Update of Photo Assignments

• Head shots: 3 shots plus one of yourself
• Texture: 5 shots head on of textural items
• Object shots: Choose interesting objects  and take 5 photos keeping in mind the elements of composition
• Macros: 5 shots up close of interesting subject matter
• NEW ONGOING: 30 shot slideshow....can only use 5 assignment shots. Photos can be taken of anything, but these should be your best photos. Put into a slideshow with appropriate music

Update Writing Assignments

• Bio
• Setting: using the senses
• Dialogue: 12 lines moving plot or developing character

Macros

You are take 5 close up shots of objects. Your photos should all be in focus and will be graded for the elements of composition.

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New writing assignment

New writing assignment:   Dialogue: In this assignment, students are to write 16 lines minimum of dialogue between two characters. The characters can be fictional and the setting of the situation can be anywhere. The main criteria for this assignment is that the dialogue must move plot or advance character. (marks 10)

Moving plot means the dialogue does not just go back and forth like in in a text message, it means that part of the story is being revealed through the dialogue. Or in the case of this not working…a fair bit of information is revealed through the dialogue about the characters. You may place your dialogue in any setting or situation.

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Ms Chase is away today, so we will not be out with cameras. Students should remain in the lab and work on the following:

• NEW 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)

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.

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Today Oct 7

Please make sure you have completed the following:

• On Flickr...name, buddy icon, photos uploaded in albums
• Bio in good copy handed in to Ms Chase
• New assignment 5 object photos

First two photo assignments: Oct 2/2014

Photo Assignment #1: 5 texture shots, shot head on or top down....shots should fill the frame, be in focus, and be cropped and edited for lighting. (10 marks)

Photo Assignment #2: 3 head shots of partners and 1 of yourself. Make sure you are close enough and have created a flattering photo of your partners.(5 marks)

Lesson on Textures

How to Upload Photos

1. Get card reader, plug into USB port on computer, put card into sd slot on card reader.
2. Allow some time for the info on the card to connect with the computer
3. Prompt will come up. copy pics to a folder on my computer, select the photos you want to upload by clicking on the boxes
4. click NEXT, it will ask what  name you want on your photos, then it will ask where you want to place these photos, click Browse, go to my computer, find your L drive, click on your Photo 9 folder then go to the unedited folder and click NEXT...your photos will begin to upload
5. You can then go to your Photo 9 folder and look at them

EDITING
At this point we will only be doing minimal editing including cropping and lightning photos.
You can check out these editing programs or try Photoshop on the school computers.

Pic Monkey Editor
Pixlr Express
Lunapic editor