Unit III: Digital Storytelling: Photo Novella / Graphic Novel

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Objectives

In Unit III students will examine narrative story telling, symbolism and image /text combinations.

An emphasis if placed on identifying the audience for the artwork. Students will develop a mastery of the text and vector tools in Adobe Photoshop.

Requirements

Students must complete the following

• Digital Print: large-scale (if available).
• Web Gallery of 5 - 7 exercises from Unit III
  • Story telling
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  • Myth and fantasy
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  • Concrete poetry
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  • Persuasion / propaganda / Symbolism
• artist research

Deadline: November 11, 2009

Research Topic

Find examples of symbolism in art history and in contemporary media. Discuss how does style affects your perception of the subject matter in the image? How has the artist used color for impact or effect? How has reproduction and mass communications affected art? Site the sources used for quotes and images.

• Artists and terms: Symbolist, Gauguin, Joseph Heartfeld, Propaganda Art, Russian Constructivist Design, Warhol.

Terms and Concepts

• Photographing people
• Lighting the subject
• Narrative image sequences
• Vector Tools
  • Raster versus vector
  • Shape layer
  • Creating Paths and Masks with the Pen Tool
  • Paths Palette
    • Converting selections to Paths
    • Pen Tool and Variants
    • Add and subtract points from a path
    • Stroking and filling Paths with colors and textures
    • Exporting Clipping Groups to Illustrator
• Type
  • Type Dialog Box
    • Font
    • Leading
    • Kerning
    • Tracking
  • Type mask tool
• Converting Type Paths or shape layers for custom text
  • Drop Shadows
• Importing Illustrator type
• Render Type layer
• Image Critique
  • Moire patterns
  • Copyright Issues. When is something original?
    • Working with borrowed or original images
  • Fair Use. What is a copy
  • Plagiarism
  • Satire
• Content
  • Use symbolism or metaphor to articulate your ideas?
  • Satire or irony
  • Did you use any alternative image creation methods
  • Did you use any filters or other effects