Project ME: Manifesting Empowerment
Introduction:
Students worked with professional NB musician Dillon Ryan (Website) to create a song they felt represented empowerment and empowerment related terminology. Then students used an Artificial Intelligence engine to generate many forms of art based on their specific empowerment theme. This all came together in the form of the videos below. Original songs, original art, and a deep understanding and demonstration of the Social Studies 7 focus of EMPOWERMENT.
Art forms produced included: Realism, Photorealism, Expressionism, Impressionism, Abstract, Surrealism, and Pop Art.
Music for the most part was instrumental and represented the students' understanding of how Empowerment feels.
Students worked with professional NB musician Dillon Ryan (Website) to create a song they felt represented empowerment and empowerment related terminology. Then students used an Artificial Intelligence engine to generate many forms of art based on their specific empowerment theme. This all came together in the form of the videos below. Original songs, original art, and a deep understanding and demonstration of the Social Studies 7 focus of EMPOWERMENT.
Art forms produced included: Realism, Photorealism, Expressionism, Impressionism, Abstract, Surrealism, and Pop Art.
Music for the most part was instrumental and represented the students' understanding of how Empowerment feels.
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Software Used and Procedure:
This was a 100% remote effort on behalf of the artist Dillon Ryan and our students, with the possibility of a future in-person visit. Zoom made all this happen and brought Dillon into the classroom and the lives of the students involved. It worked flawlessly and allowed for intimate and large group chats while the students simultaneously worked on their Soundtrap project collaborative, from a distance, in real-time, with our artist.
Soundtrap is an online music studio founded on the principal of allowing real-time remote collaboration between artists. Thousands of loops, mixing and mastering capabilities built in, and and easy to use interface that allows students and collaborators to find instant success.
MidJourney is a generative artificial intelligence solution that uses text prompts to create original and amazing pieces of art. Art from MidJourney has actually beaten human artists in competitions. Students hardnessed this power to create 6-7 different genres of art surround their empowerment-related theme. They could choose descriptive words to direct the mood of the art but most stuck with statements like "AUTHORITY, in the style of Expressionism, high detailed art, AUTHORITY." This generated incredible pieces that the students then curated for the slideshow videos found on this page. The cutting room floor is filled with hundreds of works that didn't make the project.
Canva is where creatives come to play these days and it allowed the perfect merger of our finished songs and AI generated art. It did some heavy lifting and produced a high quality video experience which showcases the ideal and desired result for Project ME: Manifesting Empowerment.
