COLLAGE!

Creating a Narrative Self-Portrait

Photography 1 Name: ___________________

Objective: Using adobe photoshop, students will create a

self-portrait collage that shows a personal narrative.

A narrative is a story that is created in a constructive

format (as a work of speech, writing, song, film, television,
video games, in photography or theatre) that describes a
sequence of fictional or non-fictional human events.

Task #1: Please complete the Task #2: Begin working on

following in your photo-journal. Photoshop.
1. Come up with an idea for a
personal narrative. What story will 1. Launch photoshop.
you tell in your self-portrait? When you launch the
2. Make a list of the images/items program it will ask you
you will collage in your narrative what size format you
self-portrait. These items can want to work in,
include the following: please specify 8x10.
• Personal photographs of 2. You can use a
environments, friends, background you have
family etc. found online, a
• Pictures of objects you may drawing you have
want to include (you could completed and
also make a photogram and scanned in, or an
scan it into the computer to original photograph as
use) the background.
• Drawings/ artwork 3. Using the photoshop
• Text tools and layers
manipulate your
3. Complete 2 thumbnail sketches images into an active
where you combine these ideas composition.
together into a successful collage.
Think about the compositional
arrangement.
A collage is an artful
arrangement of
images/text/textures/colors/sh
apes/ lines/ etc in order to
successfully execute the
principles of design.

Preliminary Planning due:

February 24, 2011