Photo Montage 2

For this photo-montage, you will need to shoot various angles of a single object or subject. Try walking around your subject while taking pictures. Try various levels of zoom to exaggerate certain features. Your result should be something that looks like a "Cubist" artwork. This photomontage should be around 15 photos combined.

 Picasso's "Portrait of Ambroise Vollard"

Example Photomontages

Selfies

Watch this video:


Then read this biography of Vivian Maier Click Here

Look at these examples of interesting selfies: Click here for Project Presentation

Vivian Maier managed to take many interesting “selfies”. Your challenge is to go out and take 8 - 10 selfies of yourself that go beyond the bathroom mirror duckface images that take up most of the internets.

Take selfies that have unique viewpoints, settings, lighting, etc...

Post these to schoology along with a written reflection. Can we take good selfies? Does taking a selfie make you a narcissist? Explain in a 5 sentences paragraph.

14b) Stop Motion Final Project

Today you should complete shooting your last stop-motion project.
Requirements:

• 400 - 600 Frames
• Intro Title
• Optional: Music added - with citation as an end credit- click this link here to see citation format
• Check out Incompetech for royalty free/creative commons music.
  Check out Free Sound Project for free sound effects (you must register at this site).
• Posted to youtube:
• Posting and Embedding your Video on your Blog
  
  Go to Youtube and sign in using your gmail/google credentials

  

  
  
  Click the upload button
  

  

  
  Drag your video into the web browser
  

  

  
  
  Click "Share" then Click "Embed"
  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

   First switch to HTML mode, then paste the embedding code at the very top. Then click publish.
  
  

  

When finished write a 3 paragraph reflection on the class. What were your favorite/least favorite projects and why? What were the most useful things you learned that you can use beyond this class?

14a) Stop Motion Practice

Today we will create a basic practice stop motion project. It should have 100 - 200 frames or separate photos.

Here are a couple cool examples of stop-motion:



Jump! ...a stop motion animation experimentation from kevin on Vimeo.

Here is an example of a bad frame rate and a good frame rate:
Bad frame rate (1 FPS):



Good frame rate (10 FPS):



 Once you have taken all of the photos follow these steps:

1) Open Photoshop and run the image processor:

 2) Select your source folder with your sorted photographs, then select the resize to fit option and set it to W: 1080 and H: 720. Then click run.

 3) When your images are done processing, quit Photoshop and launch Premiere. Create a new project and when you are prompted to create a new sequence choose the following settings:

 4) Then go into the Premiere menu>Preference>General

5) At this point you need to experiment with the still image default duration. I have set it to 2 frames. The smaller the number the quicker the image playback.

 6) Next go to the menu and select File>Import. Then go to the folder where all your photos have been image processed to. Select one image by clicking on it. Then execute the following keystroke to "select all": Command-A. Click "Open"

 7) Your images will appear in the project browser in the bottom left of the workspace:

 8) Click on one of the images and then keystroke "Command-A" to "Select all". Then click and drag the images into the timeline. At this point you can play everything back and see how it looks. If it runs too fast or too slow you will need to scrap the project, and go back to step 3. Don't worry, it will be very quick and easy the second time through!

Optional Exit Activity:

You need to bring in objects to use in your final animation project on Monday.

Write on your blog: What are several objects you will bring in on Monday that represent your personality/identity visually. How will you use them in an animation?

13a) Creating a Slideshow in Premiere

Creating a Slideshow in Adobe Premiere
For this assignment you will need to create a video slideshow of your work in Adobe Premiere.

Requirements:
5 - 10 photos your best work!
An intro title
Basic clip animation
Video transitions
5 - 10 sentence written reflection on your blog: What were your favorite projects during this course? Least favorite? Why? What did you learn? How can you apply this knowledge after high school?

Here is a video tutorial that will show you how to create a slideshow in Premiere, if you skip to 14:30 the instructions to export are explained.

10b) Models & Direction

When taking a posed photograph, you need to give your subject direction. Tell them big picture aspects of the pose: standing/sitting/profile/portrait/etc... Also tell them details: tip your head this way, open your left eye more, etc... Directing a subject or model is an important skill to have as a photographer.

Here is a link to the presentation from class: Click Here.

Assignment Part 1:

Capture an image with at least 4 models who spell something out. (They may need to lay on the ground)

Assignment Part 2:

Pictures from the modelling/direction game.

Post these parts to schoology with a written paragraph as a reflection (Follow standard reflection guidelines.)

10a) Still Life

Here are two images from a painter called Audrey Flack. She has used objects arranged in a classic "still-life" setup. The first image depicts Marilyn Monroe. Look closely at the objects and try and interpret their significance.

The second painting shows Audrey Flack's personal connection with paint.

Start thinking about objects you can bring in that you will photograph as a form of still life/symbolic self-portrait.

Requirements:

1. On schoology discussion; write 8 - 10 items that you can bring and why they are important to you - Flat objects are no good.

2. Photograph your subjects in a variety of arrangements on the fabric background. 

3. Shoot with overhead lights and standing lamps together, and separately.

4. Try different aperture settings and shutter speeds.