My oldest son is finishing his Junior year of high school, and that means he attended his first Prom. Here’s one of my favorite pics of him and his date, a lovely young lady, I must say!!
Prom also means that Mom served on her first After-Prom Party Committee. The Junior Class is responsible for Prom at his high school, and the Junior Class Parents are responsible for a huge after-prom party to keep the kids entertained and safe till morning. This year I volunteered for picture and video duty! It was a job that was right up my alley, and I learned new things in process. There were actually several projects involved, and it all came together in a final photo collage of the evening which was printed as a poster and distributed to the attendees after the party.
You may remember that I’ve done photo collages in the past for church events …
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and for weddings …
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This time, I had the idea of doing something more than just a simple square collage. The Prom theme was Masquerade so I thought I’d create the collage in the shape of a mask. I enlisted my artistic middle son to draw a suitable mask shape on graph paper. Here are a few of his early prototypes …
Finally we decided on this shape …
And he broke it down into 4×4 and then 2×2 grids for me …
After deciding on the 98 photos I wanted to use for the collage and Instagramming them all, I started building the individual 2×2 collages (E1, F1, E2, and F2) …
and combining those into 4×4 collages using the PhotoGene iPad app …
Ultimately all of these 4×4 grids came together to form the final collage (can you find the featured section in the big collage??) …
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Big project! Lots of fun!!
The mini (or maybe not so mini) side projects with the event included a baby pics video …
and a fun photo props booth at the party (yes, I stayed up all night!) …
I’m looking forward to next year’s Prom, when he is a Senior and I don’t have to lift a finger. 😀
P.S. Mom had to create a collage of tux photos too!
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