Lesson 6.1 - Photography
Specific Expectations:
Understanding Media Forms, Conventions, and Techniques - 2.1; 2.2
Creating Media Texts - 3.3
Learning Goal(s):
In this lesson, you will shift your critical analysis skills to an exclusively visual approach by considering all the possibilities for interpretation that can be communicated in a single photograph. You will acquire some technical knowledge as well as think about a photograph as being similar to a poem.
- Tell us about how frequently you use your cell phone or digital camera. What sorts of subjects do you typically photograph? Where and how do you share your photos? Where do you store your photos?
Please share your response in a written post. Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story. It usually only refers to still images
Go online to research this topic using the word PHOTOJOURNALISM this will lead you to news stories that have photographs to help tell the story.
Choose a strong news story (war, storm, global warming, homelessness, crime, politics, etc.) that you are familiar with and copy and paste two (2) very different still photographs that tell that news story visually.
Copy the first paragraph of the news story and put it above your photographs so I know what narrative you are trying to tell with the two photographs.
You may have to go to several Internet sources and sites to find a variety of photographs that satisfy these requirements. ONLY choose photographs that have a clear use of the Rule of Thirds, Lead-in Lines (also called Leading Lines), Colour and Monochrome Contrasts, and other principles of photography that you have learned in class. You should mark Rule of Thirds and Lead-in lines on the photograph as evidence. Mark your photos with arrows and circle elements in the photograph to show what you think are important visual parts.
- Beside each photograph write a brief (25-50 words) analysis with any evidence of the
Post your work here.
Submission: PDF format. (file size can't be more than 20 MB)Find 5 examples of “Street Photography” which tell a story. POST ON MOODLE in a PDF FIle.
Post those photos here and write a brief description of the ‘story/narrative’ the photos convey.
Submission: PDF format. (file size can't be more than 20 MB)You will recall in the Poetry Unit #1 that we studied the three-line verse form known as Haiku.
Find two Haiku’s online that you like and combine each of them with a photograph that reflects the same tone and theme(s) of each.
The photographs can either be your original or something you can find somewhere on the Internet.
Paste them on a WordDoc, convert the file document to pdf and submit it here.
Submission: PDF format. (file size can't be more than 20 MB)- Use the Internet to explore and research Louis Daguerre’s contribution to photography.
Put together a one-page summary of Daguerre's invention (50-100 words) and paste at least 5 examples of his early work on that page.
Share your work here.
Submission: PDF format. (file size can't be more than 20 MB) - Photography is one way that we trace the past and present of our family life.
If these memories are stored on computers and cellphones, how can they be shared with future generations like we did in the past? Very few people print hard copies of photos anymore to distribute or share. In the past we created photography albums containing hard copies of photos. Do future generations risk not having photographs of their ancestors because everything is digital? What is the solution? What do you or your family do to share your memories? Students to complete this after you've finished all activities/tasks in today's lesson.
To be done by students the last week of term.
The purpose of this survey is to give you the opportunity to provide anonymous (no name) feedback to your instructor and the school.
To be completed by students the last Monday of term.