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Final Project – Photo 1

Film due on Monday, 12/10 (p3) and Tuesday, 12/11 (p4 &p5)
Part 1 – Planning
1. Brainstorm ideas for your photographs by writing 5 categories that interest you.
2. Under each of those categories, write a list (save to your photo folder on your computer) of of items that corresponds to each of those categories.

Part 2 – Photograph
1. Photograph a situation, event or object(s) that reveal something about you.
2. The above activity is intended to get you thinking about WHAT you will photograph.
3. The photographs may or may not have people in it, but the photographs MUST reveal something about you.
4. You must create a series of at least 3 photographs. A series is a group of related images.

Please be sure to incorporate all of your knowledge regarding:
• Depth of field, composition, and elements of design, especially light and perspective.
• Let these be the best photographs that you have ever produced in your entire life!!

Consider this: 50 years from now people should be able to figure out a characteristic, interest, or trait about you from viewing these images. In short, you are communicating a “slice of your life” through these photographs.

Due Date: Thursday, 12/6

In order to further your understanding of color schemes and composition please complete the following:

1. Make either a 1.5” square or a 1” x 1.5”rectangular viewfinder (I will show you how). Choose either a square or rectangle for the activity.
2. Using your viewfinder, as you might use a camera, look for an interesting shot. Look through magazines and find interesting compositions by sliding the “frame” over the page.
3. When you find one you like, lightly trace the frame, and cut it out.
4. Arrange them on your sketchbook page, categorizing them by color scheme.
5. Using at least 3 columns and 5 rows, glue (using a glue stick and gluing all the way to the edges) the squares/rectangles down to your page.
6. There should be equal amounts of white space between and around each composition.
7. Pay close attention to the cutting and the gluing. Craftsmanship Counts!!!

Homework Due Friday, November 30

In your sketchbook, please draw a circle that almost touches the edges of your page:
Then divide the circle into 12 sections and label them:
Red
Red-Orange
Orange
Yellow-Orange
Yellow
Yellow-Green
Green
Green-Blue
Blue
Blue-Violet
Violet
Violet-Red

Look through a variety of magazines to find several examples of those colors. Tear out the pages. Now tear small pieces of each of the colors, and glue them onto the page of your notebook to create a color wheel collage.
Reminders:
• Use small pieces of colored paper.
• Make sure pieces within each labeled color are similar.
• Make sure that each piece of the pie is a different color.
• High quality craftsmanship counts.
• Label the colors NEATLY!
• Use the whole page.

Sketchbook Assignment: Due Thursday, November 15

Please go to this website:

Spend some time exploring the site, paying particular attention to the first two buttons:
The Power of Color
The Physiology and Theory of Color

Then go to this website:

There you will find an assortment of artworks, from a variety of artists. Choose four of those pictures, download and insert them into a Word document, USE ONE PAGE. Next to each picture, please write the following:
o The name of the picture, the artist, and the date
o Explain what mood the picture evokes for you, and explain why. Use at least four complete sentences in your explanation, please.

PLEASE PRINT THIS DOCUMENT BEFORE CLASS ON THURSDAY.

Essential Questions:
In what ways is photography a unique/powerful means of communication?
How does learning about the history of photography help us to better understand the world in which we live?

Revisit the following link to help you get started:

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/

Communication in Photography: Major Themes
Social/Political Persuasion
Historical/Monumental Events
Social Change
Aesthetics
Exceptional Places
Human Conditions: tragedies, injustices, war and peace
A moment(s) in time
Famous/Infamous Personalities
Symbol(s) of an era

In pairs, research one of the following time periods. This will be assigned by the teacher.
1850 – 1900
1900 – 1930
1930 – 1945
1945 – 1960
1960 – 1970
1970 – 1980
1980 – 1990
1990 – present
Find powerful photographs(at least 3 per theme) that represent at least FOUR of the above major themes or ideas for your time period.

Identify who took the photograph, describe the circumstance/setting and justify the selection:
Include the photographer, date, title;
A well-developed paragraph; be clear, thoughtful, thorough;
Use a topic sentence;
Include discussion of supporting evidence.

Photograph INCREDIBLE & AMAZING photographs. Post your favorite image to your blog and explain why your posted it and explain the strategies/elements of design/composition that we have discussed and that you have learned in class.

This should be done with a digital camera. If you do not have access to a digital camera, come and see me AHEAD OF TIME, to make arrangements to do this.

Due Friday 11/16, at the beginning of class.