Homecoming Week Celebration Assignment

HOMECOMING DOCUMENTARY
We are looking document the many great action photos and great moments throughout the week. It can be anything to do with homecoming… creating floats, noon rallies, funny costumes in the halls, classrooms (ask your teacher before you take photos), the parade to the stadium, the assembly, Homecoming Game night… Look for “MOMENTS,” interesting compositions, unusual angles…. Think in terms of beginning, middle and photos that tell an ending, You’re telling the story of Homecoming week through your photos. Creativity, variety and many, many photos are the key! Have fun with this assignment, play with your camera! Show us your game!

For this assignment, I would like put your best photos from the HOMECOMING WEEK CELEBRATION into a Google slideshow and post to to our website and share it with the Photo classes...

WHAT TO DO
Step 1
PICK YOUR 5-7 BEST PHOTOS FROM THE HOMECOMING WEEK CELEBRATION
•Crop your images for the best composition.
•For horizontal photos crop at 1000px wide @ 72px per inch
•For vertical photos crop at 700px height @72px per inch

Step 2
•Put your images into a Google slideshow
•Create a Widescreen slideshow with a solid black background.
•If you would like to have a photo credit, type your name in the corner of each slide you submit.
•Submit your slideshow in the Homecoming Slideshow assignment Folder in Google Classroom.
•I will combine all the Google Slideshows into one presentation and post it to our class website.

TIPS FOR SUBMITTING YOUR PHOTOS
•Pick your best images.
•Crop for the best composition
•Look for peak action, moments and reaction to those moments...

OPTIONAL •CREATE A MULTIMEDIA DOCUMENTARY PROJECT
THIS INVOLVES RECORDING SOUND TO GO WITH THE SLIDESHOW.

STEP #1. Throughout the week, use your smartphone, or the video setting on your dslr, to record audio clips. Record ambient sound of the noon rallies, the march, or assembly, and/or interview classmates or friends about the Homecoming celebration.

STEP #2. During the week, save your images and audio files in a folder on your desktop. The following week we will edit your images in Photoshop and then combine them with the audio clips to create a multimedia slideshow in iMovie. We will discuss the particulars of those processes at a later date.

STEP #3. Your goal right now is to capture the events of this week in stills and sound. Bring your camera every day. Don’t forget to record your audio and check the sound quality throughout the week. You do not want “holes” in your project.

STEP #4. After Homecoming week is over, edit the images you want to include in the slideshow. (OPTIONAL) Resize your images and put them into an iMovie slideshow.
Add titles and transitions to the project and the sound you gathered (and music you want to use).

STEP #5. Once you have completed you slideshow video, export it as an mp4.
Title your project: yourlastname_hcoming.

SOME QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT ASK FOR YOUR AUDIO RECORDINGS…

What is your favorite part about homecoming? Why?

What are your hopes for homecoming this coming year?

Ask your own question:

HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES FROM PAST HOMECOMINGS