Reducing Our Ecological Footprint

Photoshop Poster Assignment (Grade 8 Experience)

 

Instructions:

Each team is required to produce a poster (landscape or portrait) that is 16 inches x 20 inches (resolution: 200dpi). However, each student will be responsible for producing their own section of the poster. Divided into four sections, this means that each student will produce an 8 inch by 10 inch section (200 dpi). Time permitting, students may begin work on their posters Thursday afternoon and should try to complete them Thursday evening. Friday morning, each student will submit their work to their team leader, and the group will proceed to compile everyone’s work into a 16X20 composition. The poster should be printed, evaluated then hung somewhere in the school.

 

General Objectives:

Produce a poster that visually reflects some of the specific issues you investigated. The visuals should be accompanied by some main points in as few words as possible (e.g., bulleted format). The background and overall composition should be artistically appealing and conceptually relevant. NOTE: once the posters are compiled into a team poster, the larger team version may include edits in an attempt to achieve symmetry (e.g., one global background, a topic title, etc.). Hence, you may want to keep a PSD version of your poster so that your team can drag your layers into the 16 X 20 version.

 

Individual Objectives:

  1. create a blank canvas, 8X10 inches, 200dpi resolution.
  2. generate a design (background, borders/colors, etc) that is artistically consistent with your topic
  3. Incorporate one or more photos that you took during your activity into your poster (You may even want to create a layered collage that combines your photos and some internet images).
  4. incorporate text that emphasizes some important issues
  5. include your first name and last initial, but do so in a subtle manner (example: small text, faded into and object, or listed as an ingredient on a can, etc.)
  6. upon completion, save your poster as a PSD file and as a JPEG file in your geography folderàgr8experience folder on your ‘Z’ drive Friday morning.
  7. FirstClass the JPEG version to your assigned supervisor so that that may evaluate your individual effort.

 

Team Objectives

  1. In order to share your PSD file with your team leader so that a 16X20 team version can be created, FirstClass your PSD version to your team leader or save a copy of the PSD on xfer (create a team folder on xfer first).
  2. The Team should collective produce the 16x20 on the team leaders computer. Save a PSD version and a JPG version on the team leader’s Z drive.
  3. Print out your team poster on one of LCC’s poster printers. Instructions are available on the project website.
  4. Hang up your poster somewhere visible within the school