Childrens Book Project

Advanced Digital Media

Spring 2016

Multi-Unit Project:
Objective 203 - Understand production
methods used to plan and create
advanced graphics projects.
Objective 205 - Understand production
methods used to create advanced audio
projects.
Objective 206 Understand production
methods used to create advanced video
projects.

What is a Childrens
Simple Story/Usually
Focused on a Moral
Book?
Lesson

Illustration Heavy
Children (12 Years or Younger)

Collaboration/Team
Project:
Art Director In
charge of creating the

artwork and direction of the look and feel of

the book.
Audio Engineer In charge of recording and
editing the reading/voice over of the story.
Video Editor In charge of compiling the
artwork and audio recordings together to
create the final video.
All groups members are responsible for
creating the story and keeping each other
on track to meet deadlines.

Parameters of the
Projects
Final story/video
should be no shorter

than 5 minutes and no longer than 10

minutes to read & view
Must be no longer than 1,500 words
Pages must be developed at 8.5 x 11 in
Illustrator or Photoshop (Landscape or
Portrait)
Minimum of 7 unique/original illustrations
Plan of Work completed every day and
signed off by each member of the group

Theme/Focus:

Story must have a Science,

Technology, Engineering, or Math
(STEM) focus.
Examples: Dinosaurs, Oceans or their
Extraordinary Sea Life, Single Cell
Animal, Solar System, Impacts of
Technology on Our Lives or
Environment, How Something Works,
Numbers and Mathematical Designs
found in Nature and Industrial World

What Is a Plan of Work?

Completed inside your
Notebook every day
Accountability of team
members
Accountability of what
you accomplished for the
Day
Signed off by all of your
team members

Checkpoints/Deadlines:
Tuesday 4/19 (Brainstorming/Written
Story)
Wednesday 4/20 (Audio Engineers
Meeting)
Thursday 4/21 (Art Directors
Meeting)
Friday 4/22 (Video Editors Meeting)
Monday 4/25 (Project Due By End of
Class)

1 Period Groups:
st

Group
Group
Group
Group
Group
Group
Group
Group

#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8

(Cody, Nadiah, Malerie)

(Sydney, Chloe, Annika)
(Ben, Tony, Bri)
(Jordan, Daniel, Jack)
(Ethan, Billy, Andres)
(Rachel, Rebekah, Morgan)
(Seph, Taylor, James)
(Matthieu, Haley, Makayla)

3 Period Groups:
rd

Group #1
Group #2
Group #3
Group #4
Group #5
Group #6
Group #7
Ashley)
Group #8

(David, Ryon, Sally)

(Mea, Ziona, Caitlyn)
(Rebecca, Cassidy, Callie)
(Nikko, Eric, Justin)
(Matt, Katrina, Alyssa)
(Dylan, Steven, Nick)
(Mackenzie, Mekenzie,
(Ethan, Zach, Chris)