This brief is inspired by this line, by photographer Joséphine Michel, on her collaboration with Mika Vainio:
Écouter tous les matins un de ses albums, puis aller photographier des lieux en correspondance avec sa musique. Dans la nature, ou dans les musées de sciences
Source: Fisheye Magazine
Students produce photos in order to participate in “Wiki Loves Monuments“, an annual international photographic competition held during the month of September.
Students will have to identify historical monuments and heritage sites in their surroundings, take photographs, and upload them to Wikimedia Commons.
The list of sites is specific to each participating country. A list of participating countries can be found on this page.
For Switzerland, the participants have to take photos among this list of cultural properties.
Students have the task to create an archetypical “Movie poster group photo”. They form groups, and select a movie genre they will be working in (comedy, sci-fi, thriller, super heroes…). They will chose a setting, costumes, accessoires…
They may need to use effects such as green-screen backgrounds, projected background, artificial smoke.
They will need to apply postproduction to match the tone and atmosphere of the chosen genre.
Finally, the photograph needs to be combined with typography and movie poster credits.
Some examples of different group photo styles:
The students are requested to create “stock photography” of some topic – for instance, their city. They will create lots of photographs (maybe also video) of different key locations, and publish them online, on stock photography platforms.
The produced content can serve as base material for further briefs, becoming part of the schools photography database. This will raise questions of how to manage, to share and to classify such a database.