Digital Art Final Project

Public Service Announcements

Public Service Announcements (PSAs) are messages in the public interest with the objective of raising awareness, changing public attitudes and behavior towards a social issue.

Your Final Project for this class (worth a Final exam grade!) is to create a Public Service Announcement Poster.

The Project will be graded in 2 parts:

- The actual PSA Poster, graded using the same sort of rubric we've used all trimester (appearance, effort, photoshop technique, image quality...)

- A written component at the beginning and end of the project (blog posts)

Step 1:

• What is a social issue that you feel you should call attention to?
• Create a BLOG POST that is a sort of brainstorm/journal entry about this.
• What's your topic?
• Why do you care about it?
• What do you want to say?
• How do you intend to portray your message?

Step 2:

• Create your poster.
• Gather images you could use in your design.
• Research your topic- is there a statistic you can include for emphasis?
• Make your canvas- be sure you have a high quality printable poster! Shoot for 300 resolution, and a size that's in the 1,000's (we used 4,000 x 4,000 for our typography projects!)
• Make sure you use the following:
• Text
• Layers
• Color Alteration OR a Filter
• at least ONE image/object you've photographed or drawn yourself.

Step 3:

• Finished Your Poster? Before your flatten your layers, make sure I check it. This is your final! Let's make sure they're perfect!
• Once you've gotten the OK from me, Hand it in on a flashdrive as a .jpg
• Complete a Final Blogpost reflecting on your project:
• What is a PSA?
• Did you learn anything new about your topic?
• How do you feel about your final product?
• What was the most difficult part of the project?
• How are you feeling about your Digital Art Skills now?

The projects will be due during our Final Exam block on June 13th.

Seniors, You leave before this, you  may complete the project before you leave and hand it in on June 6th, or you may take the extra time and bring me the finished project on June 11th on a flashdrive. It is YOUR responsibility to remember to do this! (You have to be here for marching practice anyways!)
That being said, Seniors, you may want to avoid an overly complicated or labor intensive design.