 In this section you will have the opportunity to look at the various types of art that were inspired by The Beatles. Your mission is to learn all you can about the album cover art, the fashion, the films, and the merchandise related to The Beatles. Then using your artistic ability and talent, apply what you have learned to the following activities. |
III BEATLE RELATED ART ACTIVITIES
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 Beatles Discography: The definitive official release discography on the Web - lists personnel, dates, even the original album/single/EP cover art for the US and UK releases. Fantastic! From Victor Munoz. http://macul.ciencias.uchile.cl/%7Evmunoz/discs/discs.html If you haven't seen it all, please visit this site also. The Beatles Complete U.S. Discography: Richard Martens' site gives all the US release info that Munoz' site does, but in a more visually appealing style -- and with original single and album covers. http://www.discographynet.com/beatles/beatles.html Also, look at CD, cassettes, or album covers of your favorite bands. Then design an album cover or CD art for The Beatles, or a group of your choice. Use any software program or other medium that you have available. Save the image to a disc. Publish the image in a Web page and send the URL to the instructor. Assignment #1 Choice #2 Browse the Net and find two sites concerning the art work on album, cassette, or CD covers. Write a two-page paper, including the sites you found, detailing the process used to make the art work. Assignment #1 Choice #3 Browse the Net and find two sites concerning the art work on album, cassette, or CD covers. Write a two-page paper, including the sites you found, describing a famous artist in this genre.
FLASHBACK Web Teacher: This site will guide you through the steps and teach you how to actively browse the Web for useful resources. http://www.webteacher.org/macnet/indextc.html  The Writing Center: Documenting Sources MLA This is a useful handout describing the proper was to cite resources using the MLA Style guidelines http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/docsources.html http://falcon.eku.edu/honors/beyond-mla/ http://www.apa.org/journals/webref.html
Paint Shop Pro 6.1: Free download for thirty days. This software allows you to do a wide variety of tasks including creating backgrounds, images and image manipulation. Be sure to read the "How To" section after it is downloaded. http://www.jascsoftware.com/psp6dl.html Save the image to disc. Write a list of three things that you see that are similar between the1960's and now. Assignment #2 Choice #2 Browse the Net and research the decade of the 1960's. Write a two-page paper detailing statistics about the 1960's. Include things like the population, and any other interesting facts you can find. Then research the same facts about life today. Draw a graph depicting the differences. Cite two Internet resources you found when researching the topic. Assignment #3Choice #2 Manipulate a Beatle image that you find on the Internet using Paint Shop Pro or any other software program you have available. Save the image to disc.
FLASHBACK Reel Beatles: This site features plot summaries of all five of The Beatles feature films. It also includes interviews with the band members about the making of each film. http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~ba116594/reelbeatles.html Assignment #4Choice
#1 Rent one of The Beatle's films listed below
from the local video store and watch it. You can choose A Hard Day's
Night, HELP, Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine, or Let It Be.Then
write a two to five-page grammatically correct paper detailing all of the
aspects of the film.
You can begin by checking out the following link. The Fab Four's Groovy Gear: This site by Stacey Appel outlines the influence The Beatles had on the fashion scene. It's a great place to get started. http://www.fashionwindows.com/fashion_designers/beatles.asp Assignment #5Choice #2 Browse the Net and find information concerning Beatle collectibles. List ten different articles of merchandise that have now become popular collectibles associated with The Beatles by researching the topic on the Web. Be sure to cite the entire reference and URL. You can begin by checking out the following link. The Beatles Collectors Reference Center Homepage: This site contains everything you wanted to know about collecting Beatle merchandise and much, much, more. http://members.tripod.com/~beatlesite/index.htm Assignment #5Choice #3 Browse the Net and find at least three fashion articles that became popular in the 1960's that can still be seen today in the year 2000. List these fashion articles and cite the page where you found the resource. |
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