Assignment: Personal Goals

Let’s get a good sense of each other and begin to explore the many exciting possibilities for the future. By linking your work to tangible real life goals it will be possible to construct portfolio(s) that are both meaningful and purpose driven. In this assignment you will, give some thought about, research, and report on your academic and/or professional goals. Please answer the following questions.

Post your answers to the blog using Google docs by Monday February 13th, 2012 11:59 pm Pacific Standard Time.

Please respond the following questions in detail, there should be no one word answers.

1) Describe a short term professional goal, something that you can get to
happen within the next six months, excluding graduation?

2) Do you plan to seek employment in a creative field upon graduation? If so
what are you thinking about? Do you have any ideas on where to look?

3) Are you considering graduate school in art, photography, or another related discipline? If yes, then what schools are you thinking about and what area? If not why not?

4) If you plan to enter another area of study for graduate school do you
have any ideas to how you might leverage your art/photographic education
within that field of study to further your success?

5) Are you interested freelance creative work? If so what type of work
interests you?

6) Are you interested in showing your work or the work of others in
galleries of Fine Art and/or alternative venues like coffee houses, online
galleries, ect.? If so, then do you have any ideas of where to start?

7) Generally speaking, does your current work relate to your professional
goals? If it does then explain how? If it does not, then how can we get it there?


8) Are you interested in obtaining an internship? If so then in what area?

9) Do you plan to take a year gap year or engage in adventure travel abroad?

10) Do you currently use any type social networking or content distribution
software? If so please list. If not why not?

11) Where do you see yourself professionally in five years?

12) Where do you see yourself professionally in ten years?

You must be prepared to present and/or talk about these topics in class.

Assignment: Vuvox Narrative

I am certain that you have become familiar with Vuvox. Next, build a dynamic media creation about your work as an Artist or Photographer. Demonstrate your work as an ongoing story, narrative, or sequence. You are to inform your peers to what you are about as a creative professional.

These are the minimum standards that must be met:

1) There must be at least 15 images.
2) You must use the text tool.
3) Be prepared to talk about your piece in class.

* You are encouraged to be creative and innovative in both content and approach.

This assignment will be due on: February 8, 2012 at 5:00 pm

To turn in your assignment you need to put a link to it in the comments sections below before 2/8/2012 5:00 Pacific Time.

Introducing Vuvox College : Demonstration Assignment

Vuvox Collage is a dynamic media creation suite enables everyone to easily turn their photos, videos, text and audio clips into interactive stories.

A COLLAGE can be published, embedded, and syndicated into any website, blog or social networking site.

1) Explore and gain an understanding of what Vuvox College is by viewing some examples on the site while keeping in mind how this might be an interesting tool. The web site is located at http://www.vuvox.com

2) While at Vuvox register for a free account.

3) We we will be exploring the tools and creating a demonstration piece. To do that you will need to download a bundle of sample photos here: DOWNLOAD HERE

4) We will work on this in class. When you feel you have experienced the tool enough and have completed a sample Collage share it with the class by posting a link to it in the comments section below. You must share a link in the comments section to get credit. No link = no credit.

5) The next blog post will feature an assignment using Vuvox and your work!

Welcome to Digital Portfolio

Hello and welcome to the class blog for ULV Photo 356 for the Spring semester of 2012. Here you will find important information about the course, current updates, and assignments.

A copy ofthe syllabus is always located here in the unfortunate event you misplace it.

Assignment #1 - Introduce yourself in the comment section below tell us, in a few sentences, why you create images?