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Submitted
by Jude Grochowski
UNIT:
Photography - Art with a Message
Lesson: Collage/Symbol/Message
Concertina Book
Time:
Handout distributed 11/30/04 – due Dec 17
Grade Level: High School (adaptable to middle school)
Collage/Symbol/Message Concertina Book
For
this assignment, please look through your products (tonals, tests,
photograms and prints), and as you do so, consider a message they might
convey. You may also hand
colored your products, use text, (although words are not
necessary), or magazine cutouts, (although the point of the assignment is
to use your own photo products,
so consider keeping magazine cutouts to a minimum).
Create
a simple concertina book (directions below) with images on both sides,
using the cardstock provided. You
may present one theme on one
side of the book, and the opposite
theme on the other side. If
you are at a loss when planning a theme, perhaps you would just like to
illustrate a term from our visual vocabulary handout, such as texture,
line, shape, etc.
You
will be cutting images with an X-acto knife (remember to place scrap mat
board under anything you cut), or scissors and using glue-I have some
techniques for effective gluing. You
may need to score some areas of your products if they lay over a seam-this
technique will also be demonstrated.
Plan
your layout!
It may be somewhat surreal or abstract in appearance.
Try to achieve an overall unity and flow across the pages.
Cover both the ‘front’ and ‘back’ of the book.
As
you work on this book, also consider that it might make a nice gift for
someone!
Book Layout:
Cut a single longer
piece of paper to whatever height you choose.
Fold your long sheet
of paper in half.
Fold each half to the
middle. You should have a
mountain/valley fold sequence. If
you don’t re-fold until you do.
If you wish to use
multiple pieces that are glued (to form a longer book) leave extra paper
at the end to create a flap. (I
will demo how to do this if it doesn’t make sense).
Apply paste to the
extra lip or flap on each of the smaller pieces of paper to maintain a
smooth mountain/valley fold.
Grading
Criteria:
- Concept-idea,
layout and conveyance of meaning
- Process-time
on task
- Product-innovative
approach and overall visual impact of layout
- Writing-intent
statement explaining concept
Due
date:
Parent signature
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Student
Work:
The Terror of the
Tonal Birds
Click for larger images - see detail
"The birds I used in this book are from my
photographs of the three seagulls. Seagulls
are relatively harmless creatures, but if they were to attack I ‘m sure
there would be facial expressions that looked like this.
Most of the city’s citizens are shocked, but there are some who
are trying to defend the magazine citizens by means of light-sabers,
kung-fu, and heavy metal."
Color VS Black
& White
"When I first started this project, I had no clue
what I was doing. Everyone
seemed to be doing “lines” or just cutting out small pieces of
magazines and gluing them to their picture book.
My friends and I do this a lot where we’ll cut up something we
like in strips, then mix them up, and paste them to paper in any order
(kind of so it’s abstract and doesn’t show anything).
I wanted to use that on this project, and show difference between
colors and blacks& whites. I
wish the color strips would’ve turned out bolder.
I happy with it though."
We’re All the
Same
"This book, made
of my products, shows many different people and their facial features.
My intention was to show that no matter what race, sex, age, etc.,
we’re all the same. We’ve
all got eyes, ears, a nose, a chin, etc., even though each one is
different."
Alternate
Lesson Approach:
This
lesson could be done using all magazine photographs for those who do not
teach photography. Vintage magazines could be used. Students would create
collage to tell a story. Collage could be assembled on hinged mat board
pieces or hinged masonite. Students could create a concertina book with
manipulated art reproduction images (from old books). See the work of
Barry Kite (Aberrant Art).
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Elementary Lesson Idea
from Kathleen Arola
Mixed Media Accordion Book
Second grade book with pages using different media (tissue paper,
crayon texture rubbing, ink pad rubber stamping, printmaking
stamping, photograph collage and the cover was handmade marbled
paper).
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