<p>Art3600 Alternative Processes Wanda Pearcy Collaborative Photographic Shoot Report Assistant Professor, [email protected] University of Minnesota, Duluth Art and Design Department</p><p>COLLABORATIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC SHOOT PLAN and/or REPORT</p><p>For each time you meet with your group, to talk or shoot, you will document your activity. This document will be a way of remembering what you decided and letting me know who is responsible for what part of the group’s progress. </p><p>Every student will complete a separate report every time your group meets. All students are required to send me their finished report via email, as a word doc, within 5 hours of meeting with their group. To do so, download the document from the course website, type in the answers to the questions below. When you’ve completed your answers, and have reread the questions to make sure you have answered them completely, then, delete the directions and leave the answers only, next to the numbers. Save the document as a Microsoft word file, title the document your name and the date of completion i.e. Mona J. 2.12.16. Then email me the word document. I will send you feedback, on the same document, as soon as I can. When you receive the feedback, read it to see if there are things you can do differently or creative suggestions. Then, file it in your digital research folder for the final portfolio assessment. </p><p>Numbers 1-10 include facts to keep your shoots and group organized. These can be done together on the day of the shoot or meeting. Numbers 11-13 are evaluations I expect you to do individually. </p><p>1. In 1-2 sentences describe or explain your theme: 2. Your name: 3. Your group members, making sure to include yourself: 4. List all students who attended the shoot, include yourself, include their role in the shoot after their name. Example below:</p><p>Teramce: Secretary Alina: Facilitator Mona: Brainstorm Lina: Brainstorm</p><p>5. The date of the meeting: 6. The date and time of the shoot: 7. Where will you meet, and what is the address/location of the shoot: 8. The pre-visualized sentence your group will be working with. If you haven’t decided you may include up to 4 and order them in the order of importance. We made these sentences the very first week of the class, go back to those documents and find yours or make up a new one. This sentence should guide your activity. Art3600 Alternative Processes Wanda Pearcy Collaborative Photographic Shoot Report Assistant Professor, [email protected] University of Minnesota, Duluth Art and Design Department 9. Make a vertical list of all your group members. For each member, directly after their name, list all equipment they will be responsible for bringing to the shoot. Include cameras, rental equipment, and borrowed equipment. Make sure to write where you got the equipment.</p><p>Terance: Holga, digital camera, shutter release cable checked out from photo area Alina: Holga, will check out lights from the photo area Mona: Will pick up a smoke machine (others each chipped in $5.00) Lina: Lina will work on writing a better theme statement.</p><p>10. In 2 paragraphs of 5-7 sentences each, briefly explain what your group would like to accomplish in the images in relation to technique and style and content. Techniques are the tools that help us communicate our ideas and they are also largely responsible for originality as well. In your groups meetings brainstorm ideas for techniques and decide upon 1-4 techniques you with try to create your imagery. If you know the type of style you want, then, the techniques will follow that. A cold conceptual style will need crisp and still imagery. A warm romantic style will need some alteration of your imagery maybe with an armature that your can build. </p><p>*Complete the remaining sentences individually, in private.</p><p>11. In 1-2 paragraphs of 5-7 sentences each, critique the shoot; explain what went really well, focusing on technical details. Stay focused on concrete things, things that are measurable and alterable or controlled. This might be that the lighting was working really well because you all were able to get the shadows on the side of the body that suggested drama. Also, and most importantly, is there some part of the process or equipment use you would like to do or use again? </p><p>12. In 1-2 paragraphs of 5-7 sentences each, critique the shoot; explain, in detail, what you might like to try or do different for the next shoot. </p><p>13. In list format critique your team. List your team members, after each name write your observations of the strengths of each team member. These observations should come from observing each member in each individual shoot. What did your team member bring to the shoot or meeting? If you can see each other’s strengths and skills, then, you have increased your tools that you can work with. Sometimes, a collaborator needs to help their group by seeing in each other what we don’t see in ourselves.</p>