for full session see: All I want for Christmas…

session overview:

• Participants will examine / analyse a range of Christmas adverts
  
• Using a selection of objects, participants will shoot thier own Christmas advert. Who is it for? What is it’s message?
• Use Photoshop to add text / logo’s *collage could also be used here
• Print and critique

suggested output: christmas advert (still or stop motion / moving image)

Additional activity ideas:

• A (Moving) Merry Christmas: Make a stop motion GIF (telling a story through multiple photographs of objects / quick succession photographs of a narrative). Some instructions on making GIF’s in Photoshop can be found here
• Once Upon a Time (at Christmas); Devise a Christmas story / use christmas carol lyrics and illustrate this narrative in 6 photographs (individually or as a group) to create a narrative. Make a handmade book and add text.

THESE Sessions could be adapted from:

• Save the World
• So Many Books, So Little Time