Narrative Inquiry - Using Photography

This presentation confused me some...it was very abstract. Although she had a ton of beautiful photography. I really wish I would have brought the camera with me to Boston. Boo :-( My notes probably won't make much sense so I copied the link to the presentation as well. It's all about getting the kids to think outside the box...from a different perspective...a different point of view. Then they try to think about how the POV alters the narrative. They start with pictures and then go to writing. She encourages them to take pictures that are unique, from a different perspective than the postcard versions of the world.

• http://www.slideshare.net/JuLeong/narrative-inquiry-julia-leong
• photographs are one way of trying to make sense of life as life - could have students video or photograph a day in their lives? How do they view the world? I think I'll use this with my AP students as well as Broadcasting and Newspaper.
• thousands of photos out there...thousands have tags now...
• the eye is a lamp to the heart - what do we photograph and why?
• focus on the composition of a story as a way to represent experiences
• how do we frame the shot, and how does that affect the story? - ****Have students take the same picture and frame it in different ways to change the story. Then they rewrite the narrative from varying perspectives.
• Reveal Effect - "masking" to a photo editing software
• Can use Comic Life software
• moving image done in imovie - look up the "Ken Burns" effect
• kidpics, picasa, photoshop, iphoto for the slow reveal
• instead of asking is this good...ask what is this good for?
• S is the nikon setting for changing the speed on your camera (speed 1/2 sec)

render the familiar a little strange

• Show scale
• shooting at angles
• time
• time exposure - paint with flashlights (leave shutter open)
• suspended time
• self portraits...layer portraits http://www.ordeal.ca/
• look for and shoot shadows

have kids shoot from point of view - to paint their voice

how does my point of view influence my narrative? my teaching?

use it as a way of inquiring into something - a process of framing questions, asking questions

Shoot things from 3 points of view

3 questions: 1) what does it look like 2.) what else does it remind you of? 3) How are you like...

http://www.the-private-eye.com/

Do close ups - set to macro or little flower icon...