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Guidance help and support for students at the Wellington AcademyTRANSCRIPT
A3: MashUpDryden Goodwin – ‘Cradle’
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A3: MashUp
Overview: During this is assignment you are tasked to create a ‘MashUp’ combining your skills with the bamboo tablets, your
new knowledge of photography and the image manipulation software Photoshop.
You will be studying the work of Dryden Goodwin a contemporary photographer.
To be successful in this assignment, you should recall and use methods and skills learnt during previous lessons.
There are 3 tasks required from you to complete this assignment:1 Choose a subject that you wish to use for your portrait photography.2 Take and edit a series of portrait photographs.3 Post/blog about your work.
Task: 1 Find/choose a suitable ‘subject’ to use for your work. You will have the opportunity to photograph in lessons; you
can either photograph a peer or choose to create a series of selfportraits. You may wish to develop your skillsfurther by photographing outside of lessons and explore a variety of backdrops and different locations for yourportraiture shoot.
Task: 2 Import your photographs straight from the camera into the iPhoto. Copy all of your images into your home area. Create a contact sheet and screenshot your photographs to post on your blog. With your new knowledge of photography and your teacher’s guidance, select your strongest 3 images to edit in
Photoshop. Explore the image manipulation tools in Photoshop to edit your images to emulate the style of Dryden Goodwin
Use the bamboo graphics tablet to add a new layer to your work and add new meaning. – Consider the impact of the lines youmake and how they affect your portrait.
Consider your use of colour and the specialist tools you choose to use with the drawing tablet to add detail to yourportraits.
Task: 3 When you have completed your photograph, export it as both a Photoshop file and a JPEG image and save them
to your home/network area.
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Be sure to ‘Blog’ about your work....
Use your blog as a type of ‘diary’ to record your progress. Add/write new posts for (at least) the followingthings:
1 Which ‘Method’ of digital art did you choose to use for this assignment, and explain ‘why’ you chosethis method.
2 What is the ‘subject/content’ of your work/painting? Explain why you chosen to make your work usingyour chosen ‘subject/content’.
3 WHAT did you find ‘challenging’ about your work?
4 WHAT did you find ‘rewarding’ about your work?
5 List any new skills and/or techniques that you discovered.
6 Upload a copy of your work and explain what it is, how you made it.
For each of the items listed (above) write a new POST for each. Ensure that you assign CATEGORIES (for example – A2: MashUp, iArt, Surrealists) Ensure that you add TAGS (for example digital,painting,photo,)
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Do you have a smart phone?
If so you can use the camera on your phone to access online resources to help you with this assignment.All you need is a QR code reader app, point your phone web browser to one of readers below:
http://reader.kaywa.com http://get.beetagg.com http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/basic/download.asp http://europe.nokia.com/support/productsupport/nokian80/phonesoftware/smartphone For iPhone users. Go to iTunes and search for: QR Code reader
Once you have a reader/ app on your smart phone. Simply take a quick snap of the code below, and youwill be redirected to the required resource, directly on your phone.
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