This quiz will test your knowledge of the origin, history and technical aspects of photography. There are 19 questions with a multi choice of answers and an image which will also add context and help you answer the question correct. it is important that you look at the image before answering.

Link to Kahoot quiz:

Introduction to A-level Photography – Details – Kahoot!

TASK: Produce a blog post with the questions and your answers to the A-level Photography Quiz. Make sure you include images too for each question. Download document below and cun’t & paste into your own blog post.

Use this simplified list to check that you are on task. Every item on the list represents one piece of work = one blog post. It is your responsibility as an A-level student to make sure that you complete and publish appropriate blog posts each week.

Homework and due dates will be listed / issued as necessary…

STILL-LIFE

WEEK 1: 5 – 10 Sept
1. Quiz
2. Formalism: Image analysis
3. Summer Task

WEEK 2: 11 – 17 Sept
1. Still-life: history & theory
2. Still-life: introduction studio-lighting
3. Still-life: photoshoots own objects
4. Camera Skills (aperture, shutter speed, focus)

WEEK 3: 18 – 24 Sept
1. Still-life: photoshoots own objects
2. File Management
3: Adobe Lightroom
4: Still-life editing

WEEK 4: 25 Sept – 1 Oct
1. Formalism/ New Objectivity
2. Artist study: Walker Evans / Darren Regan-Harvey
3. Single Object photoshoot
4. Single Object editing

WEEK 5: 2 – 8 Oct
1. Final photo-shoots: still-life/ single objects
2. Editing: still-life / single objects

WEEK 6: 9 Oct – 15 Oct
1. Photo-montage: history & theory
2. Photo-montage: experimentation
3. Adobe Photoshop

Week 7: 16 Oct – 20 Oct
1. Final images: still Life / photomontage
2. File-handling
3. Review and refine blog posts
4. Virtual gallery and evaluation

Half Term

PORTRAITURE

Week 8: 30 Oct – 5 Nov
1. Environmental portraiture: mind-map > mood-board > definition
2. Artists references: Environmental portraiture
3. School-assignment: environmental portrait of a student
4. Homework assignment: plan and shoot 3 different environmental portraits: outdoor > indoor > 2 or more people
DEADLINE: Mon 6 Nov

Week 9: 6 – 12 Nov
1. Environmental portraiture: editing and experimenting
2. Environmental portraiture: final outcome and evaluation
3. Compare and contrast your best environmental portrait and its inspiration (artist reference)

Follow the 10 Step Process and create multiple blog posts for each unit to ensure you tackle all Assessment Objectives thoroughly :

1. Mood-board, definition and introduction (AO1)
2. Mind-map of ideas (AO1)
3. Artist References / Case Studies (must include image analysis) (AO1)
4. Photo-shoot Action Plan (AO3)
5. Multiple Photoshoots + contact sheets (AO3)
6. Image Selection, sub selection, review and refine ideas (AO2)
7. Image Editing/ manipulation / experimentation (AO2)
8. Presentation of final outcomes (AO4)
9. Compare and contrast your work to your artist reference(AO1)
10. Evaluation and Critique (AO1+AO4)