Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey Hank, As I am right now in my classroom getting ready to grade some of my high school photo-student's work, its somehow appropriate that I procrastinate by answering. We are just getting started on an 'exquisite corpse' photo narrative project, which in the end we're going to have made into a Blurb book, so the kids can see their work in print. The basic outline is this: The class is assigned to shoot a 24 exp. roll of film (color; its cheaper, quicker, and easier for this project to have processing done outside) of various random objects, scenes and people. Each kid picks 2 images out of their 24, which are then put into a pool. We have a lottery in which it is decided which pair of pages each kid is assigned (pps. 1&2; pps. 3&4; pps. 5&6, etc.) and where they also reach into the stack and pull out two random images. The kid with pages 1 & 2 starts it. Taking his first image, he begins a story inspired by the image, no more than several sentences, on one half-sheet of paper. He continues the story using the second image, on a second half half-sheet of paper. When he is done, he passes ONLY the second paragraph along to the next kid to use as a segue into the narrative THAT kid develops as the story for his two images, again on seperate first and second pieces of paper, of which only the second is passed on to the next kid, and so on. Each kid only sees his own two images, and the paragraph that will precede his own in the overall sequence We number and scan the images, and type the text into page-numbered Word .docs, load them into the Blurb template with each kid responsible for laying out their own pages. The plan is to take up a buck or two from each kid to buy a finished copy. For the sake of managability, I recommend breaking a larger class into groups of 8-10; our book will have two distinct stories in it. The tenative title is 'The Muddy Gazelle' - again lottery determined: each kid wrote an adjective on a piece of paper the went into the hat, and each wrote a noun. We pulled out one of each. The lesson also has to do with Dada/Surrealist use of chance. If you're interested, when we're done, I'll send you a link to the Blurb listing. Arche "hankpix@juno.com" <hankpix@juno.com> wrote: CALL FOR PHOTOS Hello Everyone, I?m developing a textbook for use by teenagers at the middle and high school levels. Tentatively titled Write What You See, this work will feature black and white photos accompanied by textual material related to the photos. The purpose of the work will be to provide students in English classes with ideas and suggestions that will trigger their imaginations and help them write better compositions. I?d like to include in this text photos that were created by students or other teenagers. If you?re involved with young people and photography at a school, church, club, or other organization, and if you think this project would be right for you, please contact me offline at hankpix@juno.com. To see samples of my work, please visit www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/hankpix. Thanks, and have a great day, Hank Kellner _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information --------------------------------- Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta.