Create > Visual Pun Photographs

Create > Visual Pun Photographs

Goal:  Create a series of 3 visual puns from figures of speech that sound alike or have double meaning.

Studio Activity:

• Search puns and figures of speech that sound alike or have double meanings.

watchdog	pen pals	bookworm	license plates
car pool	eggbeater	coat of arms	arms race
2nd hand store	attached to his dog	backhand	6 feet under
fast food	offspring	Gatorade	water gun
boxing match	Wisdom Tooth	night owls	Horse Fly
navel orange	pie in the sky	fan club	tow truck
brainwashed	brainstorm	walnut	sea star
lighthouse	rainbow	handyman	pen pal
home run	funny bone	double header	hotdog

• You may want to speak with an English teacher.
• Stage a photoshoot that visualizes your pun or figure of speech

Trigger Mechanisms:  Mix-media, metaphor, fantasize

Visual Examples:

Visual Pun Photo Contest > http://goo.gl/2T2P24 or http://goo.gl/kCahC

Check out this Map of ‘Punny’ business > http://goo.gl/CwJrmy

I have my head in the clouds > Scott Klein

Create > Contemporary Issue Photo Essay

Create > Contemporary Issue Photo Essay

Concept:
A social, ethical or moral issue can be visually signified.

Goal:

Create a series of 12 related images portraying your views on a contemporary issue.

Access Prior Knowledge:

Instructional Strategy

• Cues and Questions

Learning Activity

Social Dialogue > Socratic Seminar > What are you passionate about?

New Information:

Instructional Strategy

• Cooperative Learning

Learning Activity

Research > Sample contemporary photo essays

• Time Magazine Search > http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/
• SXSW Musical Fest > http://goo.gl/yR3so
• Contemporary Photo Essay with links to more > http://goo.gl/IlIYb

Instructional Strategy

• Deepen Understanding

Learning Activity

Understand >

• 5 Photo Essay Tips > http://goo.gl/kNxn89
• 24 Photo Essays of 2014 > http://goo.gl/PCqM8W

Apply Knowledge & Skills:

Instructional Strategy

• Nonlinguistic Representations

Learning Activity

Create > Contemporary Issue Photo Essay

1. Portray your views on a contemporary issue such as: politics, gun control, endangered species, capital punishment, terrorism, poverty, open campus, women’s issues...  
2. Read the Handout titled How to Choose a Photographic Essay Topic. > http://goo.gl/qPRHl
3. Choose and research a topic of importance or special interest to you that will be the subject of your own social-documentary project, presented in the form of a photo essay.  
4. Present the essay as a series of 12 related photographs focusing on a specific topic.
5. Include captions or other meaningful text.

Trigger Mechanisms: Empathize, Symbolize

Getting Started:

1. Write down topics for your photo essays
2. Brainstorm ideas for how to visually express them.
3. Brainstorm interview questions for individuals you may photograph as part of the project.
4. List the strategies for telling your story, keeping in mind the definition of “social documentary.”
5. Research your topic then write a plan summarizing the story you hope to tell in photos.
6. Create a title for the essay.
7. Shoot a whole lot of photographs for your photo essay. The images should collectively tell the key story you defined and described earlier.
8. During photo shoot, interview their subjects and record responses.
9. Select texts from your interview materials and draft any captions for images you will include in the final grouping of images.  
10. From your series of photographs, choose the essential ones to crop and edit.
11. Prepare these essential essay photographs for printing.  
12. Lay out your photo essay prints and texts.
13. Mount and artfully arrange your images on heavy tag board interspersing them with text derived from your interviews. (This approach approximates the way in which photo essays were most often presented in magazines and other publications.)
14. Include a final 50 to 100 word written essay summarizing of your contemporary issue.
15. You may also make accordion books in which to present their images.  
16. Read the Handout titled How to Make Art Books. > http://goo.gl/xzywZ

Generalize, Reflect & Publish:

Instructional Strategy

• Evaluate the results

Learning Activity

Reflect > Should I go back and rework anything?

• How did you combine art elements (line, color, shape, texture, value)  to develop art principles? (Unity/variety, balance, emphasis contrast, rhythm, proportion/scale, figure/ground relationship)

• Where are the dominant shapes, forms, colors, or textures that carry expressive significance?
• Why Is the work ordered and balanced or chaotic and disturbing?
• What gives the work its uniqueness?
• Is symbolism used in the work to convey meaning other than what one sees?
• Does the work evoke any feelings?

Instructional Strategy

• Providing Recognition

Learning Activity

Publish > Share your album to our G+Community > Concepts & Creations category

Display > Add your photos to the Event

Instructional Strategy

• Providing Feedback

Learning Activity

Critique >

• Give positive feedback > +1 every image that deserves it
• Give peer feedback > Give 2 peer images a VTS critique > http://goo.gl/1WWmBY

Self-assess >

• Evaluate > Thinglink Rubric Scoring Guidelines >  http://goo.gl/ejQq7B or AP Padlet Scoring Guidelines >  https://goo.gl/a70ikP
• Life Skills Survey > http://goo.gl/iEUqr (responses > http://goo.gl/8YDnYF)

Create > Upside Down Drawing

Create > Upside Down Drawing

Goal: Create a mindful switch from the verbal to the spatial state of consciousness

Concept:

Drawing upside-down provides the right conditions to consciously recognize and experience the spatial state of consciousness.

Familiar things do not look the same when they are upside down. Inverted drawing forces you to shift from the verbal mode to the spatial mode.

Studio Activity:

Understand, that by inverting an image, forms become unrecognizable and ‘nameless’.  this turns down the dominant verbal state of thinking (you don’t name things) and allows the spatial state greater moment to moment awareness.  The spatial state of awareness like mindful meditation induces positive and satisfying emotional consciousness that lasts long after.

1. Prepare with a  blank page, a pencil and the image I give you.
2. Take a deep breath and prepare not to speak for 30 minutes.
3. Turn the image upside down and like Trukese sailor navigate by constantly checking and rechecking visual qualities.  For example; this line goes up and to the left, starting halfway down the middle of the page and ending near the upper left edge of the paper.
4. Do not speak or attempt to name things.

Trigger Mechanisms: Awareness, Silence, Observation

Generalize, Reflect & Publish:

Instructional Strategy

• Evaluate the results

Learning Activity

Reflect > Should I go back and rework anything?

• How did you combine art elements (line, color, shape, texture, value)  to develop art principles? (Unity/variety, balance, emphasis contrast, rhythm, proportion/scale, figure/ground relationship)

• Where are the dominant shapes, forms, colors, or textures that carry expressive significance?
• Why Is the work ordered and balanced or chaotic and disturbing?
• What gives the work its uniqueness?
• Is symbolism used in the work to convey meaning other than what one sees?
• Does the work evoke any feelings?

Instructional Strategy

• Providing Recognition

Learning Activity

Publish > Share your album to our G+Community > Concepts & Creations category

Respond > in the comment section write the following reflection.

• Obviously you can’t always turn things upside down (models, still lifes or landscapes) so your goal is to be able to look like an artist.  What will that take?

Egon Schiele

Pablo Picasso. Portrait of Igor Stravinsky. 1920. Graphite. Musée Picasso, Paris, France

Pieter Brueghel the Younger from theIconography; etching by Van Dyck

Albrecht Durer My Agnes

Edgar Degas