Famous Photographer Slideshow Documentary Project
- Due Friday, February 20th at the beginning of class ready to show to class to get grade. (Supposed to be due February 13th but I'm extending the due date).
- You will produce and present a PowerPoint Slide Show Video Documentary about a Famous Professional Photographer of your choice.
- You will upload your completed slideshow video to Edmodo and send it to your class period. I will simply click on your project and we will watch it as a class so you can get a grade.
- The project is to be 20 slides, content slides- title slide and work cited slide make 22 slides in all, and include the information below and at least 20 photos of the artist and his/her work. (You may definitely have more than 22 in total).
- Yes, you need a photo/artwork on your title slide with a caption or a quote.
- You can choose from the list below OR pick a significant photographer of your choice (if not on list get it approved by me first)
- Questions to answer to get you started when doing photographer research project are below.
- Maximum photos on each slide is 2. Minimum is 1.
- No text on photos at all.
- Every Photo and/or Artwork MUST have a caption with a title for the photo in quotation marks. Captions are brief explanations of the photo and it's importance. Titles are the actually name that the artist gave their artwork/photographs that are in quotation marks.
- No boring plan white backgrounds. It's art class. Make a creative background that makes your photos and text look good. Click on the "design" menu tab at the top in Powerpoint and play around with different templates or make up your own by clicking "background styles" and then click on "format background".
- You must have a intro title slide with your name, the due date, the class and period, the Photographer you chose and a creative title in quotation marks that sums up the meaning of your project.
- You must have a conclusion slide with a basic work cited- (where you simply copy and paste ALL the links where you found your research info. and each photo and "The End" or something similar).
- Many Famous Photographers are known for their nudes or sometimes what might be graphic violence maybe; make sure that all images are SCHOOL APPROPRIATE!
- Again, you will present your slideshow to the class to get a grade.
- If I have to do anything other than pressing play on your slideshow to show the class we will stop and you will fix it and have late points and turn it in the next day.
- To automatically advance slides to make it a slideshow video:
Another way is to:
Click on the "Slideshow" menu tab at the top and then click on "Rehearse Timing". What this does is play your slideshow and when you want to set the timing duration for each slide you push the "spacebar" on the keyboard to tell it when to change and you keep doing it until is has played all the way through.
- Every photo of the photographer and the photographer's work must have a title with it and the year it was taken.
- To get an A you must spice up your Powerpoint with some flare by adding both instrumental audio track AND slide transitions:
Click on the "Insert" menu tab at the very top in Powerpoint.
Then look where it says "Media" and click on "Audio" and then click on "Audio from File" and select your instrumental music file. (Keep in mind that you will need to add the music file to the slide that you want the music to start on).
After inserting your audio you will notice a speaker icon on the slide you inserted your music file on.
Click on the speaker and then you will notice at the top right on the menu bar a tab that says "Playback".
Click on "Playback" and then you will notice that the audio options are available.
Where it says "Start" click on the down drop arrow and pick "play across slides" and then check the box where it says "Loop until stopped" and also the box that says "Hide during show".
Also, you might want to do a "fade in" and "fade out" so the music doesn't start or stop abruptly.
To add transitions:
Again, click under the transitions menu tab at the top.
None of the below questions should have a "IDK" answer. If you can't find the information you need anywhere then find another artist that you can find the information.
These questions are the bare minimum. They are a guide to get you started on your research. Remember, you're not making a slideshow gallery of the work of the artist, your making a slideshow documentary on a photographer and including some of their work to back up their story.
- What is the photographer’s real name and year he or she was born? Is he/she still alive?
- What is their style of photography (ex: photojournalism, editorial, documentary, advertising, portraits, magazine, sports, war)?
- Are there any special photography techniques this photographer uses in his/her work? (Think about composition, depth of field, history…)
- Who does the photographer work for?
- What type of cameras and lens does this photographer work with, and why?
- What type of lighting does this photographer primarily use and why?
- Who are some of your photographer’s early influences?
- Are there any interesting stories about this photographer or his/her work?
- What do you like (or not like) about their work, and why did you select this photographer?
Annie Leibovitz – celebrity portraits
Danny Clinch – musicians
Edward Weston – black and white,landscapes
Ansel Adams – black and white landscape
Cindy Sherman – self portraits
Diane Arbus – strange and different portraits
David Lachappelle – unique portraits
Imogen Cunningham – black and white
Eliot Porter – color landscape
Alfred Eisenstadt – candid photojournalism
Linda McCartney – musicians in the 60’s
Herb Ritts – celebrity portraits
Henry Cartier- Bresson -candid street, the decisive moment
Andy Warhol – bizarre
Robert Frank -street
Mary Ellen Mark – portraits
Eddie Adams – war, photojournalism
Robert Capa – war
Paul Strand – black and white
Lewis Hind – child labor
Duane Michals -fine art
James Nachtwey – war
Irving Penn – fashion, still lifes
Richard Avedon – portraits
Margaret Bourke White – early photojournalism
Lee Friedlander – black and white candid
Harold Edgerton – motion
Sebastiao Salgado – photojournalism
Weegee – street photojournalism
Mark Seliger – celebrity portraits
Jerry Uelsmann – photo montage
Dorothea Lange – documentary
Anne Geddes – children
Kim Anderson – children
Nigel Barker- Fashion
William Wegman – dogs
Man Ray – rayograms, fashion, portraits in the 20
Arnold Newman – environmental portraits
Steve McCurry – National Geographic portraits
Danny Lyon – street and documentary
Brad Mangin – sports
Neil Leifer – sports
Nick Saglimbeni – LA fashion
