Projects PAge
What Does a Projects Page Consist of ?
Project Development Questions
Each project is accompanied by a set of specific questions geared to help you develop ideas and imagery for your current project.
The questions are designed to help students breakdown what is required for each project, as well as, facilitate how students develop a concept and a course-of-action for creating a piece.
These questions are to be answered thoughtfully and are part of your project grade.
Project Presentation
Along with the answers to the project development questions you will post a JPEG image of your
piece. Feel free also to include photos, videos, or audio of works that your referenced or inspired
you.
Project Development Questions
Each project is accompanied by a set of specific questions geared to help you develop ideas and imagery for your current project.
The questions are designed to help students breakdown what is required for each project, as well as, facilitate how students develop a concept and a course-of-action for creating a piece.
These questions are to be answered thoughtfully and are part of your project grade.
Project Presentation
Along with the answers to the project development questions you will post a JPEG image of your
piece. Feel free also to include photos, videos, or audio of works that your referenced or inspired
you.
Please visit the sample student site to see an example of a Projects Page.
Project Development Tips
Simplifying the creation process
It is under your authority that you choose what you want to create and how you go about creating
it. We will discuss strategies for successfully completing this project in class. Before we move
any further, lets look at steps for moving through the creation process.
Each project can be broken down into three steps:
Step 1: Creating a project goal statement specific to the theme/requirements of that specific
project.
This step involves first finding inspiration (insight into what you personally want to
accomplish visually with this project). We will do this by collecting imagery and ideas that
allow us to brainstorm what we want to accomplish. This step is a difficult one because if
we are to realize it we must first understand what the project means and what we are
required to do.
Be sure to continually reference your Project Requirement sheets. These sheets will give a
definition of what the project is, what you are expected to do, and what you technical
requirements you must meet for that project.
Step 2: The second step is the creation process where you will craft your project. This step involves
building up the imagery you want to use in your Photoshop or Illustrator document. Once
we have our imagery with which to build our project, we need to find the best
methodology for building our project.
Methodology refers to the specific skills we will use and how we will apply them. The
methodology will be slightly different for each project as we are building up our skill sets
and learning how we best work. We will discuss different strategies for building each
project together.
Step 3: Presentation and reflection on the creation process for that particular project.
A. Presentation involves showing your piece to the class. You will briefly share your
project goal statement so that we can see what your intent was, then, as a group, we
will look at your piece. Each project will be accompanied by a presentation and a
critique. Project critiques are a way for us to share our ideas and work together as a
class.
The idea behind a critique is to offer constructive criticism. Feedback must have an
explanation. For example, if you like a piece explain what it is you like and why you
like it.
During a critique we will discuss what you accomplished in your piece and how you
achieved what you did. We will also discuss ways you could potentially push your piece
visually so that it better communicates your project goal.
B. The second stage of our last step is to reflect upon our completed projects and the
process (methodology) we used to create that project. We are taking the time to reflect
upon our projects because it will better allow us to identify where we struggled and
why, as well as where, we succeeded and how we can repeat our success. The
reflection process allows us to become better problem solvers.
Understanding the missteps we took and/or realizing how we overcame the creative
roadblocks we struggled with will lead us to recognize new and better strategies for
reaching our goal.
It is under your authority that you choose what you want to create and how you go about creating
it. We will discuss strategies for successfully completing this project in class. Before we move
any further, lets look at steps for moving through the creation process.
Each project can be broken down into three steps:
Step 1: Creating a project goal statement specific to the theme/requirements of that specific
project.
This step involves first finding inspiration (insight into what you personally want to
accomplish visually with this project). We will do this by collecting imagery and ideas that
allow us to brainstorm what we want to accomplish. This step is a difficult one because if
we are to realize it we must first understand what the project means and what we are
required to do.
Be sure to continually reference your Project Requirement sheets. These sheets will give a
definition of what the project is, what you are expected to do, and what you technical
requirements you must meet for that project.
Step 2: The second step is the creation process where you will craft your project. This step involves
building up the imagery you want to use in your Photoshop or Illustrator document. Once
we have our imagery with which to build our project, we need to find the best
methodology for building our project.
Methodology refers to the specific skills we will use and how we will apply them. The
methodology will be slightly different for each project as we are building up our skill sets
and learning how we best work. We will discuss different strategies for building each
project together.
Step 3: Presentation and reflection on the creation process for that particular project.
A. Presentation involves showing your piece to the class. You will briefly share your
project goal statement so that we can see what your intent was, then, as a group, we
will look at your piece. Each project will be accompanied by a presentation and a
critique. Project critiques are a way for us to share our ideas and work together as a
class.
The idea behind a critique is to offer constructive criticism. Feedback must have an
explanation. For example, if you like a piece explain what it is you like and why you
like it.
During a critique we will discuss what you accomplished in your piece and how you
achieved what you did. We will also discuss ways you could potentially push your piece
visually so that it better communicates your project goal.
B. The second stage of our last step is to reflect upon our completed projects and the
process (methodology) we used to create that project. We are taking the time to reflect
upon our projects because it will better allow us to identify where we struggled and
why, as well as where, we succeeded and how we can repeat our success. The
reflection process allows us to become better problem solvers.
Understanding the missteps we took and/or realizing how we overcame the creative
roadblocks we struggled with will lead us to recognize new and better strategies for
reaching our goal.