​Directions
1. Begin your planning process by selecting a theme or topic that will be the central focus of your final project. Talk with your friends, classmates, teacher or parents to bounce ideas off of. Look around your school or community and identify something that you may feel some passion towards.
2. Now consider what media art format you are comfortable working in. Do you want to only take photographs? Make a video? Do you want to create visual images or an animation using image software on a computer?
3. Decide on the message that you are communicating through your visual compositions. What are you trying to tell your audience? What do you want the viewer to feel?
4. Check with your teacher and review the Final Course Project rubric so that you are familiar with the expectations of this project and how you will be assessed.
5. Assemble your equipment if needed. Prepare any forms that you may need such as model release forms, copyright permissions, etc. Obtain permissions if required. Are you allowed on private property?
6. Collect your images or create your images. If necessary, edit your images and apply any image corrections. Apply any text to your images. A good practice is to always keep a set of original images that remain untouched. Work only with copies of the original files just in case you change your mind regarding what you want to do.
7. Finally, prepare your final visual compositions for public display. You may be asked to present your final project in different ways so check with your teacher as to what he or she is expecting.
8. Submit your work to your teacher.