What's constructed and what's captured?
What makes for more compelling images?
Project Aims
- Read images "between the lines" to determine authenticity
- Build photographic vocabulary for telling stories through images
- Publish our work to a global audience
- Explore new tools: Cowbird.com
Project Overview
Today we will be reading and writing images, both constructed and captured, and exploring the differences between the two. After investigating and discussing an image, groups will go off on their own and construct and capture images that tell stories of connection. Then photographers will publish their images on Cowbird, adding a title, tags, and short text to flesh out the stories.
Connect: Back-to-Back Stories
Think of a moment of connection in your life-- with a person, a place, an idea, an object, an animal-- and start to visualize it. What were the circumstances, the sounds, the weather, the colors, the smells? How did the connection manifest? How did you know? What did it look like?
Consume: Reading an Image
This image was sent out by the Obama campaign on Nov. 6, 2012 and instantly became viral. This election was tweeted about 20 million times, but this photo was re-tweeted over 800,000 times and liked over 4 million times on Facebook.
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| Photograph by Scout Tufankjian for Obama for America via Flickr |
Was this image constructed or captured?
What makes this image so compelling that it was the most Tweeted image of all time?
For more information about this image and an interview with the photographer, click HERE.
For more information about Interpretive Discussion, click HERE.
For outline of Interpretive Discussion questions we used today, click HERE.
For outline of Interpretive Discussion questions we used today, click HERE.
Common Core Standards Addressed:
-CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
-CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.5: Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
-CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.1: Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
Create: Constructing Images
In your school group, find a spot in the school and construct an image showing a moment of connection. Think about how to communicate that visually: the context, angle, the lines, characters, etc. Meanwhile, one group member will be documenting your process.
When you return, upload the images from both cameras to your laptop and curate your images down to 3. Then choose the most compelling image of the batch to publish.
Common Core Standards Addressed:
-CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
-CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Common Core Standards Addressed:
-CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
-CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Connect: Cowbird
Go to www.cowbird.com and login.
Click on the red "Tell a Story" button in the top right corner.
Click on the photo button and upload the photo you've selected.
Add your title, then tag as "Connect" and "#Convergence" and any other tags that would make sense.
Once your photo is up, compose a Tweet-length (140 character) story to accompany your image.
If you finish early, play around with Cowbird: explore other stories, connections, and the audio function.
For an example of student work up on Cowbird (from Chicago, no less), click HERE.
Critique
Let's look at one of our images. Is this constructed or captured? What makes you think that? What makes this a compelling image? Why did the artist choose this image?
Reflecting on Process
What did you do in each of the 3 circles of Convergence?
How might you use elements of this activity in your classroom?
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