Laboratory of Digital Photomontage

Code: VIS15817O

1 ECTS

Duration: 4 weeks/26 hours

Scientific Area: Arte Multimédia

Teaching languages: Portuguese, English

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

4. Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

1. Understand photomontage in the aesthetic and historical spheres of the visual arts.
2. Know how to apply digital image editing tools in free basic software.
3. Understand and practise composing, manipulating and creating digital images.
4. Know the formats and resolution of digital images suitable for different purposes such as professional printing, home printing and dissemination on the Internet.

1. A concise approach to the role of photomontage in the history of art: Constructivism, Dada, Surrealism, New Vision, Pop Art and contemporary postmodern art.
2. Composition: main theme and secondary elements; graphic weight; semantic weight; symmetry; stability; dynamism; simplicity; point; line; plane; shapes; point of view and framing; perspective; rhythm; rule of thirds; negative space.
3. Digital image editing: correcting common problems; cropping and transforming; working with layers and selections; colours and chiaroscuro values and their correction using adjustment layers; combining multiple images; filters; typography, and; styles.

Teaching Methods

The programme is linked to a series of pre-scheduled practical laboratory exercises. The practical exhibitions, using audiovisual materials and images by various artists throughout the history of art, provide a transversal and interdisciplinary view of multimedia. Practical laboratory experimentation in the field of multimedia technology leads to skills in communicating visually using a clear and effective basic language.

Assessment

Continuous assessment of attendance and participation in all the sessions, which will take into account: attendance, dedication, commitment, imaginative and creative capacity, work done in response to the exercises proposed, progress during the sessions, and mastery of the techniques and knowledge taught. The final assessment will be quantitative.