Sunday, 14 May 2017

Creating a Powerpoint and using slideshare

Go to Slideshare

Sign up and create an account - this is where you will be able to upload powerpoints onto your blog.

Create a 5 screen Powerpoint

Title: Mise-en Scene
You must create the design and it must include text and 5 different pictures.

Slide one: A photograph of your own and 100 words about Setting
Include words composition, balance, 

Slide two: A photograph of your own and 100 words about Costume and make-up
Include words (or opposites) fashionable, wealthy, gender,


Slide three: A photograph of your own and 100 words about Expressions 
Include words (or opposites) mood, anger,,


Slide four: A photograph of your own and 100 words about Lighting 
Include words (or opposites) soft, focus, contrast, shadow, 


Slide five: A photograph of your own and 100 words about props
Include words (or opposites) meaning, semiotics,

Tuesday, 2 May 2017

TEN STAGE ANALYSIS

1. Genre: describe the theme, subject, 
2. Capturing light natural, artificial, soft, harsh, realistic, exaggerated, manipulated, filtered
3. Multi-disciplinary = science and humanities – manipulation of camera and function
4. Unique art form = Starts blank/improvement/removal from frame
5. Framing + focus: Camera sees the world differently (outside of the frame/notice other things)
6. Formal elements line, shape, curvilinear, composition, balance, weight, tone, contrast,
7. Chance/accident
8. Meanings across time - not fixed/historical context
9. Ideology neutral? abuse of power?
10 Warped sense of timing/hidden meanings/signs, signifiers, symbols

Thursday, 27 April 2017

Check that you are up to date

Next:
Write the definition for Binary Opposition.
Your next photographic/adobe photographic piece must exploit binary opposition.


ANAYSE THIS IMAGE (on your blog or in your book)


poster set | Neue Hong Kong by Anthony Neil Dart


Your next three photographs must include:
A portrait
A coloured back ground
A prop
A minimum of four shapes
A minimum of three words





Tuesday, 4 April 2017

COVER 04/04/2017

PRIOR LEARNING
3 photographs on blog and use mise-en scene to analyse each one (SCELP)
Choose your favourite and manipulate it in Adobe photoshop


  1. Make your camera seem more expensive = enhance the color and up the contrast
  2. Learn how to quck crop
  3. use your cloning tool (remove blemishes/objects and add objects)
  4. Use Font tool add words - especially binary opposite


5. (look up binary opposite and post the meaning)


Check that you completed Thursday 30 March homework
Check out the A* photobook Youtube clips and raise your expectations!

Up load all new homework images to your blog

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Homework coloured photography

​Take coloured photographs (you will only ever use/keep 5% so take many)
You must consider the following:
You must have two or more people in the shot
the people must only fill (proportionally) 33% of the frame
The shots must not be candid (staged and smiling)