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.

1. Produce MIND-MAP and MOOD-BOARD based around how you interpret the theme of OCCUPATION vs LIBERATION now.
   
2. 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!
   
3. 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.
   
4. PLAN and RECORD your first PHOTO-SHOOT as a response to initial ideas. Must be published on the blog by WED 18 DEC.
   
5. XMAS: Make sure you produce at least 2 more shoots and bring back images first week in January
   
6. 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.
   

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?

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)

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?

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

Key Words-

• belonging
• separation
• lost
• family
• home
• divorce
• identity
• alone
• confusion
• uncertainty
• stability
• choice
• unknown

Questions-

• How can elements of Surrealism be used to express and visualize a persons inner conflict around belonging in society?
• To what extent does Surrealism create an unconscious representation of ones inner conflicts of identity?
• How does Chris McKenney use surrealism to express supernatural ideologies?

Harvard system of referencing –

Bibliography: Adams, R. (1996). Beauty in Photography. New York: Aperture Foundation. O’Hagan, S. (16.Feb.2012). A Photographer With a Profound Sense of Space. London: The Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/feb/16/robert-adams-photographer-sense-place.

Quote inside your text: ………………….. Photographer Robert Adams said “The greatest beauty in artwork tends to encompass most; the artworks of largest importance frequently have within them the widest diversity.” (Adams 1996: 27) Meaning that …………………..

………………….. Sean O’Hagan said “To a degree, all of Adams’ work is simple, but deceptively so.” (O’Hagan 16.Feb.2012) Meaning …………………..

if quotes are more than 4 lines, an indentation must be made