Conceptual Photography Assignment

In order to demonstrate an understanding of conceptual photography, try and create a photograph that represents an idea. 

Procedure:

• Come up with TWO conceptual photographs. 
• Remember to think about your idea first and then create it
• You are permitted to use others to help you stage your photograph. You are also permitted to use Photoshop to edit your photograph. 
• After you have staged and taken both photographs, you are to write a 50 word description conveying what each photograph was trying to represent. 
• Title the assignment "Conceptual Photography Assignment."
• Provide your own title for EACH of the two photographs. 
• This assignment will be due Thursday, December 6th, 2018.

Rubric:

• 2 Photographs (12 Marks)
• 2 Descriptions (6 Marks)
• 2 Titles (2 Marks)
• Overall (20 Marks)

Conceptual Photography Lesson

What is Conceptual Photography?

Conceptual photography is a type of photography that illustrates an idea. This type of photography is preconceived and therefore staged before the photo takes place.

When doing this photograph, the observer(s) should be able to understand your idea without an explanation. This is common to see in both advertising and illustrations.

Examples of Conceptual Photography:







As we can see in each of these three photos the photographer is trying to illustrate an idea. Whether your idea revolves around being inspirational, trying to convey a story or making an advertisement; there are a multitude of ways in which you can create this type of work.

Helpful Video

In order to help you understand conceptual photography and how to make an excellent photograph; watch this video

Movie Poster Assignment

In order to help sell movies or show you which films are playing at what theatre, producers will often create movie posters which are meant to garner your attention. Your assignment is to create a movie poster for a film that you are producing.

Procedure

1. You are NOT permitted to create a movie poster for an already made film.
2. You will take 4-5 photos that will include yourself and a variety of other images (scenery, other people, buildings)
3. You will merge them together on one document using Photoshop.
4.  How you choose to arrange the images is entirely up to you. You are welcome to use the various tools we have learned about in this course to enhance your poster.
5. Your poster must be visually engaging so that it will draw the attention of your “audience.”
6.  It will greatly help you to think about your idea before you begin taking pictures so that you know what to look for.
7. Your movie poster must also include a text box that will provide the title and who was responsible for producing it.
8. Discuss in 100 words the edits you made in Photoshop (How you merged the pictures together, what you edited in each image etc.)
9. The final piece of this assignment is to submit a 400 (+/- 50) word description that outlines/sells your plot to the audience.
10. Please upload your assignment as "Movie Poster Assignment." 
11. This will be due Wednesday, November 21st at the beginning of class. 

Rubric

Poster

·         Photographs (10 Marks)

·         Engaging and Colourful Poster with nicely merged images (15 Marks)

·         Photoshop Edits (5 Marks)

·         Text Box (2 Marks)

Description

·         Spelling/Grammar (3 Marks)

·         Content (15 Marks)

Overall (50 Marks)

Photoshop Editing Part 3

How to Merge Pictures Together into One Document

Merging pictures into one document is not too difficult. To begin, open all of the images you want to use.

Once all of your images are open, create a new document. Depending on what you are attempting to do, you may need to constantly adjust the width and length of your new document. For example, if you are creating a poster you may want the length bigger than the width. If you are creating a portrait, you would likely want the width to exceed the length. Hit "OK" when you have decided on your width/height.



In order to get images from your open files onto the new document is simple.

Begin by selecting the entire image. In order to do this click Ctrl + A. Once the whole image is selected, click Ctrl + X in order to copy the image. If your image was removed doing this, do not fear! This is supposed to happen. Go to your new file and click Ctrl + V to paste the image.


Resizing Your Image
In order to resize the image, it is recommended you do this before you begin merging your images together. Regardless, the most simple way to do this is to select the image:

 (Ctrl + A) > Edit > Transform > Scale

From there you can use the boxes along the side of the image to make it wider, thinner, taller or shorter. 

After you have adjusted the image, click the button on the top left hand corner to "Apply."



Painting the Background
In order to add colour to your background, click the Paint Bucket Tool located on the left hand side of your tool bar in Photoshop. From there, go to the top right hand side to change your colour. Take your bucket tool icon and click anywhere on the background of the image.

Photoshop Editing Videos

Below is a collection of videos that will assist you in using the multiple functions of Photoshop.

One of the most useful tools to use in order to delete backgrounds and protect certain aspects of the image is the select and mask tool.  It can be a bit complicated to use, so refer to this video when you need a reminder on how to use this tool.

Additionally, in the event you want to learn more about each deleting tool, please refer to this video.