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SPRING TERM – DEADLINES
DEADLINE: DRAFT ESSAY 31 JAN 2020.
FINAL DEADLINE: Completion of photobook with final essay MOCK EXAM 15 HRS CONTROLLED CONDITIONS MON 10 – FRI 14 Feb.
EXAM (ESA): Exam Paper handed out on last day of Mock Exam. Preparation begins after H-TERM 24 FEB.
EXAM (ESA): Controlled Conditions
MON 27 April – FRI 1 MAY.
PLANNER – Download and save in your folder. Make sure you monitor and track your progress
6 weeks remaining – including MOCK EXAM!
Week 16: 6 – 13 Jan
Editing images and write Essay paragraph 1
PHOTOBOOK: 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: PHOTOBOOK
- 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
- Design: Begin to explore different layout options using Indesign and make a new zine/book. Set up new document as A5 page sizes. This is trying out ideas before you begin designing photobook.
- 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 WED 15 Jan.
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 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.
Include relevant examples, illustrations, details, quotations, and references showing evidence of reading, knowledge and understanding of history, theory and context!
See link to powerpoints: Pictorialism vs Realism and Modernism vs Postmodernism here: M:\Departments\Photography\Students\Occupation vs Liberation\Presentations
Link to Blogpost on Essay writing