Create > Visual Pun Photographs

Create > Visual Pun Photographs

Goal:  Create a series of 3 visual puns from figures of speech that sound alike or have double meaning.

Studio Activity:

• Search puns and figures of speech that sound alike or have double meanings.

watchdog	pen pals	bookworm	license plates
car pool	eggbeater	coat of arms	arms race
2nd hand store	attached to his dog	backhand	6 feet under
fast food	offspring	Gatorade	water gun
boxing match	Wisdom Tooth	night owls	Horse Fly
navel orange	pie in the sky	fan club	tow truck
brainwashed	brainstorm	walnut	sea star
lighthouse	rainbow	handyman	pen pal
home run	funny bone	double header	hotdog

• You may want to speak with an English teacher.
• Stage a photoshoot that visualizes your pun or figure of speech

Trigger Mechanisms:  Mix-media, metaphor, fantasize

Visual Examples:

Visual Pun Photo Contest > http://goo.gl/2T2P24 or http://goo.gl/kCahC

Check out this Map of ‘Punny’ business > http://goo.gl/CwJrmy

Punny Pixels > http://goo.gl/YJBOmc

I have my head in the clouds > Scott Klein

Generalize, Reflect & Publish:

Instructional Strategy

• Evaluate the results

Learning Activity

Reflect > Should I go back and rework anything?

• How did you combine art elements (line, color, shape, texture, value)  to develop art principles? (Unity/variety, balance, emphasis contrast, rhythm, proportion/scale, figure/ground relationship)

• Where are the dominant shapes, forms, colors, or textures that carry expressive significance?
• Why Is the work ordered and balanced or chaotic and disturbing?
• What gives the work its uniqueness?
• Is symbolism used in the work to convey meaning other than what one sees?
• Does the work evoke any feelings?

Instructional Strategy

• Providing Recognition

Learning Activity

Publish > Share your album to our G+Community > Concepts & Creations category

Display > Add your photos to the Event

Instructional Strategy

• Providing Feedback

Learning Activity

Critique >

• Give positive feedback > +1 every image that deserves it
• Give peer feedback > Give 2 peer images a VTS critique > http://goo.gl/1WWmBY

Self-assess >

• Evaluate > Thinglink Rubric Scoring Guidelines >  http://goo.gl/ejQq7B or AP Padlet Scoring Guidelines >  https://goo.gl/a70ikP

Life Skills Survey > http://goo.gl/iEUqr (responses > http://goo.gl/8YDnYF)

emotional baggage

Fan Club

Butterfly

licence Plate

Cat’s in the bag