Making something visual

What does it mean to think visually?
How does a picture story differ from a collection of pictures on a topic?
A picture story has a theme. Not only are the individual pictures in the story about one subject, but they also help to support one central point”
Places2Faces assignment.
  • A place
  • A face
  • A place with faces
  • Faces in places

  • The first photo should establish the location of your story – what does it look like? color? texture? geography? architecture?
  • The second photo should establish a face that is central to your story – who lives/works/exists here? what do they look like? how does the place show in their face?
  • The third photo should fill the place with some faces – interior? movement? uses of the space? how full? empty?
  • The fourth photo should show your face in the place – shift the focus. how do faces interact with the place? how do the faces reflect the place? the place the face?
All four images need complete captions – including all identifying information, contact info and in complete sentences.  
If you want another presentation on this assignment, take a look at this piece Mark wrote for PBS on how we use this assignment. May give you some more background or ideas.
What you need to do in this assignment:

  • A unified theme
  • The shot must be clear
  • Use good composition in the shot
  • Have the pictures tell a story
  • Use all "faces to places" plus two alternative shots. 

Spend the weekend putting together these photos. If you are going to tell a story with six photos you will need to take, at a minimum, 30 photos (five photos for each shot)

Here is an example 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Let's storyboard your ideas

Let's take your nugget of an idea and make it into something. Remember when we did the mind map?  Take an idea and apply  Now take the ideas and storyboard your idea as a writer.  To get started, break down your story into a set of discrete scenes; each scene will become its own storyboard. Next, choose a scene and start to lay down the context: Where does the scene take place? Who is in the scene? What do the "characters" say? How do they react? What happens next? Repeat as necessary  What ends up as the "moral" of the story?
Read more

The Art Bus

You are about to take your photos skills out into the world to tell even more stories.  Here is a PDF that will tell you what we will be seeing on the bus.  Here is some additional information about the art bus You will be doing one assignment based on what you see Before and After  Sometimes artists create multiple works of art to tell a whole story. Sometimes they only show us part of a story, leaving the rest up to us and our imaginations. Chose an artwork that seems to have a story. Examine the scene and then sketch what you imagine might have occurred before or after the moment the artist chose to represent. You will do a puke to work out what that moment might be, then you will figure out a way to take photos of that moment. You have many options here:  you can make artwork yourself and take a photo of it you can make an abstract photo  You will use these photos to tell a story of that next moment. You will also do reflection of what you did...
Read more

How to become a sought-after story teller

Image
The Great Communicator A teller of stories, the person who everyone goes to in order to hear interesting details, get the nuance, "see" the story they missed.  What do these people have in common? They are good communicators.  Why is being a good communicator important?  “communication is a symbolic process whereby reality is produced, maintained, repaired and transformed”          (James W. Carey)                         Our stories help define our culture  We know who we are by the stories we tell each other and the stories that we accept.               We judge people, places, events, EVERYTHING based on our self-definition.                      Culture as a Skyscraper: High culture Low culture       ...
Read more