Perspective Matters

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Students create images that combine multiple perspectives to communicate new concepts or messages.

Recommended for Grades 7-12

“I’ll see you in five years.”

If your doctor says it, it’s a good thing! If your lawyer says it, it’s not so good!

“It will be over after a small injection.”

If your doctor says it, it’s a good thing! If your lawyer says it, it’s not so good!

Perspective MattersYour brain tries to make sense out of what you see.

Don’t believe it?What do you think this picture is about?

Perspective MattersDear Ms. Davis,

I want to be very clear on my child’s illustration. It is NOT of me on a dance pole on a stage in a strip joint. I work at Home Depot and had commented to my daughter how much money we made in the recent snowstorm. This photo is of me selling a shovel.

Mrs. Harrington

Perspective MattersMaterials: digital camera, imagination and Pixlr found at www.pixlr.com

Task: Students create an image that combines multiple perspectives to create a new concept or message.

Techniques:Cloud Background | Sent To BackTransparent Image Layered On Top

Two images of two different concepts layered to create new meaning.

Techniques:Cloud Background | Sent to BackTransparent Image Layered on TopProportion Also Matters

Width of brush matches space between clouds.

Techniques:Cloud Background | Sent to BackTransparent Image Layered On TopProportion As An Inspiration

Forward image gives illusion of being larger than actual size.

Techniques:Cloud Background | Sent to BackTransparent Image Layered On TopProportion Also MattersPosition Matters

Forward image placement is from left edge to accurate point of background.

Techniques:Cloud Background | Sent to BackTransparent Image Layered On TopProportion and Position MatterImagination Matters

What do you see in the clouds? Let that be your inspiration!

Techniques:Action Background | Sent to BackTransparent Image Layered On TopProportion and Position MatterImagination Matters | Complexity Matters

Sequencing events through use of multiple pictures can help create a more complex concept.

Techniques:Humorous Background | Sent to BackTransparent Image Layered On TopProportion and Position MatterEmotions Matters | Complexity Matters

Emotions evoke humor.

Techniques:Sunset Background | Sent to BackTransparent Image Layered On TopProportion and Position MatterConcepts Matter | Simplicity Matters

Beautiful sunset and open palm create inspiration for an entirely new concept.

Techniques:Captioning

I hope he’s not in my class this year!Captioning is an element that takes the visual message one step further.

Techniques:Captioning

???What caption would you add?

Go back ;write captions for previous images.

Perspective MattersWhat can you create?

Don’t forget to add a caption!

Career ConnectionHow is what you learned in this lesson important for…

Authors?

Psychologists?

Photographers?

Graphic artists?

Advertising executives?

Comedians?

How is what you learned in this lesson helpful to you for your future?

Perspective MattersSources: Interpretations: Perceptions | Program ID#40084 | Intelecom | 2006Dr. Web | Forced Perspective | http://www.drweb.de/magazin/Wayne Cotter: Acclaimed Comedian and Technology HumoristPixlr | http://www.pixlr.com

Teacher Notes:This lesson in perception and perspective is a great way to address a variety of concepts including:

1.How The Brain Works2.Digital Photography | A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words!3.Writing Creative Captions4.Things Are Not Always What They Seem5.Learning To View Situations From Multiple Perspectives6.Career Connection: career fields that involve knowledge of perception/perspective (authors, photographers, artists, graphic artists, humorists, psychology and advertising)

Task: Students create an image that combines multiple perspectives to create a new concept or message.