Thursday, March 31, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
narrative photo assignment examples
5000 Word Essay due Monday
(((((((A PHOTO IS WORTH 1000 WORDS.)))))))
This next assignment will require you to do some more thinking before you shoot the photos.
~NO PHOTOS WILL BE TAKEN IN CLASS!~ So, don't ask.
You must take the photos at home, or at school during lunch, etc. If you do not have photos by Next Monday, you will be writing a paper in place of the next assignment. You've been warned (and you have a WHOLE WEEK!)
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Rules
- You will be telling a story using only 5 photos.
- Choose any subject, but the entire sequence should visually tell a story.
- A title is the only words that can be used. Rely on the photographs to bring the story to life
- You MUST include a title, but don't write the title on ANY of the photos.
- The title can help guide the viewer to better understand your story.
- DO NOT PUT ANY WORDS ON THE PHOTOS.
Guidelines for Telling a Story
Guidelines are not rules, but a formula that can be used to suit your creative imagination. Several avenues exist for story telling, such as journalistic reporting, sequential photos that reveal a moment, photographic poetry, and narrative.
The following guidelines are for narrative.
A good story has characters in action with a beginning, middle, and an ending. Fortunately a lot of information can be given in a single photograph, enhancing the limitations of five photographs for your story. Location, time, and atmosphere aid viewer imagination. Keep individual composition in mind, but pack as many story telling elements in one photograph as possible to develop an action.
Remember: these are just guidelines. Creative people may not use these, and be even more successful!
You may want to use the following format...but I would prefer you were more creative and came up with your own idea.
1st photo: establish characters and location.
2nd photo: create a situation with possibilities of what might happen.
3rd photo: involve the characters in the situation.
4th photo: build to probable outcomes
5th photo: have a logical, but surprising, end.
Also, don't forget to give your Narrative a title, but do not put words on the photos.
Be thinking about this assignment for the next few days...but we will work more on it after we finish the Blur pictures, which will probably be on Thursday.
Examples will follow on a post tomorrow.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Beginning Spaced Out
REMEMBER: Keep "merging layer" down from time to time. You should also save to your desktop or flash drive every once in awhile to avoid losing your work.
To begin construction of your photo design, create a new blank page in Paint.NET that is 24" wide by 18" tall at 200 dpi resolution. You will paste your image pieces onto this blank canvas to construct your image.
Be warned! You will have to reduce the size of each photograph -- they will be too large to fit all of them onto the blank page. To do this...Go to Image Menu. Click on Resize. Then select "By Percentage" and change the percentage down to 10 or 15%. You can then copy and paste your smaller image into your 24" by 18" canvas.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Spaced Out -- Examples from last year
Alex-Garage
Brittany-Doors
Nick-Spaceship
Christie-Track
Julia-Staircase
Some of these are better than others. You can be the judge.
Brittany-Doors
Nick-Spaceship
Christie-Track
Julia-Staircase
Some of these are better than others. You can be the judge.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Similar to "Spaced Out" assignment
I found this pic online at http://www.jeffzoet.com/
You should check this site out! It's pretty awesome!
Monday, March 14, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Appreciate what you have.
If today you lost
everything you have...
and tomorrow you got
it all back,
tomorrow would
be the best
day of your
life.
Identity Photos
Basquiat, Self-Portrait. Taken from http://www.myfreewallpapers.net/artistic/pages/basquiat-self-portrait.shtml
Photos for Identity Assignment are due on TOMORROW! ---(Wednesday March 2, 2011)
Today you should have just completed a Guided Reading WS that goes along with Chapter 5 of the Focus on Photography Book.
NOW, you will post a paragraph on your blog that answers the following question: What is an autobiography? What is a self-portrait? How are an autobiography and a self-portrait the same? How are they different? This post should be at least 2 paragraphs. It is worth 20 points.
Note: If you do not have images tomorrow, you will complete an alternative assignment.
For your alternative assignment, you will write:
a 2 page, (double spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font, 1 inch margin)
autobiography of your life. What are the major events in your life that have made
you who you are?
Visit this site for help:
http://www.ehow.com/how_2002081_write-autobiography.html
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