2 Color Poster Project
~ 2 COLOR POSTER PROJECT ~
Project Sheet PDF
Competency:
#503 Demonstrate basic use of page layout software - InDesign
Project:
Utilizing Cornell Notes with class lecture & demonstration of Adobe InDesign, the student will first create 2 abstract designs showing their use of each tool reviewed. Next the student will reproduce the fundraiser poster provided to them with concern for accuracy in both typography & measurement. Lastly the student will creatively design their own SkillsUSA poster as a Live Job to include all of the content provided, all to the criteria detailed in the PDF.
Key Points & MAX Strategy:
Utilizing "Cornell Notes" as a comprehension strategy, we will use Class Lecture, demo, & hands on activities for SkillsUSA poster as a Live Job
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Selection Tool
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Direct Select Tool
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Type Tool & Text on a Path
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Line Tool
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Pencil Tool
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Pen Tool
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Rectangle, Elipse Frame & Polygon Frame Tool
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Rectangle, Elipse & Polygon Shape Tool
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Color Palette
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Character Palette
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Stroke Palette
Editorial Photography
Storytelling. Editorial Photography is photography that tells a story; it differs from commercial, fashion, and advertising. You can usually tell editorial photography apart in a magazine because it has a story accompanying the photos. For this assignment though, you are not writing a story to go along with your photos! Your photography has to tell a visual story all by itself.
For this assignment, you will upload this assignment into Teams, into the Editorial assignment.
What is due:
• 20 up to 24 photos with variety that tell your story on a Contact Sheet
- Final 5-7 number of photos for your editorial story and layout submitted as 'enlargements'
- 3-5 thumbnail drawing(s) of you portfolio page layout
- 1 Final layout for your portfolio
- must be made in PS
You need to take enough photos that your story is clearly told! Typically between 5 to 7 photos is enough to convey a clear editorial; you may need to take more than that and narrow it down before submitting.
Once you are done photographing, you will also be planning the layout for your portfolio page for your editorial, so you will also be turning in a few thumbnails and one final rough of what you would like that to look like. This may be done on blank computer paper or in your sketchbook. Remember, portfolio pages are 11x17 and can be vertical or horizontal; your editorial layout can take up one single page or flow between two side by side pages. Make sure you make it clear which photo goes where; think about the sequence, the size, how many you need on the page, and the photos orientation while sketching out your thumbnails and rough.
Student Samples
More Info!
As far as the editorial goes, your photos need to tell a story with a start, middle and end. It needs to have EMOTION attached!! You do not need words, I was just showing above how a lot of time editorials go with a written story in a magazine but for this project you need to show that story with NO words and it doesn't necessarily need people! For example, your story may be on coffee shop in a given town. You might shoot the coffee in a cup, the beans, a barista, steam gushing from the steam wand, hands compressing the grounds, a storefront, people enjoying coffee, and then something specific to that neighborhood to give it context and relevancy. All this gives your photos the ability to tell a story greater than a single image could. Think about something that interests you, what props you have access too, what is going on in the world right now and come up and create your own photographic story! The story isn't just a 'how-to", its showing the store front and the group of friends enjoying the coffee together after it was made, it was about the coffeehouse being a meeting point, a gathering place for friends! It wasn't just show someone making the coffee.
Then for the layout, you need to figure out what is the most important part and highlight that on your portfolio page. So take my coffee story, I think the building is the most important because it's the meeting place, so I would plan to have that big on the top, then the coffee being made all small across the middle in the row and then the friends enjoying the coffee below those small 4 photos...see my layout below, I did it in PS but you could also hand draw it and label where each one goes!
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