ART 36: electronic imaging
This course focuses on creative and technical issues related to the production of digital images for multimedia and the Web. It emphasizes concept development and application of design principles and color theory to imaging for visual storytelling. Technical issues include storyboarding, drawing for the moving image, image creation, and photo manipulation using industry-standard imaging software such as Adobe Photoshop.
Storyboards
deconstruction of an artists story
Students created a storyboard by interpreting an already finished narrative developed and created by an artist. Storyboards were 12-15 stills on 11 x 17 paper, using line drawings, sketching, and simple techniques discussed during lectures. They were quick, non-colored, renderings. Students then presented their work during studio time for feedback. This was an opportunity to learn if their storyboards were successful in storytelling sequencing.
Untitled by Jerry Uelsmann, 1964
A student used the photography of Jerry Uelsmann to tell a story of what might have led to the image. What we learn with storyboarding and creating .gifs with the stills is the accuracy of sequencing and if the information presented makes sense to an audience.
Storyboarding Poems
One of the assignments in Electronic Imaging is taking a poem and translating it to a storyboard and then a final image. The process of using a short story, such as a poem, lends itself nicely to storyboarding and visual storytelling. Asking the creative to develop imagery from interpretation has an often, curious outcome.
Shel Silverstein
Rain
I opened my eyes
And looked up at the rain
And it dripped into my head
And flowed into my brain
So pardon this wild crazy thing
I just said I'm just not the same since there's rain in my head
I step very softly
I walk very slow
I can't do a hand-stand
Or I might overflow
And all I can hear as I lie in my bed
Is the slishity-slosh of the rain in my head.
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