Students studying Photography at Hautlieu have been offered an incredible opportunity to be involved in a collaborative project with Jersey Heritage. The opportunity will give students a chance to work behind the scenes with staff at Jersey Museum to curate and mount a pop-up exhibition on Friday 20th November 2015. This experience will provide excellent experience for students interested in pursuing a career in photography and/or museums and art galleries.
Jersey Museum visit: Friday 23rd October 14:00 – 15:20 pm
In terms of transportation, We will all meet in reception at 14;00 on Friday 23 Oct to board the coaches that will take us to Jersey Museum. At the end of the school day 15:20 students will be dismissed from site. Make sure you hand in slip with permission to your teacher. NO SLIP NO TRIP!!
It is essential that all students get to see and engage with the images on display from the JEP exhibition at Jersey Museum and in order to facilitate this we have arranged for a whole group visit during lesson 5 on Friday 23rd October. During this visit students will be giving a special talk and tour by museum curator, Lucy Layton and Photo-archivist and historian Gareth Syvret from the Societe Jersiaise.
Images from JEP exhibition
Here is a link to more images: http://jerseyeveningpost.newsprints.co.uk/search/byg/p/u/48/1/jep_125th_anniversary_exhibition_images
TASK 1: All Photography Students (both Yr 12s and Yr 13s) will be exploring a photo-assignment over half-term that respond to the existing exhibition – Your Story, Our History: 125 years seen through a JEP lens. It will be expected that students take between 150-250 new photographs over half-term that respond to the brief:
Our Story, Half Term: 125 hours seen through a teenager’s lens.
Here is a brief with further information Takeover Day 2015 v2
For yr 12s this means that you will be exploring your final assignment: IDENTITY and make some self-portraits. In addition you can also improve other types of portraiture that we have explored in class, such as Environmental and Street Portraiture.
For yr 13s you will continue with exploring your personal stories that relates to the themes of FAITH, FAMILY & COMMUNITY.
TASK 2: All students must produce a number of blog posts that explain how you engaged with the JEP exhibition and what ideas you explored over half-term.
– Upload image analysis and answers from Task Sheet given to you at the JEP exhibition. Download sheet here: Takeover Exhibition Task
– Produce contact sheets from your shoots and edit a selection of your best 8-10 images.
– Show experimentation with image adjustments and annotate.
– Choose a final edit of no more than 3 images that work together as a coherent series with a clear personal identity or visual narrative
DEADLINE: Wed 18th November
For further inspiration see this video: The Story of Jersey
Only the best work produced by students over half-term will be entered for the collaborative project in partnership with Jersey Heritage. This new work will inform your current coursework and would significantly help you achieve more marks as you work towards finishing you current coursework module.