Useful Information

1. Useful Information

2. Saving your work on the U driveyou must do this to back your work up in the correct folders and then put it onto your blog and work journal. You should have a folder for each project with the following folders in it. Photographs – all the photos you took for the project organised into folders (e.g. shoot 1, 2, etc.) Experiments – screen shots pasted into word documents as you do your edits so that these can then be printed out and put into your work journal. Order these, e.g. Edit 1, 2, etc References – artists you found along the way that are linked to your work. Save them with the artist/photographer’s name, title of work and date made Outcomes – this folder is for your final pieces, again you should save these in separate folders if necessary and name the folders appropriately

3. Use of critical journal Use it for: • Course information and dates and deadlines • Powerpoints and evidence of learning, e.g. notes from lessons and keywords • Progress record (put this at the back) this must be updated after every lesson • Technical notes • Gallery visits • Images/photos you like or that inspire you • Ideas/mind mapping (but make sure it make sense chronologically remember the ultimate audience will be the examiner!) Consider how you will order your journal – will you use tags/dividers to arrange it into categories so that it’s more easily interpreted?

4. Ideas for critical journal • Document and collect images from different genres of photos, e.g. fashion, editorial, photojournalism. You can find these in the Sunday papers • Exhibitions you’ve visited. Reviews of photography exhibitions • A photo a day http://www.thedailynice.com/site.html • Document a journey • Take photos of odd juxtapositions, things that you ‘notice’ • Concerts • Daily journey, e.g CCTV, Grafitti • Weather documenting time of day, weather changes, seasons,

7. Use of work journal (Sketchbook) • There is no need to ‘decorate’ your sketchbook but you should consider the presentation of your work and make sure it is clear and neat • First impressions are important – think about cover pages, include the brief sheet so the viewer knows what the project is about • Make sure images are cut out neatly and where possible print them onto photographic paper or similar good quality print outs • Ensure your writing is legible and include analytical titles that explain the purpose of your page, e.g. exploring light and shadow rather than saying ‘photo of a…’ • Ensure any photos are in focus (unless deliberately out of focus!) • Images need to tell the story and are supported by text, not the other way round

8. What I mean by documenting the lesson • Stick in any powerpoints creatively (you don’t need to stick it all in) • Add further research of any of the artists from the powerpoint (info about their work and images) • Contact sheets of photos taken in lesson with key to what is working/not working • Evidence of refining and editing photos (stick in screen shots, explain your processes, use correct vocab) • Larger prints of photos with analysis/explanation • You should be aiming to create a MINIMUM of 4 double pages a week and you should be spending 5 hours on your homework a week • You need to document both teachers’ lessons and think about how your sketchbook flows and shows your ideas visually

9. Photographic Blogs • Miss Aniela http://www.missaniela.com/ • http://www.chromasia.com/ • http://www.photoschau.de/ • http://www.thedailynice.com/site.html • http://500photographers.blogspot.co.uk/ • http://www.npg.org.uk/photoprize1/site09/index.php

10. For each project you need to: • Include a brainstorm and the research into the artists specifically chosen for this unit. • Initial ideas - The first range of images which are your initial response to the topic. Use the suggestions below to help you in the initial stages. • Artist’s responses – using the research completed in the critical studies book, produce a series of responses to each individual artist/photographer. Then combine the responses to create a second stage of response. • Experimentations and developments: - from that second stage of responses now start experimenting and developing your ideas in a very individual way. This needs to lead towards your final piece and you need to refine your ideas as they progress. • Final piece/s – Choose your best idea and produce images that pull the whole unit to a final resolution. • Evaluation - Evaluate the whole unit including the final pieces.