rmitavtech

Computer Applications for AVTech
SEM 2 2004
Branden Barber
branden.barber@rmit.edu.au

Assignment TWO - Building on Strengths

DUE: 4th of June in class. Time can be used in class on the 4th to finish OR you can begin work on the final assignment, a "multimedia slideshow", which will be due first thing in class on the 18th of June.

Digital Image Collage or Montage or Creative Combination of Images to Create a Surreal or Surprising Result - YES!

Based on the work you did in the first assignment, you are encouraged to take this to the next level. Feedback from the first assignment should be taken on board for the second assignment and your final produce should be an obvious improvement or evolution from the first.

Work on this in class and out. You'll have time this class and the next to create:

Collage/Montage: A combination of images - found or taken - that promote, amplify or support a message, event or product. Feel free to mock up an ad, promotion, political or community information message. Make a Culture Jamming anti-ad (see www.adbusters.org) Combine images creatively using the skills we've learned in Photoshop.

OR

Creative Combination of Images to Create a Surreal or Surprising Result: Indeed, just what it says. USE your IMPECCABLE skill in isolating and removing subjects from within images to create an interesting effect or result.

An example of this can be seen at www.divatalephoto.com, www.dianefenster.com, and my fave, www.gregglauer.com.


SUGGESTED FORMAT: An A3 sized canvas if you wish a poster-sized result - although bear in mind that found images on the Internet will be smaller than optimal for this size. A4 is acceptable. If you have a special target, such as a CD cover, then feel free to design it in a square instead of a rectangle. Optimal resolution for display on screen is 72 dpi - 150 - 350 for print.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: I'll be happy with a JPG file submitted with a copy of the original base image (sort of a before and after for me to go by.) On CD and/or in class placed on the server.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA: You will be assessed according to the level of competency you use in your project. More layers, creative and clean blends, subjects removed from their original images MOST EFFECTIVELY, creative use of effects - and an overall attention to creating a single, seamless blend of images that becomes one - these will be taken into account.

Photoshop is to be the base application - if you use any others please include that information in your submission as an attached or accompanying text file.

Check this out - good for finding those images for your projects:

access to the Amico libary is:
rmit site > library > library catalogue > keyword search "amico" > full record > electronic resource

or this may work to take you the log in page:
http://its-wu-ezprox1.lib.rmit.edu.au:8000/cgi-bin/ezproxy
/NDSLogin.cgi?url=http://amico.rlg.org/amiprod/servlet/
cmi.servlets.CMIStart?USERID=&PASSWORD=&ACTION=
LOGON&DBNAME=PAMI01&RETURN=http://www.rmit.edu.au/library

then its your NDS login that you use to get on to the net at rmit

It's true. We do. So will you. Click here.