Make a blog post about the exhibition of your work. Use images and text from the Media release and also take pictures yourself of the installation at the Library. Make sure you attend On Tuesday for the opening at 5:30 pm to 7:00. Bring friends family and also share the event online here
Media release: Personal_Private_or_Public_Media_Release
PHOTO BOOK DESIGN – work over h-term
DEADLINE: Thurs 25 February MOCK EXAM!
1. Create a BLURB account using your school email address. With Blurb you have different options on how you design your book:
a) Using Lightroom to design your book which is integrated with BLURB. Only for use on school computers, unless you have LR at home on your own laptop.
b) Download Bookwright via Blurb onto your own laptop and work offline at home and you can work indecently of school. Here you have full control of layout/ design features. Once completed, you upload photo book design to Blurb
c) Choose online option if you want to work directly online. Very limited layout/design options (not recommended!)
For those who wish to make their own hand-made photo-book or if you want to customize your Blurb book see me for more details on how to do it.
2. Using Lightroom make a rough selection of your 40-50 best pictures from all shoots. Produce contact-sheets in Lightroom and edit photos – make sure you have adjusted and standardised all the pictures in terms of exposure, colour balance, contrast, brightness and produced a duplicate a set in B&W.
3. Decide on format (landscape, portrait) size and style of your photo-book. Begin to design your photo book, considering carefully, narrative, sequencing, page spreads, juxtaposition, image size, text pages, empty pages, use of archival material etc.
4. At the end of your photo book, add your illustrated essay including title, any captions (if needed), bibliography, illustrations of artists work (incl data) and images of your own responses. Think carefully about font type, size and weighting.
5. Produce screen prints of layout ideas as you progress and add to Blog for further annotation. Photo-book; show screen prints of page layout and narrative/ sequencing/ juxtaposition of pictures. Podcast; produce screen prints as work progress that show your editing skills/ decisions.
6. Select a set of 5-6 photographs as final outcomes and evaluate – explaining in some detail how well you realised your intentions and reflect on what you learned in your Personal Study.
7. Save final outcomes in a shared folder, in a high-resolution (at least 3000 pixels on the long edge) and each images saved in your name i.e. first name_surname_title_1, and 2, 3 and so on.
See blog posts: Podcast/ Film for those of you who have made a film on how to show evidence of work on the blog, how to edit and upload/ completion.
DEADLINE: Thurs 25 February MOCK EXAM!
UNDERSTANDING PHOTO BOOK DESIGN: LAYOUT, SEQUENCING, NARRATIVE, CONCEPT
DEADLINE: Fri 5 February
Blog: Produce a number of posts that show evidence of the following:
1. Research a photo-book that you have used as inspiration in your personal study and describe how it communicates a narrative, concept, subject-matter using a combination of images, text, archival material. Some of you may already have done this in your research.
Consider: Who is the photographer? Investigate background, conception and context of why he/she made the photo book and the photographs within it.
E.g Robert Frank’s “The Americans” was conceived with the help of a scholarship that allowed Frank to go on road trips across America during a two year period. He wanted to portray American society in the post-war period and his book has influenced (and still influence) many photographers since and also contributed to a new style and subjective approach to documentary photography. Why?
2. Deconstruct the layout of the book e.g. think about format (portraiture/ landscape/ square), size (A5, A4, A3), sequencing (single page, double-spread, multiple images on a page), juxtaposition of photographs on opposing pages etc. How is the narration of the images used, i.e. formal or conceptual relationship between images. Any use of archival or found material? How does it add value to the story being told? Describe also, how the book title, text (foreword, essay, statement by artists) and captions (if any) are use.
3. Research photo books for design ideas, look also at BLURB online book making website. Produce a moodboard of design ideas based on your research above and look at other photo book examples from photographers, incl what is shown on Blurb or see previous books produced by Hautlieu students. Describe in detail how you want to design your photo book in terms of look and feel considering the above layout options.
DEADLINE: Fri 5 February
Week 18-19: 18th – 29th Jan
DEADLINE: Hand in draft version of your essay Fri 29th Jan.
Objective: Criteria from the Syllabus
Quotation and Harvard System of Referencing
ESSAY STRUCTURE
See below for a possible essay structure. Further help can be found here essay structure or see link here The Royal Literay Fund
Essay title: Hypothesis
Opening quote: Choose a quote from either one of your photographers or critics. It has to be something that relates to your investigation
Introduction (250-500 words).
Think about an opening that will draw your reader in e.g. you can use an opening quote that sets the scene. You should include in your introduction an outline of your intention of your study e.g. what and who are you going to investigate. How does this area/ work interest you? What are you trying to prove/challenge, argument/ counter-argument? Include 1 or 2 quotes for or against. What links are there with your previous studies? What have you explored so far in your Coursework or what are you going to photograph? How did or will your work develop. What camera skills, techniques or digital processes in Photoshop have or are you going to experiment with?
Paragraph 1 Structure (500 words) : Use subheading. This paragraph covers the first thing you said in your introduction that you would address. The first sentence introduces the main idea of the paragraph. Other sentences develop the subject of the paragraph.
Content: you could look at the following…exemplify your hypothesis and introduce your first photographer. Select key works, ideas or concepts and analyse in-depth using specific model of analysis (describe, interpret and evaluate) – refer to your hypothesis. Contextualise…what was going on in the world at the time; artistically, politically, socially, culturally. Other influences…artists, teachers, mentors etc. Personal situations or circumstances…describe key events in the artist’s life that may have influenced the work. Include examples of your own photographs, experiments or early responses and analyse, relate and link to the above. Set the scene for next paragraph.
Include relevant examples, illustrations, details, quotations, and references showing evidence of reading, knowledge and understanding of history, theory and context!
Paragraph 2 Structure (500 words) : Use subheading. In the first sentence or opening sentences, link the paragraph to the previous paragraph, then introduce the main idea of the new paragraph. Other sentences develop the paragraphs subject (use relevant examples, quotations, visuals to illustrate your analysis, thoughts etc)
Content: you could look at the following…Introduce key works, ideas or concepts from your second photographer and analyse in-depth – refer to your hypothesis…Use questions in Pg 1 or add…What information has been selected by the photographer and what do you find interesting in the photograph? What do we know about the photograph’s subject? Does the photograph have an emotional or physical impact? What did the photographer intend? How has the image been used? What are the links or connections to the photographer in Pg 1? Include examples of your own photographs and experiments as your work develop in response to the above and analyse, compare, contrast etc. Set the scene for next paragraph.
Include relevant examples, illustrations, details, quotations, and references showing evidence of reading, knowledge and understanding of history, theory and context!
Paragraph 3 Structure (500 words) : Use subheading. In the first sentence or opening sentences, link the paragraph to the previous paragraph, then introduce the main idea of the new paragraph. Other sentences develop the paragraphs subject (use relevant examples, quotations, visuals to illustrate your analysis, thoughts etc)
Content: you could look at the following…Introduce key works, ideas or concepts from your third photographer and analyse in-depth – refer to your hypothesis…Use questions in pg 1 and pg 2 or add…How does the photograph compare or contrast with others made by the same photographer, or to other images made in the same period or of the same genre by other artists. How does the photograph relate to visual representation in general, and in particularly to the history and theory of photography, arts and culture. What are the links or connections to the photographers in pg 1 and 2? What are the similarities, differences or links and connections? How does this work compare to yours? Include examples of your own photographs and experiments as your work develop in response to the above and analyse, compare, contrast etc. If more paragraphs are required, set the scene for the next paragraph.
Include relevant examples, illustrations, details, quotations, and references showing evidence of reading, knowledge and understanding of history, theory and context!
Conclusion (500 words) : Write a conclusion of your essay that also includes an evaluation of your final photographic responses and experiments.
List the key points from your investigation and analysis of the photographer(s) work – refer to your hypothesis. Can you prove or Disprove your theory – include final quote(s). Has anything been left unanswered? Do not make it a tribute! Do not introduce new material! Summarise what you have learned. How have you been influenced? Show how you have selected your final outcomes including an evaluation and how your work changed and developed alongside your investigation.
Bibliography: List all the sources that you used and only those that you have cited in your text. Where there are two or more works by one author in the same year distinguish them as 1988a, 1988b etc. Arrange literature in alphabetical order by author, or where no author is named, by the name of the museum or other organisation which produced the text. Apart from listing literature you must also list all other sources in alphabetical order e.g. websites, exhibitions, TV/ Videos / DVD/ Music etc.
DEADLINE: Hand in draft version of your essay Fri 29th Jan.
DON’T FORGET TO MAKE PHOTOGRAPHS & EXPLORE YORU IDEAS!!
We will begin work on editing and designing a photobook next week. If you don’t have any content i.e. text and images you can’t make a photo book!
Objective: Criteria from the Syllabus
Week 16: 4th – 11th Jan
Blog: Produce a number of posts that show evidence of the following:
1.Think of a hypothesis and list possible questions.
Here are some hypothesis/ essay questions from previous personal studies: possible questions to investigate (update on return in Jan)
2.Essay Plan: make a plan that lists what you are going to write about in each paragraph.
3.Finish a draft version of your introduction (500 words) and hand in Mon 11th Jan.
Think about an opening that will draw your reader in e.g. you can use an opening quote that sets the scene. You should include in your introduction an outline of your intention of your study e.g. what and who are you going to investigate. How does this area/ work interest you? What are you trying to prove/challenge, argument/ counter-argument? Include 1 or 2 quotes for or against. What links are there with your previous studies? What have you explored so far in your Coursework or what are you going to photograph? How did or will your work develop. What camera skills, techniques or digital processes in Photoshop have or are you going to experiment with?
What is a Personal Study?
The aim of this unit is to critically investigate, question and challenge a particular style, area or work by artists/ photographer(s) which will inform and develop your own emerging practice as a student of photography.
Your Personal Study is a written and illustrated dissertation, including a written essay (2000-3000 words) and a photographic body of work (250- 500 photos) with a number of final outcomes.
This year you have to make a photo book which you design to include both your essay (with title) and a final selection and sequence of your photographs produced as a response to your chosen theme of FAITH, FAMILY and COMMUNITY
In addition, we are also expecting that those of you who want to go above and beyond to achieve top grades will produce a podcast i.e. mini film with sound and images based on the same above
All your usual research, analysis, planning, recording, experimentation and evaluation will be posted onto your BLOG
Link to Planner & Tracker Monitor and track your progress every first 5 mins of lessons on Fridays and upload onto the blog
Week 15 and Christmas Holidays: 8th Dec – 4th Jan
Objective: Criteria from the Syllabus
Blog: Produce a number of posts that show evidence of the following:
1.Reflect on your previous projects/modules and write and overview of what you learned. Link your chosen area of study to your previous work, knowledge and understanding based upon your chosen theme of FAITH, FAMILY and COMMUNITY. Include examples of previous work to illustrate your thinking.
2.Select artists/photographers work, methods and art movement appropriate to your chosen area of study. Find 3 different texts to read over Christmas that support your study from a variety of sources (books, articles, journals, magazines, websites, films/dvd.)
3.Write a specification that outlines your main focus, intentions and area of study, including what artists/ photographers you wish to investigate, respond to and write about in your essay.
4.Produce a detailed plan of a 3 photo-shoot for this Christmas holidays. MAKE PHOTOGRAPHS!
Link to folder with more examples M:\Departments\Photography\Students\Resources\Personal Study\student exemplars
A few Personal Studies from last year.
Bryony Sanderson: Gie us a wee word wi’ yer Mum: The title of this work is phrase I would hear both my Scottish Grandparents say almost every time I answered the phone. During this project, I focused on my Scottish Heritage and the difficultly living in Jersey has bought to our relationship with my Grandparents.
Bryony’s exam project: Artificial: Being surrounded and fascinated in the prosthetic world through my parents’ occupation, I felt that this to be an appropriate area to explore under the theme flaws and imperfections. From the moment the idea sprung to mind, I knew this was going to be a challenge, being well aware it would push my abilities as an amateur photographer. However, I was firm in my decision to pursue this, making it my goal to depict the power, strength and determination of amputees, and how in-fact, their ‘imperfection’ or ‘flaw’ as some would call it, is certainly not a flaw at all. Stuart Penn, the focus of my photographs, was such a pleasure to work and a huge inspiration, giving us the powerful message that anything really is possible. I feel honoured to have had the opportunity of taking his photographs and gaining insight into his incredible lifestyle.
Eve Ozouf A Lekker Christmas: For this project I captured the highlights of my family holiday to Durban, South Africa for Christmas 2014. The images were captured in a documentary style, which is my preferred approach as I enjoy capturing family life as well as landscapes where human activity has occurred. The word ‘Lekker’ which I used to describe my Christmas means ‘good’ in the native language of Afrikaans. My photographs show a variety of environments that South Africa has to offer with its vast land including urban built up areas to the deserted African plains. Some images show the ‘Durbanite’ way of life, including where my 14-year-old cousin demonstrates how to use my grandfather’s rifle to shoot the annoyingly noisy ‘Hadeda’ birds. South Africa is full of vibrant colours and textures which I particularly focused on when producing this body of work as a photograph isn’t just about how it looks, it’s how you imagine it feeling. A lot of experimentation was used to bring out different styles of photography including slow shutter speeds to dramatise events such as the bonfire sprites floating towards the sky. For me, these images capture the quality of life South Africa has to offer and should make the viewers want to visit this beautiful country for themselves.
Oliver Sharman You’s Company, Me’s a Crowd is a photo book in an autobiographical form, whereby I am re-enacting events that occurred in my recent life, venturing from visiting my brother at university and the hungover pain this brough, to partying and hanging out with friends in all manner of ways and the aftermath of this. So, here is an insight into me, often eventful life of a teen in the island of Jersey.
Matt Palmer: A Little Bit Longer: Not all disabilities are visible. You could know some your whole life and never know that they have a severe, life-long condition. On Tuesday 14th July 2009, I was diagnosed with an invisible illness; Diabetes Mellitus Type 1, a condition when the pancreas in the body loses the ability to produce insulin independently. Day to day, my life hasn’t changed; however, I have to inject myself four times a day, and manually balance my sugar levels for the rest of my life.
As diabetes is something you cannot see, it was very hard to photograph it. I took inspiration from Elinor Carucci, an Israeli-American photographer who photographed herself with her children from when she was pregnant, through the birth to her children growing up. Her work involves very revealing, close-up self-portraits to capture her emotions. I found this style to be inspiring in capturing one’s self, and adopted this style into my own.
This is the first time I have ever turned the camera on myself. You would think it would be hard, however, it was just like I was being a model for someone else, and since I’m very open, talking about my diabetes, I found it easy to show my emotions. Photographing events from having low blood sugar level in the middle of the night, to a regular check-up at the diabetes Centre, to an eye-screening at the hospital, and the different physiological outcomes I had to injure, all within one week.
Matt Palmer: I Need A Shovel is the story of my Granddad, the house he has lived in since the 1960s and the clearing out of the house as it is now need to be sold. The name of this project came from my Dad. Him and a couple of others when ahead to my Granddad’s house whilst I went with my Aunt to pick my Granddad up. My Dad had the job of removing the upstairs toilet, which, when it stopped working, my Granddad kept on using it until it overflowed. When my Aunt and I arrived the first thing my Dad said to his sister was ‘I Need A Shovel.’ We all found that line funny when we heard it and then that line just stuck with me.
Lots of people can see little bits of themselves when they see my granddad’s hoarding, be it from collecting newspapers, or postcards, or whatever they’ve collected, it can all be related to what my Granddad has done over the past 50 years.
It is a growing problem. The family need to sell the house as the people next door want to buy the house, however, my Granddad doesn’t want anything to go or be moved. I feel that this could be happening to lots of people across not just the UK but the world. This project will speak to lots of families who are facing the same problem.
Tom Rolls: Angel; The Perfect being? With this work, I am exploring Angels in relation to the project brief “Perfection/Imperfection” which I chose as part of my A2 final Photography exam. Throughout the project, my aim was to rekindle an idea of the Angelic being in relation to different people’s perceptions; for faith, protection, happiness, balance etc. I spoke with a number of different people about their definition of an Angel and what it meant to them. I interviewed my local church vicar who gave me a very brought insight into angels in both a religious and personal sense. I came away bewildered at the fact that Angels are a very important part of people’s lives, and realised that there is a whole other dimension to the subject. Having researched and gained enough primary knowledge, I began transforming these different perceptions into my own interpretations and pieced together a visual binding of all the ways in which an Angel spoke to me through others. I made a film which documents my journey in the sense of exploring what angels actually symbolise today, and how its image and meaning has changed over time. I hope you will also find this a journey for yourself and come away reflecting on this inner dimension from your own personal viewpoint. Are angels in fact the perfect being, or is it in fact their imperfections which make them so sacred?
This case study is about developing academic study skills for your next module Personal Study which involves developing a self-directed study based around a hypothesis of your own choice. The final outcome from your Personal Study is to produce a photo-book with a coherent set of photographs (30-40 images) that tell a story or express a personal point of view, including a 2-3000 word essay which relates directly to your hypothesis and body of work.
QUINTESSENCE is a group exhibition celebrating the first five years of Archisle: The Jersey Contemporary Photography Programme (www.archisle.org.je). The Archisle Programme, hosted by the Société Jersiaise Photo Archive promotes contemporary photography through an ongoing programme of exhibitions, education and commissions. Archisle connects photographic archives, contemporary practice and experiences of island cultures and geographies through the development of a forum for creative discourse between Jersey and international artists. Quintessence selects works commissioned for the new Archisle Contemporary Collection at the Société Jersiaise Photographic Archive since 2011 to celebrate, critique, contrast and discuss what has been achieved over the first five years of the project. The exhibition features works by:
Martin Parr / Tony Ray-Jones / Jem Southam / Michelle Sank / David Goldblatt / Yury Toroptsov / Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths / Tom Pope / Peter Finnemore / Mark le Ruez / John Gibbons / Martin Toft / Finn Larsen
Since its launch in 2011, Archisle has engaged diverse approaches to contemporary lens based media to lead creative research into the condition of islandness, ‘a complex expression of identity that attaches to places smaller than continents and surrounded entirely by water’ (Stratford 2008). Quintessence contrasts works in the Archisle collection in a group exhibition for the first time to analyse the ways in which the Island’s culture and landscape has been interpreted by Jersey and international photographers. The Archisle project recognises that Jersey as a small island community needs to go out and discover the world because the world will not come looking for us! Through internationalism we have developed a growing network of colleagues, friends, influences and inspirations. To reflect these connections, for Quintessence, artists represented in the Archisle collection were invited to nominate colleagues who have influenced or inspired their own visual language.
Curator Gareth Syvret remarked, ‘We do not travel alone; we take with us the histories, knowledge, influences and ideas of others; others we have met and other places we have known.’
As a starting point we will visit the exhibition currently on show at The Berni Gallery, Jersey Arts Centre where Gareth will give a little introduction to his desire to mount this exhibition and discuss possible connections and relationships between exhibited artists.
Meet at Jersey Arts Centre for coffee, Danish Christmas cake and talk
Class 13B Tue 8 Dec Pd 1 – 9:00 am
Class 13E Wed 9 Dec Pd 5 – 2:20 pm
This Case Study has three parts.
First you need to view the exhibition and answer the questions listed below. Second, you need to write a 1000 word mini-essay that reflect your visit and critical engagement with a paring of artists from the exhibition. Third, you must plan and produce a shoot as response to the above.
Deadline and presentation is Mon 14 Dec. Gareth will be assisting me in reading your essay and view photographs and will be providing some feedback for further improvements/ developments.
Present your answers, essay and images in a number of blog posts.
Task 1: In advance of our visit, read the Exhibition text below and make notes. Think of at least 3 questions that you want to find answers to on your visit an write them down. Bring text and notes with you.
Link to Exhibition text Quintessence Programme
Download Quintessence task_sheet
Link to Quintessence_Media_Release_Jersey
Task 2: Upon visiting the exhibition try and answer the following questions.
a) Write down the first thought about the exhibition that enters your head when you walk in?
b) Look at all the images on the walls. Now find a set of images that you like/ don’t like and write short descriptions of them.
Link to folder with exhibited images; M:\Departments\Photography\Students\Resources\Personal Study\Case Study Quintessence\images of exhibited work
c) Using exhibition text, note down artist name, title of work(s), his/her nominated colleague and consider the following:
What are the connections, influences, relationships between your chosen pairing of artists? Look also broader at common themes, subject-matter, form, aesthetics, visual language, methodologies among your chosen artists and across others featured in the show.
Have a closer look at photo books and newspapers on show at the exhibition. This will provide a much deeper understanding of their work.
Link to definition of aesthetics in art
Task 3. Conduct further independent research and write a 1000 word essay.
a) Try and think of an essay question (hypothesis) as a starting point for further investigation.
b) Incorporate your answers to the questions above and any other notes from exhibition text and gallery talk with the Curator.
c) Include direct quotes from sources using Harvard System of Referencing (I will demonstrate how it work).
d) Illustrate your essay with images of artists work from the exhibition. Make sure you include name, title of work, year of production, dimensions, collections (if known.)
Link to shared folder with images from exhibition here M:\Departments\Photography\Students\Resources\Personal Study\Case Study Quintessence
Task 4: Plan a photo-shoot and make a set of images that respond to your chosen pairing of artists and your essay.
a) Upload shoot, process and select best 3 images
b) Show experimentation with images using Lightroom/Photoshop appropriate to your intentions.
c) Evaluate and present images on the blog.
DEADLINE: both essay and photographic response Mon 14 Dec.
A selection of video with featuring exhibited artists where they talk about their work
David Goldblatt on his seminal body of work: In Boksburg
Michelle delivering a lecture on her work
Yury Toroptsov talking about Fairyland the work he produce while IPR in Jersey 2014
Jem Southam on his study of rockfalls
Finn Larsen presenting his work in Greenland over a 25 year period
Atlantus film with interviews
The world according to Martin Parr
From exhibition: Only in England showing work by Tony Ray Jones and Martin Parr
Interview with Peter Finnemore
Tom Pope discussing some his performances
Interview with John Gibbons
Diana Kim has spent the past 12 years photographing people living on the streets of Hawaii. But her project to humanise homelessness suddenly became very personal when her own father ended up living rough. Kim, a law student, explains how, in an effort to save him, she turned her camera on him.
This is her story
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34420194
Here is an interview with Diana Kim
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034jmfg
Link to her blog: http://homelessparadise.com/
Your task is to use images from your current personal project and/ or photographs made in response to the JEP exhibition at Jersey Museum brief: Our Story, Half Term: 125 hours seen through a teenager’s lens and produce at least two different designs and picture stories.
Use Tracking Sheets to monitor your progress. You must annotate it and upload onto your blog every Friday!
TRACKING SHEET 1st H-TERM
TRACKING SHEET 2nd H-TERM
Blog: Produce a number of posts that show evidence of the following:
Week 2 – 9 Nov – JEP exhibition and responses
1. Exhibition review: Upload image analysis and answers from Task Sheet given to you at the JEP exhibition. Download sheet here: Takeover Exhibition Task.
Here is a link to all images from exhibition: http://jerseyeveningpost.newsprints.co.uk/search/byg/p/u/48/1/jep_125th_anniversary_exhibition_images or see my blog post: Jersey Museum Takeover for more information.
2. Recording and editing: Upload images from half-term or any other previous shoots and produce contact sheets. Using Lightroom, edit a selection of your 10-12 best photographs. Show experimentation with image adjustments, colour/ B&W and annotate.
3. Evaluation and further development: Reflect on your shoots, project and planning. Have you got enough photographs and variety of images to tell your story and begin to design picture stories next week ? Is anything missing? Think about what you want to achieve, what you want to communicate, how your ideas relate to the themes of FAITH, FAMILY and COMMUNITY? Do you need to provide more contextual studies to develop your ideas, interpret other artists and photographers work? DO YOU NEED TO TAKE MORE PHOTOGRAPHS? You got this week and weekend to do it!
4. Submission to Jersey Museum: 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
Week 9 – 23 Nov – Designing a picture story
1. Research Picture-Stories: Produce a mood board of newspaper layouts and magazine style picture stories. For reference use look at local stories from the JEP as well as international stories from magazine supplements in UK broadsheets newspaper ( e.g. The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Telegraphs, Financial Times etc). Look at also at digital picture stories from the internet (see photo-agency websites: Lensculture, Magnum Photos, World Press Photo, AgenceVU, Panos Pictures. Alec Soth’s LBM Dispatch
Find picture-stories here in this folder: M:\Departments\Photography\Students\Resources\Documentary & Narrative\picture-stories
2. Analysis and deconstruction: Look at the layout of pictures and analyse how individual pictures relate and tell a story according to the construction of a traditional picture-story. Identify what types of pictures are more important than others e.g. which are major (establishing shots) or minor pictures (detail, relationship shot), and which types of portraits are used (formal, informal, environmental and person at work) see Powerpoint: A Traditional Picture Story below for further guidance. Analyse also the use of headline, text and captions to convey and construct a particular meaning or point of view.
The Traditional Picture Story_v1
3. Headline, text, captions: Think of a creative title and write a selection of headlines that tell your story. Write also an introduction/ abstract that provide further context for your pictures story. Also write captions for each picture: who, what, where, when and put into a new post
4. A3 Page-Spread Designs: Produce at least two different designs/ picture-stories from your photographs. Class tutorial on page design using Photoshop; how to use headlines and major and minor images. Be creative in your layout and experiment with different ways to communicate your message by clever cropping, sequencing, juxta-positioning, typography, use of graphics etc. Start with a rough sketch of how the page might work and begin to lay out pictures, major and minors.
a) Design a traditional newspaper layout
b) Design a magazine double-page spread
5. Experimentation: Edit your final layout and designs – make sure you show experimentation in your blog of different design and layout ideas combining images, graphics and typography in a personal and creative manner. Produce at least 3 versions of each design
6. Evaluation: Reflect on your final design ideas and explain in some detail how well you realised your intentions and reflect on what you learned/ What could you improve? How?
7. Presentation: Print, mount and present final designs and other final outcomes, such your best 3-5 images and present as final prints. Save everything in a folder in your name in Image Transfer on Silverstore
NB: Upload any video/podcast to Youtube and imbed in your Blog
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.