Warm Up & Mural Project Planning

Warm-Up (10-12 minutes)

Please look at this website:

http://www.upworthy.com/a-husband-took-these-photos-of-his-wife-and-captured-love-and-loss-beautifully?g=2&c=upw1

Please answer the following questions:

1. What emotions did you feel as you worked your way through these images?

2. The photographer said this: "These photographs do not define us, but they are us." What do you think about this comment now that you have looked at the photos?

3. Do you think you could shoot photos like this if you were in this situation?

4. If you could write Angelo a letter, what would you say to him?

FINALLY (till end of class)

Today, you will be with your group for about 30-45 minutes to start planning your mural project, which you can start shooting beginning today. I will go over the camera check-out procedures with you at some point today in class. This will be the first day to plan your project. I expect a detailed plan from you on your blogs. I need your team theme and team names on your blogs. I also need to see details of every photo that will appear on your mural and who will be taking those photos on your blog. Please make sure your plans also include how you are going to get team members names and the name of your project on the mural itself. This is due today.

When you are done planning, make sure everyone knows their part in the process.

Here are the deadlines:

All photos must be turned in to me to be printed BEFORE Wednesday, Nov. 1.
The Mural itself must be completed by Friday, Nov. 10.

You will have in-class time to work on the actual mural itself (3 full class days) - but we will also have other things to do in-between so be aware of this. All photos MUST be color managed in Photoshop (levels) and you will crop the images 8.5 inches by 11 inches for tall photos, or 11 inches by 8.5 inches for wide photos.

When you have your images ready to print, ask me for a thumb drive, put your images on the drive and I will have Mr. Reeves print them and have them to you by the next class.

There will be multiple grades for this assignment:

A self-grade - grading your own efforts
A group grade -grading the efforts of the rest of your team
A deadline grade - achieving the multiple deadlines associated with this project
A completed task grade - your final grade, I will use a rubric for this and you will have it in advance

A peer review grade - you grading another teams project - you will actually grade 3 other projects and you will get a grade for accomplishing this on time

GROUPS

1. Jonathan, Blake, Hope and Darby
2. Michael, Tyler B., Elise and Kylie
3. Gavin, Andres, Logan, Tyler VH
4. Almalleli, Kevin, Athena and Zachary
5. Weston, Roman, Zoe, Ellen and Nuria

1. Alyssa, Erin, Thomas, Riley and Abigail
2. Ashley, Cameron, Eric, Conner and Ethan
3. Henry, Vadim, Conrad and Elijah
4. Reagan, JoEdward, Haley and Jackson