Deadline Reminder for 10.22.12

Deadline Reminder for 10.22.12

Final Presentation: Project 3: Illustrating Ideas.

See the dropbox folder for final templates. You will have 7 pages in your final presentation.

Page 1: Final three selected images with type of story title and author included.
Pages 2-4: One page per story. Three small image thumbnails with final selected image on right. No type on images.
Page 5: Place thumbnails of final covers in ipad bookshelf format (mask areas provided in keynote).
Page 6: Recreate layout of one story to fit in featured book area at top, place thumbnails of final covers below (mask areas provided in keynote).
Page 7: Place thumbnails of final covers, and replace titles in listing next to thumbnails with correct information. Photoshop document provided with editable fields. Edit, save as JPG, then replace into keynote.

Have your final presentation placed into the dropbox folder by the beginning of class. Keynote or PDF format.

Also make sure to post all process documentation on blog by beginning of class, including your final slides from presentation.

Deadline Reminder for 10.8.12

Deadline Reminder for 10.8.12

Due: Illustrating Ideas: Concept Sketches.
27 6×9 sketches, 3 per theme, per story.

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Project 3: Illustrating an Idea

PART 1: CONCEPTING AND ILLUSTRATING STORY THEMES

PROBLEM
Communicate/illustrate, through symbolism and metaphor, the key themes of three short stories.

PROCESS
1) Start by selecting three short stories from a single author. Below are some suggestions. You may propose others if you like.

David Sedaris
Margaret Atwood
Kurt Vonnegut
R. K. Narayan
Ray Bradbury
Jules Verne
William Faulkner
Jorges Luis Borges
Sam Shepard
Virginia Woolf
Eudora Welty
Kim Addonizio
Gretchen McCullough
Nathan Englander
Sherman Alexie

2) Read all three stories by that author, taking notes about the themes you notice.

3) Determine at least three key themes in each story, and blog about them by next Wednesday, Oct 3. In your blog post, include your thoughts on ways in which you can visually illustrate each theme.

I will be reading and grading your posts.

4) Bring all three stories (printed) to next class and be prepared to discuss both the stories and the key themes you discovered.

A SUCCESSFUL SOLUTION WILL CONSIDER, EMBRACE & EXHIBIT:
Good use of symbolism and metaphor
Imagery as a series
Impeccable technical craft
All of the principles discussed and used in the two previous projects

Due on Monday, October 8th:
twenty-seven 6″wide x 9″high concept sketches (3 different concepts per key theme) of photographic imagery designed to illustrate each key theme.