Ryerson Portfolio Day this Friday November 25th

Dear all, (Guidance Counsellors and teachers of Visual Art, CyberArts, Media Arts and CommTech)

In conjunction with the Faculty of Communication and Design (FCAD) open house  - FCAD IN ACTION -

your students will have the opportunity to meet with faculty and students from the 

Photography & Integrated Digital Studies Program offered through the School of Image Arts.

The open house is a day-long event that includes presentations by all of the FCAD Schools: Image Arts, Journalism,Creative Industries, Graphic Communications Management, Performance, Interior Design, 

Professional Communications, Fashion and RTA-Media.   These presentations and tours will be available to your students through the day.

Faculty/students from the Photography & Integrated Digital Media program will be available to meet with your students in the Image Arts Building from noon to 4pm. The purpose of these 

meetings is to advise students on the submission of their portfolios in the new year.

Your students can bring their work in digital form and should sign up using this link:

Faculty of Communication and Design in Action

If you have any questions and/or require additional information let me know.

Best regards,

Robert

Robert Burley, Associate Professor

Program Director, Photography & Integrated Digital Studies

School of Image Arts

Ryerson University

350 Victoria Street

Toronto, ON M5B 2K3

Phone (416) 979-5000 ext.3676

Fax     (416) 979-5139

Web    imagearts.ryerson.ca

Year 1 Tech Photo Assignment

Once you have taken all of your composition photos AND your portraits, and uploaded them using Image Capture, you're ready to select and edit.

Use Adobe Bridge CS6 to view, rate and select your photos for editing.

You should find your best photos of the following:
Success criteria: Accurately represents the rules of composition and blur techniques, in focus (where the focus should be), exposure, simplified background.
Rule of Thirds
Pattern
Framing
Leading Lines
Fill the Frame
Selective Focus
AND
Intentional Blur
Panning
Zoom Blur
AND
2 of your best portraits
 - Success criteria for portraits: Expression, lighting, composition, simplified background, in focus, exposure

You will have 10 photos in the end.

Post each photo and label it accordingly. Write about why you think it best represents the composition/blur technique and also what you like about the photo.
For the portraits, discuss the lighting situation and whether or not a reflector was used as well.

ULU - NAC10

An ulu (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐅᓗ, plural: uluit, English: "woman's knife"^[1]) is an all-purpose knife traditionally used by Inuit, Yup'ik and Aleut women. It is utilized in applications as diverse as skinning and cleaning animals, cutting a child's hair, cutting food and, if necessary, trimming blocks of snow and ice used to build an igloo.

Read this article about Kate Middleton wearing earrings inspired by the Ulu. 

Consider issues surrounding cultural and colonial appropriation, the role of the Royal Family in relationship to Canadian and indigenous sovereignty, and the influence of fashion and fame.

There is a lot to think about!

TDSB Skills competition poster/tshirt

Please enter this contest! Deadline is November 30th

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15ZEWQDQrFaKceXoadi0ojmR_zwCt10fJO-qNKoJxnTo/edit

Year 3 reminders

please make sure you have done the following.
Music videos through the decades. Plus cinematography learning on digital overdrive. Portraits from Steve Carty workshop. Best 5 portraits from portrait assignment. 3 lighting situations exercise (funding images from web) plus 3 portraits in different lighting. Open shade. Direct sunlight. Window light.

Year 1 Tech Photoshop Intro

Photoshop Tutorial #1 - Tuesday Nov. 8 2016

Photoshop - 10 things everyone needs to know

CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK in case it doesn't work.


Watch the video and take notes if you need to. In particular pay attention towards the end where he removes the subject from the background and replaces the background.
Using your photos from last week, see what you can do to practice some of the techniques you learned from the video.

Storyboards - The what, how and why. Year 3 Tech

Click HERE to read an article discussing the how-to of storyboards with templates you can download with various types of storyboards.

Click HERE for more storyboard templates that you can download and print.

You're going to want a storyboard that gives you some space to write some notes - about audio, any special effects etc.

Also, take note in the article that the person writing it is a storyboard artist! That's his job. So, something to think about as a career path if you love that idea.

STORYBOARD FOR MUSIC VIDEO!!!  To the left, if you click there, you'll find a great article that's specifically about creating storyboards for music videos. Worth checking out!