week 7 & 8

Week 7

Three of us shot and processed images of public school scenes to illustrate promotional materials for the Summer Leadership Conference (SLC).

The SLC is a collection of short schools and orientations for teachers that aspire to supervisory positions.  They are scattered throughout the summer months at our GCPS offices.  I had the opportunity to shoot with a 7D body and an f/1.8 50mm lens.  My gear is Nikon and this was a good occasion to work with Canon. 




Using a supplied shot list, our job was to get stills in an everyday school setting that symbolize these action verbs:

•        Stretch

•        Push

•        Flex

•        Leap

•        Strive

Furthermore, we also shot scenes that portrayed these settings:

•        Teachers in groups at a meeting, talking among themselves

•        Administrators and teachers working together

•        Students (K-8th grade) and teachers working together

•        Students working together

•        A science experiment or demonstration

Week 8

My work this week continued to be  editing and reviewing photos for the SLC promotional materials, and planning a project that promotes benchmarks for assessing progress in the CRCT program.  I also shot the participants of the Quality plus Leadership Alliance (QPLA) and a few individual head shots.

QPLA is a recurring staff development conference for assistant principals, guidance councilors and other administrators on tract to become principals.  This was a group of 36. The pictures were interesting but the benchmark project was not.