Final Project Rubric

Your art making techniques and use of media/Photoshop tools is proficient ___ /20

Your imagery/subject is original, complex, and clearly shows a connection to the over all theme and concepts of the project ___ / 20

Your use and application of the elements and principles is strong and deliberate ___ / 20

You created a dyanmic composition(s) by considering the positive and negative space, breaking the picture plane, point of view, and placement of images. ___ / 20

Total Points ___ / 80

Graphic Design Final Project

For the last Graphic Design project, you will apply some of the concepts and techniques you’ve learned and practiced throughout the year. Take a minute to read this brief list of things we’ve done this year:

·         Photoshop techniques – filters, image adjustments, magic wand, clone stamp, color, brightness and contrast, transform, etc

·         Working with text, text-as-image

·         Combining text and image

·         Changing and manipulating hand-drawn images in Photoshop

·         Staged photography, high contrast lighting

·         Digital collage, cutting parts of images to create a new images 

·         Appropriating images

·         Different angles and compositions when taking pictures

·         Enhancing and manipulating photographs in Photoshop

THE PROJECT CHOICES

·         Design a digital work of art illustrating an important milestone or event in your life not including a typical event such as a birthday, first day of high school or getting your driver’s license. Try to think of something important that is not normally recognized and then visually convey this in a work of art.  

·         Create a series of 6-8 photographs that tell a story. The goal is to convey a narrative entirely with pictures. You can stage the photographs and ask your friends and family to be in the pictures. Think about way that the setting, backgrounds, action and emotion of the people in the pictures an help tell the story.

·         Choose and research a social or political topic that interests you. Create two pieces utilizing both text and image. You may take your own pictures, find pictures or use a combination of both. The pieces should be visually different but fall under the same concept or issue.

·         Create 2 digital collages that visually convey opposite ideas such as old and new, past and present, love and hate, etc. Develop your concept and begin looking for images on-line that could represent your ideas and create a visual paradox.

Before getting started on your project, you must complete a project proposal consisting of 3-5 sentences explaining your ideas and plans for the project. This can be written on a scrap sheet of paper and handed in to Ms. Boban.

There will be no Graphic Design final exam. Instead, this project will serve as the final.