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Purpose:
The purpose of this assignment is to introduce
digital manipulation using Adobe Photoshop. Scanning, Crop and selection
tool techniques, use of the digital camera and how to create a
photomontage using the faculty as the subject to print.
Evaluation: The
assignment below will be combined with all other assignments in this unit
to determine your grade.
Instructions:
You will work with a partner for this project. You
will need to digitally photograph your faculty member. One with the body
and one shoulder and up. We will talk more about positions during our
overview discussion. Save these images as JPEG in a folder in your student
graphics folder as faculty-your name.
Resources:
Barry
Kite - Aberrant Art "Barry Kite's style of social and political
parody via the "re-positioning" of art historical and
contemporary media imagery has won him several art competition awards and
placed his work in numerous private and corporate collections." Kite
combines photographic and hand-coloring techniques to create the
foundation of his current work. For most of the past 25 years, Barry's
work has been cut-and-paste: done by hand, no computers. Recently however,
he acquired a large format digital printer and has been playing around
with Photoshop--which may become a more prevalent tool in the future.
Surrealism.
Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali. Let me (Judy
Decker) know if you need this lesson updated for student use.
A. Procedure
1. This
project will be a humorous photomontage of our faculty. You will need to
sign up for a teacher/administrator you'd like to use in this project. You
will need to get a permission form signed to do this and fill out the
information sheet on your faculty member.
2. This
project is not to be shared with anyone outside of the class. We will
surprise the faculty with a special display and letter.
3. Choose
an existing image or take one yourself that you will combine with the
Faculty's image. It needs to
relate to the questions asked on the questionnaire. We will discuss this
at length in our overview. Note from Judy: You might want to make this an
art history lesson too.... find some master work of art to tweak. in
PhotoShop. See work of Barry Kite.
4. You
will need to follow the directions learned in prior lessons.
5. Your
resolution mode should be 300 dpi for print and only 72 dpi for web. For
this project we are going to print it.
6. Save
and name the file by the faculty's name and your name.
7. Do
not print until you have shown me the collage on screen. Print to the
laser printer for this project.
8. You
will need to create two prints. One to be mounted and turned in for a
grade and display and one to give the faculty member.
For "low technology" -
Students take digital photographs of faculty - then create collage from
magazine images (cut and paste) - then size the faculty photograph to fit their
composition.
Faculty Questions:
Students choose a faculty member
and no one can choose the same one. They then have to ask the faculty
member if they would be willing to be a part of this project and set up
a separate time for a question interview. Most are happy the students
even thought of them to do this.
The questions consist of the
following?
1. If you would have not chosen
teaching as your career, what would your dream job be?
2. If you could travel anywhere in
the Universe, where would you go?
3. What are your favorite foods?
4. What sport or event would you
try if you had super strength and had the money to do it?
5. What is your favorite movie?
6. What is your favorite music
performer or band?
7. If money was no problem, what
three items would you purchase immediately?
B. Criteria for evaluation
Submitted by Sarah Wegenast, Aurora
Middle School
Unit:
Digital Imaging
- Computer
Graphics & Design
Lesson:
Digital
Imaging - Poster
Grade level: Middle school and up (Sarah did this with 9th graders)
  From
Sarah: This is the last project of the semester. By this time they are
very well versed in Photoshop. They choose a subject of their own
interest. They must use filter combinations, color saturation changes,
layers, opacity, it must follow a theme and basically hit on every area we
covered over the semester. A lot of this deals with size of images due to
the fact that it will be printed on an 11X 17 printout. Some images will
have to be scanned in and others from the Net. I really let them go at
this with little or no intervention. They have the technical knowledge and
the element and principle, layout, etc knowledge to complete this. It
really is the final project that helps me assess their working knowledge
and technical know how.
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