Final Exam and Grades Wrap Up

Final Project

IMPORTANT - Instructions on how to turn in your final are at the end of this document.

Follow them!

All of the following MUST be included in your InDesign Document.

1. All of the content from the the fall final exam must be completed.

2. Your magazine cover is included

3. Your action and architecture InDesign pages must be finished.

4. Make a new page titled " Photo Illustration " - Place your finished photo Illustration here along with the following:
A. Describe which of the four types of Illustrations you made, and how you made it.
B. Explain what concept or meaning your illustration communicates.

5. Make a new page titled "Electronic Essay" - Place one photo from your essay on the page.
A. Explain what the overall concept of the essay is, and how you shot it and created it.
B. Include this web site address where the best photo essays will be displayed:
http://connollyvidcast.blogspot.com/

6. Make sure your GLOSSARY is complete and up to date. (See April 3 post) The glossary entries are on the last pages of the document.

7. Extra credit- Include a page (at the end, but before the glossary) with your favorite photos that you shot this year.


Turning in your final exam and other grades:

Electronic Photo Essay
When you are finished with your Essay, do the following in MovieMaker:
Save your work!

Then, Select File > Save Movie File , and select the "Email" option.
Click "save a copy of my movie on my computer" and name it according to the following:

Period#_photojessay_Last_First
Ex: 8_photojessay_Connolly_Matthew

Email yourself a copy and EMAIL Connolly at mconnoll@austinisd.org or Reeves at mreeves1@austinisd.org. The subject line should read "photo essay."



Final Exam -
1. Make sure your final exam is saved according to the following naming rules IN YOUR FOLDER ON THE STUDENT DIRIVE:

Period#_photojSPfinal_Last_First
Ex: 8_photojSPfinal_Connolly_Matthew

2. In InDesign, select File > Adobe PDF Presets > smallest file size, and export a pdf. Save this as Period#_photojSPfinal_Last_First_pdf in YOUR FOLDER

3. Email the PDF file, NOT the InDesign file to Connolly at mconnoll@austinisd.org or Reeves at mreeves1@austinisd.org. The Subject Line should read "Final Exam." Email a copy to yourself as well.

4. Print a copy of YOUR GLOSSARY. You may use this on the short quiz that you will take on the day of your final.

5. Look around the internet for examples of unethical photo manipulations. Be prepared to explain why the example is unethical.




Have a great summer. It has been an honor working with all of you.

Photo Essay Editing Basics

Start Windows Movie Maker

Click on View > Collections

Click on Tools > New Collection Folder
Name your folder your name

Go to File > Import into collections

Navigate to the folder where your edited photos are saved, select them, and import them.

Drag one or more photos onto the timeline.

Go to File > Import into collections, and Import your audio or record it.

Drag the sound into tthe timeline

Go to File > Save project as, and save it in your folder as last_first_phessay.

Clip off the bad parts of the audio by selecting the audio clip, dragging the blue playhead line to where you want to split the clip, and selecting Clip> Split ( Ctrl + L)

You can now select the bad portion and hit delete.

Make the photos line up with the sound by stretching them to be the right size.

Add credits at the end by clicking on the "tasks" button and selecting M"Make Titles or Credits" - Include your name and the name of anyone who helped you or cooperated.

If you have time, play with the transitions.

SAVE YOUR WORK!

Final Project Part 1 - Preparing the document

Major Grade Reminders
Photo Essay Must be shot by May 21, and complete by May 28
Photo Illustration Must be Complete by May 21


First - Make sure that ALL of your InDesign document up to this point, including the glossary, is up to date.

Check the fall final exam, and the action/ architecture InDesign wrap up.


Next - Rename your InDesign document according to the following formula:

Period#_photojSPfinal_Last_First
Ex: 8_photojSPfinal_Connolly_Matthew_

Make sure that the document is saved IN YOUR FOLDER.

Next - Check all of the links in your document. Remember that an InDesign document is actually a collection of documents. If you start moving or renaming the photos and other files associated with it, you will have problems.

With your document open, select Window > Links. Look at the list of links. If there are any warning signs (yellow triangle w/ !), double click on that link, and select "relink." You then must find the file that you moved or changed. If you can't find the file to link, you must do that part of the page again.

Next - Make three new pages in your InDesign. Title one "Digital Contest," anothe one"Photo Illustration," the final one "Electronic Essay." Remember that your glossary should always be the final pages of teh document.


More to come.

Speaking of unethical photo alterations . . .

Here's a timely real world example of what we have been taking about.

McKinney yearbook photos altered

Practice photo realistic alteration - Due today

In the previous assignment, you combined two images to make a composite photo illustration. The results are striking. Look at some examples:


MA /
ZG /
SG /
SK /
EL /
DT /
DH /
CH /
JH /
JM /
JO /
MP

While these are well done, nobody is going to make the mistake that these are real, unaltered images.

However, some altered images are possibly unethical because they are realistic. Remember these:


Unethical photos

Your task is to combine at least two photos in such a way that the final image looks realistic. You may use images off of the Internet or your own images. Save your final product as a .jpg and post in on your blog. DON'T forget to label it as a "Photo Illustration" or it will be VERY unethical.

Practice composite photo Illustration - DUE TODAY

As you think about and work on your photo illustration (Due Wednesday, May 21) it is useful to practice and to study an interesting professional example.

Time Magazine's April 28, 2008 cover is a perfect example. It is a composite image that has created lots of controversy.

View the cover illustration here.

Read about the controversy here, and vote on what you think about it.


Reproduce the illustration.

1. Open and save the Iwo Jima photo. (It will be in evil index color. You need to change the mode to grayscale)
2. Open and save a redwood photo. (You may substitute another one)
3. Do the following:
A. Erase the backgrounds of both images. (Make sure the tree background is set to transparent)
B. Move the tree image to the Iwo Gima image.
C. Free transform the tree image to fix the size and rotation.
D. Erase pats of the tree image where the Iwo Jima image needs to show through.
E. Save your work.
F. Post your finished reproduction to your blog.

Time to get organized

Major assignments left in the year:

1. Photo Essay - Look over the preview assignment to remind yourself what they look and sound like.

Decide on a topic and what type of essay you will create NOW. Choos one of the following:
–Introspective photographer – best for a focus on things. Let us into your mind.
–First person documentary – best for interesting people. Let them tell their own story.
–Narrated documentary – best for interesting events. Put the viewer there.

Your final product must be at least one minute long and have at least 10 photos in it.

If you need to sign out a camera and/ or voice recorder, be ready to tell me what you are doing and when you will need the equipment by May 8.

Everything must be shot and recorded for this assignment by May 21. Final product is due May 28.

2. Photo Illustration-

TODAY, you should post an idea for an illustration along with the type of illustration you will be making.
If you need an idea, read the newspaper (ask me for one), look on news sites etc. Good photo illustrations are based on VERY specific ideas.

ALL content in the photo illustration must be original.

Start collecting / shooting images. If you don't know how to do something in PhotoShop, ask for help.

Everything must be shot for this assignment by May 8. Final product is due May 21.

3. Final Indesign project-
This is your final exam and a major grade. You will be given VERY specific guidelines for your final document soon. For now, read over the fall final exam, and the action/ architecture InDesign wrap up.