LETTERFORM PHOTOGRAPHY &
IDEAS FOR FINAL PROJECTS
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FINAL BLOG, DUE 5/27

• Remember to add at least 3 more images to your blog, 30 points.
• Also, try adding /view/snapshot#!/ to your blog address to see a great snapshot/gallery view of your images.
• Comment me below to let me know when you are ready for me to grade your final blog design. If you want me to view it in the new snapshot view, please paste the new address in my comments too.

Poster Design, due Tuesday, May 17th BEGINNING OF CLASS!

1. Choose an important topic to communicate:
       AIDS/other public health issues awareness,
       Environmental Issues (water is life, recycling,
       global warming), Get Out The Vote,
       Anti-Bullying in the Schools

2.  Inform yourself on this topic. Research online,
     in the library, etc. Be prepared to give us some
     facts about this topic.

3.  Open Adobe Photoshop, 13 x 19, 300 dpi.

4.  Create your own original image, via photograph,
     drawing, etc.

5.  Create a short, simple message combining words
     and image.

Poster Project--work on questions during dream sequence down-time

1. Go to: http://www.designhistory.org/posters.html
2. And, answer the following questions IN YOUR OWN WORDS AND IN COMPLETE SENTENCES. To open the questions in a word document, go to Besonen/get handout/Poster Design Questions 
1. What was the original purpose of broadsides?
2. How was such a wide range of color achieved in the Paris poster designs of the late 1800s?
3. Who is credited with the "unhealthy first step towards media promoting impossible body types for women"?
4. What is the difference between the poster styles of Henry Van de Velde and the Beggarstaff Brothers?
5. How did communist Russia use poster design?
6. Why did the U.S. government hire Lester Beall to design posters?
7. What were the characteristics of the Swiss International Style?
8. How would you describe psychedelic style of poster design?
9. Explain how poster design was used to inspire people to help causes in WWI and II.
10. Why was there a controversy about the Obama "Hope" poster? Did the photographer sue? Why?
3. More examples of poster design 
1. http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/selected-posters-2008#18
2. http://www.internationalposter.com/default.aspx
3. http://www.posterpage.ch/exhib/ex269ist/ex269ist.htm
4. http://www.posterpage.ch/index.html
4. Choose a style of poster design that you appreciate:
1. Art Nouveau, Ukiyo-e, Parisian Posters of the 1890s-1930s, Beggarstaff Brothers, Swiss International, Object Poster, Psychedelic, Political Propaganda, etc.
5. Choose an important topic to communicate:
1. AIDS/other public health issues awareness, Environmental Issues (water is life, recycling, global warming), Get Out The Vote, Anti-Bullying in the Schools
6. Inform yourself on this topic. Research online, in the library, etc.
7. Open Adobe Photoshop, 13 x 19, 300 dpi.
8. Create your own original image, via photograph, drawing, etc.
9. Create a short, simple message combining words and image.

Dream Sequence Video, due Friday, May 6th

"A dream sequence is a technique used in storytelling, particularly in television and film, to set apart a brief interlude from the main story. The interlude may consist of a flashback, a fantasy, a vision, a dream, or some other element. It is normally apart in time or space from the main story, or contrary to the continuity of the main story. Audio or visual elements, such as distinctive music or coloration, are frequently used to signify the beginning and end of a dream sequence."
wikipedia.org, 2008

1. SEQUENCE (order and development of story) 20 points_______________
2. CAMERA WORK (from various angles, vantage points) 20 points_______________
3. DREAMLIKE QUALITIES 20 points_______________ (use of manipulation/filters to create a dreamlike mood)
4. EDITING (transitions, motion, speed) 20 points_______________
5. AUDIO UNITY (sound fits with images) 20 points_______________
6. TITLE & CREDITS (Do not include last names please!) 10 points_______________
7. ORIGINALITY 40 points_______________

Next Project--drawing with typography

http://digitaldesigngallery.blogspot.com/2010/05/letterform-constructed-images.html

4 total pages due Thursday, March 31st. ALL 8 pages due Friday, April 8th.