1. Working with Photos
Sessions |
Two or three
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Focus |
To make photomontages
To use a viewfinder and record their observations, to look the work of photographers and illustrators, to look photographs and see how are they composed, to explore ways of framing image, Investigate and use drawing, collage and photographs to communicate ideas and meaning |
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Material |
Viewfinder
Material for collage: papers, glue, scissors, pencil and colours. Postcards, family photographs, newspaper, magazines. Camera optional. |
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Resources |
Story books showing: Interest layout and different approaches to illustration. |
Books: "The Young artist's Handbook", by Anthony Hodge Webs: The Standards Site |
Talk about |
How to use a viewfinder. Play a guessing game: Show the children a small part of a photograph and ask them to identify what is happening in the picture. Gradually reveal some more of the picture by widening the frame around it. Encourage the students to use visual clues, as shapes, colours, lines, actions and explain their reasons for the answers. Cutting up and reassembling a photograph is a little like making your own puzzle. This process will produce a new image which can be intriguing, bizarre or funny. Photomontage is a collage made up of a number of photographs. It can
often look more like pictures of dreams than of everyday life. |
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Sketchbook |
To record the observations and sketch what they see thought the viewfinder. For activities 1 and 2. Write the keywords. |
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Doing |
Activity 1: Ask students to pretend to be a camera. Ask them to go around the classroom or school with the viewfinder and looking through with an eye closed. Encourage to explore what happens when they move closer or further. Finally ask them to frame something that interested them and make a picture of it. Activity 2: Activity 3: Activity 4: Finally display the children's works
and describe them |
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Developing the idea |
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Vocabulary and language |
Craft Knife
Reassemble Straight silhouette Shapes: square, curve Pattern |
Skills of observation and recording: viewpoint,
viewfinder, drawing, camera, photograph Visual images: photograph, picture, illustration, painting, collage, sequence. Design: plan, outline, shape. Illustration: illuminated, pictured, decorated, drawn. |
Assessment |
- Review the children work as it progresses. Discuss the stages of making their drawing, collage or photos. - What they want to show in their work? - Identify what may change in their work for future task? |