Photo Story Assignment

For Wednesday 9-14:

This assignment is to get you to think about how to tell a story purely through images. How can you convey information and narration without the use of sound or text? 

Tell a short story through 12 images. (12 finished images -- you can take more than that as you work on it)

Brainstorm something fun with a friend. It could be an original story or a re-telling of a classic fairy tale. 

The story should have a beginning, middle and end. And any good story has conflict. Come up with a protagonist and antagonist. (The antagonist doesn't even have to be a person).

Be sure to use a mixture of wide shots, medium shots, and close-ups. Try to get a variety of angles so each shot is much different than the previous. Put yourself in the shoes of a movie director, only with a camera. You might need to "direct" your actors.

Remember that if you don't have enough light, your photos might come out blurry. You can fix a lot of things in Photoshop, but not a blurry or out of focus photo.

You can help out a classmate but you should have your own story -- your own photos -- to work on when we get to class on Thursday.

You'll be graded on.....

Creativity

Variety of angles and distances

Making sure shots aren't blurry

Does it make sense?

Are the images visually strong? (Strong central focus of action, getting close when appropriate, leaving things out of the frame when they shouldn't be there)

Wednesday, we'll edit them in Photoshop and put them together in InDesign (almost like a comic book) to tell your story on a page.