Multimedia Projects Grading Guidelines

Overview: To help clarify the expectations of your multi-media project, please refer to the general grading guidelines below.

Communicates Message (30 Points) – the creator effectively communicates a message with the collective parts of the multimedia project.

• If it is a flier, the message promotes an event/group/organization. 
• If it is a slideshow, the message tells a story and showcases creator’s photographic and graphic design skill. 
• If a Prezi, the message tells a story and showcases creator’s photographic and graphic design skill. 
• If an Infogr.am, the message explains a topic/issue through use of text and graphics. 

Uses technology/multimedia to communicate message (20 points) – uses photos, audio, video, or online presentation.

• If product is a flier, it uses a QR code or Aurasama to link video to flier. 
• If product is an online presentation such as Animoto, Infog.am, or Prezi, the project uses multimedia to communicate message. 

Duration/Contents (20 points) – The project meets appropriate length requirements.

• If a flier, the flier contains all of the appropriate who, what, when, where, why, and how information. 
• If a slideshow, it is made up of three slideshows of at least 30 seconds in length. 
• If a Prezi, the presentation has three different parts: Photocomposition (6 to 10 examples of student work), Story Telling (a story in a narrative structure with beginning, middle and end) and Graphic Design in Your Future (explains how student will use graphic design/photography skills in their future) 

Professionalism (30 points) – Project has essential reference information, labels and transitions.

• Presentation includes appropriate labels (titles, descriptions of rules of photography, credits) 
• Presentation uses transitions (uses either visual (graphic or text) or verbal transitions between different elements of story.

Major Project Assignment Selection

Overview: Tell me about the project that you want to do for your final exam project for this class. Answer the questions below in a blog post.

Step 1: Make a blog post titled "Major Project Idea."

• What is the topic of your project? 
• Who will you interview? 
• What will you take photos of? 
• What information will you research?

Step 2:

• What type of project will you make?
• What service will you use? (Animoto, Infogram, Prezi, etc.)

Step 3: Why is this the best service to make your final multimedia project?

Step 4: When and where will you record and capture this content?

Step 5: When will you transfer your images, audio, text to your computer?

Multimedia Project

Overview: One of the skills your have learned this year is how to communicate with graphics. You can tell stories with your photos, your layouts and your writing. You can also combine these skills using a multimedia approach in which you combine audio, text and visuals together.

There are a variety of tools available to you tell stories in a multimedia manner. The following list are a few tools that you can use for this project:

• Flier created in InDesign: Use InDesign to create a flier for a real or fictional event. The flier must combine photos/images with text to promote an event. The flier should include all the appropriate who, what, when, where, how and why information and be visually appealing to viewers. Enhance your flier by adding an Aurasma "Augmented Reality" experience.
• Examples: http://www.printaholic.com/15-things-to-include-on-your-business-flyer/
• Check out Aurasma campaigns here: http://www.aurasma.com/campaigns/
• Using Aurasma requires use of cell phone and Aurasma app.
• Final product converted from PDF to JPG and posted to blog.
• Audio slideshow: Use Animoto to create a photo slideshow with audio. You must make a total of three 30 second videos. (One personal. One showing composition skills. One that tells a brief story.)
• Examples: http://animoto.com/create
• Using Animoto requires set up a free account.
• Final products embedded into blog.  
• Prezi: Use this service to combine text, photos, audio and video to create a portfolio presentation. Your portfolio should include the following three categories: Composition. Storytelling Skills. How you will use graphic design in the future.
• Examples: http://prezi.com/explore/popular/
• Using Prezi requires set up of a free account. Click here to set up a free Prezi account: https://prezi.com/profile/registration/?license_type=PUBLIC
• Final product embedded into blog.
• Infogr.am: Use this service to create at least one infographic combined with a portfolio presentation. Your project must an infographic, photos you take yourself to illustrate your infographic and graphically enhanced text that tells a story.  
• Examples: http://infogr.am/featured/
• Using Infogr.am requires set up of a free account.
• Final product embedded to blog.

Directions:
Select a format for your project and tell your teacher what type of project you are going to do. Begin planning your project or sign-up for the appropriate service if needed. Practice with your design. You will turn in your final product on the day of the final exam.

Post your Sports Action Photos

Assignment: 

Post your best of the four Sports Action photos with labels on your blog.

1. Subject running toward

2. Subject running across

3. Panning

4. Intentional blur (showing motion)

Sports Action Example Prompts

Overview: Your assignment is to capture the following four types of sports action photos.

Photo 1 - This is the photo of the subject running or moving directly at you.

Photo 2 -This is the photo of the subject running across the plane of the camera.

Photo 3 - This is the "Panning" photo - make sure you pick one that is blurry except where you caught the subject correctly in focus.

Photo 4 - This is your "blur" photo, you can submit any photo you want here as long as it shows motion and blur. Be creative and pick one that you think is cool looking.

Sports Action Photography Preview

Overview: Sports action photography is a special type of photography that requires the mastery of some basic skills. We will review some of the types of sports photography before we practice these techniques.

Directions: Begin by looking at some great sports photography!!

This GoogleDoc is multiple pages long and it has all the information you need to complete the rest of the work today. So make sure you click the box on the bottom and watch all 20 pages full screen.

Now  go to these websites and see some great sports photos:

http://espn.go.com/action/photos/

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/?eref=sihp

or

http://www.betterphoto.com/galleryTOCdynoSub.asp?cat=14

http://www.gettyimages.com/EditorialImages/Sport

for  more choices.

Copy and paste photos from the above  sites (DO NOT TAKE PHOTOS FROM THE GOOGLE DOCS PIECE I CREATED) to  complete the 12 slide powerpoint presentation described below:

Make  a PowerPoint with the following slides: Save it as  "LastName_FirstName_sports" in your folder

Action

Slide  1 - A Large example of an excellent action shot.

Slide 2- A slide  with a small version of the photo, and the following information:

1)  Is it a money shot or a safety shot? How can you tell?

2) Is it  shot with high (250 or higher), Medium (100-250), or slow (Below 100)  shutter speed, and what specifically in the photo shows this?

3)  Discuss anything about the lighting and / or composition that adds  significantly to the impact of the photo.

Reaction

Slide  3 - A Large example of an excellent reaction shot.

Slide 4- A  slide with a small version of the photo, and the following information:

1)  Is it a money shot or a safety shot? How can you tell?

2) Is it  shot with high (250 or higher), Medium (100-250), or slow (Below 100)  shutter speed, and what specifically in the photo shows this?

3)  Discuss anything about the lighting and / or composition that adds  significantly to the impact of the photo.

Rituals

Slide  5 - A Large example of an excellent rituals shot.

Slide 6 - A  slide with a small version of the photo, and the following information:

1)  Is it a money shot or a safety shot? How can you tell?

2) Is it  shot with high (250 or higher), Medium (100-250), or slow (Below 100)  shutter speed, and what specifically in the photo shows this?

3)  Discuss anything about the lighting and / or composition that adds  significantly to the impact of the photo.

Coach

Slide  7 - A Large example of an excellent coach shot.

Slide 8 - A slide  with a small version of the photo, and the following information:

1)  Is it a money shot or a safety shot? How can you tell?

2) Is it  shot with high (250 or higher), Medium (100-250), or slow (Below 100)  shutter speed, and what specifically in the photo shows this?

3)  Discuss anything about the lighting and / or composition that adds  significantly to the impact of the photo.

Fans

Slide  9 - A Large example of an excellent fans shot.

Slide 10 - A slide  with a small version of the photo, and the following information:

1)  Is it a money shot or a safety shot? How can you tell?

2) Is it  shot with high (250 or higher), Medium (100-250), or slow (Below 100)  shutter speed, and what specifically in the photo shows this?

3)  Discuss anything about the lighting and / or composition that adds  significantly to the impact of the photo.

Features

Slide  11 - A Large example of an excellent features shot.

Slide 12 - A  slide with a small version of the photo, and the following information:

1)  Is it a money shot or a safety shot? How can you tell?

2) Is it  shot with high (250 or higher), Medium (100-250), or slow (Below 100)  shutter speed, and what specifically in the photo shows this?

3)  Discuss anything about the lighting and / or composition that adds  significantly to the impact of the photo.

Caption Writing Test Pre-Writing

Overview: To successfully write captions in the correct format with all of the necessary information, you must first do some pre-writing.

Directions: Closely examine the following photos and complete the following prompts for each of the five photos. Be sure you write the answers for each of these prompts for all FIVE of the photos.

YOU WILL WRITE YOUR PROMTS ON NOTEBOOK PAPER AND TURN IN TO YOUR TEACHER.

Who: The full name (first and last) of all identifiable people in the photo. Sometimes a title like "Captain" or "Officer" or "firefighter" is helpful.

What: The action verb (runs, jumps, shoots, etc.) that describes the action in the photo as if it is happening now for first sentence. Come up with a second action verb for the second sentence (background information sentence).

When: The day of the week, time of day, day of the month if it happened more than a week ago.

Where: The specific location of the event in photo such as city, state, country, neighborhood or street.

Why: The information for second sentence that explains why the person was photographed. Why it is important?

How: An adverb that describes how the action was performed such as "powerfully," "solemnly," or "carefully."

Photo 1

Photo 2

Photo 3

Photo 4

Photo 5

Newspaper Completion Checklist and Submission Directions

Directions: It's time to turn in your Newspaper designs. Use the check list below before you are turn in your assignment.

Did you:

1. Build a proper "Flag" at the top of page 1 and 2

2. Fill in the folio with a school name, date, volume and edition on both pages

3. Place all 6 stories into the right place (hint: to get "fill text" put your cursor on the end of the story and right-click -- (Fill with Placeholder Text)

4. Jump the proper story from page 1 to page 2

5. Use fill text in all empty spaces

6. Use 4 of the 6 photos in the proper places. Did you crop in Photoshop? (Remember: I can tell)

7. Use 4 of the 6 captions in proper places

8. Write the 2nd sentence of each caption

9. Write headlines and subheadlines for each story that fill the entire space

10. Write headlines with complete sentences with a subject and verb in "downstyle" (only capital letters at the beginning and proper names) and with no punctuation at the end of the sentence.

11. Fill in the writer and title for every story (with bold for name and italics for title)

12. Fill in the photographers name for each photo

13. Use 1 of the 2 stand-alone photos and place it in the correct place

14. Use the correct caption for the stand-alone photo

I hope you did!!!!

Now send it to me:

Submission Directions:

Part 1. Export your InDesign document as a PDF

Here is a reminder how to do that:

Go to "File" -- Adobe PDF presets -- Smallest File Size

When the pop-up window appears, name the file LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_NEWSPAPER LAYOUT and hit save (make sure its saved in your folder)

IMPORTANT:  In the middle of the window where it says "PAGES," click the box marked ALL , click export, if you get error messages, click OK.

Part 2. Open Photoshop and find the PDF document in photoshop.

IMPORTANT: When the IMPORT PDF window pops up, make sure you select both pages by holding down the shift key and selecting the second page. It will open both pages as two separate images that you have to save separately.

YOU WILL NEED TO UPLOAD BOTH IMAGES TO YOUR BLOG.

Go to "File" Save as" and change the FORMAT to .jpeg (file format). make sure to save at maximum size.

Part 3. Open your e-mail and send me the .PDF (DO NOT SEND THE .INDD DOCUMENT)to Mr. Doerr at david.doerr@austinisd.org and Ms. Fleming at lauraflemingphotoj@gmail.com.

Newspaper Design Examples

Check the images below to see a finished Newspaper Design to see how to finish this project correctly.

Please note: You must write a two sentence caption for every photo. The first sentence is provided for you. You must write a second sentence with a past tense verb. The second sentence should provide background information that you can not see in the photo.

Caption Writing Review

Overview: It's time to review to help prepare you for the big test that shows you know how to write captions and headlines.

We will begin with a Caption Writing Review activity that will ask you to look at a four photos and write a headline and a two-sentence caption for each one.

Assignment: Pick up a Caption Writing headline handout and click the links to see the four photos that you will review use for this activity. The first one we will do together as a class.

Caption 1

Caption 2

Caption 3

Caption 4

Be sure to follow the guidelines below to receive full credit on this assignment for writing full and complete captions.

1. Headline: Headline includes a noun and a verb -- is brief (no longer than 8 words -- is accurate -- uses present-tense active verbs (usually in “s” when singular subject) -- eliminates the word “is” if this is the verb used in sentence and contains no punctuation at the end of sentence. The headline is clever and sparks interest in subject of the photo.

Ex.: Akins wins game after embarrassing mishap on court

2. First Sentence: Uses present tense action verb. Describes what is happening in photo.

Ex.: Johnny Tovar runs down the court on a fast break with the ball to score in the game against Bowie High School.

3. Second Sentence: Past tense verb. Provide background information. Describe something you can’t see in photo.

Ex.: Tovar stole the ball from an opponent who lost his balance after his pants fell down in the middle of the game.