You will be completing the PORTRAIT UNIT during a day of CONTROLLED CONDITIONS (exam rules apply) at the end of January.
The preparation period begins NOW and continues through the month of January.
Your stimulus is IDENTITY AND PLACE.
We will be exploring tableaux vivants, composite / cut-n-paste / collage portraits, self -portraiture and more over the coming weeks to ensure that you have successful final images ready for your exam.
Exam Arrangements
Periods 1-5 | Breaks as normal | Exam Starts at 9am each day
Group 12 C | Wednesday 30th January | Photography 1
Group 12B | Wednesday 30th January | ICT- MEDIA
Group 12E | Thursday 31st January | Photography 1
Group 12A | Thursday 31stst January | ICT-MEDIA
What do you do in the exam itself…?
- Select your final images
- Edit and manipulate your final images
- Add your final images to the print folder
- Show the above process clearly in your blog, including screen-shots of your editing AND annotations
PRINTING : choose at least 1 x outcome for each of the following…
- response to “identity and place”
- response to photo-montage
- response to tableau / staged reality
- response to studio lighting
- response to street portraits
- response to environmental portraits
- Print size images = 4000 pixels on LONG EDGE
- BLOG SIZE images = 1000 pixels on LONG EDGE
Ensure you have enough evidence of…
- moodboards
- mindmaps
- case studies (artist references)
- photo-shoot action plans / specifications
- photoshoots + contact sheets (annotated)
- appropriate image selection and editing techniques
- presentation of final ideas and personal responses
- analysis and evaluation of process
- compare and contrast to a key photographer
- critique / review / reflection of your work
