Skatepark Shoot

 When taking photos focus on:

• Getting close enough to your subject
• Framing the shot so you have clean backgrounds
• Be aware of the assignment criteria
• Make sure your shots are in focus

NEW Skatepark Shoot

New Photo Assignment: Skate Park shoot  - In this assignment students should focus on taking shots from different angles. The skate park makes an excellent backdrop for photos, so make sure you have a focal point in all of your shots. You could shoot people, skaters/bikers in action, objects or even the skate park itself...just make sure you remember your rules of composition while shooting. Try a variety of different types of shots. Also if you take any objects out to shoot they must get returned. 

( 10 shots = 20 marks)

Criteria: 10 well composed shots focusing on angles. You may need to take up to 30 photos to get 10 really good ones. Please edit your photos!

• top down: looking down at your subject or object
• looking up: up from the bowl at the person's feet hanging down
• at ground level: get on your stomach and shooting  
• dutch angle:please do not do more than one of these. Shooting on a tilt
• horizontal: camera is horizontal
• vertical: camera is in a vertical position

MAKE SURE ALL SHOTS HAVE A FOCAL POINT AND WATCH FOR CLUTTER IN THE BACKGROUND

LINK to Article on Angles: Short Article to Review on Angles

LINK TO SAMPLE: car shoot angles

LINK TO SAMPLE: skatepark angle example

Conflict Writing

 Today's To Do's

• Organize Folders
• See Ms Chase about your grades
• Work on 5 Spring Shots
• Work on Conflict

Let's write about Conflict

So, stories are about adversity. Happiness can be the ending of the story, but it can’t be the story itself. Why not? Because happy characters don’t want to change. Happiness doesn’t force the characters to act and thus reveal themselves and, if the characters are having a good time, the reader is not.

To be forced to change, to act and reveal their innermost selves, characters need to be frustrated, desperate and at the end of their rope. The worse you make it for your characters the better it is for the reader. When the characters give all they’ve got, readers experience it deeply and powerfully.

To create true conflict, two things are needed: a want and an obstacle. Your protagonist must want something, and there must be an obstacle (the antagonist) that’s trying to stop her from getting what she wants (Ahab wants to kill the whale, the whale wants to kill Ahab).

Both the want and the obstacle must be strong and determined. If either is weak, it will be impossible to create a good story. 

Conflict brings stories to life, though it isn’t important for what it is, but for what it does. What does it do? The answer to this question lies at the very heart of storytelling. Conflict forces characters to act in ways that reveal who they are – and nothing tells us more about characters than how they deal with their troubles.

When conflict exposes who a character really is, the reader is drawn in through identification. The more difficult the character’s choice, the more his true nature will be revealed. In great stories – Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet; Scarlett O’Hara; Frodo; Harry Potter – the heroes are forced to go all the way. The more pressure you put on your character, the more you make him reveal his true, inner self and the more powerfully your readers will identify with them.

Criteria: At least a half page in length, have it edited by Ms Chase before handing in final copy.

LINK to how to write conflict: How to write Conflict

Red Dress Instructions

 

Editing the Red Dress: Photo by Alexis Hazard

Go in to Photoshop, open your Red Dress photo into the program.

Go to the 4th tool down on the left and choose the Quick Selection tool ( right click to get it)

Go to the SELECT tool at the top and select INVERSE.

Then go to IMAGE /ADJUSTMENTS/BLACK AND WHITE

Then DESELECT and your dress should be in RED and the background in black and white

Then RESIZE your photo to 8x10  by going into IMAGE/IMAGE SIZE after sizing, go to VIEW fit on screen, then PRINT to LIB COLOUR, pick up your print, put your name on the back and save as copy into your folder on the Mdrive as a jpeg

All assignments for Term 3

 Writing

• Bio
• Bucket List
• Setting
• Dialogue: due Friday at the latest ( hand it in even if you missed the deadline!!!!!
• (total marks 40)

Photo

• Headswap
• Headshots-5 shots
• Scavenger Hunt - 5 shots
• Candy Macros -10 shots
• Other Macros -10 shots
• Macro Slideshow due thisThurs April 18 and Fri April 19 to be shown in class
• (total marks 90)

Total: 130 marks

Macro Slideshow Info

• Program is Photostory for Windows... Under the start menu
• Photos are timed 3.5 seconds
• Audio files are on the Mdrive, under Chase 2024  in a folder called audio files
• Slideshows need to be in a WMV format not WP3
• Make sure they save in their own folder then move to the slideshow folder
• Test the slideshow to make sure it works 

If finished everything... help someone else with their slideshow!!!!

5 SPRING SHOTS: You are looking to create photos that represent the idea of new life, spring weather, people happy, sunshine or things blooming.

Criteria: In focus, clear focal point, try using the digital SLR cameras

RED DRESS SHOTS: (Partners or Groups of 3) Take out a red dress on a hanger and place it somewhere interesting and take a few interesting photos of it...try different angles. Upload to photoshop and keep the dress red while turning the background black and white.

Tues/Wed April 2 and 3

 

You should all be working on the following:

• Macro slideshow; taking and editing photos 
• NOTE: all photos need to be in JPEG format!!!
• You need 10 candy macros and 10 other macros
• Making sure all old assignment files are organized and up to date for marking.
• NEW  writing assignment : DIALOGUE

Dialogue Assignment #4

 Dialogue: I already introduced this assignment in class, here is the info you need to do the assignment properly. Dialogue is a conversation between two people. In writing a story or novel, good dialogue will do one of two things; move plot or develop character. Your task is to create a dialogue between two characters that does one or the other or both. It might help to create a conflict between the two characters.

The minimum lines of dialogue are 8 lines per character. 16 lines total  Marks:10 

Work Due Before March Break

Writing:

• bio paragraph
• bucket list
• setting of favourite place

Photo:

• 5 headshots
• scavenger hunt
• 10 candy macros
• headswap in photoshop

Working on 10 additional macros,

slideshow of 20 macros due after the break

Week of March 3

Candy Macros : 10 photos edited 20 marks

10 general macros or up close objects 20 marks

Slideshow 10 mark s= Total 50 marks

NEW  Writing ASSIGNMENT: You are going to write about a favourite place using the 5 senses. As you describe the place, I want to you to use words that create visuals, sounds, tastes, and a sense of touch. The idea here is to write to create an atmosphere or feeling. 

• You may need to build a fictional story around this place or simply begin describing it. In this assignment students are to focus on the elements of setting ( time, place, description)  using the senses and the concept of show not tell.  (10)

LINK to further reading: Setting article: more info

Link:get some help here

Example:

from "The Old House at Home" (1940)

by Joseph Mitchell (1908-1996)

McSorley's bar is short, accommodating approximately ten elbows, and is shored up with iron pipes. It is to the right as you enter. To the left is a row of armchairs with their stiff backs against the wainscoting. The chairs are rickety; when a fat man is sitting in one, it squeaks like new shoes every time he takes a breath. The customers believe in sitting down; if there are vacant chairs, no one ever stands at the bar. Down the middle of the room is a row of battered tables. Their tops are always sticky with spilled ale. In the centre of the room stands the belly stove, which has an isinglass door and is exactly like the stoves in Elevated stations.

When describing a place in fiction, think about the sounds, smells and other sense details that distinguish it from others. Here is Dickens describing the industrial city of Coketown, for example, in Hard Times (1854):

It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black … It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of buildings full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.

From Harry Potter:The first several chapters of the book take place at the Dursleys' prim house on Privet Drive. The Dursleys' home may look polite and regular, with its "tidy front garden" (2.1) and its inhabitants' emphasis on behaving just like everyone else, but that doesn't make it a nice or welcoming place to live. In a way, it has just as much darkness and unhappiness as you might expect from a magical landscape. Nephew Harry is forced to live in a "cupboard under the stairs" (2.13) while the son of the house, Dudley, enjoys two bedrooms to himself. The Dursleys' house might look cheerful from the outside, but inside Harry sees only bleakness. Let's not forget that Whinging, in British English, means whining. Even the town they live in is annoying.