Power Point presentation – Photo project.. Photo Project Assignment-PowerPoint Presentation accounts for 5 points. It is due week 15 of class but you should start to prepare it before last week. The objective of this assignment is to be a simplistic tool to further your understanding of a budget of the government or non-profit organization that you choose for your research project.
Photo Project Assignment Guidelines:
The objective of this assignment is to be a simplistic tool to further your understanding of a budget of the government or non-for-profit organization that you choose for your research project. The reason that we are using photos, rather than just looking up numbers in reports, is that often when we start to piece together all budget items visually, the enormity of budgets becomes much clearer.
What exactly is a photo project?
A photo essay is very simply a collection of images that are placed in a specific order to tell the progression of events, emotions, and concepts in the government that you choose for your research project. The photo essay takes the same story telling techniques as a normal essay, translated into visual images.
Steps for you photo essay assignment:
1. Find a topic: For this assignment you will select a government to focus on. This can be a city, town, village, county, public school district, or special district government (also you can use the department of state government or federal government if it is topic of your research paper). This is the same government you’ll focus on in your budget analysis research project—so choose wisely.
2. Do your research: If, for example, you choose to document your local sewer district, you will want to investigate where their facilities are located, who works there, who they serve, etc. All of these factors will help you in planning out the type of shots you set up for your story.
3. Find the “real story”: After your research, you can determine the angle you want to take your story. The idea is not just to walk around and snap pictures, but to be deliberate about what you are shooting.
4. Plan your shots: Whether you decide to sit down and extensively visualize each shot of the story, or simply walk through the venue in your mind, you will want to think about the type of shots that will work best to tell your story. I recommend beginners first start out by creating a “shot list” for the story. Each shot will work like a sentence in a one-paragraph story. Start with 10 shots. Each shot must emphasize a different concept or emotion that can be woven together with the other images for the final draft of the story.
5. Take the shots: You will need at minimum 6 photos, maximum 12 photos to get full credit for this assignment. Each should represent a different aspect of the government unit.
6. Create a presentation/Upload: Using Power Point you will create a presentation with your photos. You can write the titles on the slide and include your photos. Once you have finished creating the presentation, you will upload your presentation on Blackboard.