Your task is to use photos to create a story that has a relationship to a place that is important to you.
The photos should be recent and your own, though you can supplement from your past photos and photos you find (labelled so).
The form will be a text/photo story, though that text can be written, or recorded (audio).
Week 1: Assignment 1a: Explore & Photograph
- Watch: Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke
- Photo walk with observation sketch, or audio notes
- Post Project 1a:
- Gather 4-6 images from 2-3 story locations (one might be a favorite walk/hike)
- Update image files names to “yourname-project1-01” then -02, etc, then upload
- Add captions, alt text for each
- Using notes, add descriptive short paragraph for each location and reason it matters to you
- Title: “Project 1a-yourname”
- Use featured image & add short excerpt and category “Project 1”
Week 2: Assignment 1b: Update Photos
- Watch Nausicaa & do readings
- Based on feedback, photo tips & class discussion, explore the same and/or different places and take a new/revised set of photos
- Post Project 1b:
- Gather dozens of photos & pick the best 5-10
- Use files names “yourname-project1-01” then -02, etc, then upload
- Add captions, alt text for each
- Using notes, add descriptive short paragraph for each location and reason it matters to you
- Title: “Project 1b-yourname”
- Use featured image & add short excerpt and category “Project 1”
Week 3: Assignment 1c: Design & Layout
- Read/view materials
- Create a storyboard, or draft (in Canva, Adobe or Storymap) for your story
- Post Project 1b:
- Use the best 5-10 images, correct filenames, with captions & alt text
- Add text to introduce the story and provide context. Use text only to specify what can’t be gleaned from images
- Title: “Project 1c-yourname”
- Use featured image & add short excerpt and category “Project 1”
- Review 2 other student stories before class next week
Week 4: Assignment: Project 1 Photo Story
- Read/view materials
- Post Project 1 final:
- Use the best 5-10 images, correct filenames, with captions & alt text
- Based on class feedback, revise design, layout & text/narrative
- Post the embed URL for your project
- Title: “Project 1 final-yourname”
- Add a 2-3 paragraph text reflection in the post (not in the story) : “What I Saw and What I Missed”
