Wed/Thurs Feb 14/15

How to Use a digital SLR camera 

 

Assignment today...not for marks but for learning:

• Sign out a  camera with Ms Chase. Go out with a partner and try out the Digital SLR on automatic mode.Each person should take a few photos.
• Come back in and get a card reader and upload photos to your M drive folder. Allow your partner to access the M Drive so they can copy the photos to their M Drive
• Shut off camera, return card, put camera back

Mon/Tues Feb 12/13

buck·et list

noun

INFORMAL

1. a number of experiences or achievements that a person hopes to have or accomplish during their lifetime.

   "making this trip is the first thing on my bucket list"
2. 
   

Your next assignment for writing is to create a bucket list of the top 20 things you would like to do before you turn 25. Please do not create repetitive lists.

Friday Feb 9

  1. Great Wildlife Photos

Work Block on: 

• 5 Headshots
• 6 Scavenger Hunt shots
• Bio Paragraph
• Practice Editing in Photoshop

Wed./Thurs Feb7/8

Where do Ideas Come from?

Where do the best ideas for stories and characters and images come from? Where will you find the most fertile resource for imagination and truth? 

Your mind, of course. And in your everyday life.

Writing is very much about elements such as plot, characterization, description, dialogue, and voice, but often the most important work does not happen at the keyboard. It comes from somewhere deeper, from bringing the riches of your mind to the surface. It’s a process that happens when you are away from the words and outlines—often sleeping or dreaming or going about your everyday tasks.

Allow your mind to wander....be bored or still some of the time so you can live in your imagination. This is the place where the greatest riches are found.

What do you have to say to the world?

What stories are your dreams revealing to you?

Have you observed someone interesting lately?

What are you frustrated about?

Unleash your fantasy world.

Remember, great writers write everyday, not because they have to, but because they need to, and  because they have something to say to the world.

Check out some writing topic ideas

NEW  Writing Assignment #1: Students are to write a bio telling about themselves including: interests, hobbies, likes/dislikes, favourite foods, fav. books, foods etc. This assignment should be written in third person. Ex. Jane is a shy girl who lives in Comox with her two cats named Goofy and Mittens. Jane enjoys knitting in her free time ……Length 1 paragraph

Criteria: 

• detailed, specific writing 
• 1 paragraph in length
• proper spelling and grammar
• typed 

When finished, you are to find a partner in the class to read your paragraph to and get them to help you improve  the piece by offering suggestions. Make sure the assignment is typed and has your name on it.

Examples:https://insights.bookbub.com/great-author-bio-examples/

As a child, King apparently witnessed one of his friends being struck and killed by a train, though he has no memory of the event. His family told him that after leaving home to play with the boy, King returned speechless and seemingly in shock. Only later did the family learn of the friend's death.^[

When King was two, his father left the family. His mother raised him and his older brother David by herself, sometimes under great financial strain. When King was 11, his family moved to Durham, Maine, where his mother cared for her parents until their deaths. 

In conversation with Terry Gross, King says: "My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did."

Mon and Tues Feb5/6

 Review of Composition

• Rule of thirds
• Focal Point
• Fill the Frame
• Rule of odds
• Leading lines

NEW Assignment: Scavenger Hunt on your phone

• something red
• fill the frame
• the isfeld logo or something with the word isfeld in it
• something round
• a school supply
• BONUS: close up of an eye

 From last class:

• create a folder under Chase 2024 on the MDrive
• create a wriing folder on the ONEDRIVE

Open Adobe Photoshop and Photo Story and drag them to the desktop of your computer

To set your Apple devices to take photos in JPEG/JPG instead of HEIC and to have the resolution be high:

1. Go to Settings
2. Tap Camera
3. Tap Formats
4. Tap Most Compatible

2. Rule of Thirds

What is the rule of thirds? The rule of thirds is a composition guideline that places your subject in the left or right third of an image, leaving the other two thirds more open. While there are other forms of composition, the rule of thirds generally leads to compelling and well-composed shots. But, once you know this rule and practice it a bit, you can break the rule.

2. Questions to ask yourself before taking a photo: 10 QUESTIONS

3. Composition : the way in which something is put together or arranged : the combination of parts or elements that make up something.

Watch beginning

2.NEW First Assignment on your phone: Headshots 5 photos of 5 different people. Also include a headshot of yourself in this album.

3. 20 minutes to go out and shoot headshots  DO NOT DISRUPT OTHER CLASSES. 

Headshot Criteria

• background clean
• good eye contact with camera
• edited head and shoulders
• pleasing to the eye
• in focus
• speaks to subject's personality

Welcome to Photo/Writing 9

 Overview Photo/Writing 9: 

In this class you will learn much about how to see the world from a different perspective, how to use the digital SLR cameras, upload and organize photos and how to edit in Photoshop. This class will allow a fair bit of freedom, but with this freedom comes responsibility. Along with Photography you will be learning how to improve your creative writing skills by way of various exercises and assignments.

( Class Guidelines: to be discussed)

We need good photography for the yearbook. Students are encouraged to use their phones for taking photos as much as possible. School cameras will be available for student use in class and may be able to be signed out to take home with teacher permission. Techniques on how to use your phones/digital slr cameras will be taught in class. Students should carry their phone charge cords with them for uploading photos. 

Requirements for success in this course:

• a positive attitude and a willingness to learn and push beyond the level you are at
• your own cell phone and charger cables 
• using class time effectively and a respect the freedom you have in this class
• realizing the benefits of  taking photos outside of class occasionally
• be a good model for your peer/help out others when you can
• Keeping up with writing assignments and getting your work peer, parent or teacher edited

• ALL COMPUTER KEYBOARDS AND MICE ARE TO BE WIPED AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS
• SHOOT OUTSIDE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE

Core Competencies

• Critical and Creative thinking
• Self and Social Responsibility
• Visual and written communication skills

Assessment: 

Students are at the beginning stages of learning a skill so taking lots of photos will be important for skill development. Assignments in Photo will focus on developing an eye for composition and learning how to take photos from different angles. Students will have various assignments focusing on specific skills and will be assessed by a portfolio of their work. In writing the same format will be in place. Writing is broken down into understanding character, setting, poetry and creative short assignments. I am a firm believer in process based teaching and assessments for the arts.