For our next project, Shanon and I have decided to team up and create a photo documentary of a day in the life at the new Doane Stuart. The idea for this project came to me when I was thinking about a similar project a friend of mine did over the summer of her schools organic farm. I immediately fell in love with the idea of creating a photo documentary and the opportunity finally arrived for me to create one. When I mentioned it to Shanon this past Thursday, she also loved the idea and was more than willing to help me create one.
We are not attempting to extract or artificially create a specific emotion that should be associated with Doane Stuart; we simply are attempting to capture what a real day in the life of a Doane Stuart person is.
The day will begin by walking towards Doane Stuart from across the street. The film will begin with a photograph of the front of Doane Stuart in its entirety. From there either Shanon or I will walk from the corner of the sidewalk to the inside of the building, taking pictures with every few steps, the entire walk from the street corner to the locker area is going to be photographed, and for the most part we hope or we will ask for people to act natural so we can capture what it is like to walk around the school before classes.
When it finally time for us to head to class, (depending on who has a free period) we are going to alternate the responsibility of photographing a particular class. We hope to capture what classes, like American Government or Advanced Chemistry, at Doane Stuart are really like. These photographs are not going to take up an entire class period, but we hope that in these few minutes we will be able to reveal how engaged Doane Stuart teachers and students are in their work.
After first period, we will head to morning meeting and take pictures from the pews. After morning meeting we will take pictures of the next two period classes. For second break, we may photograph a club meeting or a class meeting. After fourth period, we will photograph lunch in the Commons.
As well as documenting classes Dylan and I will also document what students do during their free periods, whether it’s studying or goofing off. Some things we will photograph more than others. For example we might only take two or three photographs of a class and take six or seven of lunch time or a free period. After the school day is over we will end as we started with the exception of heading away from the school rather than towards it.
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Sounds good, Shanon. Please post any schedules that you and Dylan have agreed upon for getting photographs. Remember that two completed "scenes" such as lunch, a class meeting, a class, entering or leaving school are due on Monday, October 26th. Please download your images to a computer, you do not need to post them here.
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Five new scenes are due on Monday, November 9th -- (1) a club, (2) lunchtime, (3) Spanish class, (4) Dr. Enemark's class and (5) leaving school. Please keep me posted with updates and new schedules on your blog.
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