Class Schedule

PGY 2101 (Section 5445) - Visual Literacy, Spring 2018

3 Credits

Section B (Studio)

TA: s.montoya001@ufl.edu

Friday period 1:55pm-3:50pm

Classroom: ARCH 120

GRADING

Lecture = 50%

Lab = 50%

100%

           

-Class Participation 20%

-Blogging Assignments 10%

-Critiques (Projects 1-3) 45%

-Final Portfolio 25%

ATTENDANCE

Participation in class is necessary to achieve the course objectives. Students are expected to arrive on time and be prepared to participate in all activities. Please mute cell phones prior to class.

Attendance is taken at the beginning of class. Students are considered tardy if they arrive after roll is taken. Students are permitted two absences without penalty; additional absences will reduce the final grade by one letter grade per occurrence. Three “tardies” will equal one absence.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE (*schedule is subject to change at discretion of instructor)

Due: Wednesday, January 10^th at 5pm

-Complete the Assessment Survey.

-Become a contributor to our class blog. I will send you a request to become a contributor. 

-Make your first post on the blog. Post your favorite photograph ever, along with a couple of sentences of why you love said photograph.

-Bring your camera on Friday! (If you do not have a camera, do not fret. I will bring a couple of cameras from the photography department.) 

Week 1: January 12^th

-Review syllabus, studio rules, and class blog

-Health and Safety Overview 

-Introduce project 1

-Basic camera functions and shooting: aperture, shutter speed, ISO, focus, shooting modes (M, Ap, Sp, Auto) JPEG vs. RAW, bracketing

In-class activity:

-Post your image from the introduction activity on blogger

Due: Friday, January 12^th at 5pm

Homework:

-Proper exposure and bracketing

-Watch contact sheet tutorial

Due: Friday, January 19th at 5pm

Week 2: January 19^th

Homework:x
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-Meeting outside of FAD329 for Photo Orientation
T.A. Melissa Nunez will take attendance at 1:55PM
Jillian Browning, photography area tech, will give a tour of the facilities.

In-class activity:

-Post a minimum of three questions you had while photographing on the blog.

Due: Friday, January 19^th at 5pm

Homework:

-Extract the magic

-Watch tutorials on RAW processing, B&W conversion methods.

Due: Wednesday, January 24^th at 5pm

Week 3: January 26^th

- Review everyone’s “Extract the magic” homework assignment

- Q & A Basic Photoshop techniques: RAW Processing, B&W conversion methods.

-Basic Photoshop techniques: Non-Destructive Workflow, Adjustment Layers, Masking, Spotting, and Rendering Intent

-Camera Operation: Depth of field, focus, emphasis on lens difference

In-class activity:

-Post your images from the camera angle activity onto blogger

Due: Friday, January 26^th at 5pm

Homework:

-Camera shots/angles or Arm's length

Due: Wednesday, January 31^st at 5pm

Week 4: February 2^nd

-Review everyone’s “Arms length” or camera shots + angles homework assignment.

-Q & A about focal lengths or Photoshop

-Understanding the aperture/shutter relationship

-Camera Operation: Motion: Stop Motion, Blurred Motion, Panning
-Print activity for art bash

In-class activity:

-Post your images from motion activity onto blogger

Due: Friday, February 2^nd at 5pm

Homework:

-Action!

-Prepare 8-10 of your best images to be critiqued on 2/3

Due: Wednesday, February 7^th at 5pm

Week 5: February 9^th

-Art Criticism (How to give constructive criticism in an art studio setting)

-Crit #1 – Projected Presentation

-Introduce Project 2
-Art Bash
- Advanced Editing: Sharpening, Perspective Correction, Adjustment Layers, and Masking

Homework:

- Where do you stand?

Due: Wednesday, February 14th at 5pm

Week 6: February 16^th

-Class cancelled

-Recreate one famous photograph (preferably from the lecture). 
Due: Friday, February 16th at 5pm

Homework:

-Street photography/ the stage

Due: Wednesday, February 21^st at 5pm

Week 7: February 24^th

-Print DEMO meet outside of cage in FAD

-Review everyone’s street photography assignment

-Q & A about compositional elements and advanced editing

In-class activity:

-Post your images from the scavenger hunt activity onto blogger

-Write a 3-4 sentences reflection on the blog about how perspective functions in a photograph. Due: Friday, February 24^th at 5pm

Homework:

-Perspective

Due: Wednesday, February 28^th at 5pm

Week 8: March 2^nd

- Review perspective homework assignment

-Work Day

In-class activity:

-Mind mapping for final project

Due: Friday, March 2^nd at 5pm

Homework:

-Tell me a story

Due: Wednesday 7^th at 5pm

Week 9: March 9^th

-Spring Break / No Class

Homework:

-Prepare 10-12 of your best images to be critiqued on 2/3

Week 10: March 16^th

-Crit #2 [Print 10-12 images for Assignment 2]

Homework:

Answer the following questions:
1. What aspects of Florida are unknown to people? How is it relevant to you?
2. How can you dig into your past or that of your family and town to create a Floridian story? 
3. How can you be critical in your photographing? What does it mean to be critical?
4. What are the different layers of social, political, cultural, and historical that you see within Florida that someone else might not?  
5. Is your vision of a Floridian story positive or negative? If so, why? How can you show this in your work? 
6. What photographic skills that I have learned in this class can I use to communicate a story? Is it a real or fake story? 
7. What do you want to create series, sequence, or photo essay? 
8. What artists are inspiring this work?
9. What skills do I need to master?
10. What ideas are coming to mind? Is this relevant? Is this unique, original, and creative? 
E-mail them to s.montoya001@ufl.edu in a word document
DUE: Friday, March 23rd at 10am

Week 11: March 23^rd
WORK FROM HOME 

Homework:

-Shoot 200 images working on your final project. Post contact sheets and your 10 best images on Class Blog.

-Make 12 comments (3 each for Description, Interpretation, Theorizing, and Judgment) on 3 of your peer’s works on Class Blog.

Due: Friday, March 30th 

Week 12: March 30^th

-Individual Meetings – Bring 500-word statement outlining the concept of your final portfolio and 10 potential images for your Final (depending on the quality of exposure, composition, and ideas these may be included in your final) 

Homework:

-Finalize your portfolio of 36 images and formulate a plan/sequence of images for final portfolio. Post these images on the Class Blog. Images must be on Class Blog no later than Wednesday prior to critique. Make 8 comments on your peer’s works on the Class Blog.

Due: Wednesday, April 4^th at 5pm

Week 13: April 6^th

-Printing & Editing Work Day

In-class activity:

-Sequence activity

-Work on final portfolio

Week 14: April 13^th

Last Class – Final Critique

Homework:

-Re-print images that did not work in critique. Finalize portfolio.

Week 15: April 20^th

Final Portfolio of 20 prints DUE!

Late portfolios will receive a ZERO.