Monday, April 8, 2024

All assignments for Term 3

 Writing

  • Bio
  • Bucket List
  • Setting
  • Dialogue: due Friday at the latest ( hand it in even if you missed the deadline!!!!!
  • (total marks 40)
Photo
  • Headswap
  • Headshots-5 shots
  • Scavenger Hunt - 5 shots
  • Candy Macros -10 shots
  • Other Macros -10 shots
  • Macro Slideshow due thisThurs April 18 and Fri April 19 to be shown in class
  • (total marks 90)
Total: 130 marks

Macro Slideshow Info
  • Program is Photostory for Windows... Under the start menu
  • Photos are timed 3.5 seconds
  • Audio files are on the Mdrive, under Chase 2024  in a folder called audio files
  • Slideshows need to be in a WMV format not WP3
  • Make sure they save in their own folder then move to the slideshow folder
  • Test the slideshow to make sure it works 

If finished everything... help someone else with their slideshow!!!!
5 SPRING SHOTS: You are looking to create photos that represent the idea of new life, spring weather, people happy, sunshine or things blooming.
Criteria: In focus, clear focal point, try using the digital SLR cameras

RED DRESS SHOTS: (Partners or Groups of 3) Take out a red dress on a hanger and place it somewhere interesting and take a few interesting photos of it...try different angles. Upload to photoshop and keep the dress red while turning the background black and white.

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Tues/Wed April 2 and 3


 


You should all be working on the following:

  • Macro slideshow; taking and editing photos 
  • NOTE: all photos need to be in JPEG format!!!
  • You need 10 candy macros and 10 other macros
  • Making sure all old assignment files are organized and up to date for marking.
  • NEW  writing assignment : DIALOGUE

Dialogue Assignment #4

 Dialogue: I already introduced this assignment in class, here is the info you need to do the assignment properly. Dialogue is a conversation between two people. In writing a story or novel, good dialogue will do one of two things; move plot or develop character. Your task is to create a dialogue between two characters that does one or the other or both. It might help to create a conflict between the two characters.

The minimum lines of dialogue are 8 lines per character. 16 lines total  Marks:10 

Thursday, March 7, 2024

Work Due Before March Break

Writing:
  • bio paragraph
  • bucket list
  • setting of favourite place
Photo:
  • 5 headshots
  • scavenger hunt
  • 10 candy macros
  • headswap in photoshop
Working on 10 additional macros,
slideshow of 20 macros due after the break


Monday, March 4, 2024

Week of March 3

Candy Macros : 10 photos edited 20 marks

10 general macros or up close objects 20 marks

Slideshow 10 mark s= Total 50 marks


NEW  Writing 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)

LINK to further readingSetting article: more info

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.

When describing a place in fiction, think about the sounds, smells and other sense details that distinguish it from others. Here is Dickens describing the industrial city of Coketown, for example, in Hard Times (1854):

It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black … It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of buildings full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.

From Harry Potter:The first several chapters of the book take place at the Dursleys' prim house on Privet Drive. The Dursleys' home may look polite and regular, with its "tidy front garden" (2.1) and its inhabitants' emphasis on behaving just like everyone else, but that doesn't make it a nice or welcoming place to live. In a way, it has just as much darkness and unhappiness as you might expect from a magical landscape. Nephew Harry is forced to live in a "cupboard under the stairs" (2.13) while the son of the house, Dudley, enjoys two bedrooms to himself. The Dursleys' house might look cheerful from the outside, but inside Harry sees only bleakness. Let's not forget that Whinging, in British English, means whining. Even the town they live in is annoying.

Sunday, February 25, 2024

Week of Feb 25

 Re-introduction of Final Slideshows... show sample slideshow... create slideshow folder

Introduction of NEW Assignment: Candy Macros : 10 photos edited 20 marks

10 general macros 20 marks

Slideshow 10 marks=Total 50 marks


Criteria:

  • make sure your object is the focal point and in focus
  • keep your backgrounds clean or blurred
  • shoot a variety of shots and use a variety of different objects
  • use your light effectively
  • make your shots interesting ( frame them differently, have them tell a story)
  • draw me into your photo
  • make the ordinary look extraordinary







 

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Week of Feb 20 : Intro to Photoshop

  Editing Assignment NEW

HEADSWAP IN PHOTOSHOP INSTRUCTIONS  (10 marks)

1. Find/or take photo of a person.When 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,( right click) 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/move 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 ( which is save as copy) put into your M drive folder 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.

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

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