COURSE OUTLINE
This full-year course offers students an introduction to the basic elements of visual communication and the print world. Students will learn the fundamentals of photography as they document important events from the school year. Students will develop their pre-collegiate communication skills via reporting, writing, class discussions, presentations, and publications. Students will create the yearbook and a variety of narrative projects that show how photography and the written word combine to inform society.
Photography and Publishing 11: Yearbook
Students will learn basic skills to create our printed yearbook. This includes the basics of photography, camera usage, and compositional skills. We will also focus on layout and page design. Writing assignments will include interviewing techniques, caption writing, and printed story methods, including polls, surveys, feature stories, and headline construction. In addition, we will focus on ethics in journalism, including libel, copyright, and proper use of trademarked materials. A special emphasis will be on staying organized, teamwork, critiquing, editing, and meeting authentic deadlines. Assignments will be within the school and extend into the community.
Photography and Publishing 12: Yearbook
This is for students that hope to take a greater leadership role on the yearbook (editor or editor-in-chief). Editors will take a larger role in theme selection, page layout and creation, decision-making, and developing teamwork amongst their fellow students. In addition, students will develop more effective camera skills, advanced writing and editing techniques, and take a greater role in sales decisions and marketing.
Photography and Publishing 11: Yearbook
Students will learn basic skills to create our printed yearbook. This includes the basics of photography, camera usage, and compositional skills. We will also focus on layout and page design. Writing assignments will include interviewing techniques, caption writing, and printed story methods, including polls, surveys, feature stories, and headline construction. In addition, we will focus on ethics in journalism, including libel, copyright, and proper use of trademarked materials. A special emphasis will be on staying organized, teamwork, critiquing, editing, and meeting authentic deadlines. Assignments will be within the school and extend into the community.
Photography and Publishing 12: Yearbook
This is for students that hope to take a greater leadership role on the yearbook (editor or editor-in-chief). Editors will take a larger role in theme selection, page layout and creation, decision-making, and developing teamwork amongst their fellow students. In addition, students will develop more effective camera skills, advanced writing and editing techniques, and take a greater role in sales decisions and marketing.
Big ideas
COURSE CONTENT
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
• Image capturing with a digital camera
• Manipulating images on the computer with different software applications
• Learning to create layouts
• Journalism
• Create a yearbook documenting the journey of the school year.
AESTHETICS:
• Cultivate a critical and aesthetic visual “way of seeing.”
• Analyze, explain and justify the use of the elements and principles of art and design in the production of your photographs.
SEMANTICS:
This course will help you develop an understanding of social and cultural contexts in which meaning is created and communicated through image production and publishing of a yearbook. The skills gained through the production, analysis, in the making of archival documentation are invaluable in the understanding and appreciation of visual communication.
• Image capturing with a digital camera
• Manipulating images on the computer with different software applications
• Learning to create layouts
• Journalism
• Create a yearbook documenting the journey of the school year.
AESTHETICS:
• Cultivate a critical and aesthetic visual “way of seeing.”
• Analyze, explain and justify the use of the elements and principles of art and design in the production of your photographs.
SEMANTICS:
This course will help you develop an understanding of social and cultural contexts in which meaning is created and communicated through image production and publishing of a yearbook. The skills gained through the production, analysis, in the making of archival documentation are invaluable in the understanding and appreciation of visual communication.
LEARNING STANDARDS
Students are expected to be able to do the following:
Explore and create
• Create photographic works using sensory inspiration, imagination, and inquiry
• Explore photographic possibilities and cross-cultural perspectives
• Take creative risks to express meaning, intent, and emotion through documentation
• Intentionally select and combine materials, processes, and image-making technologies to convey ideas
• Create photographic images and journalism for a specific audience
• Demonstrate active engagement in creating photographic images and resolving creative challenges
Reason and reflect
• Understand the purpose of a critique and choose when to apply suggestions
• Describe and analyze, using discipline-specific language, how photographers use materials, technologies, processes, and environments in art making
• Analyze design choices in photography
• Develop personal answers to aesthetic questions in design
Communicate and document
• Document, share, and appreciate photographic images
• Demonstrate awareness of self, others, and place through photography
• Communicate about and respond to social and environmental issues through photography
• Complete a publish book documenting the school year
Connect and expand
• Explore First Peoples perspectives, knowledge, and protocols; other ways of knowing, and local cultural knowledge through photography/documentation
• Explore personal, educational, and professional opportunities in photography and related fields
• Explore the reciprocal relationships between photography, culture, and society
• Engage in digital citizenship throughout the photographic process and documentation
• Demonstrate safe and responsible use of materials, equipment, and work space
Explore and create
• Create photographic works using sensory inspiration, imagination, and inquiry
• Explore photographic possibilities and cross-cultural perspectives
• Take creative risks to express meaning, intent, and emotion through documentation
• Intentionally select and combine materials, processes, and image-making technologies to convey ideas
• Create photographic images and journalism for a specific audience
• Demonstrate active engagement in creating photographic images and resolving creative challenges
Reason and reflect
• Understand the purpose of a critique and choose when to apply suggestions
• Describe and analyze, using discipline-specific language, how photographers use materials, technologies, processes, and environments in art making
• Analyze design choices in photography
• Develop personal answers to aesthetic questions in design
Communicate and document
• Document, share, and appreciate photographic images
• Demonstrate awareness of self, others, and place through photography
• Communicate about and respond to social and environmental issues through photography
• Complete a publish book documenting the school year
Connect and expand
• Explore First Peoples perspectives, knowledge, and protocols; other ways of knowing, and local cultural knowledge through photography/documentation
• Explore personal, educational, and professional opportunities in photography and related fields
• Explore the reciprocal relationships between photography, culture, and society
• Engage in digital citizenship throughout the photographic process and documentation
• Demonstrate safe and responsible use of materials, equipment, and work space
ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION
Students will produce projects and portfolio work in a variety of subject areas. The goal of every assignment is personal and technical growth. Assessment will involve the following methods:
• Teacher evaluation based on project criteria
• Self-assessment based on curricular competency
• Self-assessment based on personal goals and learning
• Peer critique and discussion
• Teacher evaluation based on project criteria
• Self-assessment based on curricular competency
• Self-assessment based on personal goals and learning
• Peer critique and discussion
EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES
Students will be provided cameras, tripods, SD cards and access to lighting equipment for use in class. Any student is welcome to bring their own camera. However, the school cannot take any responsibility for equipment brought from home. Students are expected to treat equipment with care and will be responsible for cameras and other equipment while in class.