Due: 10-03 (before the start of class)
A visual narrative is a work of art that tells a story.
Narratives can consist of anything from simple, visual motifs (elements that
repeat) to complex systems of signs and symbols. For this project, you will use
photo editing software to create a narrative digital collage. This collage will
pay special attention to the visual element of space.
The general theme of this project is “That
Reminds Me of the Time When…” I would
like this collage to tell a narrative about yourself. The narrative can
illustrate a real event from your life, or it can be a pure fantasy. You may
use images of yourself and familiar people & places, or you may find images
of other people & places as stand-ins. One
of the only parameters is that I don’t want you to include text in your
collage. Instead of placing the word “Happy” in the center of your project,
for example, try to make a scene that conveys a visual sense of
happiness. Because this collage explores how things visually appear in space,
you will use the principles of overlap, diminishing size and vertical
placement. Consult the diagram “Cues to spatial depth” for ways to establish
this illusion.
To make this digital collage, you will need
to utilize the professional photo editing program Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop is
available for you to use on any Mac computer on campus (including those in our
classroom, the library and the B-333 computer lab). I have filmed a brief
tutorial about using Adobe Photoshop for this project. The tutorial is
available to watch in the Project #1 folder under the Assignments tab.
You will need to create an 800 x 600 pixel Photoshop PSD
file (as outlined in the tutorial), and save it as (your)
lastname_firstname_collage. I want to see at least 10 separate layers in
your collage. This includes the
background, extra landscape elements, individual figures, etc… You will use the
Lasso tool to cut-out images that need to be cut-out, and you will use the
Edit->Transform functions to resize the scale of images that need to be
resized. Save the file often to ensure that nothing gets lost.
To submit, convert
your document into a .jpg file (as outlined in the tutorial), and save the .jpg
as (your) lastname_firstname_collage. You will then create a new post on your
blog entitled “Narrative Digital Collage”. Upload the .jpg image to this new
post and write a brief paragraph describing the scene that you have created.
Label the post “Digital collage” along with any other relevant labels.
Materials:
-Access to a computer with Adobe Photoshop
-Digital image files
-Flash drive for saving files
Photoshop tutorial:
"Clues to Spatial Depth" diagram:
Student work examples:
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