Photography: Alphabetography

In photography class we are taking pictures of things that resemble letters (known as Alphabetography) which we will then edit in Photoshop.  The example above is from class and includes the full alphabet along with an asterisk and and exclamation mark for balance. The first step is to take pictures of things resembling letters then we'll be arranging them together in Photoshop and editing them like the example above.  Finally we will actually write out photo words with the letters we created.

Alphabet Soup

Here's the results from last week's assignment which was to "photograph the alphabet" by finding things in nature that resembled letters and edit them together (an example from class is pictured above). After the alphabet was finished students had the option to add one or two additional symbols such as an asterisk, exclamation point, ect. to finish out the image grid and add balance. Finally we took the letters that were created and put together an inspiring word that which we'll print out and post up in the gallery(an example from class is pictured below).

Animating the Alphabet

Mr. Needles media arts classes are working on creating an alphabet animation using hand drawn frames. Each student will create a 50 frame animation based on a letter they are given and morph images that begin with that letter into their sequence (Letter A: Apples, Alligators, Andrew Jackson). All of the letter sequences will be combined into a full animation of the alphabet which can be used to teach elementary school students next year.

Here's an example of a finished storyboard


Here's an example of a finished name credit and below is an example of what the final individual animated segment looks like.