NEW Assignment

Editing Assignment NEW
HEADSWAP IN PHOTOSHOP INSTRUCTIONS  (10 marks)

1. Find/or take photo of a person. If using google to find the image, get the largest size photo possible. ( ie superman, famous model or celebrity) no animals or cartoons.

2. Bring in both photos to Photoshop. Go to IMAGE, ADJUSTMENTS, IMAGE SIZE and change the photos to both be close to the same size. If one is way bigger than the other it will be difficult to do the assignment. While under ADJUSTMENTS, you can also change both photos to BLACK and WHITE.
3. Next go to the SELECTION TOOL, and using the tool, move the tool around the head of one of your photos, then click on EDIT CUT and go to your next photo.

Note: It is probably more interesting to put the student head on the celebrity body, but it does not matter which head goes where. Also if you do not have a head shot that works for the swap, simply go out and take a shot of someone in a similar pose and distance away from the camera.

4.When on the next photo, click on EDIT, PASTE. This will put the head on the page. Then to resize the head, click EDIT, TRANSFORM, SCALE. This will put a box around the photo and allow you to change the size of the head, you can also slightly rotate the head if you go to ROTATE under TRANSFORM tool.
5. Then you want to tweak the image by moving into place with the pick tool, or use the eraser tool to clean up the edges.

Note: SAVING the file: If you need to continue working on the head swap, save as a Photoshop file so you can come back and work on the image. It is always a good idea, to save your edited photos as Photoshop files as a backup in case you need to go back and make changes. However, if you think you are done you can save as a JPEG and then print out the assignment, put your name on it and hand it in.

Criteria for this assignment: Looking for a clean transition, not warped but looking accurate, limited blurring to make the face/hair work. If I cannot tell it has been photoshopped it is a 10/10. Good Luck.

NEW Writing Assignment

• SETTING
• 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. Make the reader be able to visualize your scene in their mind.

• 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)

CRITERIA

• 1 paragraph or slightly longer, typed, edited, and then good copy handed in
• show not tell
• be specific in your writing
• use the senses when you write
• make the reader feel they can be right there with you in the setting

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.

Link for Setting more info

Week ending Feb 8, 2019

1. Flickr assignment: Make sure you are on Flickr, have your real name on the account, make Ms Chase a contact, put up a photo of you as a buddy icon, eventually change the background photo, join the Mark Isfeld Photo group. 10 marks.

2. Writing Assignment #1: One paragraph bio of yourself creatively written and written in third person TYPED. 10 marks.

3. Photo: Head shots: 4 head and shoulder shots and one good one of you. Make sure you are putting up photos that you have taken, not someone else. The photos should be cropped, in focus, and the person you have taken them of should like them. The should be edited and then uploaded to Flickr in an album. 10 marks

4. NEW Rule of thirds: Take a photo that exemplifies rule of thirds and print out and explain The Rule of Thirds. Hand in to Ms Chase, make sure your name is on the paper. 5 marks

5. NEW "It's all about the love": 1 shot that conveys/portrays LOVE. Upload to Flickr after editing, put in its own album, and in the description section tell me in 1-2 sentences why/how the photo is all about the love. 10 marks

Writing/Photo/Art Contest

Please check out this link to the Writing/Photo contest

IN OUR OWN VOICE

Good Morning Grade 9's

Today I would like you to get started on your first writing assignment. 

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 …… This is like an author bio you would find on the back of a novel. Length 1 paragraph

Criteria: detailed, specific writing, written in bio format  and make it interesting not boring.( 10 marks)
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.

This assignment can be printed off next day and handed in for editing to Ms. Chase, for now save it on the l drive in your writing folder which you will need to create.

FLICKR sign up: When finished...get signed up onto Flickr and make me a contact. Manoeuvre your way around the site clicking on buttons to see what is there, and figure out what the site is all about.


DO NOT FORGET TO PURCHASE YOUR SD CARD THIS WEEK!

NEW poem Assignment

SLIDESHOWS DUE THURS JUNE 14 in class for C Block class, Mon June 18 G Block class. All other work needs to be completed by Wed June 20 by the end of the day. This includes all photos on Flickr in albums and all writing. No exceptions.

8 line poem: You must write on a topic in poetic form, include a poetic device, and make sure it is edited by the teacher. (10 marks)

theme poem: your poem should be on a theme, 8 lines or longer, try to utilize poetic devices, edited by the teacher. (10 marks)

Link to Simple Poetic Devices

poetic devices

poem topics to help you

poetry classics

cool short poems to read

Term 4 assignments so far rough outline details to follow

Writing #1: Setting (10)
Photo #1: 5 skate park continuation (10)
Photo #2 : 5 Spring shots (10)
Photo #3: 10 macros (20)
Writing #2: Dialogue, 16 lines in total, move plot or develop character (10)
Photo #4: Portraits 10 shots total, 5 of each person (20)
Poem #1 (10 marks)
Poem #2 (10 marks)
Filter shot using Photoshop (10 marks)
Final slideshow 35 photos needed ( 50 marks)
Total 160 marks