FINAL TIME, and list of project files

Our final will be:

Friday, 12/14
11:30am-1:30pm

I'll want to gather all your project files for the semester. If you've lost track of any of them, include a word document that gives a brief description of the missing ones (for example: "image and text project: a scene of Lake Tahoe, once with a tourism message, and once with a pollution message")

Please come to the final with your project files collected in a folder with your name on it, on an external or flash drive – I'll want to collect them. Here's the list of all the projects, and how I want you to name them:

LIST OF FILES

Please follow this naming convention:

You should give them filenames like this:

"(2-digit project number)-(your last name)-(project title).fileextension"

So if your name is Jane Smith, and the project was the self portrait, you would name the file:

01-smith-selfportrait.jpg

If you have more than one image for the project, append letters (A,B, C):

01-smith-selfportrait-A.jpg

01-smith-selfportrait-B.jpg

All the files should be flattened files.

And here are the project titles I'd like you to use.

1. Digital self-portrait, from three scans:

01-lastname-selfportrait

2. Text/image combo project (at least two versions)

02-lastname-textimage-A

02-lastname-textimage-B

3. The response to the collage artist

03-lastname-collageresponse

4. The paper for the collage artist

04-lastname-collageresponse

5. The "composite" project (something small made large, or something large made small)

05-lastname-composite

6. The "Tahoe Timescapes" project

06-lastname-tahoetimescapes

7. The "multiple me" project

07-lastname-multiple

8. The Fair Use Project (include the image as "A" and your one-page "legal defense" as "B")

08-lastname-fairuse-A
08-lastname-fairuse-B

9. The Brushes Project

09-lastname-brushes

10. Blurb Book Project (six interior pages)

10-lastname-blurb-A

10-lastname-blurb-B

10-lastname-blurb-C

10-lastname-blurb-D

10-lastname-blurb-E

10-lastname-blurb-F

Template for 6-Page Sequence

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5ek7cgwlc2qq4jc/blurb-page-template.psd?dl=0

For Tuesday, Nov. 27

The week after thanksgiving break will be devoted to working on your six-page sequence, so come prepared with whatever raw materials you need (images, ideas) to use the time profitably. A portion of your grade will be for an initial proposal for the sequence, which is due at the beginning of Tuesday's class – you need to have at least a basic sketch (drawn out on paper, or cobbled together in Photoshop) of your general idea for the sequence, or a one-paragraph write-up of your idea (printed out).

I will also be collecting your "brushes" project and the "fair use" project on Tuesday.

Here are the specs for the images in your "sequence" project -- the one we're printing up as a book through blurb.com. You should have the images you need at the start of the class, so you can just jump into it when class starts.

Dimensions for Blurb book project
You will have 6 pages to fill in an art book we're publishing through blurb.com.

The dimensions at which you should create the work are:

Final page size will be 6.875" x 6.875" at 300 dpi (that's 2063px by 2063px). The pages need a 1/8" bleed all the way around, so the outer eighth of an inch of your image will be trimmed off on all four sides.

Keep in mind, as you're designing the sequence, that you will have three "two page spreads," where the image on the lefthand page will be facing the image on the righthand page. Think about how the images on those facing pages will affect each other, in terms of content, color, composition, and so on.

If you're still chewing through what a "sequence" is, remember that a potential starting place could be:

1. Time changes through a fixed location. What is a single place, that goes through changes as time passes, and how are those changes made visible? Think of R. Crumb's "History of America."

2. Spatial changes with a fixed subject. Is there a character, or object, that travels through different spaces?

3. Transformations of a character or object. Think of Klinger's "glove" etching. Is there a common image that goes through a variety of changes of scale, of stature, of meaning? Is there an object that can pull the images together along the thread of a visual theme?

4. Different aspects of a single thing. Think Hokusai's Mount Fuji series. Is there a thing, a person or a place that can be looked at through a variety of lenses -- the lens of history, of myth, of geology, etc?

5. Formal variation and rhythm. Remember that abstracts images can function in sequence, riffing on common formal elements throughout the multiple images.

6. Storytelling. Any sequence tells a story of some sort. Is there some sort of narrative that could occur through the five images? Think of Hogarth's "Harlot's Progess," or the comics examples I showed.

And you should "own" your artwork in this project -- you can shoot your own images, or draw your own images. You can use stock images (free or purchased). Or manipulate/transform your source images so that you feel you'd be well over the acceptable line of fair use.

Film link - in Truckee Friday

https://www.vandornmovie.com

Course Evaluation Link

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/lanier-80164-201880

Link to Maggie Pics

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/w8s4qq3e2kp100t/AAAF_wGteo9HeDGE7jXApmeWa?dl=0

Civics Break

Voter info here:

https://sncvote2018.blogspot.com