Assignments November 28-December 1

45. Documentary Photos and Drawings – 12 Total – Due Tuesday before class is over

Take photos, find images to print out, and draw images of your subject. You need to have at least six photos of your own while the other six can be images from newspapers, magazines, your drawings, etc. Please upload your photos to your blog before class is over on Tuesday so that I can print them for you.

46. Accordion Book – Due Thursday before class is over

We will print your six photos, upload to your blog first so that I can print them, by Tuesday before class is over. Then you will prepare an accordion book. You will have Wednesday and Thursday to create the books. Below are the instructions on creating the book. We will go over it in class as well. Then you will mount your printed photos, magazine and newspaper cutouts, and drawings into the book along with captions, titles, and any stories. We will present the books on Monday in class, so be prepared for that as well. Be creative with the books, the paper you use, the captions, and the titles. Make sure that you use good conventions and ideas and content.

Also, here is the rubric showing what you will be graded on

documentary-rubric

Students mount images on 16-x-20-inch pages, artfully arranging them and interspersing them with text derived from their interviews. (This approach approximates the way in which photo essays were most often presented in magazines and other publications.) Students can also make accordion books in which to present their images.

Instructions for making accordion book:
1. Fold long sheet of paper in half and crease fold with bone folder. Bringing the left and right sides to the center, fold and fold in half again. Fold each of those sections in half again to create eight sections. Re-crease all the folds, making an accordion. 
2. Cut two pieces of cardboard 1/8 inch larger than the height and width of pages.
3. OPTIONAL: Cut two pieces of colored or patterned paper or cloth 1½ inches larger on all sides than the height and width of cover board. 
4. Spread glue stick over one entire side of one cover board.
5. Center glued side of board on paper/cloth cover and press down firmly.
6. Cut corners of the cover at a diagonal but don’t make cuts closer than 1/4 inch from the corners of board.
7. Glue and fold edge of cover material around corners of board.
8. Repeat for back cover.
9. Spread glue stick over the inside front cover. Center first page of accordion over the cover and press down firmly. Use bone folder if available.
10. Repeat for inside back cover.
11. Spread glue stick on back of photos and texts and attach to pages. (Note: Instead of gluing, insert photos into diagonal slits cut into accordion paper at all four photo corners. Allow room for captions below.)
12. Neatly write captions below each image.

 

 

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