Sample Beauty in a Second Video

Hi Everyone: this video took about an hour to shoot on the weekend and about an hour to edit today. All of the shots were taken on an  iPhone 7 and edited in iMovie.

Flickr Groups to help you find Inspiration

Click on this LINK: Check out these new Flickr Groups to help keep you inspired

Photo: Grace Burgess

The Magenta Photo Program offers up a Great Opportunity

If you, or someone you know aged 14-18, would like to understand the techniques used in professional photography or simply use the camera on your smartphone in more effective ways, please join us for Capture Photography Festival’s online photography course, Learning to Capture: The Fundamentals of Photography. This course, taught by Rachel Topham, is a free, virtual, four-week photography course, designed for individuals aged 14-18

For a detailed course description, please visit our website by clicking this link.

If you would like to register for the course, please email engagement@capturephotofest.com

Term 4 Assignments

Term 4 Assignments





Choose only ONE of the following assignments for 20 marks Due: Friday May 1

1. Theme Shoot: For this assignment, you can take photos of whatever you want but you need to connect them by a theme. Make sure you describe your theme in a few lines under the description of the first photo. Themes can be general or specific, try to be a little creative. Nature is a theme, but not very specific. Examples of a theme could be concepts like love, isolation, my generation, stillness or joy. Or a theme could be more concrete like: black and white, bubbles, music, shadows, cars, coca cola, portraits, boats or the seashore. All shots should be in an album on Flickr.
20 photos= 20 marks
OR
2. Photo Walk: Go for a walk in your neighbourhood with your camera and really look at what is around you. Take photos focusing on angles and lighting. Take photos of the same subject from different perspectives. Take lots of photos, more than you need. Edit and post your best 20 photos to Flickr in an album.
Criteria: I will be looking for photos that are creative, taken from different angles, different from each other, in focus and well composed. 20 photos = 20 marks

Choose only ONE of the following assignments for 30 marks Due: Friday May 15
Make sure you DO NOT shoot vertical only horizontal.

1. "Beauty in a Second" video project  Please see sample assignment links to get an idea as to how this assignment should look. Essentially, you are to go out and shoot 40-60 1 second video clips (you may need shots to be up to 6 seconds to capture the video fully to allow for editing) and then compile to the specified piece of music in a movie program. You can choose whatever music you would like for the video. 

Beauty in a Sec #1

Beauty in a Sec #2

Beauty in a Sec #3

2. Choice Video: Choose to create any video of your choice 40-60 sec. long. It could be a spoken word poem with visuals, a music video, a how to video, a cooking demo, a video of your dog, or a compilation of a day in isolation. Keep it simple and clip your shots together using a video app. You might want to try speeding up or slowing down the footage, just for fun.

Criteria: When shooting video, you still want your shots to be from various angles, make sure they are in focus and the camera is not bouncing around. And the video should stay focused on what you are trying to communicate.
Check out:

Peter McKinnon's 5 ways to make better video: Video on making better videos

Step by step how to shoot a video

Link to VIDEO EDITORS:Video Editing Apps

If you are struggling with ideas to film or how to go about doing this video please email me to discuss.

Send me a link to your video on You Tube or Vimeo or send your video through WE transfer which is free.

Check out the Magenta Photo Program Online Photo Gallery

Some of last semester's photo students were involved with this program and their photos are showcased in this online gallery...check it out.

Magenta Online Photo Gallery for It is a Plastic World

You might be interested: Send in your photos to the Magenta Virtual Gallery Self-Isolation Photo Show 

At Magenta, we hope you are finding ways to stay creative and engaged. As many of us are spending a lot of time on social media, we thought it might be nice to open up our Instagram Account and find a way to communicate through photos. We are extending our Instagram account to all of you! Every couple of weeks, we will come up with a theme, and we will post the work you send us in response. At the end of this pandemic, the photos we collect will be added to our website as a Virtual Gallery.

Starting today, April 14th, please send us one or two photographs that relate to the theme: "What does your social isolation look like?" 

It can mean your work from home desk, what your room looks like, you in your backyard, and so many other things.The last day to submit for this week's theme is Sunday, April 19th at midnight.

Please send your submissions to: info@magentafoundation.org.

Please make sure your name and your school is listed. A brief description that we can include that explains what your image is all about, and any social media handles we can include would be great. We will start posting the Self Isolation images on April 23rd. From there, another theme will be announced.