Action Photography for Capoeira: Year Two

CLICK HERE for the link to the Phlearn video on freezing motion in natural light.

Google Capoeira photos, vector art and videos to do some research before our photo shoot on Thursday.

Written Statement for Video Self-Portrait - Year One Tech

Please read through the requirements below to write about your Culminating Video Self-Portrait project

Submit a printed copy on Monday Jan. 26 by Noon with your sketchbook AND storyboard and ensure that your video has been submitted properly to the

Artist Statement Requirements _ Video Self-Portrait

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Your artist statement for your video self-portrait must cover the following:

1.     Conceptual ideas, visual symbolism and meaning

What were some of the ideas you were trying to convey about yourself? What (if any) visual imagery did you use to convey/express these or other ideas, literally or symbolically?

2.     Technical aspects

Discuss the choices you made in terms of the style of imagery (stills, video), types of shots (angles, camera shots, camera movements, composition – use of selective focus etc.), pace (how quickly or slowly the shots moved and changed, soundtrack (any music, sounds you chose to include) and choice of words (text vs. spoken).

3.     Explain and justify your choices both in terms of technical quality AND meaning – expression of YOU.

Artist statement must be typed 1-2 pages and should explain in detail your concept, stylistic choices and use of techniques learned in the class that combined to express your “self-portrait”.

Digital Surrealism - Year One Due Dates REVISED

Digital Surrealism assignment is DUE by Thursday Dec. 17 in the drop folder AND posted on your blog with the written analysis, however there is no more class time in which to work on this assignment. You have all received the questions for the written analysis. I will add them below as well.

Please submit the PSD file into the drop folder AND the jpg file in the drop folder AND on your blog.
Please print your written statement AND add it to your blog with your final image by Thursday Dec. 17th at 3:30 p.m.

Discuss the following in your artist statement. Please submit a printed copy of this, with a title page along with your final PRINT of your digital surrealism photo.

1. Discuss your concept. What was your intended message? Explain the meaning behind the images you used and any symbolism that was embedded in your image. (4)

2. Explain your procedure from beginning to end. Begin with your sketches and thought process and take us through the technical aspects of completing the work. Include information about how you used Photoshop. There should be evidence of knowledge and understanding here! (4)

3. Explain what your learned while completing this project - both technically and conceptually (if applicable). Also discuss whether or not you are satisfied with your end result. Why or why/not? (2)

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Year One Tech - Proposal for Digital Surrealism Assignment

1. POST YOUR PREZI! Please remember to post your surrealism presentation on your blog - embed it, so that it is playable from your blog. You will get a mark for this, or no marks if you haven't done it!

2. WRITE ABOUT YOUR IDEAS! Please submit a written paragraph (printed - not on your blog) about your ideas for your digital surrealism assignment. Refer to the assignment to make sure you've met all the requirements.
SUBMIT WEDNESDAY to Ms. SILVERMAN!

Digital Photography - part 1 (Year 1): Assignment Due Monday

We have an online text book that you will have access to by going to the following link:

http://clouddoi8.com/

Click on Existing User and find Lakeshore Collegiate from the list of schools

Your username: lakeshore
Your password: lci2016!

Chapter 14 - Traditional and Digital Photography:
Photography Basics

Go to the second page (click on the middle yellow dot at the bottom of the page) and select
Chapter 14. Traditional and Digital Photography.
Choose Photography Basics and read through the chapter. Be sure to click on any of the interactive links. Fill in the worksheets provided (DSLR camera parts) and hand it in at the end of the period. Also, please take the TEST provided at the end of the chapter.
For email, put in my email address (lisa.silverman@tdsb.on.ca) so the results will be sent to me.

If you don't finish the test this period, then submit via email by the end of the weekend.

Test results and handout DUE MONDAY October 26th.

When you are finished check out this LINK on Photography Composition

Also this LINK on the best photo essays of 2014 is worth checking out for inspiration.

Line in Design - Year One Tech

Lines are one of the most basic design elements used in art and design. They can be used to divide, to direct the eye, to create rhythm or to create forms. They can be implied and can also help form grids, one of the basic tools for layouts in graphic design.

FIRST, take about 20-30 minutes to read the following articles.

Here are 6 tips for designing with lines that will start you off.

Here is a post that goes into a little bit more detail about the use of line in design

Lines can also create mood and meaning. Here is a post that explains more about this in web design.


THEN, experiment with line by drawing 3 5x5" boxes in your sketchbook that convey 3 distinctly different emotions. Try to choose three different ones and challenge yourself!

Here are some ideas - anger, sadness, depression, boredom, joy, elation, fear, angst, anxiety, nervousness, enthusiasm, disappointment, happiness, loneliness, rage

You can fill the box any way you want, just use only line (pencil only) and express the emotion you chose. Please be prepared to hand in your sketchbook to Ms. Silverman on Tuesday. Make sure that you know what specific emotion you are trying to convey BEFORE you start sketching.

Kinetic Typography Submission and Artistic Reflection - Yr 2 Tech

Where and how to submit your final work:

Export final After Effects Project to a quicktime .mov file for your blog. 

Post on your blog with a brief written description AND drop the After Effects Project folder (include the exported .mov file and .aep file into the Drop Off folder marked Kinetic Typography

Reminder - you MUST drop off your entire folder to include ALL assets with your After Effects Project

Technical and Artistic Reflection (T&AR)

You will produce a piece of writing that will be one to two pages long. It must be in proper paragraph form and must address the following issues:

-        State the title of the work

-        List the medium (or media) and applications used.

-        Describe the content of the work.

-        What do you like about the final product? What would you change on reflection?

-        Describe your design choices. What did you do to make it look the way you did?

-        What technical or implementation challenges did you find most difficult?

-     Which technical or implementation solutions were most satisfying 

Please submit this on paper - printed and properly formatted!

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CyberARTS Year 3.

There are 20 options here for sound/image, still photography and video assignments. You must complete 10 of them in total.

You must complete one by the end of each week.

You must have at least two from each category. (sound/image, still photo, video) The rest is up to you.

1.   Take a close up photo of an object with unique texture or pattern; make us guess what it is.

2.   Make a photo of anger, or something that makes you angry.

3.   Make a photo that emphasizes one color much more than any others in the shot

4.   Record some outdoor sounds. Pair them with one, three or five still images.

5.   Fabric: we wear it, sleep on it, decorate with it. Make a photo of an interesting cloth design or texture.

6.   Take a creative photo without aiming in the viewfinder

7.   Take a photo that shows two contrasting things, e.g. light & darkness, life & death, cats & dogs etc.

8.   Power plugs are ubiquitous. Can you make a creative photo of such a common thing?

9.   Mix a sound from nature with a musical selection so both can be heard clearly.

10.                 Make a short audio of the sound of water pinging, flushing, splashing, roaring, tumbling...and add an image, or three or five.

11.                 Draw a flower with your eyes closed. Then turn it into a vector illustration.

12.                 Make a photo of an outdoor scene free of any human artifacts.

13.                 Take a picture of an object that is a metaphor for your learning style

14.                 Make a photograph of a plastic object that you’ve used today.

15.                 Make an extreme close up 30 second video of someone playing a musical instrument, using at least three different shots.

16.                 Record 30 seconds of ambient sound in your environment. Pair it with images that contrast the sound you've recorded.

17.                 Take a closer look at where you spend a lot of time. Photograph something there you never noticed before.

18.                 Take a picture of construction.

19.                 Make a 30 second video with sound of a typical street scene using wide, medium, close-up and extreme close-ups.

20.                 Find a grid pattern somewhere (brick sidewalk, ceiling tiles etc.). Make a photo of an interesting slice of it.