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AP Portfolio – Breadth: Check In Part 2

Ok, so this semester we are working on the Breadth Portion of the AP Portfolio, with the end goal of 12 images that show a wide variety of work. Or as the College Board puts it:

Breadth — 12 digital images | 33.3% of portfolio score

  • Demonstrates understanding of 2-D design issues through a variety of works.
  • Must not include images of the work included in the Concentration section.

See student examples:

http://studioartportfolios.collegeboard.org/category/2016-2d-breadth/

 

Scoring Information can be found here.

Look over two examples of Student Breadth Portfolio Examples. What’s missing from yours to take it to the highest level? What specific things (action items) do you need to do to get there?

We want to aim for 6s, not 4s.Post your answer as a comment to this post. Write in complete sentences.

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Today’s Warm Up: Metaphor – Freewrite

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For today’s warm up, you will do a 10 minute free write on Metaphor.

Keep you pen or fingers moving at all times. Write for the full 10 minutes.

Mainly if you were going to compare yourself to something, what would it be? Follow the images in your head, follow them for as long as you can, writing down as much detailed information as you can. The more details you get, the more material you will have for the pictures you take for this photo challenge.

If you cannot think anything for what your metaphor is, what thing you are most like, try a color. If you could be any color, what would it be and why?

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AP Portfolio Check In: Where Are We?

Ok, so this semester we are working on the Breadth Portion of the AP Portfolio, with the end goal of 12 images that show a wide variety of work. Or as the College Board puts it:

Breadth — 12 digital images | 33.3% of portfolio score

  • Demonstrates understanding of 2-D design issues through a variety of works.
  • Must not include images of the work included in the Concentration section.

See student examples:

http://studioartportfolios.collegeboard.org/category/2016-2d-breadth/

So, as a check-in let’s do this: Choose  your so far favorite 12 works from this semester.

Upload them to Flickr.

Make a Gallery called Breadth.

Publish them, copy the link and paste it as a comment to THIS POST.

We’ll do some reflections on these images this week.

Scoring Information can be found here.

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This Week’s Assignment: Metaphor

http://www.abelardomorell.net/project/childhood

Metaphor is a way of describing something without talking about the thing you are trying to describe. In the link above, notice how Morrell is able to capture some pretty big issues while photographing children. Themes of growing up, and identity come to the surface, but it’s through the photographs of childhood that all of these comes to the surface.

Ted Ed – Metaphors

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0edKgL9EgM]

Gallery Twenty Eight – Using Symbols and Metaphors to Express Meaning

http://www.pbase.com/pnd1/symbols

Quotes on Metaphor:

“A metaphor is not language, it is an idea expressed by language, an idea that in its turn functions as a symbol to express something.” – Susanne Langer, The Difference between Metaphors and Symbols

“A metaphor is an image that suggests something else. For instance, if I say to a person, “You are a nut,” I’m not suggesting that I think the person is literally a nut. “Nut” is a metaphor.” ~ Joseph Campbell, in conversation with Bill Moyers, What is Metaphor?

“Your psychological vision or “mind’s eye” (symbolic and metaphorical vision) is your ability to reinterpret, de-literalize and reframe the world around you in the most imaginatively meaningful, mindful, and autobiographical ways possible.” ~ John Kosmopoulos, Silver Zen Photography, The 5 C’s of Photographic Vision

“Visual metaphors are rarely as direct as verbal metaphors. Visual metaphors may be recognized consciously, but if they’re present, they are always felt.” ~ John Paul Caponigro, Visual Metaphors

STRONG SAYS:

You can use metaphors as a background in a double exposure image, or you can shoot something that is a stand in for something else. Example. I can’t tell you about my depression, but I can still take a picture of a landscape and have you feel my depression through it.

These  links looks at Metaphors in Photography

http://morephototips.com/learn-to-use-metaphor/

https://99designs.com/blog/tips/a-guide-to-using-photography-as-metaphor-in-graphic-design/

Five Photos are due on 12/5

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Today’s Warm Up: Vincent Bal Shadow Doodles

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/11/vincent-bal-shadow-doodles/?mc_cid=260c877595&mc_eid=89a472146a

After viewing the photos contained in the link above, answer the following questions using complete sentences.

How was Bal able to manipulate the shadows so that they took the shape that they do? How does this demonstrate creative problem solving? What could you do that is similar to this? What do you take from this in your own work?