Fun Halloween lessons on forced perspective photography.
Target Student: Grades 6-8
Learning Goal:
1) Learn and produce forced perspective photography;
2) Cooperative learning strategy 3) How to use camera.
3) Creativity
4) Texted-base description of their ideas and artworks.
Context: Halloween theme
Standard Met: McREL Visual Arts Standard 1 (Understands and applies media, techniques, and processes related to visual arts)
What You Need: Digital camera, samples of photos using forced perspective, props (optional)
What to Do:
Yuke Wu, a middle school visual arts teacher in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, loves teaching students about photography using forced perspective and illusions. She begins by showing students how to identify forced perspective—where objects appear larger or smaller, closer or farther away—and explains that photographers do this by controlling distance and vantage point. (Check out the science and math behind it here.)
Students then look at examples and answer questions like “How are the objects arranged?” and “How might the photographer have adjusted the lens or framed the shot to create the desired effect?”
Next, students outline ideas for their own photos, considering how they can use setting or props to create a desired image(Halloween theme) . For example, they may try to make small objects look larger (e.g., a stuffed animal to create an image in which a person is tiny in comparison). Then, they set to work taking photos. After they’ve finished, display their images and have them view one another’s work. To conclude, they’ll write a reaction to one or more images using the guiding questions, and then discuss as a class.
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