MON: iMovie soft start & Photoshop Portfolio time

iMovie SOFT START: The weeks ahead...

Between now and the end of the year you will be making three movies.  The success of these films will depend on how much you prepare and do outside of class. Much of this work is to be done during the Portfolio Defense Minimum Days.  As we work to finish our Photoshop Portfolios we also need to spend some time thinking about what films you will want to make in these three categories:

• How-To: What do you know how to do that you can teach someone to do completely in a minute or less?
• Public Service Announcement: What issues do you care about? Can you explain why others should care about any of them in 2 minutes or less?
• Featurette: If you could make any short film what would it be?
• School appropriate
• 3-5 minutes
• Only SCRIPTED, Edited films
• no "YouTube" style videos (no day in the life, no unboxing, no ASMR, no video gameplay, no extemporaneous films of any kind )

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You have FOUR Classes 
to complete your 
Photoshop Portfolio

Work Order:

• First: Figure out which REQUIRED** Photoshop images you have already done
• Students who have been keeping up will likely have at least 6 of the 9 images already done
• Second: Figure out which of the ones that you have already completed need to be worked on some more.  
• Third: Think about which independent projects you are going to attempt 
• 1 for a "B", 2 or more for higher than a "B"
• Fourth: Plan out your time for the remaining classes 
• Plan how you are going to accomplish the goals you set out for yourself in the 2nd and 3rd steps.
• Last: Get to work
• ReWorking or completing old REQUIRED** PORTFOLIO projects
• Conceiving and completing your independent projects
• Exporting JPG's of your completed Portfolio Images
• Uploading the required files to the correct Google Classroom Assignment.

HOW you get HELP! 

• First: Ask yourself for help first
• Try to figure it out, if you learned the skill you can solve the puzzle!
• Look at the PSD you already did that includes that skill - it migh jog your memory!
• Use your resources; go back and watch the part of the tutorial for the skill you are struggling with; Google your problem and see if the answer pops up!
• Second: Quietly ask others in your POD if they can help you
• Third: Call John over for a consultation

Remember: 
BACK-UP your files & RESTART your computer @ the END of the class

Announcements:

• All work is due Friday, April 19th 

**Required Photoshop Portfolio Images

To be considered for a "B"

• FROM the Skill TUTORIALS
• The BEST tutorial image that you did before the Pier & The Archway (PSD & JPEG only - NO Source Files)
• The image of the "Pier & The Archway on the Ocean" (from THIS tutorial) (PSD & JPEG only - NO Source Files)
• FROM the Portfolio TUTORIALS  
• A TEXT Portrait (PSD & JPEG only - NO Source Files)
• A CRACKED SKIN Portrait  (PSD & JPEG only - NO Source Files)
• A COLORIZED BLACK AND WHITE portrait using the skin-tone palette from a different color image (PSD & JPEG only - NO Source Files)
• FROM the Sub Day Portfolio Challenges
• ONE of your three Sub Day images (PSD & JPEG only - NO Source Files)
• FROM Independent Work
• ONE "approved" Independent Tutorial or Freestyle Image (PSD and SOURCE images - this will be turned in SEPARATE from the rest of your Portfolio)

To be considered for higher than a "B"

1. An ADDITIONAL one or more "approved" Independent Tutorial or Freestyle Image (PSD and SOURCE images - this will be turned in SEPARATE from the rest of your Portfolio)

**Independant Project Guidelines [Requirements] 

• Video Tutorial based Independent Projects for your Portfolio
• Complex independent tutorials that YOU find on the web
• Approved in advance
• Multi layer
• More than 20 minutes of video instruction for single tutorial
• Does NOT start with a PSD file as its base
• Must submit all files and url of tutorial for credit to Google Classroom
• Final file must be named as follows
• First LastName - P# - Name of Artifact - Complete.PSD
• so John might name a file
• John Kittredge - P1 - Baby Godzilla Tutorial - Complete.PSD
• Fully Independent Freestyle Photoshop projects
• Approved in advance
• Multi-Layer [5+/- as appropriate and approved]
• Uses Masks - has no erasures
• Has sophisticated selections using select and mask to feather and shift edges as appropriate
• Is color corrected & balanced so that the layers look natural together
• For advanced grades
• Uses warps and fills to fundamentally alter the geometry of the underlying images 
• Advanced techniques must be provable as a change from originally submitted images.
• Finished project looks unified and neat - not like a collage of pictures stuck together
• Must submit all files used for credit to Google Classroom
• Final file must be named as follows
• First LastName - P# - Name of Artifact - Complete.PSD
• so John might name a file
• John Kittredge - P1 - Bad Hedgehog, no Camaro - Complete.PSD