Semester Long Project

Semester Long Project: Self-Assigned

For this assignment you will be required to create a photographic project of your own choosing on a Single Theme. You will be working on this assignment throughout the duration of the semester. This should be a thoughtful investigation/exploration of something important to you or that you are interested in.  Your photographic project will include 15 final images and will be turned into a book using blurb on-demand printing.

Time Line Due Dates:

September 25, 2012: project proposal

            This proposal should be about a paragraph long and no longer than one page

            You should address:    a.  the subject matter/topic you are interested in exploring

                                                b.  why you are interested in the topic

                                                c.   ideas of how you plan to visualize/investigate these

ideas photographically

October 16, 2012: 4 digital files (in-progress photographs)

                                    Upload these images to the class blog.

           

November 20, 2012: Order your on-demand blurb book (allowing 2 weeks for printing and delivery)

December 4, 2012: Your Final Project is due

1.     Bring your 15 photographs in on a flash to turn into me and to project during your

critique. The files should be jpegs saved for screen resolution

2.     Bring in your book.

3.     Written Project Statement (optional to include in your book)

• This statement should indicate what topics/subject matter of your photographs

• Why you are interested in this topic

• What do we see when we look at your photographs

• If techniques used to create the photographs are important to the theme/topic

  explain how