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Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Practice combining varied academic, arts, and media content into unified media artworks (such as a narrated science animation).

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Practice combining varied academic, arts, and media forms and content into unified media artworks (such as animation, music, and dance).

MED.3.P.4.a

Recognize key developments in the entertainment industry in California, such as the introduction of silent movies, animation, radio and television broadcasting, and interactive video.

TH.4.3.2

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The making of art such as cartoons, illustrations, jewelry, sculptures, and ceramics is both a career and a social activity.

VIS.PK.S.4.GLE.1.RA.2

Explores and uses various types of animation.

VIS.9-12.11.A.4

Explore themes, interests, materials, and methods within a variety of digital image/animation manipulating programs and/or applications.

VIS.9-12.VAHSDD.CR.1.b

Utilize the formal components of design, graphic design, and/or animation (e.g. contrast, repetition, timing to produce digital content) in creating digital works of art and design.

VIS.9-12.VAHSDD.CR.4.a

Identifies differences between video and other media (e.g., animation, different tones of voice in audio productions, adjusting media for different audiences, various uses of settings).

LA.4.LA.4.6.9.a

Analyze how the selection of media or tools can enhance the communication of an idea (e.g., using watercolors to paint seascapes or clouds; using computer programs to create animation).

VIS.6-8.26A.2

Practice combining varied academic, arts, and media forms and content into unified media artworks, such as animation, music, and dance.

MEDA.3.MA:2.Pr4.1.3

Identify techniques used in television (animation, close-ups, wide-angle shots, sound effects, music, graphics) and use knowledge of these techniques to distinguish between facts and misleading information.

LA.PK-2.26.1

With support, identify different types of media artwork (e.g., animation, website, digital space).

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Generate ideas using a variety of platforms (e.g., webpages, animation, videos).

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analyze the impact of the animation industry on society.

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The student understands animation systems. The student is expected to analyze and summarize the history and evolution of the animation field.