Each student will create an idea journal and an interest board. Maybe you have been collecting ideas on pinterest already. Collecting ideas you have seen others create is a great way to motivate us to try something new. What ideas are you itching to try or find super cool? Start the search and keep an open mind. Sometimes the most time consuming and detailed ideas we are too afraid to try are the very ones we should because they will give us great satisfaction in our art.
5-10 Journals entries are due per assignment. Each journal assignment is worth 10 points.
You can purchase a journal or sketchbook. If you prefer to make your own with loose sheets of paper that is fine too.
Below are a list of questions and details I would like you to answer and include under your images. Some of you may need to create thumbnail sketches of your ideas, add them to the journal!
For each image you place in the journal include the following info:
40 ideas for your photography
Where will you set the images up?
What can of lighting will you use? What time of day?
What will the person be wearing if you are shooting portraits?
If you are shooting nature, where do you plan on going to take the image?
What will you need to bring with you on the shoot? What equipment and such?
What mood do you want to communicate?
What will you be communicating with your photography?
Digital imaging students: will also collect ideas in a journal.
What do you want to try in Photoshop this semester?
As with photo II/III students, you will collect examples of projects you would like to explore this semester, in between the ones I assign or can work into the assignments.
What will you need to shoot to create the image? Feel free to create thumbnail sketches of the final piece you plan to create if using multiple images. Find tutorials on how to create the idea and list the tutorial underneath the images along with the following information.
What will you need in terms of equipment, models, objects, lighting….
What do you want to communicate through the work? What is the theme you are conveying?
Video Students:
I need to know an overview of the story you plan to tell. I also need a list of characters and what role they play in the video. After that I will need a scene by scene plan of :
What is happening in the scene?
Where is the scene taking place? Where is the backdrop? In a kitchen, outdoors with trees in the background, downtown by the coffee shop? You need to be specific.
Who is in the scene and what are they wearing?
What are they saying? What are their lines?
Where is the camera set-up? Is this a close-up, mid-sections, or wide angle? Are the characters moving to the right, left, back or forward?
You may draw each scene as a thumbnail sketch with descriptions and the above information underneath the image.
Composition