media arts
courses + SSL

  media ARTS Courses with Student service learning hours(SSL)

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The Fall 2021 program is running online and in person at GB Youth Media's media arts studio in downtown Silver Spring. 

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Enrollment for Spring 2022 will open late November. Spring semester will be from late January through mid-May 2022.  

• Attend weekly media arts classes after school, to learn design and filmmaking skills and social justice advocacy.

• Complete projects that will be published and broadcast.

• Earn SSL hours when you complete the semester.

• Receive a free laptop and headphones if you don't have them at home. 

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Questions: Email Program Manager Shereka Mosley, at shereka@youthmediamd.org 

or text Anna Danielson at 301-664-4961. You can also email us to schedule a phone call. 

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Signed parent permission required to participate and media releases required for students who want to be featured in films. Masks and social distancing are required for all in-person activities. 

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Mondays, 3:30pm-4:30pm. Beginner Filmmaking (Middle and High School) Downtown Silver Spring and via Zoom. Introduction to filmmaking is a course that explores basic techniques on how to make films from start to finish.  Teacher: Darryl Prather 

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Mondays, 5:30pm-6:30pm. Intermediate Filmmaking/High School Only. Downtown Silver Spring and via Zoom. Intermediate filmmaking is a course that ventures past the basics of introductory filmmaking and explores advanced techniques that contribute to making a film.  Teacher: Darryl Prather 

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Mondays, 5:30pm-6:30pm Drawing 101 (Beginner/High School Only):  Downtown Silver Spring and via Zoom. Develops basic drawing skills and understanding of visual language through studio instruction/lecture. Introduces concepts such as proportion, space, perspective, tone and composition as applied to still life, landscape and the figure.  Teacher: Shereka Mosley 

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Wednesdays, 3:30pm-4:30pm. Graphic Design Photoshop (Beginner/Middle/High) Downtown Silver Spring (in-person only). Graphic Design is a course that explores graphic communication through the understanding of the elements and principles of design; as well as, the design process, from idea development through the final execution of a document. 

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Wednesdays, 5:30pm-6:30pm Student Newsletter Club, Middle and High School. Downtown Silver Spring and via Zoom. The Newsletter Club will create a student newsletter on social justice and media arts that will be published every three weeks. Students choose topics and GB Youth Media student films and designs to feature in the newsletter.

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Wednesdays, 5:30pm-6:30pm Intermediate Filmmaking/Musician and Artist Documentary Film Project/Middle and High School. Downtown Silver Spring and via Zoom. This is an intermediate class in which teens with intermediate film production or editing skills will design and edit an artistic documentary film about a group of guitarists and visual artists from around the DC region. This class is focused on devising and editing a 30 to 45-minute film based on musical performances and interviews already filmed previously.

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Thursdays, 3:30pm-4:30pm, Beginner Fundamentals of Art (Middle & High School). Downtown Silver Spring and via Zoom. Fundamentals of Art focuses on the development of concepts and elements of art, thus on the compositional basics of line, form, value, color, texture, and spatial relationships. Art projects are oriented toward developing these fundamental artistic skills.

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Thursdays, 6:00pm-7:00pm, Beginner Filmmaking/High School Only. Downtown Silver Spring and via Zoom. Introduction to filmmaking is a course that explores basic techniques on how to make films from start to finish. Students will learn these techniques to create experiences that use ideas, stories, perceptions, or feelings through the use of moving images.