Your class project consists of the collection of the small exercises that you find in the lessons.
You may also pick one or a few that you like best. Do as many as you feel like, but please do at at least one; you'll learn more by doing.

These are the assignments per lesson. Pick a few or do them all and you will learn a lot!

Small & large

Walk around and capture examples of the contrast between large and small. Vary the angle (bend your knees, look up or down) and take it a bit further by creating a forced perspective shot. So, make the small thing look larger than the large object. Note: don't try and make the perfect image, just practice seeing it and play with it!

Proximity

Tell a visual story using objects and their spacial relationship. You can shoot this from several angles, like overhead or at eye level for instance. Overhead gives an instant insight into the situation and an eye level shot is more immersive and let’s you in on the story.

Real & fake

Make an in camera collage where you combine fake and real. You can use paper cut outs, miniature people, toys, something you’ve drawn or painted combined with a person or real life object. And you can use objects from a different setting, like tools at the dinner table or growing a plant from a person etc. Anything you choose is right. Just have fun!

Now and then

Take something from the past and bring it into the present or play with the future.

Sit still, let's move

put your phone or camera on a tripod or stack of books and create an image in which some parts are motion blurred and some are still. Choose a still subject that could actually be moving, like an animal or person or a vehicle in traffic.
also follow a moving subject, so it will look still, but its background will be motion blurred.
experiment with long and short exposure times and see how this changes the focus of your story. Which approach do you like best?

Interspecies

Create an opportunity where two interspecies animals meet and capture their story. If you don’t have easy access to animals, perhaps go to the zoo or a pet shop.

(Don’t) Act your Age!

Make a selfie doing something not considered fitting to your age, by using a prop.

Out of context

Create an image that shows a new usage of an object. It may even be slightly shocking or make us feel uncomfortable.

Grande finale

One final assignment is to choose two types of contextual contrast and to combine them to create a compelling story in a short video, image or series of images.

Play and have fun!

Shanaia Menacherry

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