This is an eight minute video created for an assignment by a student. It covers 400 years of art history beginning with the Baroque style and spanning until Modern Art movements. Each movement provides dates, examples of work and concise explanations of the movement's principals. The chronological progression of the movements discusses how the movements relate to each other. There is a massive amount of information about each movement delivered in a concise engaging and, most importantly, easy to understand format.
This video would be best implemented in the art history unit as a class showing with reading guides to highlight important information about the artistic movements. As students view the film they will complete a teacher provided guide. The information comes very quickly so it is unlikely that every student will complete each question. To make up for this the video will be shown twice and then a class wide discussion of the reading guide should make sure that each student has all parts of the guide complete. The various periods and examples of work can then be discussed and critiqued by the class, pausing the film for examples of art form each period.
I really like the fact that this was made by a student. It shows kids the depth and breadth that you can take when fulfilling an assignment. Kids are so tuned in to video format that they relate to multimedia much more than just a static image.
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