Distorted Media

Objectives: Students will be able explain how media and technology can be used to distort, exaggerate, and misrepresent information.

Media Literacy
in the age of altered reality

1. Watch PowerPoint – Is it REAL or HOAX PowerPoint.
2. Photo Manipulation – Before Photoshop – Faking It 1840-1980
3. Real or Fake – NOVA Science Now
4. 39 Photo Manipulations
5. Watch PowerPoint – Postcards from Over the Edge PowerPoint
6. Work in Paint.net (Photoshop) Software to create a distorted picture.

Assignment:

Using Paint.net create an image distorting reality. For you photo you can take a digital picture or bring a photo in to scan. Only use copyright free photos, see links below. If you are using a classmate’s photo be sure to ask them for permission first.

Step by Step Directions

All work will be saved in your grade folder in the “distorted media” folder on the server.

OTHER TUTORIALS

• Real Car – Toy Car
• Pop Out of a Picture
• Underwater Ruins

Online Image Search:

Wikimedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

CreativeCommons
http://creativecommons.org/

Flickr.com
http://www.flickr.com/
My brother’s photos on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marc72/sets/