Monday, December 8, 2014

Mon. Dec. 8

Ms Chase is away, no cameras out today.

Please work on the following in the order of which it is presented.

  • Conflict piece of writing, last day to hand in rough drafts is Wed. Dec. 10. At this time I will be handing back all rough drafts and students will fix up and hand in good copies.
  • Bucket list : Due also on Wed. Dec 10
  • NEW ASSIGNMENT: look up and write down the definitions and an example of each of the following poetic devices: ( this will be handed in with your poem)
  • simile
  • metafor
  • personification
  • theme
  • onomatopoeia
  • hyperbole
  • oxymoron
POEM ASSIGNMENT ( do not hand in yet) You are to write an 8 line poem on a theme of your choice using one other poetic device when wiring the poem.

  • Work on editing your photography and putting photos up on to Flickr. Edit and organize photos for slideshow…we will be having a lesson on this next day and you should have 5 photos ready to put in to your slideshow. You might also want to find 3-4 coloured background photos, including one black background for your slideshow, and save these background into your slideshow folder. Photos for slideshow should be saved on your L drive. 

  • There should be NO BLURRY photos in your slideshow and all of the elements of composition should be taken into consideration when choosing photos for your slideshow. Subject matter should be interesting not random photos of boring subject matter. Detailed criteria will be discussed on Wed. in class
THERE IS LOTS TO DO SO DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME!

Monday, December 1, 2014

New Assignments this week Dec.1

New in Photo:

  • Spot colour: choose the best 5 photos to hi light colour 10 marks
  • Portraits: 8 photos in total, 4 of one model, 4 of another model ( try taking some of the oppposite sex, can be brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts or moms and dads or friends  16 marks
  • Your name in objects, either found objects or created ones. 10 marks
  • Test next day out of 10 on camera functions check out the link. 10 marks
  • Ongoing... 30 shots for your slideshow which is set to music. ( more info to come on this project) 30 marks
Writing
  • Conflict piece 10 marks
  • Bucket list: top 25 things you want to do before you turn 25. 20 marks
  • Poetry coming soon!