Finishing out the semester

Next week is our last meeting. It will be a work day for the completion of your "How to" pamplet/zines. Be sure to arrive to class at least 50% finished so that you are not too rushed or unable to complete the project on time. At the end of class you will print, fold and turn your pamplet/zine in for grading.

Grading criteria:

• Did you shoot and post your sequential images on your photobucket or flickr (you can "find" some images on the web, but not all)
• Did you successfully use those images to create a series of illustrations using the pen tool
• Did you use both images and text to describe your "how to" on every page (including back cover)
  
• Does your project successfully illustrate your process
• Work ethic and quality of work

Turning your text UP-SIDE-DOWN

You will need to flip your text to appear as though it is up-side-down for pages 1, 2, 3 and the inside cover. You will notice if you select the text and manually rotate it using the double sided arrow that the selection box rotates, but the text does not.
Follow these steps to rotate:

• Select all of the text with the Selection tool (the dark arrow)
• Use the "Effect" drop down in the Menu bar at the top
• Go to Effect> Distort and Transform> Transform...
• The "Transform Effect" dialogue box will appear
• At the bottom is a section called "Rotate"
• In "Angle" box type 180 (for a 180 degree rotate)

DUE AFTER BREAK

FOR YOUR FIRST CLASS FOLLOWING THE BREAK:
You must come to class with a series of photographic images that you have taken of your 4-6 step process. These are the images that you will "trace" to create your illustrations for your "how to" pamphlet.
MINIMUM: 10 images charting the process uploaded to your FLICKR or PHOTOBUCKET

Final Assignment - HOW TO?

HOW TO
“How To” Single Fold Zine/Pamphlet
Due at the end of the final day of class

For your final assignment you will be creating a 4 to 6 page “how to” zine/pamphlet. The images and text will all be created by you and organized on a sheet of 11x17 paper that when folded, creates a 4 page booklet. Your final booklet can be in black and white or color. It should demonstrate your process using images, as well as accompanying text.

“How to”
What do you know how to do and how can you illustrate it in 4-6 simple steps? You will do this by first photographing your 4-6 step process. Next, you will ‘place’ your photos and trace them with the pen tool, creating a graphic interpretation of the process. Think simply and visually when choosing your “how to” – like IKEA instruction manuals. Think about a process that has distinct steps. Assume your audience has NO knowledge of how to perform this…
Some examples: How to brush your teeth. How eat spaghetti. How to read a newspaper. How to cross the street. How to survive a bear attack!
Your “how to” can be anything at all that you choose!

The Specifics:
Printed Tabloid paper (11x17)
Folded, not cut
Text and image

Schedule for WED section:
Wed 14 – Intro to Assignment – Rulers, layout, Photographing
T-Day Break
Wed 28 – Work Day
Wed 5 – Final Class – Work Day, Print and turn in.

Schedule for MON section:
Mon 19 – Intro to Assignment – Rulers, Live trace, Photographing
T-Day Break
Mon 26 – Work Day
Mon 3 – Final Class – Work Day, Print and turn in.

Managing your classwork

Below is a comprehensive list of assignments for the WHOLE semester. Any work completed, or posted, between now and the end of the semester will be counted for partial credit and only help your final grade.

Blog Posts that count for credit:

Post 1 - Post 5 websites that you use on a regular basis. Make them links if you can.

Post 2 - Post one of images you scanned after scaling, optimizing and saving for web.

Post 3 - Answer the following questions: What is compression and why do we use it? What is the difference between lossy and lossless compression?

Post 4 - Take the scan (the one you posted last week) and apply a filter or a glazing layer on it to make it into a "background" image.

Post 5 - [you should have a classmates "one a day" from last week] Use the your selection tools to cut out an "object" and apply it to a new layer. Use the brush tool (opacity, textures and scale) to "recreate" the object on another layer (this was the day we used the fish)

Post 6 - [you should have a classmates "one a day" from last week] Use the complex selection processes we learned (extract, quick selection) to isolate, select and add an "object" from one of your online images (the images you are gathering for the "Documentation and Annotation" project) to the "One a Day" image you downloaded in class.

Post 7 - Post your Documentation and Annotation video here.

Post 8 - Post a link to your Documentation and Annotation Flickr or Photobucket site

Post 9 - Post an image of your flickr map that is a link to the flickr map OR embed your google map (again part of the documentation and annotation project)

Additional Assignments:

- Set up a file storage system of folders to use for the class
http://ca-moore.blogspot.com/2007/08/homework-week-1.html

- Scan two images
http://ca-moore.blogspot.com/2007/08/homework-week-1.html

- Start a "text edit" document to keep track of all of your user names and passwords
http://ca-moore.blogspot.com/2007/08/homework-week-1.html

- Customize your blog colors (background, text, links, etc) by going to Template>Fonts and Colors tab.
http://ca-moore.blogspot.com/2007/09/homework-week-4.html

- Have a minimum of 20 images on your flickr or other online photography management tool. They should all be tagged, named and commented. If your site does not have "comments" you must add, by using the URL image option, 5 images to your blog and comment on them there.
http://ca-moore.blogspot.com/2007/10/homwork-week-7.html

BRING YOUR CAMERA TO CLASS

If you have a digital camera, please bring it to class along with your USB cord to download images. This applies to Wednesday, Nov. 14th and Monday, Nov. 19th.

Your Finished project

Your finished project should exist on your blog in three distinct blog post"

Post 1
Your Video embedded via vimeo or youtube (not posted directly from blogger.)

Post 2
The URL to your Flickr or photobucket site along with writing about the project. Many of you accomplished the writing in the "commenting" phase. Feel free to cut and paste here but make sure it is a cohesive statement about what you chose to investigate.

Post 3
Your Map - If you used google maps, you should EMBED your map in this post. If you used the flickr map option you should upload a screen shot (apple-shift-4 to capture) of the map, and make that image a link to your map.