DIS 2105: Project 3 Brief

Project three brief: Compositing – Advanced techniques
Briefing date: 13 September
Due date: 18 October
Proposal due: 20 September

Produce one finished artwork, utilizing advanced compositing techniques.

Your compositing skills should now be significantly developed. This project involves combining your technical and conceptual skill to create a finished artwork.

You will source your own images (through research or your own photography), ensuring all the source material is high resolution – your finished artwork should be high resolution, and will be printed in the final week of semester.

The source material will be completely decided by you, however, I am providing you with a starting point or theme:

CONTROVERSY

Definition from wikipedia: controversy is a state of prolonged public dispute or debate, usually concerning a matter of opinion. The word was coined from the Latin controversia, as a composite of controversus – "turned in an opposite direction," from contra – "against" – and vertere – to turn, or versus (see verse), hence, "to turn against."

Interpret this theme as you like, however I need to see evidence of your concept development both in your journal (research and experimentation) and in a ‘rationale’ document which you will provide with your finished artwork.

You are required to present a proposal next week (20 September).

OBJECTIVES

1.    To further develop skill with advanced techniques in Photoshop. particularly utilizing selection, colour management and masking tools.
2.    To develop an artwork in response to a theme, through brainstorming, research and experimentation.

CRITERIA

1.    Your proposal is due next week – this should include some initial research and sketches.
2.    You must use Photoshop as the primary authoring tool, however you are permitted to use Illustrator also, if vector artwork is to be included.
3.    Your finished artwork must be high resolution – approx a3 size @ 300 dpi.

SPECIFICATIONS

Requirement: Produce one finished artwork
Format: Portrait or Landscape
Size: A3 (or thereabouts) @ 300 dpi
Presentation: Jpg files posted to the blog
Final Composition: PSD files
Rationale: 250 words explaining how you reached your final artwork.
Evidence: Your journal mark (10% of total mark for this subject) will include assessment of your research and experimentation for this project.

This project is due in October 18, Week 13, beginning of class – we will print these out at the art school during class time.