Week Four

In-class Montage project: Combine at least three images in photoshop, that go to together to form a single picture plane. see definition for montage below. The theme for this project should have something to do with an activity that you enjoy and know about doing. Create an image that tells your audience about an activity that you enjoy and what it is you like about it.
An in-class demo will cover tools for completing this project.

Post results to your blog by next class.

Blog: Finish creating links to your classmates blogs (14 total). Post results of Activity Montage project by next week.


Self Design Project 1

This project should utilize two computer applications and a handmade aspect. The point of this project is to create a piece that relies on both handmade and computer based aspects.

Assignment: Create an advertisement for a fictitious (or real) product or event ( you must have the rights to use/represent the product or event (unless your family owns Coca Cola...this would not be an option). Consider what is the pertinent information that must be conveyed; e.i. when, where, how much does it cost. Question to consider: think about how you convey this information, and what that says about the product or event--like the saying, "it's not just what you say, but how you say it that counts."

What form should the advertisement take? It could be a digital image, a printed image (both), a limited or one-of-kind poster...

Questions to answer and return to me via email before next class:

What is the product or event that you are going to advertise for? (a Halloween party at Laural Hill Cemetery on Saturday October 31 (fantasy party))

Give a brief description of your concept for your Advertisement? (I will go to Laural Hill Cemetery and take pictures of zombies chasing innocent youths (all costumed friends) and combine images into one background image using photoshop. End result will look like a "B" Horror Movie Poster.)
How will you execute the project? (I will start with my photo shoot at the cemetery. Then i will use photoshop to create background for poster. Then i will print image and glue text on it for my party event information. This should have a ransom note look to it. Then I will splatter additional fake blood onto the surface of the poster. Then I will take a close-up digital photo of this, so i can enlarge and make reproductions through photoshop.)

Provide a timeline for completing the project: (you will have class time next week to work on project)
(This weekend (9/18-20): Photo shoot
Wednesday (9/23): Upload images
Thursday in class(9/24): Begin creating photoshop poster background
Next weekend (9/25-27): Apply text and fake blood to poster, and photograph
Tuesday (9/29): Upscale images in photoshop, and print color poster on 11x 17 paper. Note: I will need help with printing--speak to instructor, and printing lab techs.
Thursday (10/1): Present poster in class.)


Project Due in class October 12, 2009.




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–noun 1.the technique of combining in a single composition pictorial elements from various sources, as parts of different photographs or fragments of printing, either to give the illusion that the elements belonged together originally or to allow each element to retain its separate identity as a means of adding interest or meaning to the composition. Compare collage (def. 1).
2.photomontage.
3.Movies, Television. a.juxtaposition or partial superimposition of several shots to form a single image.
b.a technique of film editing in which this is used to present an idea or set of interconnected ideas.

4.any combination of disparate elements that forms or is felt to form a unified whole, single image, etc.

–verb (used with object) 5.to make or incorporate into a montage.

Week Three

Overview

Creating a look, and image manipulations. Create an image for your blog header that

has a relationship with your blog design and an emphasis on shape and color composition.

In-Class

You will be emailed three images that exemplify a progression of manipulations that develop from one image. In-class you will follow the steps I took to produce each stage of manipulation. The tools covered in this in-class demo should be revisited in the completion of your blogger image header (due for homework--see below).

Photoshop

The image you are to create is to be installed (upload) and fitted for the header of your blog.

Create an image that you want your audience to associate with you, think image and identity. In photoshop manipulate the image in such a way that it has a visual relationship to the look and design of your blog.

For this assignment one goal is to create an iconic image (an image that has a clear and immediate impact that you think your audience will easily remember—and associate with you). For this, consider the number of images you work with, will it be a single image or a composite of images.

Blog Update

Add as a "gadget" to your blog a "Link List" to class blogs. Blogger will give you steps to take to add class blogs to a list of links. In the coming week you will be asked to add all of the class blogs to your list links.

Week Two

This week you will create a blog site which will be an ongoing project which you will add to, edit, and continue to personalize.

Web projects will include searching and downloading images. Uploading images.

Photoshop: we will open up images, cut copy and past, color and contrast adjustment, layer arrangement, scaling, saving and exporting.

Hardware: proper use of your USB thumb-drive.

Assignments:

1. Open and save image as jpeg from project two from last week.

2. Create a blog site on www.blogger.com.

A. Use your gmail user name and password to create a new account.

B. Upload jpeg image of project 2 to a blog, and describe in sufficient detail why you chose the image and how you achieved your results. Then post this as your first blog.

C. Email me your blog web address. _____.blogspot.com.

3. Photoshop: poster project that describes where you are from. Use at least five images and text to create a poster of where you are from. (For print purposes create poster at 8.5 x 11in.)

A. Do a google image search for images that will help you in describing where you are from. Copy images to folder for this project.

B. Open images using photoshop, and create a new file for your poster at 8.5 x 11in, at 72 Dpi.

C. Use color, contrast, free transform tools to adjust your images.

D. Use the layer tool to arrange the position of your images on the canvas.

E. Use the text tool to add text to your poster.

F. While working on you poster save work as a photoshop file (.psd) and when do a save and as and create a copy as a jpeg image file (.jpg)

4. Post completed poster to your blog by next Sunday evening at 5pm.

Sylabus

Instructor: Kenneth Deprez

Fall 2009

Digital Studio (FN113.05)

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

This course introduces the use of digital imaging software, skills and technologies as tools critical to contemporary art and design fields. Students will be working on the Macintosh computer in the Moore College of Art & Design computer lab environment. Project-based assignments will develop a wide range of visual, conceptual and practical skills, specifically in the use of the Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator programs. Students will also be introduced to the Adobe InDesign and Bridge software programs and the use of internet-based software and media for research and electronic communication skills. The course will help and encourage students to learn the means to continue to develop and apply their skills in the use of the computer as an investigative and creative tool as they prepare to enter their chosen field of study. Satisfies: First Year Requirement.

Week 1- Introduction. Mac Environment (hardware/software), Supplies| Assessment Test.

Week 2- Class Blog, download, upload, click/copy/paste

Week 3- Photoshop I. Layer manipulation. Picture Plane, shape composition

Week 4- Self-Designed Project 1. Group Critique 1. Blog Update

Week 5- Photoshop II. Photo fixing. Back, foreground, push and pull.

Week 6- Photoshop III. Heavy manipulation, contrast and concentration

Week 7- Small Group Self-Designed Project 2. Group critique 2. Blob Update.

Week 8- Illustrator I. Vector Shape Design. Color Composition

Week 9- Illustrator II. Text Manipulation. Weight and scale composition

Week 10- Illustrator III. Convert Image to outline. Line variation and dynamics.

Week 11- Self-Designed Project 3. Small group and one-on-one critiques

Week 12- Bridge I. Across programs

Week 13- InDesign I. Page layout and design

Week 14- InDesign II. Page layout and sequential design

Week 15- Self-Design Project 4. Final group critique.

Supplies:

1- 2-4 Gigabyte USB Thumbdrive ($10-20).

Print Credits approximately $5.

*- Other supplies will be determined as needed ($15-25).

Course Requirements: The student’s relationship to her work must exhibit a full commitment to the process of thinking, looking and doing.

All projects are subject to faculty and peer review in the form of critique. Critique is the means by which the class will engage with visual information as an attempt to fully realize a technical, cognitive and intuitive understanding.

Utmost is the student’s responsibility to embrace the process and all imposed limitations (such as deadlines) as a challenge not only to her benefit, but also to her peer’s benefit for the insight she will bring to the class.

Attendance: Students are expected to attend every scheduled class. Any absence from class constitutes a cut. Students may have a total number of cuts without penalty equivalent to the number of times the class meets per week plus one. For this class each student is permitted two cuts. Each additional cuts will lower the final grade by half a letter, and more than Four cuts will result in a failing grade. Graded home-work due on a cut class will be considered late, unless the student notifies the professor prior to class. If the student is absent, it is her responsibility to contact the instructor in regards missed work.

Lateness: Attendance will be taken at the beginning of class. It is better (of course) to come to class late, than not at all. Three late arrivals (15 minutes or more) is considered a cut.

Grading and evaluation: Grading will occur twice during the semester: at midterms and again at finals. At those times students receive an evaluation that will reflect the following criteria for grading.

1. Completed in-class and home work assignments—A demonstration of clear objectives, experimentation, and a drive for excellence

2. In-class participation—in-class to work and contribute constructively

3. Four critiques—Presentation of a mature and serious attitude toward her own and her peer's work

Deadlines: Course content will develop towards complexity both technically and conceptually. Completed project are to be learned from. Late projects will be down graded by one full letter grade for each week late. Projects more than two weeks late will not be accepted. Exceptions must be discussed prior with the professor.

Redo/ Extra-Credit: The Student may wish to redo an assignment to achieve more significant results, which is acceptable and encouraged. The student should discuss this situation as it arises with her instructor.

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