Mr. Boulanger, Computer Teacher

Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a French photographer who has become very famous for his splendid aerial photography (1) throughout the world. We saw his exhibit in Chicago, and each time he cares to display his work in public places so that everybody has access to his vision for free. The power of his photos comes from a detailed description for each shot in which he explains the world context of the photo.

He has now gone one step further by filming a spectacular movie about our entire planet. As you can imagine, being a photographer, the cinematography (2) of his movie is beautiful from beginning to end. Once again and because he wants as many people as possible to understand the issues at stake, he is releasing his documentary on June 5th (for the UN world environment day 2009) without any copyright. This means you can watch it for free, distribute it to whomever you want, play it wherever you want and even make remixes of it! so please download it from home-2009.com.

Photo © Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Watch the introduction by yann at ted.com.It’s really funny because he has a very strong French accent (you can put the subtitles on).

Watch the entire movie on youtube and share it with facebook.

A quote to remember: “You know the problem: we don’t want to believe what we know”.

(1) Aerial photography: Photography taken from an airplane

(2) Cinematography: The art or technique of movie photography, including both the shooting and development of the film.

These are the environmental magazine covers that Grade 10 produced.

A collage of all the covers made:

4 individual covers:

With this graded assignment, the students were able to apprehend the advertising world and the balance between form and content. Criteria emphasized the creation of eye-catching title and headlines (content) and the design of the cover (form).

[Project length: 3 class periods]