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Photography – PT.4
Head of Department: Mrs C Knight
Why study this subject?
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• Studying photography enhances your creative, social and cultural understanding, while developing your specialist technical knowledge around equipment, techniques and style. • You will develop your visual language skills and build a comprehensive portfolio of 2 years’ sustained study as evidence of your ability to progress to further courses. • Careers could be pursued in photography, film and television.
What will you study?
• Learn creative and practical skills and develop your competence in a range of areas of photography. • You will become proficient in Adobe Creative Suite and learn to how to produce both still and moving image with this software. • Learn critical and analytical skills which enable you to experiment and to explore creative possibilities, and to become confident in taking risks, by learning from mistakes when experimenting with ideas, materials, tools and techniques. • Develop personal attributes, including self-confidence, resilience, self-discipline and perseverance. These qualities will enable you to produce creative, expressive and personal work in response to themes and starting points set by the department. You will work in one or more of the following areas of photography:
• Portraiture, location photography, studio photography, experimental imagery, installation, documentary photography, photojournalism, moving image: film, video and animation, fashion photography.
How will you be assessed?
You will be assessed on TWO units:
Assessment 1 – a Candidate Portfolio (60%)
• Controlled assessment • Portfolio to be produced in a specified time showing your response to themes set by the department.
Assessment 2 - Externally Set Task (40%)
• A response to ONE question from a question paper issued in January of the second year of the course by the Exam Board. • You will have a preparatory period followed by a 10-hour supervised assessment.
Something to consider ….
• You will be asked to go on visits to Galleries as part of the course. • No equipment is required, though it would be useful to have a phone or a camera that you can take photographs on.
