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iTunes commercial featuring U2

 https://www.youtube.com/user/Apple?

v=nXJz3C12bWs See if you can recognize this one…

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0

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Silhouettes

The History and use of silhouettes.

Silhouettes

 What is a silhouette?  Definition: a line that traces the outer

limits of an object or surface (cartoonists often try to give their characters recognizable silhouettes).

 The term silhouette is well understood

now, though this was not always the

• case. Early designations included

"shade," and "profile." Silhouettes were made freehand and with tracing devices, by amateurs and professional artists alike.

Courtesy of: http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/s/silhouette.html

Silhouettes

 What was a silhouette

used for?

 Usually for medals and

antique coins, but the first silhouettes may have been the profiles made of King William and Queen Mary, produced about 1700.

 The medium of early

silhouettes was lamp black (soot) on plaster or glass.

Famous Silhouettes

 What silhouette can you find on a daily basis that

is recognizable?

Some Recognizable Silhouettes

Even some you may see everyday

This is in a graphic on a building A t-shirt design.

Some in a logo

Let’s see if you can recognize these…

• He was born on July 23rd in 1989.
• He played the young David

Copperfield on TV in 1999.

• His debut film was ' The

pleasure garden '

• He directed Psycho .

Dan Radcliffe Alfred Hitchcock

…continued

• She broke her nose surfing in 2003.
• Her first film was 'The Mask'

Cameron Diaz

• His debut album was ‘Greetings from

Asbury Park, New Jersey’

• His backing band is the E Street Band.

Bruce Springsteen

…one more

• This movie came out in 1982
• He was always “phoning home”

Movie: E.T.

Sunrise/Sunsets silhouettes

Taking pictures at certain time of the day.

• -6:44am Sunrise -Taking pictures between 6:15-6:30am

OR

• -7:00pm Sunset - Taking pictures between 7:10-7:20pm

You also use your judgment

sunrise sunset

Then there is also…..

Man Made silhouettes

Man Made silhouettes

Student examples

Student Examples

Silhouettes of Landscapes

 Just by this silhouette, at left, can

you tell what city it is?

 When you are out at dusk or dawn

take a picture of either your house

• r a ridge of trees that make a

silhouette.

 Then you can create or “mock up”

a man-made silhouette. Can be

• utside or inside.

Homework Checklist

 Take 3 different pics at either:

sunrise or sunset

(i.e. shape of tress or outline of a building etc.)

 Find one used in a Logo or a graphic  3 - “mock up/man made” silhouettes  DUE Wednesday-September 24th

get out approx. half hour before sunrise: 6:44am sunset: 7:00pm

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