Today’s Plan:
- Rubric Activity
- Rule of Thirds and Cropping
Rubric Exercise
Working with a partner, I would like you to generate a list of potential criteria for the first project. Go through either chapter 2 or chapter 3 and find 5 potential criteria.
I did this prior to class, and I started every sentence with either “is/are there X” or “do/does X Y.” For the first project I would like to be able to evaluate according to a quantitative “yes/no” approach, rather than attempt to qualitatively evaluate how well you achieved something (excellent, good, satisfactory, etc). Think of the rubric for project one as containing a checklist of things that have to be done–what 4 things you might have to do? (Note: for the Composition chapter I found 9 things, but that’s too many!).
Rule of Thirds
To Google Images! To Pinterest for rule of thirds!
I’ve emailed out a .zip file with images. To Photoshop!
Let’s talk about the ethics of cropping and photo manipulation. Maybe we have time for a video.
Homework
Obviously, the most pressing matter is to get to work on your projects. Because we’ve talked about visual rhetoric a bit in class today I’m going to make Friday a work day where you will be free to work on your project in class. Attendance Friday is optional–if you want to work in the lab and ask me questions, great. If you would prefer to work at another location, that’s fine too. Remember that we will be watching the project 1 videos in class on Monday.
I’ll also ask that you begin reading the Kalman in preparation for our second project. Have the first 50 pages read by Monday so we can discuss Kalman in class. Complete the book by Wednesday. Remember that our focus will be on how to make a Kalman–what are the elements of her process, how can we reverse engineer the book as product into a method? We will be using video rather than illustrations–but we should still be able to develop some kind of formula that captures the essence of her approach.
