We've looked at communicating with type in the previous assignment. Now you will be focussing your attention on communicating using imagery.
Create a montage of at least 8 images that express a broad social topic (love, war, poverty, family etc). Remember montage means that your images should be seamless. Your composition should NOT look like a collection of multiple cut-out images. Rather it should look like one thought, one idea, and one unified blending of different images.
You are responsible for choosing images that work together to voice one unified message. You must use layer blending mode, adjustment layers and masking to get full credit.
You will be graded on how the technical implementation of your concept as well as how you control eye movement, balance, visual weight, how you construct the relationships between elements, your use of color, size, shape, positioning etc.
The concept you choose is up to you, but choose concepts, issues, or stories that have some depth. I'm not looking for random effects. A cat with a space ship coming out of its head is not good subject matter, even if it looks very cool. Imagine you are doing a cover illustration for a magazine about a particular issue, concept or story (but as stated before, no text).
You may not add type to your composition and the class should be able to understand what the concept is without any introduction to the composition.
If you need stock photography here are some suggestions:
http://istockphoto.com/
http://www.sxc.hu/ (free images)
http://www.stockxpert.com/
Regarding Stock Photography:
You should use the best quality photography whenever possible. It may be worth the dollar you pay for a professional photograph when you realize that your student projects may be part of your initial portfolio, and therefore part of what gets you your first Design job.