CCACE- Creative Catalyst
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Nevada City, California, United States
About the store
Jesse Wilson is a professional Artist and creator of CCACE (Creative Catalyst - Artist Consulting Educators), as well as the Owner and Operator of Skull Island Art and Fabrication, an art fabrication shop in California. She has worked with many different educators and organizations over the years, providing classes and collaborations with kids of all ages! This is an introduction to a workshop that was designed in the beginning of the 20/21 school year of remote learning. Jesse teamed up with a renowned PBL /STEAM School, High Tech High North County Middle School in San Diego, CA; to make a curriculum unique to the times. We explore: idea and project development, creative writing, shadow puppetry, and film making. This was a project that was designed in real time with 300 middle school students offering suggestion and insight. It is designed to be engaging and apply practical methods for creative building by working with recycled materials and common house hold objects. It is an on going and ever changing experience that is created with the kids we are teaching.
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16:14
What's the Story? A film making studio Pt. 2- EMPATHY & EMOJI'S
Welcome to the first tutorial of the studio! We start by exploring the interesting behavior of our emotional lives. Understanding Empathy at its core, allows us to create in a deeper and more meaningful way. Empathy has many different functions in our daily lives. It helps our sharpen intuitions, and expands our imaginations. EMPATHY AND EMOJI'S is a workshop about understanding how we interpret our feelings, compared to the feelings of others. We activate this instinct and then use it in
5th - 9th
Art, Other (Arts), Short Stories
13:08
What's the Story? A film making studio Pt. 3 - STORY & CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
Every good story has to start somewhere. In this tutorial we explore inspiration and how to recognize it and use it to build an idea. We workshop a WEB DIAGRAM, one form of thought mapping. The practices in this lesson help us to add more information and description to an idea, story, character, and subject of study. Thought Mapping is a fundamental tool in organizing subject matter of any topic, when we use it, we activate our imaginations in an exciting and fun way! Stay In touch with the
5th - 9th
Art, Creative Writing, Short Stories
19:32
What's the Story? A film making studio Pt. 8 - PUPPETRY & FILM
This lesson shares a great method of adapting part of your story into a shadow puppet show. We also address an important issue and how you too can share your thoughts around things that matter to you. We review all the steps of the process in a new story that I share! and we show you how to make environmental vignettes for your shadow puppet theater.
5th - 9th
Creative Writing, Performing Arts, Short Stories
5:53
What's the Story? A film making studio Pt. 10 - WRAP PARTY!
Thats a WRAP!!!! You did it! Now it's time to share our films and practice our post production reflections. This tutorial shares some great techniques for critique, and how to explore and share our discoveries around our projects. We ask each other thoughtful questions about our experiences and we get to see a bunch of great film projects! Thanks for all your hard work!
5th - 9th
Creative Writing, Performing Arts, Short Stories
19:24
What's the Story? A film making studio Pt. 6 - LIGHTING AND SPECIAL FX
Lighting is a great way to change the mood of your film. This lesson shares a way for you to add any color of lighting you want! This tutorial is packed with fun craft projects that add to the whimsical effects of your storytelling. These analog FX can be achieved when we realize the abundant building material that is all around us TRASH!!! Working with packaging and house hold goods, we learn how to build new skills and add magic to our art. Our world is full of free material. LOVE YOUR G
5th - 9th
Art, Creative Writing, Short Stories
21:19
What's the Story? A film making studio Pt. 5 - SCENE AND SHOT SEQUENCING
Scene and shot sequencing is an important step in the production of a film. Organizing your process in a way that keeps things in order chronologically is a great way to be efficient and let you play around with the fun stuff instead of trying to understand 'what' goes 'where'. Learning the benefit of these organizational techniques will be helpful in so many different ways. Keep in touch with news and new projects at CCACE! and for all things art at Skull Island!
5th - 9th
Art, Creative Writing, Short Stories
15:55
What's the Story? A film making studio Pt. 4 - STORY BOARDING
Now that we are building up a collection of characters and information, it's time to write a story! This tutorial features a writing workshop in the first half. We use the story from the creative writing project to make a story board for a short film! We cover a lot in this video so get ready! AND if you want to know more about the projects in the videos I share just hop on over to CCACE and meet some of our collaborators!
5th - 9th
Creative Writing, Performing Arts, Short Stories
15:01
What's the Story? A film making studio Pt. 7 - SHADOW PUPPETRY
We continue to add cool ways to enhance your film or story. In this tutorial we go into two subjects that are very dear to me, RE-CYCLED ART & SHADOW PUPPETRY! I teach you how to make a shadow puppet theater and puppets with house hold garbage. Its an exciting at home craft! The more we realize the potential of our waste the less we throw away! Join the movement join the fun!
5th - 9th
Creative Writing, Performing Arts, Short Stories
17:00
What's the Story? A film making studio Pt. 9 - EDITING BASIC'S
We have completed filming and are now about to begin the editing process. This can seem like an overwhelming task, but we are now going to see the benefit of the steps of production. Editing is easy! This lesson is a quick 'how to' for a few different editing programs, one is right on your phone! Once this step is completed, you will be officially a film maker!!! Cool!
5th - 9th
Creative Writing, Performing Arts, Short Stories
6:53
What's the Story? Part 1 - A film making studio- Introduction to the Artist
Jesse Wilson is a professional Artist and creator of CCACE (Creative Catalyst - Artist Consulting Educators), as well as the Owner and Operator of Skull Island Art and Fabrication, an art fabrication shop in California. She has worked with many different educators and organizations over the years, providing classes and collaborations with kids of all ages! This is an introduction to a workshop that was designed in the beginning of the 20/21 school year of remote learning. Jesse teamed up w
5th - 9th
Art, Other (Arts), Visual Arts
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About the store
Experience
Jesse Wilson is a professional Artist and creator of CCACE (Creative Catalyst - Artist Consulting Educators), as well as the Owner and Operator of Skull Island Art and Fabrication, an art fabrication shop in California. She has worked with many different educators and organizations over the years, providing classes and collaborations with kids of all ages! This is an introduction to a workshop that was designed in the beginning of the 20/21 school year of remote learning. Jesse teamed up with a renowned PBL /STEAM School, High Tech High North County Middle School in San Diego, CA; to make a curriculum unique to the times. We explore: idea and project development, creative writing, shadow puppetry, and film making. This was a project that was designed in real time with 300 middle school students offering suggestion and insight. It is designed to be engaging and apply practical methods for creative building by working with recycled materials and common house hold objects. It is an on going and ever changing experience that is created with the kids we are teaching.
Teaching style
Jesse works with: hands on internships, workshops, and on line tutorials around PBL subjects. Her style of teaching and consulting integrates the Arts with the Core classes. The skills learned in the on line tutorials offer an exciting method of presentation that compliment other topics of study. i.e. A film about a history or science project.
My own education history
Jesse has worked as a craftswoman for 20 years. She is the owner and operator of a commercial art business, and has been an entrepreneur all her life. She Graduated from JCOS in Lakewood. CO, and then went into apprenticeships in varying creative and building trades.
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