OBJECTIVE: Locate examples of photographic principles in a scavenger hunt and conduct research on a photographer that interests you in order to identify themes and purpose in photography.
student work:
PHOTO ESSAY
OBJECTIVE: Create a series of photographs using your smartphone that address each principle of photography, explore composition, and feature one object as the main subject. student work:
ART HISTORY MEMES
OBJECTIVE: Combine text and a work from art history in a humorous and clever way to create a meme that relates an artwork to your world. Students researched the artwork in order to understand it in its original context:
student work:
DIGITAL STICKERS
OBJECTIVE: Create a sheet of digital stickers representing your interests.
NARRATIVE ILLUSTRATION
OBJECTIVE: Create an original illustration depicting a narrative scene.
Ms. DeStefano's example, see 2016=17 for introduction and video tutorial:
timed composition study:
final student work:
Tynee' and other students chose to create a collage mock-up of their picture before drawing:
Students wrote a short story about their visual narrative:
STARTER PACK MEME
OBJECTIVE: Create a starter pack meme in order to design a self=portrait and review Photoshop collage techniques. Ms. DeStefano's example:
Student work:
LINKS Poster Contest: OBJECTIVE: Design a poster about what makes a community happy and healthy: Collaborative mind-mapping brainstorming:
Instructional resources and a collaborative research document to share examples of good design:
PROCESS GIF
OBJECTIVE: Create a process visual gif animating the development of a previously created work. Student work:
COLLAGE ANIMATION
OBJECTIVE: Using collage techniques, create an animation of a simple movement or action across the stage. Ms. DeStefano's example and video tutorial:
Student work:
B&W HAND-DRAWN ANIMATION
OBJECTIVE: Create a hand-drawn animation of a simple action in black and white contour line. Ms. DeStefano's example and video tutorial:
student work:
2016 - 2017
PHOTO ESSAY Students reflected on their everyday lives and what they might take for granted to create a photo essay or series of 12 images based on how they view their world, and if they were to lose their sight tomorrow. Students used the cameras on their smartphones.
STUDENT WORK Miguel:
Rai'vaughn:
Brian:
Students experimented with editing photos in Photoshop using various adjustment tools and video tutorials created by Ms. DeStefano:
Ms. DeStefano's Photo Essay example:
MEMES Students investigated aspects of our current internet culture, memes, remixing, appropriation, and r-re-contextualization. Students watched "EVERYTHING IS A REMIX" and considered how artists, and anyone, can sample existing material to convey a new message. Students conducted art historical research and created an original meme, allowing students to engage with art history in a new way and to cultivate an understanding of the work in its original context and using contemporary sentiments.
Final work: Students shared their work to a Google Slides presentation that acted as a gallery space:
COLLAGE TUTORIALS Students practiced techniques of cutting out and combining imagery digitally in Photoshop through a series of tutorials.
Collage tutorial files found online, student work: All other collage tutorial assigments were designed and created by Ms. DeStefano
CELEBRITY FACE SWAP Students face-swapped two celebrities.
SELFIE FACE SWAP Students face-swapped themselves with found images.
LIQUIFIY Students experimented with the liquify function. Ms. DeStefano's tutorial:
SURREALIST COLLAGE Students used skills gained from the photoshop tutorials in order to create original and complex surreal digital collages.
Students explored surrealist techniques of image-genererating through exercises such as automatic, stream of consciousness writing:
Ms. DeStefano's example:
Scholastic Silver Key student work:
NARRATIVE ILLUSTRATION Students investigated visual storytelling and digital illustration techniques in order to create narrative illustrations and process gifs.
Ms. DeStefano's thumbnail sketches, illustration, and gif example:
A drawing and composition exercise:
Ms. DeStefano's tutorial:
Scans of student illustrations:
Students shared their in-progress work using a Slides presentation in Google Classroom:
Final illustrations:
Ms. DeStefano's GIF tutorial and final student gifs:
STOP MOTION ANIMATION Work collaboratively to create a stop motion animation that illustrates the meaning of an SAT word. Students watched animation shorts to investigate narrative and animation techniques:
Ms. DeStefano's example:
Student brainstorming and planning documents for collaborative storyboarding:
Students at work in groups with roles as director, animator, and photographer.
Final student work:
ALBUM COVER DESIGN
OBJECTIVE: Design an album cover using any of the processes we have learned so far this year, or research a new technique, that is a conceptual cover for a personally meaningful playlist.
Student work, brainstorming document:
Students shared their playlists and the meaning of them:
Ms. DeStefano's example:
Final student work:
TYPOGRAPHY EXERCISES
Helvetica screening and student samples of guided notes
HANDWRITING TYPEFACE
OBJECTIVE: Create a typeface of your handwriting. Student work:
VISUAL POEM
OBJECTIVE: Using the typeface of your handwriting, create an original visual poem.
Instructional resource:
Student work:
SHOW POSTER
OBJECTIVE: Design a poster for a dream lineup or invented musical acts.
Students created drawings from handmade collages for the poster imagery:
Ms. DeStefano's example and instructional videos:
Students created 4 variations of their poster to experiment with color schemes and typography:
DOUBLE EXPOSURE PORTRAIT
OBJECTIVE: Create a metaphoric double exposure portrait of a favorite celebrity. Ms. DeStefano's example:
Student work with variations:
Final student work:
ZINES
OBJECTIVE: (Juniors) Create a mini zine featuring thematic illustrations.
SENIOR INDEPENDENT PROJECT:
OBJECTIVE: Craft an independent and personally meaningful work that investigates a chosen theme through a learned or new digital process.