BTEC LEVEL 3 EXTENDED DIPLOMA IN ART AND DESIGN: PHOTOGRAPHY
Project Title: Digital Image Manipulation
Lecturers: Arlo Tinson, Kate Luxford, Tim Lawrence, Steph Erlich, Pete
Roberts
UNIT 34 – Image Manipulation Using Computer Applications
Date set: 24th January 2011
Hand in date: 14th March 2011
Review dates: Peer Assessment w/c 21/02/11
Introduction:
Artists and designers use technology, both new and traditional, to push the
boundaries of image making, by exploring new ways to use materials, techniques
and subjects. Diverse photographic media have often been brought together with this
aim. This approach is considered a valuable and creative means of communicating
intentions.
Finished requirements
You are required to produce a blog consisting of all your preparatory
experiments, contextual research, contact sheets and development of final
images.
You must experiment with as many different processes as possible and
comment on your results. You should consider hand rendered techniques and
digital/film image capturing and scanning.
You must produce at least three final A3 Inkjet images that combine various
images into one coherent piece. Each of these pieces should be ambiguous
and you must identify the different ways in which they may be interpreted by a
viewer.
There must be consistent evaluation throughout the assignment with
continued critical feedback to performance and target setting.
List of activities:
Week 1
Make a blog and email URL to Lecturers
Take images on film and/or digital
Put contacts on separate page in blog with annotation
Provide links to contextual research
Week 2
Continue taking images and put contacts on blog
Scan in imagery (drawings, wall paper, textures, paint, board etc)
Use Live-trace in Illustrator
Week 3
Produce a digital negative from your images
Continue Contextual investigation
Use, download and create brushes.
Week 4 onwards
Continue to create silver gelatine prints
Continue Contextual investigation
Amalgamate an image using contrasting source material into one coherent piece.
3 Versions per image to go on blog.
Week 6
Complete final image, print and evaluate
The Process
The structure of the project will be as follows:
Brief> Discuss and annotate
Responses and ideas> Document all ideas and record on blog
Research> purposefully research and evidence a range of diverse and considered visual
sources in response to given themes or briefs
Planning and Development> use a range of traditional and/or digital lens-based technologies
and processes
Realisation> After careful planning begin the process of making
Presentation> Present finished images
Evaluation> Reflect on your progress throughout the project and record your thoughts on your
blog.
Indicative reading for learners
Books
Berger J — 100 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers: Insider Secrets from
Top Designers on Working Smart and Staying Creative (Rockport Publishers
Inc, 2005) Blais J and Ippoloto J — At the Edge of Art (Thames & Hudson,
2006) Caplin S and Banks A — The Complete Guide to Digital Illustration
(Ilex, 2003)
Kerlow I — The Art of 3D Animation and Effects (John Wiley, 2004) Klanten R
— Hidden Track: How Visual Culture is Going Places (Die Gestalten Verlag,
2005)
Klanten R — Illusive: Contemporary Illustration and its Context (Die Gestalten
Verlag, 2006)
Lhotka B, Krause D and Schminke K — Digital Art Studio: Techniques for
Combining Inkjet Printing with Traditional Art Materials (Watson-Guptill
Publications Inc, 2004)
McClelland D and Fuller L — Photoshop CS2 Bible (Hungry Minds Inc, 2005)
Zeegan L — Digital Illustration: A Masterclass in Digital Image-Making
(RotoVision, 2007)
Journals
Computer Arts Magazine
Creative Review
Design Magazine
Digit Magazine
Websites
www.adobe.com
www.computerarts.co.uk
www.dafont.com
www.digitmag.co.uk
www.good-tutorials.com
http://www.debutart.com/artist/jackdaw
http://www.vault49.com/
http://www.patrickmorgan.co.uk/home.html
http://www.marinacaruso.com/
http://www.debutart.com/artist/sarah-howell
http://www.aoiportfolios.com/artist/billmcconkey/
http://www.debutart.com/artist/kid-spania
BTEC LEVEL 3 EXTENDED DIPLOMA IN ART AND DESIGN:
PHOTOGRAPHY Unit 34:
Assignment: Play 2
Name:
Assessment Criteria
P1 evaluate examples of the work of others
P2 prepare source material for digitising
P3 digitise source material
M1 dentify and evaluate purposefully relevant examples of the work
of others that use image manipulation techniques
M2 prepare and digitise considered source materials consistently
M3 produce effective solutions for defined outcomes that use
suitable image manipulation hardware and software, against a given
theme or assignment brief
D1 identify independently and evaluate examples of others work that
use image manipulation techniques
D2 prepare and digitise independently, exciting source materials
that exploit the full potential of image manipulation techniques
D3 present independently, own design outcomes demonstrating an
informed opinion about the use of digitised materials and image
manipulation techniques, against a given theme or assignment brief.
Learner Comment
Assessor Comment
Action Plan
Visual References
Jack Daw
Vault 49
Jack Daw
Pat Morgan
Marina Caruso
Marina Caruso
Sarah Howell
Vault 49
Bill Mc Conkey
Chris King
Kid Spaniard
Pat Morgan