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Personal Study Essay Structure Plan
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? What historical or theoretical context is the work situated within. 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 One 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 look at the following- Exemplify your hypothesis within a historical and theoretical context. Write about how your area of study and own work is linked to a specific art movement/ ism. Research and read key text and articles from critics, historians and artists associated with the movement/ism. Use quotes from sources to make a point, back it up with evidence or an example (a photograph), explain how the image supports the point made or how your interpretation of the work may disapprove. 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.
Plan- For discussing the context within my visual culture in my photography, I plan to look into realism and straight photography as I feel as if they closely link to the theme of my essay question of ‘truth’ as these two subjects are taking images for how they are to represent issues within the photograph. I could also use these subjects to expand my meaning and analysis behind images as I can discuss the social and body image issued behind dancing, as well as explicitly showing how this would link to my dance images taken. I will also use context information behind realism and straight photography to show research methods.
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: look at the following- Introduce your first photographer. Select key images, 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.
Plan– The photographer I have firstly chosen to analyse will be ‘Danny Lyon’ who is a portrait photographer. I will include a small piece of context information about his life and his work to show research. However, I will mostly speak about how his work is related to my ideas, how I think this will be successful through representing the truth through my imagery, as well as analysing how his work can be related to my essay question. I will also evaluate my ideas from his photographic work and how I would like to present them.
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: look at the following- Introduce key works, ideas or concepts from your second and third photographer and analyse in-depth – refer to your hypothesis… Use an image by photographer.. what do 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 other photographers? 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.
Plan- I will analyse two images in my essay, one from Dasa Wharton work and another from Hasson Hajjaj. I will show my reasoning for choosing the two artists and how they show my initial ideas and visions as I feel as if using imagery for this will prove to be a different way of analysis and may prove to be successful. I will also include a small piece of context to the artists but will mostly be analysing their work and relating it to my style and ideas. This will all have an underlying representation of how these artists and images chosen link to the essay question.
Paragraph 4 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: look at the following- Introduce your fourth photographer. Select key images, 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.
Plan- During paragraph four, I will again analyse a photographer named ‘Raymond Depardon’ who takes unexpected portrait images. I will include a small piece of context information about their life and work to show research. However, I will mostly speak about how his work is related to my ideas, how I think this will be successful through representing the truth through my imagery, as well as analysing how his work can be related to my essay question. I will also evaluate my ideas from his photographic work and how I would like to present them.
Conclusion (500 words) : Write a conclusion of your essay that also includes an evaluation of your final photographic responses and experiments.
Content: look at the following- 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.
URGENT: Complete work by END of week (20 Dec)
Following on from monitoring and tracking your published work on the blog, and from 1-2-1s about your current personal study projects, it is clear that many of you have not completed the following tasks below from previous weeks.
By next week we will email you an updated version on Go4Schools, but by the end of this week you must have completes a self-tracking using the PERSONAL STUDY PLANNER here
If you have completed some of the points below, then make sure you publish blog posts and move onto the next task. Without having followed these steps below it is difficult for you to know what your project is about, why you are doing it and how.
- Produce MIND-MAP and MOOD-BOARD based around how you interpret the theme of OCCUPATION vs LIBERATION now.
- SPECIFICATION: Continue to develop your specification– WRITE A STATEMENT OF INTENT – and PLAN 4 SHOOTS (2 shoots before Christmas and 2 shoots during Xmas break) in response to artists references and any ideas you may have. It’s important that you begin to make images and experiment!
- ARTISTS REFERENCES: Find inspirations and select 2-3 artists/photographers that you would like to research in depth, and who forms a basis for your Personal Study and influence your photographic shoots and experiments.
- PLAN and RECORD your first PHOTO-SHOOT as a response to initial ideas. Must be published on the blog by WED 18 DEC.
- XMAS: Make sure you produce at least 2 more shoots and bring back images first week in January
- Once you have completed the above tasks continue to plan for your essay ie. finding relevant ACADEMIC SOURCES (at least 3), formulate possible ESSAY QUESTIONS, write an ESSAY PLAN and begun to draft INTRODUCTION and subsequent PARAGRAPHS – see details in the PLANNER: PERSONAL STUDY Week 13.
Essay Questions
Topic Focus
Belonging – Tying in with family archival imagery, finding a sense of belonging in myself and my family setting
Environment – Exploring how environment effects your personal health and mental well being
Purpose – discovering the big question ever left unanswered as to why we are here
Essay questions
In what way does Carole Benitah explore childhood memories through her work as a method of understanding identity and self expression?
In what way is identity and autobiography expressed in the work of Chino Otsuka and Tom Hunter?
How chronic illness has inspired people to document their story through photography as a way of healing?
Does a portrait tell us more about the person portrayed or the photographer?
Can personality and identity be expressed in a portrait?
Academic sources
Harvard system of referencing
Bibliography
Wolf, N.(2007) Romanticism.
Germany : TASCHEN
How to incorporate quotes in my writing
Critic Norbert Wolf says ” Not even the scholarly disciplines concerned with romanticism have been able to do more than arrive at an approximate definition,” (Wolf 2007)
Essay Questions
Topic Focus
Occupation/ Dancing through time- Tying in with the occupation aspect of the project, dance is a topic which relates to me and I find interesting. Facing the reality of rejection, preparation and success.
Fashion- Exploring the dance fashion used in addition to music and movements in order to express a certain feeling. As well as how the costuming (fashion element) adds to the overall intention of the dance piece, as well as how it expresses the individual and what he/she is feeling.
Location- Exploring different locations in which dancers use for different reasons.
Dance Movements- Exploring dance movements for different emphasis on emotions.
Possible Essay Questions
Dancing through time- How is the work of Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman questioning the politics of gender and female stereotypes?
Dancing through time- Is it possible for photography to capture moments in time objectively and truthfully?
Portraiture- Can personality and identity be expressed in a portrait?
Fashion- How has Fashion Photography transformed, from staged studio settings to the everyday reality, resembling documentary photography?
Dance Movements- Can photography truly capture the essence of a moment, ultimately questioning why we take photographs?
Statement of Intent and Action Plan
For my personal investigation I plan to investigated the way that myths and legends can not only be just stories but found and incorporated into our lives and surroundings of where they are suggested to be true or really just a myth and legend. I want to look into ones that specifically surround where I live on the island or where I used to travel along, having come from a fairly superstitious family I have been told the stories before and have a lot of reference made in telling and incorporating them into stories as a child. I feel that sometimes these myths and legends or stories can be a huge part of peoples lives or the identity of a place, these stories occupy peoples lives and these places which is something I would want to explore. I plan to take the photographs and explore my ideas in a tableaux way as well as incorporating photographs showing the landscapes and places of these myths and legends, I want to incorporate these stories as if they are merging in with real life. The folklore of Jersey’s legends has become common knowledge to a lot of locals and has been built into the island (eg. statues of the devil at devils hole). I want to explore this by looking into a few of the legends in detail and exploring how I can portray this with tableaux and landscape photography.
Action Plans:
- Devils Hole – Greve de Lecq
- Blinding fairies – Lavoir des dames
- Women in Black – Smugglers Inn
For my first photoshoots I plan to go out into the landscapes and see how the areas and surroundings of where these myths are suggested to be are looking and how it may effect them, I want to try and speak to some people who live around the areas for example at the Smugglers Inn pub and how they believe it or to what extent they do. I feel photographing the landscape will give me a stronger idea of a starting point for the tableaux photography and an idea of the spaces I can work with and for some outcomes will give me a sense of place and show the island in it’s natural state and compare and contrast it with the tableaux creations of maybe what the island would look like if these legends that occupy the island were real.
For my Tableaux photoshoots I plan to have people in costumes with props and other things embedded and acting in these mythical characters. I want to try and create a sense of these stories actually being true and showing them in the island. My aim is to show these myths physically occupying the island not just as they do now mentally with stories, but instead incorporating the idea and narrative of what if these stories that are told and believed to some extent true or how would they look in our everyday life now compared to when they were spread as rumours or stories that have stuck for generations being known in the island to locals and used as tools sometimes for tourism.
As another photoshoot possibility I also have a plan to take some disposable candid photographs, creating the effect of these myths being seen in real life, I would then plan to move into the studio and take object photographs of these images, suggesting a reality to the myths and stories, seeing to what extent I can push these myths to be real and believed as they occupy the island and peoples beliefs, as a sense of security or identity. To what extent do these myths and legends create an identity, culture and past of the island and its locals, creating an occupation of stories and rumours.
Essay Questions: Examples
Liberation and Occupation: My personal study is based around the theme of “occupation and liberation”. I have personally interpreted this theme in a historical context, whereby I will be investigating the way gender stereotypes have evolved and developed over the years (from the mid 20th century to now), and therefore will be identifying the differences between the past (where gender roles and stereotypes were more pronounced and conservative – occupation) and now (where gender roles and stereotypes are becoming more fluid and liberal, with focus being drawn towards an individuals personal goals and expression, rather than their gender – liberation)
Gender: My personal study will be focusing on gender roles, and the stereotypes that society labels both men and women with. My work will focus on giving examples of where gender roles are abided to, and where they are challenged, and the difference in the viewers opinions towards these 2 ends of the spectrum.
Stereotypes: I will focus on identifying and presenting well known gender stereotypes in an overt, obvious way, as to allow the viewers of my work to clearly identify these stereotypes, and possibly relate to witnessing/experiencing these stereotypes, therefore allowing them to relate more to the work.
Phoebe Jane Barrett: Barrett’s work focuses on the concept of breaking the stereotype of men having no emotions, with their masculinity being the main focus of their personalities. I will be taking inspiration from Barrett’s presentation of men as just as emotional and human as women, in order to reflect the harmful gender stereotypes that men face (that are perhaps less spoken about), in my own work.
Cindy Sherman: Cindy’s work focuses on creating bold an loud images, that represent the absurdity of how women are portrayed in the media. I feel that her work is extremely identifiable, and I have taken inspiration from her bold style.
- “Compare how Phoebe Jane Barrett and Cindy Sherman challenge gender stereotypes in their work“
- How do photographers such as Phoebe Jane Barrett and Cindy Sherman challenge stereotypical gender roles in their work?”
- “How is masculinity and femininity portrayed in the work of Cindy Sherman and Phoebe Jane Barrett?”
- “Compare how Cindy Sherman presents women in her photography with how Helmut Newton presents women in his photography”
Essay Question
How does fashion shape social identities?
Investigating how 90’s grunge style has resurfaced and shaped contemporary fashion and it dissemination through social media.
How do photographers Maciej Dakowicz, David Moore and Rut Blees Luxemberg record on to photographs their sense of community and identity?
How does the contribution of colour aid the creation of bold and dramatic statements within the work of Rankin?
Bibliography
Rachel Hosie (Feb 5 2019) A photographer asked teenagers to edit their photos until they thought they looked ‘social media ready,’ and the results are shocking Insider: New York City https://www.insider.com/selfie-harm-photo-series-rankin-asks-teens-to-edit-photos-until-social-media-ready-2019-2 Dec 3 2019
Rokas Laurinavičius (2019) Photographer Asks Teens To Edit Their Pics Until They Look ‘Social Media Ready’, Posts The Alarming Results boredpanda: Vilnius https://www.boredpanda.com/teenagers-edit-photos-social-media-selfie-harm-rankin/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic Dec 3 2019
Hidrėlėy, Li Nefas, Jonas Grinevičius, Julija Nėjė (2019) People From Around The World Edited These Man And Woman Headshots To Look Trendy In Their Country (27 Pics) boredpanda: Vilnius https://www.boredpanda.com/how-countries-define-fashion-style-groomandstyle/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic Dec 4 2019