Public Service Announcements: Finishing Strong!

DO NOW: Visit the Rondebosch Boys’ High School, South Africa, Website and see what their school is like.

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For the rest of the Semester we will be focusing on our Photoshop skills and using them for social good.  

• Your task is simple...  Create a Public Service Announcement (PSA) about something you care about in your community.  
• You can come up with a new idea or use one of the two ideas you already came up with (check your email for your response to the form "Think again of the community that you did your identity map of..." to see your responses)
• Be creative! Cut up multiple images and make them your own!
• You MAY take inspiration from somebody else's images but don't use an already photoshopped or manipulated image in your project!
• [Click here to see the examples of PSA's and prompts from our earlier lesson]

Your PSA must conform to the following requirements:

1. 8 1/2 x 11 inches OR 8 1/2 x 14 inches in size [Photoshop>Image>Canvas Size]
2. Have a clear and simple social good message using few words for the main message [Click here to see the examples of PSA's and prompts from our earlier lesson]
3. Have a graphic, be it artwork or photography or both.  Particularly artistic all TEXT PSA's will be considered [Click here to visit the Adobe help document on working with type in Photoshop CS3]
4. Have zero profanity or inappropriate elements as determined by John or Coach Grimm
5. Be something you are willing to have posted in the glass case in front of the school for everyone to see

REMEMBER: Your PSA is supposed to benefit your community.  When you have completed one you will email it to John in the following format.

1. File type = JPEG
2. Compression/quality = 8 or higher
3. Filename = PSA - Your Name.JPG
4. Subject = PSA - Your Name
5. Body Text =
1. Explain WHO your AUDIENCE is for this PSA
2. WHAT the SOCIAL ISSUE you are addressing is
3. WHY this PSA helps with this issue
6. TWO self grades
1. Technical Mastery = How well did you use Photoshop for this PSA? Show me where you "did good"
2. Application of Knowledge = How well does your PSA address your social issue? Why?

EXTRA CREDIT:

1. Do more PSA's
2. Do holiday cheer signs for the school

DMIN Community Word Online Student Conference

STUDENT GUIDELINES FOR PARTICIPATION

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Here is the link for the conference:

http://facinghistory.org/2011studentworkshop

Your login is in the following form:

John_K@facinghistoryandourselves.ed.voicethread.com

(COPY it, PASTE it, put your own name and initial in it):

Your password is: 123456

Submitting your "Heads will Roll" Photo

Do Now: Get to work

Purpose (I will):

• Complete my "Heads will Roll" PSD File
• Including
• 5 Edward Headed people
• 3 color changes
• 2 text boxes
• DO YOUR BEST - Quality is being graded

At the end of the period 

1. FILE>SAVE AS
1. Name the file "heads will roll - Your Name"
2. SAVE YOUR FILE AS A JPG
1. Specify FULL QUALITY
3. SEND JOHN@ENVISIONACADEMY.ORG AN EMAIL
1. Attach the file to the email as an attachment using the attachment tools

Using TYPE in Photoshop

Do Now: For our final project of the semester we are going to make social issue public service announcements (and festive) posters :

Think again of the community that you did your identity map of.  If there was one MESSAGE that you could say to the people in your community what would it be?.

1. Would you be trying to tell people to STOP doing something?
2. Would you be trying to tell people to START doing something?
3. Would you be trying to get people to NOTICE something?
4. Would you be trying to get people to BELIEVE in something?

What do you YOU want people to HEAR?

• AFTER looking at the examples below and then submit TWO or three ideas yourself on THIS FORM (log in to your email first).

AFTER looking at the examples above and then submit TWO ideas yourself on THIS FORM (log in to your email first).

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 Please WAIT before continuing 

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Today's Lesson:  PHOTOSHOP SPECIFICS #3

Using Type in Photoshop

Basic Skills

1. Setting "Point" type
2. Setting "Paragraph" type
3. The Character panel
4. Using layer BLENDING MODES
5. Using layer STYLES
6. Using layer EFFECTS

To Practice & Get Credit

• Select a photo 
• Add  TITLE text as Point type
• BLEND the title text into the photo on the layer below it
• ADD an EFFECT and/or use STYLES on the title text
• Add some explanation/information as Paragraph text (making sure it is readable - look at Smokey ABOVE as example)
• Save as a JPG and email to John@EnvisionAcademy.Org for credit when finished (today or tomorrow)

Extra Credit

• When you are finished with the practice you may start working on a festive HOLIDAY message for the EA community!
• The message can be anything school appropriate
• The message may be serious ("STOP LITTERING", for example) but it must also be CHEERY to get credit!
• Email it to John@EnvisionAcademy.Org for credit.