Finals Schedule and Requirements

Ok gang, here we go! Finals next week and I can't wait to see what you have come up with for me.

Here's how we'll present. Monday we'll do Camera Phone and Portraits. I want to have you present in one of the classrooms that has a decent projector and I have used the classroom upstairs before. The nice thing about the room upstairs is that the screen is huge and there is a nice podium that you can speak from. I'll let you know what room we'll be in, so look for a sign on the darkroom door.

Each of you will stand in the front of the class and present your work. Feel free to talk as long as you'd like. Tell us what was important about your project. Tell us what you learned. Tell us about your struggles and tell us about your successes. Be prepared to offer feedback to those who are presenting. It is important to me that you are all able to form an opinion and articulate it. This is not going to be a 'Roast'. This will be a productive and inspirational critique. I promise.

Here's the schedule of days we'll present.

Final Critiques

17 - Camera-phone, Portraits
18 - Cause, Process (printing from 2-4pm in the print lab)
19 - Specific Place (snacky-food, food non-optional, 58% of your final grade is on your food).

Bring some light snacky-snacks to eat on the 19th. Here's your chance to impress us with your most recent recipe from Pinterest. ;)

Some requirements on your blog posts:

Create ONE blog post per assignment. 

You should put all of your photographs together in one blog post. Feel free to add as much additional text as you'd like. You can write below each individual image or you can add one block of text at the end. Either way is fine. You should plan on writing SOMETHING. It will help you when you present to have some thoughts in order. Please don't read what you put on your blog. Just get up and talk about what you did.

Minimum of five images for each project, maximum of twenty. Make 'em good.

Please, please, PLEASE remember the C.L.U.E.S.? when deciding what images to include and what to NOT include. I will be basing the majority of my grading on how well you can follow those guidelines. You have seen a LOT of great examples this term. Hopefully some of it has rubbed off. From what I have seen it most certainly has.

If you want to see how other classes did their finals and how they generally laid out their blog posts you can go to the blog for last spring.

LINK

On Monday we'll go over some things about presenting. I'm sure you will have some questions and we can answer them before we start presenting officially our final work.

ALSO...I believe we have two presenters on Monday who will be doing their reports about their photographers. Plan on taking 15 minutes each.

It'll be a busy day, but we may end up finishing early. If we do, we'll just dismiss and meet again on Tuesday. If it looks like the entire class time is too much then we'll adjust either the starting time or the ending time depending on what you guys need/want.

Tuesday will be the Cause and the Process. Afterwards from 2-4 we'll go to the print lab and print. 

Wednesday we'll finish and we'll probably end quite a bit early. If we do then I can show you some of the work I've been doing. I'll bring prints or show on the projector. If you'd rather just end early that's totes fine too. We'll play that by ear depending on how you guys are feeling.

Super-duper excited about next week. Feel free to call or e-mail or text if you have concerns or questions.