Wednesday, February 17, 2016
New photo assignment: Skate park shoot
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 or objects or even the skate park itself...just make sure you remember your rules of composition while shooting. ( 10 shots = 20 marks)
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. (marks 10)
writing good dialogue
10 tips for writing better dialogue
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. (marks 10)
writing good dialogue
10 tips for writing better dialogue
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Week of Feb 1
We spent some time learning how to bring a photo into Photoshop, how to use a crop tool, how to make some basic lighting adjustments. I reviewed privacy settings in Flickr
Writing Assignment #1 : Description of self as though you are a character in a book. Much of our focus this semester will be based on trying to get you to use show not tell in your work. This assignment focuses on this idea right away. A typical description of self would include a physical description with some likes and dislikes...boring! So instead describe yourself how Stephen King might write about you in one of his horror stories. Imagine how you would be described in a Twilight novel. Write about you the way a writer would see you. The easiest way to do this is to put yourself into a situation, and use the situation to describe yourself. Sounds a little complicated...well it is. I'm not expecting perfection....we will continue to work on this assignment in class. You can choose first or third person narrative.
Marks: 10
Photo assignment #1: Take 2 head shots of two different people. You are going to do some basic editing in Photoshop and then save the photo on your l:drive and on Flickr. We will create a new album called head shots.
Writing Assignment #1 : Description of self as though you are a character in a book. Much of our focus this semester will be based on trying to get you to use show not tell in your work. This assignment focuses on this idea right away. A typical description of self would include a physical description with some likes and dislikes...boring! So instead describe yourself how Stephen King might write about you in one of his horror stories. Imagine how you would be described in a Twilight novel. Write about you the way a writer would see you. The easiest way to do this is to put yourself into a situation, and use the situation to describe yourself. Sounds a little complicated...well it is. I'm not expecting perfection....we will continue to work on this assignment in class. You can choose first or third person narrative.
Marks: 10
Photo assignment #1: Take 2 head shots of two different people. You are going to do some basic editing in Photoshop and then save the photo on your l:drive and on Flickr. We will create a new album called head shots.
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