Week Four

Week 4 DIGM252

I will not be available Week 5, so used that time to finish up your URBN project. Then do your Photo storyboard project, then take a good critical look at your URBN and tweak it. These projects will be the basis of your midterm grades.

Homework Project: 

"Time Slicing the Event ": photographic capture of key moment(s) proceeding to the net result of an action or event.

Description: Still photographic capture of key moment(s) constituting an action or event. Within a single unchanging (interior) setting, a photographic survey is undertaken to expose contiguity across the distinct moments of change, which define an isolated physical activity.

Example #1: “Morning Shaving Ritual.”

1)    Wake up

2)    Get out of bed

3)    Walk to bathroom

4)    Look in mirror

5)    Turn on water, fill sink

6)    Open medicine cabinet

7)    Take out shaving cream

8)    Put shaving cream into hand

9)    Put shaving cream on face

10) Pick up razor

11) Look in mirror and start shaving over lip

12) Rinse razor in sink

13) Look in mirror, shave left side of face

14) Rinse razor in sink

15) Look in mirror shave right side of face

16) Rinse razor in sink

17) Look in mirror shave chin and neck

18) Rinse razor in sink

19) Put razor down on back of sink

20) Fill hands with water

21) Splash face with water

22) Look in mirror

23) Reach for towel

24) Dry face with towel

25) Leave bathroom

Example #2: "Hey, Man the Latest Harry Potter DVD Is Out!" (viz., a loyal movie lover wants to immediately watch a recent DVD movie purchase)

1) Retrieve DVD out from store's bag.

2) Remove shrink-wrap plastic material from DVD case

3) Open DVD case

4) Remove DVD from case

5) Approach DVD player

6) Turn on unit

7) Eject loading drawer

8) Insert media

9) Retract drawer

10) Media loads

11) Remote control: Menu selection

12) Move over toward sofa

13) Park body into ass dent; watch movie.

[Note: It is possible to add in other related key actions, such as flicking off the room light, when and where warranted (appropriate (read: meaningful) to overall activity scenario)] Images are assembled (edited) via any digital software application that can be viewed in the class, into intelligible sequential associations.