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The 9 Principles of Design for Film, Photography, Games, & Graphic Design
Shaun McMillan
Average rating:4.9Number of reviews:(164)
Subconsciously Direct the Eyes of Your Audience for Heightened Emotional Impact by Designing Compositions with the Easy Effortless Techniques all the Pros Know
Class experience
Everyone knows how to point and click to take a photo. But an artist thinks about how the major shapes work together to create a powerful sense of scale, emphasize one's most beautiful features, or avoid awkward compositions. Everyone loves Vincent Van Gough's "Starry Night," but how many of us understand why? Was it his unique painting style? He painted every painting with that style, but only Starry Night became so famous. This painting is a masterpiece in terms of layout and composition....
Students will be able to - use the 9 Principles of Design to analyze the emotional effectiveness of any piece of art - use the 9 Principles of Design to improve their own photographs, paintings, drawings, designs. - Experiment with the 9 Principles of Design to come up with their own recognizably unique visual style
A link to the Google slides will be provided for students' future reference.
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Most of the content will be provided through Google Slides. A URL will be provided and shown through screen sharing. It will be mostly images of photographs, famous paintings, and illustrations as great examples of how composition was used to evoke an emotional effects of balance, imbalance, harmony, the illusion of depth, and/or the illusion of movement.
Shaun McMillan
Average rating:4.9Number of reviews:(164)
My name is Shaun D. McMillan. I teach creative art classes and classes on how to start a business. I graduated with a degree in Animation in the city of Los Angeles, California and have worked as a professional animator, graphic designer, web...
Group Class
$24
per classMeets once
55 min
Completed by 47 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 12-17
2-10 learners per class
