Introduction:
Like an image, a design has the power to strongly effect a viewer. This lesson gives you the opportunity to try some design problems, learn the basic composition elements of a photograph, and then learn how that photograph is incorporated into a page. All these steps prepare you for a group project in the next lesson where you create a design.
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Activities: Task One - Power of Design
You will be completing a series of design problems in the following manner.
- Read the problem
- State the factors involved
- Come up with a potential solution in the form of a thumbnail sketch
- Compare your solution to the one presented by the author.
First, work on problem one as a class using Ron Reason's on-line design problems. Then try the other problems by yourself or with a partner. Spend about 5-10 minutes on each problem. Task Two - Kick-start the "Perfect Picture"
Just like designing graphics, composing photographs requires preplanning about what you intend to do and why. While there can be great photographs of opportunity, the people who take these photographs are often so practiced at composing photographs that they are able to do it automatically. |
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In this task, you will start by reading a short on-line tutorial on on composition. Once you have completed the tutorial, you are ready to look at your own pictures. |
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Objectives:
You will be able to
- understand the major functions of photographs in publications
- understand photo layout, cropping, sizing, and writing cutlines
- recognize the impact of effective photography |
Resources:
- the photographs you took in Lesson 7.2 or a new set of digital images
- links to on-line design problems and a composition tutorial
- on-line quizzes
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Task Two Continued. . .
Use the photographs you took in Lesson 7.2 to think about the principles of design. Choose the photograph that you think has the worst composition and the one you think has the best. Ask yourself which factors made the photographs the worst and best examples of your composition.
Task Three - Parts of the Paper Review
Read over the list of the parts of a newspaper page and review the terminology you learned in lesson 1.9, Parts of the Newspaper. Then try the drag and drop quizzes to check yourself and see if you know the parts. In each quiz, drag the names on the right beside the defenitions on the left. Some quizzes are timed! |
| Headlines Quiz |
Cover Quiz |
| Visual Quiz |
Invisible Elements Quiz |
| Document Text Layout Quiz |
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If you had trouble with any of the quizzes, read through the terms again before moving on to the next lesson. You will need these terms to inform your later design work! |
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