va140/icam101 - week 7

What I expect from you for the next section
A great portrait / persona project
Lively critique

Midterm Results

I was pretty lenient and quite disappointed: most of the descriptions for #5 were at best awful, most of the answers for #6 and #7 were shallow, and an amazing number of you got an amazing number of tools wrong (even though I had given you a handout of that exact information at the beginning of the quarter, not to mention you've been using them). You're lucky this was only worth 10%.

Points per question
question = points

1 = 2
2 = 4
3 = 3
4 = 2
5 = 9
6 = 15
7 = 12
8 = 1 per tool (25 = 1st set, 22 = 2nd set)
9 = 3
10 = 1
11 = 12
Extra Credit = 10

Grade Spread for Secs. 1 & 3

A+ = 1
A = 2
A- = 1
B+ = 2
B = 6
B- = 5
C+ = 1
C = 6
C- = 4
D = 2
F = 5

Ideas for Final Project - Narrative

The narrative doesn't have to be typical, comic-style.....
Think about the possibility of a narrative that is circular, variable format, enigmatic, or....

For those interested in making books:
You should design your book in relation to your images and narrative
There are a myriad of designs for a "book", for some ideas:

Book Arts Web - artist books
Concertina Book Instructions - like the Wilhelm Tell book in class
Portfolio, Accordion Fold, and Box Books
Archival Pamphlet Binders - like the ones used in the library
Various Bookbinding Instructions