Module 5 - Creative arts Unit 5.4 - New forms of creativity: Mobile applications
1. What type of apps…
1. provide users with information about what’s going on in the world? 2. inform users about what to see in a certain place, adding details about it? 3. allow users to watch a film on their device? 4. record a user’s performances while running? 5. allow users to draw on their device? 6. put distant users in contact with each other? 7. help users to keep track of their appointments and errands? 8. entertain users with multiple different games?
2. Read the text and choose the correct option.
The Photojournalist with the iPhone Using a mobile phone allows Michael Christopher Brown 1. to be / being / be somewhat invisible as a professional photographer; people see him as just another person in the crowd. Invisibility is particularly useful in countries ruled by dictators. However, when he was 2. chosed / chose / chosen to enter the prestigious Magnum agency in 2013, the choice was an earthquake in the world of photography. Within Magnum itself, some members opposed it, but Michael was 3. nevertheless / besides / thus admitted the 4. following / previous / after year. The crooked noses and controversy at the time were not due to the abilities of the photographer, but to his choice of using the Iphone as a working tool. What he 5. been / was / got criticised for was his use of the Hipstamatic app, which works on contrasts: the app automatically modifies the original image. Brown’s shooting tool has been his iPhone 6. for / since / from 2013. A tool that no photojournalist 7. had / has / was previously imagined using to immortalise a conflict. For Brown, however, the Iphone has become a tool of choice since his camera broke during the revolution in Libya. His striking photos, his explicit and brutal shots of lifeless bodies and of Gaddafi’s face 8. been / being / be beaten represent one of the first reportages published in the international press to be made entirely with a smartphone.
4. Listen to the text and fill in the gaps. Is Digital Art Better? Far from the simple sketching tools of previous 1. , art has now officially gone digital. The most popular art apps currently on the market 2. artists with an unbelievable range of tools and customisation to create outstanding artworks on their devices. From hundreds of 3. to perspective and symmetry tools, the variety of features available to digital artists today is vast. The beauty of digital art is the convenience it provides artists. You can have an entire art studio contained in a single app, 4. you to create professional-quality paintings and detailed drawings whenever you feel like it. Whether you’re 5. your morning coffee or on your evening 6. , you can let your creativity 7. . There’s no art supplies 8. and zero clean up.