How 2 do COLLAGE

Collage

Collage projects mix research and artistic elements, allowing you to flex both the analytical and creative parts of your brain.

Task 1: Requirements

Make sure you understand what your teacher expects of you. Review all of the information you have about the assignment and verify that you can answer the following questions. If you don’t know, ask your teacher.

When is your collage due?

Are you required to do your collage on a particular topic?

Did your teacher provide any guidelines regarding how you conduct your research or how your final collage should look?

Task 2: Topic and objective

Your goal is to pick a topic that is specific enough to cover in a collage, but not so limited that you won’t be able to find research sources.

1. Choose a broad topic that interests you and falls within your assignment guidelines. If you’re having trouble coming up with ideas, think about recent experiences you’ve had. Pick up a magazine or skim a newspaper for stories about people, events, or issues that intrigue you. Example: For humanities class, you are required to create a collage representing all of the influences in your life that helped to make you the person you are today.

2. Define your objective—that is, what you intend to accomplish with your collage. Example: Your assignment is to create a collage of the influences in your life. Your objective for your collage, then, is to represent with pictures and other graphical elements the people and events in your life that have influenced you.

Task 3: Research

1. Do some digging to get a feel for your topic. Skim an encyclopedia article or read a few newspaper articles related to your topic. This will introduce you to the major areas of interest in your subject.

2. Move beyond your preliminary investigation to find more specific reference sources. Track down library books, periodicals, and Web sites, then read, read, read. Example:

You already know quite a bit about your topic—your life—but there are a few holes that you need to fill in. Your paternal grandmother was from Japan and died when you were very young. You decide to ask your father about your grandmother and the influence she had on your family before she died.

3. As you read, note any information you encounter that supports your objective. Each time you take a note, cite the reference—that is, jot down exactly where you found the information, including the title of the source, its author and publisher, publication date and place, and a page number. You’ll need this information if you’re required to compose a bibliography. Tip: If your teacher requires you to hand in a bibliography with your collage, take a few minutes now to determine what information on each source that you’ll need for your bibliography. For example, does your teacher require you to list your source’s publisher and where it was published? Knowing exactly what you need now will save you the hassle of having to go back to look up additional information later.

Task 4: Design mockup

1. Organize your ideas. Put your project objective at the top of a piece of paper, then, working from your research notes, list the key concepts you must convey in your collage to achieve your objective. Example: Your objective for your collage is to represent with pictures and other graphical elements the people and events in your life that have influenced you. You plan to represent the following influences in your collage:

Your ethnic and cultural heritage

Your activities and hobbies

The people in your life—both those who have had a direct influence on you and those who influence you because you admire them

Experiences that affected you

2. Create a design mockup. Make a rough sketch of your collage and plan how you’ll convey your key concepts visually. Example: To create a mockup of your collage, you cut a piece of newsprint to match the dimensions of your final collage. You divide the newsprint into visual regions, center, top, bottom, left, and right. You decide to use the center region for a picture of yourself, then use each remaining visual regions to convey one of your key concepts. The overall effect will be you surrounded by the people and events that make you who you are.

Task 5: Bibliography

Some collage projects require a bibliography—a list of the sources you used in your research. A creative project bibliography is usually a separate page or pages titled “Bibliography,” “References,” or “Works Cited.”

1. Gather all the source information you jotted down when you were taking notes.

2. Assemble your sources into a single list, alphabetized by author’s last name. Sources that don’t have authors (encyclopedia articles, for example) should be alphabetized by title.

3. Properly format each item in your source list according to an accepted bibliographic style. One common bibliographic style is provided below, but there are many acceptable styles for bibliographies. Be sure to use the format that your teacher specified. Common Bibliographic Style

This bibliographic style follows the MLA Handbooks for Writers of Research Papers, 5th edition, written by Joseph Gibaldi and published in 1999 in New York by the Modern Language Association of America.

Book

Author Last Name, Author First Name. Book Title. Publication Location: Publisher, Publication Year.

Encyclopedia article

“Article Title,” Encyclopedia Name. Edition Year ed.

Newspaper, magazine, or journal article

Author Last Name, Author First Name. “Article Title” Publication Title Publication Date: page numbers.

Book review

Reviewer Last Name, Reviewer First Name. Rev. of Book Title by Book Author First and Last Name. Publication Location: Publisher, Publication Year.

Film, movie

Movie Title. Dir. Director First and Last Name. Studio or Distributor, Movie Release Date.

Internet source

Author Last Name, Author First Name. “Article or Page Title.” Site Name. Institution or organization affiliated with the site. <URL>.

Task 6: Final project

1. Make a list of the materials you’ll need for your collage (photographs, old magazines, scissors, construction paper, pens, glue, bits of fabric, etc.) and gather them in your workspace.

2. Using your mockup as a guide, create your collage. Refer back to your objective often to keep yourself on track. This is your chance to let your creative side take over. You might want to draw on the following rules of thumb about visual presentation, but don’t let convention limit your creativity.

Draw attention to important elements in your collage by drawing a border around them or using a different background color.

Give your collage a professional, polished look by trimming jagged edges, securing loose pieces with glue or double-sided tape, wiping away excess glue, and erasing any pencil guidelines.

If you use text in your collage, don’t forget to check your spelling.

3. Give your collage a final once-over. When you’re sure it represents your best effort, hand it in!

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