple things.
Laura, glad to see you are finding practical applications of technological tools in your classroom.
ReplyDeleteLaura, This video really is great and should be shown in art classes of all grade levels. I find something like this can be truly motivating and inspiring to students even if they had not initial interest in art. It's so simple, and of course it took time, but I have no doubt that the majority of your students will want to try something similar. It's engaging, encouraging, and beautiful!
ReplyDeleteLaura, I don't know why I didn't see this sooner. I wish that I had! this is awesome. Actually, it's beyond awesome. I'm completely blown away by the creativity and everything that went into it, including the mass amount of time that I can imagine it took. My boyfriend was a graphic design major here before he switched over to photography, but this video is right up his alley. So, of course, I just showed it to him and he said himself that it "really is awesome" and he's super critical of things like this. This is definitely a video that should be shown to art students at any level, simply to show them what can be done with something as petty as a jelly bean. I have the creativity of a rubber duck so if I saw something like this when I was in school, maybe I would have been more inclined to take advantage of my creativity, rather than hate having to sit in an art class that made me draw things that I couldn't and sculpt things that looked like piles of mud.
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