Overall Lesson Objective:
Given a PowerPoint Presentation on film stills and Cindy Sherman, tutorials on gradient fills, editing techniques, Artist Statement handout and a Moodboard assignment, Students will creatively explore their personal aesthetics and use photography and editing techniques in order to create a narrative based off of their favorite pieces of mass media through using color, framing and composition in order to tell a story that is from the same world. Students in the end will shoot 20 photographs and accurately edit 2 final photos to visually connect their source material to their original photographs. For this lesson, students were taking inspiration from visual culture like films, tv shows, books, news events, etc and take inspiration from these forms of media to create their own narrative Film Still inspired by Cindy Sherman. Students learned about how to use gradient overlays or add texture like film grains or smoke to create those similar effects seen in the world of their chosen inspiration. Below: Moodboard example exercise to help students hone in their inspiration for this project. |
Overall Lesson Objective:
Given tutorials on adjustment layers, examples of macro shots of texture, and rule of thirds review, students successfully use their macro lenses or phone cameras to capture and emphasize texture. Talking with my cooperating teacher, he said that a project he usually does next is some sort of Macro lens shoot where students are learning how to take extreme close up shots with their DSLR or phone camera. The goal was to see how students can use the macro lense creatively to capture texture and using different photo editing techniques like color saturation, and adjustment layers to emphasize said texture. Screenshot of my demo video on how to use adjustment layers.
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Overall Lesson Objective: Given their personal photographs, Photopea, demonstration videos, PowerPoint presentations, students will explore layering, composition and color theory through creating five color variants of their photographs, transforming them to new expressive artworks that explore emphasis, repetition and contrast.
When my cooperating teacher showed me how to create your own custom brushes in Photopea, it inspired me to create a fun project out of it, and gave me the opportunity to mix more of my traditional knowledge about drawing and color theory into photography. It was also within my last weeks student teaching, and I wanted to make sure that I could create a project that all students could be able to do and went in line with my Teacher's lesson plans, as he would also have students do projects using their photographs from their previous shoots. |
Above: One of my examples for this project.
Left: Screenshot of student experimenting with the brush tool. |