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Viva la hennin!
Oct. 4th, 2009 11:32 amI was working on my KWCS class this morning, when I noticed something about hennins (the pointy princess hat thing popular in the 15th c., for those non medieval geeks on my flist).
I've been inserting picture after picture in my presentation, and cropping it down around the person I'm trying to highlight. Normally when I do this, I leave a little space over the persons head - it just looks better.
As I was cropping images with hennins, it occured to me that the hennin automatically accounts for that. In some crops, it puts the face of the wearer about 1/3rd of the way down the frame. Cropping pictures so that the focus is at a 1/3rd is an easy way to create more visual interest automatically.
A real life wearer of the hennin would get about the same advantage. The face, the focal point, is no longer perched on the very top of the whole, but is framed nicely by the body below, and the hennin above. Nifty. They sure knew what they were doing!
As a secondary thought, I'm thinking ahead to what parts of my class will be online, how I'm distributing it, etc. I'm going to have a LOT of slides. I'm not going to print a copy of the presentation for everybody. I will put it all online. I'd really like the online version to be a bit more beefy, with more of the explanation that I'd be verbalizing in the class.
If you go to a class with no handout, do you feel cheated? Do you feel like you need something to take notes on? Would a one page synopsis be helpful or necessary? Is it enough to get a link to go to later?
I'm also hoping to have time to make a power point version of the sleeve class. I think it'll be easier to talk to than the full handout.
I've been inserting picture after picture in my presentation, and cropping it down around the person I'm trying to highlight. Normally when I do this, I leave a little space over the persons head - it just looks better.
As I was cropping images with hennins, it occured to me that the hennin automatically accounts for that. In some crops, it puts the face of the wearer about 1/3rd of the way down the frame. Cropping pictures so that the focus is at a 1/3rd is an easy way to create more visual interest automatically.
A real life wearer of the hennin would get about the same advantage. The face, the focal point, is no longer perched on the very top of the whole, but is framed nicely by the body below, and the hennin above. Nifty. They sure knew what they were doing!
As a secondary thought, I'm thinking ahead to what parts of my class will be online, how I'm distributing it, etc. I'm going to have a LOT of slides. I'm not going to print a copy of the presentation for everybody. I will put it all online. I'd really like the online version to be a bit more beefy, with more of the explanation that I'd be verbalizing in the class.
If you go to a class with no handout, do you feel cheated? Do you feel like you need something to take notes on? Would a one page synopsis be helpful or necessary? Is it enough to get a link to go to later?
I'm also hoping to have time to make a power point version of the sleeve class. I think it'll be easier to talk to than the full handout.
