Are you keeping up with your blog entries?

At this point you should have blogged the idea for your final outcome. Remember, don't bury your head in the sand. You need to blog AT LEAST three times a week--and these blogs need to be substantial and connected.

Preparing for your final outcome. DUE 11 FEB

Tuesday: Decide on your focus

• Blog your response to the following questions:
• What artists/concepts/techniques have inspired you
• What are your next steps? What are your intentions? (What will you experiment with/research, etc)

Wednesday: Research into your idea

• Show your research into on artist or technique and blog this
• Create a sketch of the next photographs you intend to take and/or take (and blog) 5 photographs during the lesson

Homework for Friday 21 January

• Finish all previous blogs (see previous entry here for a list)
• Blog: What is a photo essay? and then include 3 different types of shots (a close up, a wide shot and an angle shot)

You can also start working on your photo essay which is due Tuesday 25 January.

Your Blog to Date!

By now you should have the following entries:

• Brainstorm of what 'everyday' means (Take a photo of your notes)
• Objects seen everyday (3) with links to Flckr
• Journey Home
• Ms Taylor's suggested photographers
• Your response to one or more of Ms Taylor's photographers
• Your chosen photographer (from library visit)
• Your response to your chosen photographer
• Text Manipulation Photoshop session

Adobe Competition

If you are interested in applying for the Adobe Competition, you need to fill out your application and get it in by Sunday evening. If you did not have a permission slip signed already, you need to do so. The applications are located in the RMShared Area under Media Studies, Adobe Competition OR you may follow the link to the Portal. Only two students from Dunraven can attend, so there is stiff competition. And now a message from Adobe:

The Adobe Youth Voices Summit that will be held in California in 2-7th August 2011.

The young people who are making projects at our 15 Adobe Youth Voices London sites this year will all be in the running to have this all-expenses paid opportunity of a lifetime and participate at this incredible event, as well as have their AYV project work showcased for an international audience.
In order to be in the aforementioned runnings, you have to complete the following by this Sunday evening:

Two Youth Artist Applications (attached)

Permission Forms (for both youth artists) - bear in mind some of you maybe have already completed 2 and 3 below but if you have not please print and send to me asap:
Consent to Apply (attached)
AYV Community Permission Form (attached)
NELA Form (attached)

Good luck and email Mr Dyas or Ms Taylor is you have any questions.

Text and the Image

Consider the effect that adding text to an image can have upon its reading.

Jim Goldberg asks his subjects to handwrite comments next to their portraits in an attempt to ask the viewer to consider the sitters aspirations and fears of how they are perceived.

Gillian Wearing's "Signs That Say What You Want Them To Say And Not Signs That Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say", similarly asks the subject to write something about themselves and incorporates the text within the image as a means of revelation.

Barbra Kruger on the other hand, adds snippets text in order to show how it can adapt or enhance the way that we would read the image alone.

By using text layers in Photoshop its is possible to incorporate text directly into your imagery. Use 'free-transform' to experiment with changing the scale of the image and if you 'rasterize' the text you can then experiment with adapting the perspective and warping the lettering.

In the layers palette the FX icon will enable you to bevel and emboss the text and introduce shadows and highlights in order to make it look more 3d. You can add a stroke (an outline) and make a very 3d text by duplicating text layers and sitting them very close to one another. The Blending Options tool will also open up lots of other means of experimentation.

Remember placing words and images in the same perceptual space is not as easy as it looks, the introduction of text can change the meaning of an image. Also when a viewer reads text it also summons up mental images which may conflict with your photograph.

Your Choice

1. Explain the type of photograph or photographer you were interested in finding.

2. Find the photograph and blog why you chose the photograph/photographer, how it links to your earlier work and what the photograph says to you.