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Planner: Photobook and Essay

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SPRING TERM – COURSEWORK
DEADLINE MON 11 / TUE 12 FEB – MOCK EXAM

Here is a link to the Personal-Study-Planner-Tracker-2018-19 for the remaining 6 weeks

Week 16: 8  – 14 Jan
Edit images and complete essay introduction

Political Landscape: Lesson time (Mon, Tue, Thurs & Fri)
Bring images from new photo-shoots to lessons and follow these instructions

  • Save shoots in folder and import into Lightroom
  • Organisation: Create a new  Collection from each new shoot inside Collection Set: Political Landscape
  • Editing: select 8-12 images from each shoot.
  • Experimenting: Adjust images in Develop, both as Colour and B&W images appropriate to your intentions
  • Export images as JPGS (1000 pixels) and save in a folder: BLOG
  • Create a Blogpost with edited images and an evaluation; explaining what you focused on in each shoot and how you intend to develop your next photoshoot.
  • Make references to artists references, previous work, experiments, inspiration etc.
  • Prep for photobook design: Make a rough selection of your 40-50 best pictures from all shoots. Make sure you have adjusted and standardised all the pictures in terms of exposure, colour balance.

Further experimentation:

  • Export same set of images from Lightroom as TIFF (4000 pixels)
  • Experimentation: demonstrate further creativity using Photoshop to make composite/ montage/ typology/ grids/ diptych/triptych, text/ typology etc appropriate to your intentions
  • contrast, brightness and produced a duplicate a set in B&W.
  • Make sure you annotate process and techniques used and evaluate each experiment

Essay: Lesson time (Wed)

  • Complete Paragraph 1 and upload to the blog no later than Mon 14 Jan.
Monitoring and tracking, Planner

Planning > Monitoring > Tracking

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Download and save the new Planning and Tracking sheet below in your own folder and complete an audit of what work you have completed,  what work needs improving, and what work you haven’t done yet by the end of each week every Friday.

PLANNING-TRACKING-PERSONAL-INVESTIGATION-AUTUMN-TERM-2018-2

Use colour codes and write comments
Green = complete
Yellow = needs improving + write a comment on how
Red = missing work/ not done

Save each slide as a JPEG and publish it on the blog Also fill in this weekly planner up until H-term and write in each column what you work you will be focusing on in each week.

Make note of each deadline for a photo-shoot. The aim is to complete a photo-shoot at least every two week so that you develop a body of work that you can experiment with and edit a selection of images for your project.

You must have completed  at least 4 photo-shoots this term before Christmas break.

Week 9 & 10: 5 – 19 Nov

Personal Investigation & Contextual Studies

Complete the following blog posts

Personal Investigation: Lesson time (Mon, Tue, Thurs & Fri)
Bring images from POLITICAL LANDSCAPE photoshoots done over H-term to lessons and follow these instructions

  • Save shoots in folder and import into Lightroom
  • Organisation: Create a new Collection Set: Political Landscape and create a Collection from each shoot underneath the set.
  • Editing: select 8-12 images from each shoot.
  • Experimenting: Adjust images in Develop, both as Colour and B&W images appropriate to your intentions
  • Export images as JPGS (1000 pixels) and save in a folder: BLOG
  • Create a Blogpost with edited images and an evaluation; explaining what you focused on in each shoot and how you intend to develop your next photoshoot.
  • Make references to artists references, previous work, experiments, inspiration etc.

Further experimentation:

  • Export same set of images from Lightroom as TIFF (4000 pixels)
  • Experimentation: demonstrate further creativity using Photoshop to make composite/ montage/ typology/ grids/ diptych/triptych, text/ typology etcappropriate to your intentions
  • Design: Begin to explore different layout options using Indesignand make a new zine/book. Set up new document as A5 page sizes.
  • Make sure you annotate process and techniques used and evaluate each experiment

Week 10: 12 – 19 Nov

Contextual Study: Lesson every Wed and Homework
Photography and Truth

  • ANALYSIS: Choose one image from case studies listed below that questions the notion of truth regarding the photographic image and its relationship with reality and explain why.
  • PHOTO-ASSIGNMENT :Based on your chosen theme of Political Landscape make two images, one that you consider truthful and one that is not.

Week 11: 19 – 26 Nov 

Mon 19 Nov – Introduction to Personal Study:

Objective: Criteria from the Syllabus

  • Essential that students build on their prior knowledge and experience developed during the course.

Lesson task: Choose one Personal Study from past students, either from blog post above or photobooks in class. Look through sequence of images carefully and read the essay. Present the study in class and comment on the book’s, concept, design and narrative. Review the essay and comment on its use of critical/ contextual/ historical references, use of direct quotes to form an argument and specialist vocabulary relating to art and photography. Make an assessment using the mark sheet and calculate a grade.

MOCK EXAM:
Tue 20 Nov (13C)
Wed 21 Nov (13 A & 13D)

Lesson 1 – Reviewing and reflecting:

  • From your Personal Investigation write an overview of what you learned and how you intend to develop your Personal Study essay.
  • Describe which themes, artists, approaches, skills and photographic processes/ techniques inspired you the most and why.
  • Include examples of current experiments to illustrate your thinking.

Lesson 2 – Contextual Study:

  • Research artists/photographers, methods, art movements and historical context appropriate to your Personal Study essay

Lesson 3 – Academic Sources:

  • Find 3-5 different texts to support your academic study from a variety of sources (books, articles, journals, magazines, websites, Youtube/films etc.)

Lesson 4 – Essay Question:

  • Think of a hypothesis and list possible essay questions

Lesson 5 – Essay Plan:

  • Make a plan that lists what you are going to write about in each paragraph.

Homework – Independent Study: Essay Introduction

  • Begin to read, make notes, identity quotes and comment to construct an argument for/against.
  • Explain how you intend to respond creatively to your artists references and further experimentation and development of your photographic work as part of your Political Landscape project.
  • Complete a draft version of your introduction and upload to the blog by Mon 26 Nov.
Final Outcomes, Planner

Photo-Lab: Zine-making

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Week 1, 2, 3 & 4 : 4 – 21 Sept
 Complete newspaper design and produce a 16 page zine 

Final Outcomes

Newspaper: Your best page will be selected for the Future of St Helier newspaper that will be printed and distributed island-wide on Tue 18 September.

Deadline: Final page must be ready for export end of lesson 10 Sept.

Photo-zine: For the next 4 weeks we would like you to continue to work in Indesign, experiment with layout and design in producing a 16 page photo zine.

Deadline: 16 page zine needs to be printed on both sides and bound on Tue 18 Sept.

Those travelling  to GPF 2018 student will be taking your zine with you to be exhibited during Night of Photography Sat 23 Sept

All the zines will be assessed as part of your first coursework that is part of Personal Investigation unit.

Use PLANNING-TRACKING-PERSONAL INVESTIGATION-AUTUMN-TERM-2018 for a full overview of what you are required to do in the next 4 weeks.

You are required to self-monitor your progress and will be asked to upload Tracking-Sheet with an update on a weekly basis to your blog.

TASKS > produce a number of appropriate blog posts

PHOTO-ASSIGNMENT > SUMMER
You must return to your area of St Helier over summer and produce at least two more shoots.

Review and evaluate your shoot, identity weaknesses and strength Plan and re-visit for a new shoot that adds value to what you already have.

You have to ask yourself:
Am I satisfied that I have enough images/ material?
What are you going to do differently on next shoot?
How are you going to develop your ideas?

Your photo-zine is a final outcome that will be assessed as part of your Personal Investigation (coursework) giving you marks based on skills, knowledge and understanding of photography as a tool for communication in narrative, sequence and design

Deadline: Bring your new set of images to first day of school Tue 4 Sept.

RESEARCH > ANALYSIS

  • Gather visual inspirations and produce a mood board of at least 5 different zines from resources in class and describe in detail why you have chosen them in terms of narrative, theme, subject, design, concept etc.
  • Select at least one zine and analyse the photographer who made it, considering their work in more detail.

Café Royal Books is a small independent publisher of photography photobooks or zines, and sometimes drawing, solely run by Craig Atkinson and based in Southport, England. Café Royal Books produces small-run publications predominantly documenting social, historical and architectural change, often in Britain, using both new work and photographs from archives. It has been operating since 2005 and by mid 2014 had published about 200 books and zines and they are held in major public collections

https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/

Editions Bessard is a paris-based independant publishing house created by pierre bessard in 2011. Focusing on working with artists, writers and curators to realise intellectually challenging projects in book form.

https://www.editionsbessard.com/product-category/zine-collection/

Something to read:

Something Tactile: Why Photographers Should Create Zines

ARTISTS REFERENCES: Follow these steps to success!

  • Produce a mood board with a selection of images.
  • Provide analysis of their work and explain why you have chosen them and how it relates to your current project
  • Select at least 2 key images and analyse in depth, FORM (describe what you see, composition, use of light etc), MEANING (interpretation, subject-matter, what is the photographer trying to communicate), JUDGEMENT (evaluation, how good is it?), CONTEXT (history and theory of art/ photography/ visual culture,link to other’s work/ideas/concept)
  • Incorporate quotes and comments from artist themselves or others (art critics, art historians, curators, writers, journalists etc) using a variety of sources such as Youtube, online articles, reviews, text, books etc.
  • Make sure you reference sources and embed links to the above sources in your blog post

DEVELOP > EXPERIMENT
Create 3 examples of alternative layouts for your zine using Adobe InDesign and complete a visual blog post that clearly shows your decision making and design process using print-screens or save each page-spread as a  JPEG.

EVALUATE > PRESENT
Write an overall final evaluation (250-500 words) that explain in some detail the following:

  • How successfully you explored the newspaper project Future of St Helier.
  • Did you realise your intentions?
  • What did you learn?
  • Contextual references, links and inspiration between your final design and theme, including artists references.

 

Planner, Planning

Summer Project: Future of St Helier

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Welcome back after Exams!

This summer term you will be working on an exciting Masterplan community arts and education project based around the theme of Future of St Helier in collaboration with Jersey Development Company, Camerons, Jersey Evening Post, Société Jersiaise Photographic Archive, Archisle: The Jersey Contemporary Photography Programme and Masterplan project.

A map of St Helier with areas of for exploration based on urban vingtaines

This project will give you a voice and provide you with an opportunity to explore and experience diverse areas of town using photography as a tool to communicate how you feel about the Future of St Helier.

The project will form part of the A-Level coursework module, Personal Investigation as you now become Yr 13 students.

OVERVIEW

  • You will respond to specific areas, streets, neighbourhoods divided up along urban vingtaines of St Helier and explore through photography, archives and research the build-environment, urban living, migrant communities, town planning, land use and re-generation projects.
  • You will research historical town records, such as Masterplans and the current review of the Future of St Helier as inspiration for their own photographic work.
  • The work will be supported by workshops facilitated in collaboration with Lewis Bush, 2018 Archisle Photographer-in-Resident using images from the collections at the Societe Jersiaise Photographic Archive of St Helier town and life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Lewis Bush, Metropole

OUTCOME

  • The outcome of students work will be a 48 page newspaper supplement that will be printed in 13,000 copies, inserted into a daily edition of the JEP and distributed island wide in September 2018.
  • The newspaper design will also become a street art installation on the hoarding of the construction of the International Finance Centre (IFC Jersey) on the Esplanade.
  • Students work will also be part of a special event, Night of Photography at the Guernsey Photography Festival 2018, Sat 22 Sept.

The work that you produce here will be the foundation and starting points for your continued Personal Investigation when you return in September for the new academic year to learn about visual storytelling in contemporary photography.

We are hoping that your study of St Helier may develop into a personal project which will culminate in you working towards making your own photo-book by the end of your coursework.

Workshops
Student numbers: 45 working in 9 groups

Theme: Future of St Helier.

Day 1:  Tue 12 June  Societe Jersiaise Photographic Archive – all day
Presentations, inspirations and workshop on exploring St Helier and looking at narrative using images in the collection of Percival Dunham.

Day 2:  Tue 19 June – Societe Jersiase Photographic Archive
In 9 groups students will explore chosen area of St Helier.

Day 3 Tue 26 June  Hautlieu School – normal lesson time
Workshop on narrative and sequence with Lewis Bush

Day 4 Tuesday 11 July  Hautlieu School – normal lesson time
Workshop on design and editing, including introduction to Indesign with Lewis Bush

Day 5 Tuesday 18 July  Hautlieu School  – normal lesson time
Workshop on completing design and editing with Lewis Bush

Read here for a full details of the workshop programme Masterplan-Community-Arts-Project-2018-_-Workshop-Programme

Use PlANNER & TRACKING-SHEET-SUMMER TERM 2018 for a full overview of what you are required to do in the next 6 weeks. You are required to self-monitor your progress and will be asked to upload Tracking-Sheet with an update on a weekly basis to your blog.

This unit requires you to produce an appropriate number of blog posts which charts you project from start to finish including research, planning, analysis, recording, experimentation, evaluation, and presentation of creative outcomes.