AP Art - Artistic Process Documentation
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Research, investigation, and experimentation: documenting your process.
Beginning stages of your work, middle, and end. Demonstrating your skills, techniques. and decision making process.
This process will be unique to you and your topic.
You will turn in a minimum of 1-2 visual documents that show visual evidence of this process and written reflections of each step for each Foundation Project.
You will turn in a minimum of 5 visual documents for your Sustained Investigation.
Create your own visually dynamic layout to show progression of your ideas or use a template.
Apps to help you document process:
Camera+
Photoshop Express
Snapseed (for Android)
Layout
This could take the form of:
Your 3 visuals should be organized, visually pleasing, and descriptive when explaining your unique process, research, and practice. Create 1 to 2 documents for each photo shoot respectively (see the example for Erik Johanssen's "Landfall") or 1 to 2 documents for each digital artwork. (See the example from Zutto)
Layout templates to place your photos on to 1 document:
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Beginning stages of your work, middle, and end. Demonstrating your skills, techniques. and decision making process.
This process will be unique to you and your topic.
You will turn in a minimum of 1-2 visual documents that show visual evidence of this process and written reflections of each step for each Foundation Project.
You will turn in a minimum of 5 visual documents for your Sustained Investigation.
Create your own visually dynamic layout to show progression of your ideas or use a template.
Apps to help you document process:
Camera+
Photoshop Express
Snapseed (for Android)
Layout
This could take the form of:
- Photographing your fine artwork from idea conception (written ideas/ inspiration images), media experimentation (photos of your sketchbook pages and any experimentation on paper/canvas, etc.) , brainstorming & sketching (sketchbook pages), photos of beginning stages of the work, photos of middle stages, photos of final stages, and photos of the end product.
- documenting a photo shoot: include photos of locations, equipment you used, models, prepping the models, you interacting with models or the environment
- creating a document that shows the stages of each digital artwork in progress showing the evolution of your preliminary sketches to your final digital designs.
- experimenting with a camera technique: document your experimentation and learning process. Photographs of you engaged in the technique, locations, several sample photos demonstrating your practice of the technique
- experimentation and practice of a digital art technique: screen shots or works in progress demonstrating your practice of one or more new techniques. Example works demonstrating your practice (although they might not end up in your final portfolio).
Your 3 visuals should be organized, visually pleasing, and descriptive when explaining your unique process, research, and practice. Create 1 to 2 documents for each photo shoot respectively (see the example for Erik Johanssen's "Landfall") or 1 to 2 documents for each digital artwork. (See the example from Zutto)
Layout templates to place your photos on to 1 document:
-template 1
-template 2
-template 3
-template 4
-template 5
-template 6
AP Art Student Examples
Erik Johanssen Time lapse videos of his photography shoots and Photoshop techniques:
Annie Liebovitz Portrait Photography Process:
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