4th Quarter
Group Photography
BookFace Challenge
Group Project 1: BookFace 3/27-3/28
Working with a group of between 3-4 students, complete the #BookFace challenge. In this challenge, you find a book whose cover you can extend with your face/body. You may turn in 1 project with a slideshow containing an image of each person in the group - 1 picture per slide.
Each student in your group must be included.
Each student should provide an artist statement communicating anything interesting, unusual, odd, or easy about that task of capturing your book face.
Altered Perspective
Group Project 2: Altered Perspective 4/2-4/5
Working with a group of between 3-4 students, do a series of 6 altered perspective images. To the left is an example by Hugo Suissas.
Each student should provide an artist statement communicating the visual ideas behind the image or series. Explain/describe the image and/or your thoughts behind it.
Pictographic Dictionary
Group Project 3: Emotional ABC Pictographic Dictionary 4/8-4/12
Working with a group of between 3-4 students, create a slide presentation of ABC words that describe various emotions. Each letter should include an image taken by your group, the word, and a definition of the word. See the example at left.
Select one word per letter from the ABC emotional words list in the gray box below.
We will vote on the best images of the most complex words/emotions. The team that best depicts the most difficult emotions will win a prize.
ABC Emotional Words to use for pictographic dictionary
abandoned - accepted - affectionate - aggravated - agreeable - alarmed -alert - alienated - alive - alone - amazed - amused - angry - annoyed - anxious - apprehensive - ashamed - astonished - awful - awkward
bad - baffled - bashful - bewildered - bitter - blue - bored - bothered - brave - bright - brilliant
calm - capable - caring - cautious - cheerful - cheery - chilled - comforted - compassionate - confident - confused - considerate - content - courageous - cranky - crushed - curious
daring - dejected - delighted - dependant - depressed - desperate - determined - devastated - disappointed - disgusted - dismayed - disorganised - disoriented - distressed - down - drained
eager - ecstatic - elated - embarrassed - emotional - empty - energetic - enraged - enthusiastic - envious - exasperated - excited - exhausted - exuberant
fascinated - fearful - fine - free - friendly - frightened - frustrated - fulfilled - fuming - furious
glad - gloomy - glum - good - greedy - grumpy
happy - hateful - heartbroken - helpless - hesitant - homesick - hopeful - hopeless - horrified - hostile - hot - humiliated - hurt
ignored - impatient - incapable - inferior - insecure - inspired - interested - irate - irritated - isolated
jealous - joyful - judgemental - jocular - jittery
keen - kind
lazy - lethargic - liberated - lifeless - lonely - lost - loving
mad - mean - merry - miserable - moody
nervous - naive - nonchalant
offended - optimistic - outraged - overjoyed - overwhelmed
panicky - peaceful - perplexed - perturbed - pessimistic - petrified - playful - pleasant - pleased - powerful - powerless - proud - puzzled
quirky - quarrelsome - quiet
rebellious - rejected - relaxed - relieved - reluctant - remorseful - repugnant - repulsed - resentful - rundown
sad - sarcastic - satisfied - scared - seething - sensitive - shaky - shocked - shy - small - sorrowful - sorry - startled - strong - sunny - sure - surprised - suspicious
tense - terrified - threatened - thrilled - timid - tired - touchy - tranquil - trapped - trembly - troubled - uncertain
uncomfortable - undecided - uneasy - unhappy - unique - unsure - unworthy - upset - uptight
vain - valued - vexed - vibrant - violent - victorious - vulnerable - volatile
warm - weepy - wary - weird - witty - wishful - worried - wronged - worthless
yucky - yearning
zealous - zany - zestful - zonked
Write Your Name
Group Project 4: Write Your Name 4/15-4/17
Working with a group of between 3-4 students, do a series of images in which students form letters of their first names with their bodies. (Hint: You can put your bodies on the ground to obtain the idea contortion.)
Next use Photoshop to put them together the same way we did for the ABC around the school project. You can do one project with everyone’s name.
Balloons
Group Project 5: Balloons 4/18-4/19
Working with a group of between 3-4 students, do a series of chalk art drawings and place students in the scenes. For example, draw a series of balloons on the ground then place students so it appears they are holding onto the balloons that are floating, arrange clothes and hair to inform the viewer.
Each student in your group should be photographed.
Sleepy Students
Group Project 6: Sleepy Students 4/26-5/3
Turn your sleepy friends into surreal scenes. Construct your own version of Wengenn in Wonderland.
Check out some amazing examples by searching online.
For this project, you can select to create your very own "wonderland" or other scene, or you may create a depiction of a classroom scene.
You WILL need to bring your own towels, scarves, blankets, etc from home in order to create these images. I will have a couple of backdrop options, but you might need to bring something different than what I have.
3.2.1 Still Life Photography
Independent Project: Still Life 4/26-5/3
3.2.1 Part A
List 3 things you learned.
List 2 things you think you could make a cool still life of.
List 1 thing you thought looked cool..
3.2.1 Part B
List out 3 still life ideas of things that you could take a picture of at school.
List out 2 ideas of items you could bring from home and d
Describe how you would set them up for a still life shot.