Photography

Lens & Light based media

Start
Date:

Week Beginning 7th September 2015

Deadline:

Week Beginning 28th September 2015

Project
Length:

5 Weeks

Name:

Vivian Maier

Portfolio: Portraiture
Your portfolio will be made up of a combination of experimental work and coursework tasks and will be
assessed as below.

Assessment Schedule

25%
25%
25%
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Contextual Understanding Showing that you understand modern and historical uses of photography
Creative Making Using a range of methods and ideas to develop images and test new techniques
Reflective recording Use images and text in a personal and imaginative way to show your ideas
Personal Presentation Use a range of techniques to express ideas through photography in an individual way.

To ensure that you meet all the assessment criteria, your first year will be split into several projects to explore
different techniques and skills within photography
A final personal investigation will run over the summer and autumn terms to complete your coursework and you
are expected to submit a PORTFOLIO of work from ALL of the projects after Christmas in your second year.
Your completed portfolio is worth 60% of your final A-Level grade.

http://grobyphotography.weebly.com/portrait.html

Portrait: A representation or impression of someone or something in

language or on film or television
Photographic portraiture borrowed from the well-established conventions
of painters for example pose, backgrounds and composition rules.
Types of Portraiture:
Formal Mainly taken in the studio, posed, staged and formally considered
Environmental the surroundings of the person gives information about them and what the photographers intentions are
Observed photographing someone doing an everyday task, unaware of the camera
Social Realism Snapshot approach, recording intimate and private moments
Tableau Photography is French for living picture. The term describes a group of actors or artists, carefully posed and
theatrically lit. Tableau vivant was an approach to picture-making used by the early pioneers of fine art
photography in the 1840s. Sometimes tableau photography is called "staged photography. The staged
picture draws on the traditions and conventions of either the theatre or painting.

Key Techniques:

http://grobyphotography.weebly.com/studio.html

Studio: Early photographic studios were often situated at the very top of a building and had a glass roof to let in as much light as
possible. The subject sits on a posing chair placed on a raised platform, which could be rotated to face the light. The sitter's head is
held still by a clamp. The exposure times would range between 5 15 minutes. In contrast studios today use advanced technology,
lighting and digital cameras which make the studio environment feel less formal and exposures times are much shorter.

Lighting: Continuous lighting (often called hot lights) provides a steady stream of lighting, so you can view the effects on your subject before you
shoot. If you choose to put something around the light to modify the output (like barn doors, beauty dishes, etc.) you can check to see how that
modifier has adjusted the lighting. Strobes can be as small as on-camera flashes or as large as monolights and bare bulbs. Most modern strobes come
with a built-in modeling lighta light bulb placed near the actual strobe which can help you preview what the lighting effect will be.

Poses: As with most photographs, the success of a portrait relies on the compositional choices you make. In particular its important
how elements are positioned within the frame and what is included or excluded. Look at most family snaps and youll find subjects slap
bang in the centre of the frame, usually with unnecessary dead space around them

Artists:
Martin Parr
Annie Leibowitz
John Stezaker
Stephen Gill

Tom Wood
Steve McCurry
Hannah Starkey
Jeff Wall

Diane Arbus
Nan Goldin
Tim Walker
Sally Mann

Tina Barney
Robert Mapplethorpe
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Richard Billingham
Robert Frank
Joachim Schmid
Bahman Jalali

Diane Arbus
Rankin
David Bailey
Vivian Maier

Portfolio: Assessment Criteria

Assessment criteria:

AO1
25%

Develop ideas through sustained and

focused investigations informed by
contextual and other sources,
demonstrating analytical and critical
understanding.

Range of evidence needed:

Wide ranging research into the work of photographers

and artists analyzed in relation to the development of your
own project.
A varied range of primary and secondary research.
Consistent sketchbook annotation linking your work with
the work of others you have researched.
Experimentation with a range of photographic techniques
that is documented methodically in your sketchbook.

AO2
25%

Explore and select appropriate resources,

media, materials, techniques and
processes, reviewing and refining ideas as
work develops.

Examples of best experimentation presented on a board to

show the journey of how you have developed your ideas.
Consistent annotation in your sketchbook that analysis the
strengths & weakness of your experimentation in relation
to your project ideas and development.
Extensive recording of your ideas and subject matter using
digital processes, supported by other photographic
methods if appropriate.

AO3
25%

Record ideas, observations and insights

relevant to intentions, reflecting critically
on work and progress.

Demonstration of high-level technical skills in taking and

producing photographs using digital processes.
Examples of best observational photographs presented on
a board to show the journey of how you have developed
your ideas.
Evaluation and annotation of ALL photo-shoots with
contact sheets in sketchbook to show the extent of your
recording.

AO4
25%

Present a personal and meaningful

response that realises intentions and,
where appropriate, makes connections
between visual and other elements.

Consistent annotation in your sketchbook that explains

and evaluates your personal ideas in response to the brief.

Regular explanation of the underlying ideas, photographic

concepts, meanings and thoughts behind your work.

Development of a personal interpretation of the project

brief through your practical work.

Best quality presentation of a personal response to the

brief in a final selection of work or piece.

SKETCHBOOK WORK
You should continuously collect visual information in the form of sketches, postcards, pages
from magazines, tickets to exhibitions, photographs, found objects, and anything else
appropriate.

Portraiture
GUIDE SHEET

Activities

Wk3

Wk4

Continue your chosen theme from the week

before and use colour to fit with your theme
Use dramatic CONTINUOUS lighting to
produce outcomes.
Use strobe/flash lighting to produce outcomes.
Write up the use of lighting and props in sketchbook
with evaluations.
Research the work of commercial portrait
photographers.

Personal Investigation

HW

Research the work of photographers and magazines

looking at the use of stories and themes to inform
shoots.
Collect outfits and props to use in your photography.

Studio Techniques - Lighting

HW

Find a story or theme to inform your images,

this could be a book, a phrase or a type of
outfit/costume
Try a range of poses with models using props.
Try using outfits to fit in with your chosen
theme.
Try using makeup to fit in with your chosen
theme.

Use what you have learnt to plan a quick shoot.

Show why you have selected to use particular
lighting, use what you have learnt to select the
technique you like the most.
Show you understand the settings of the camera
by describing why you have chosen the aperture
and shutter speeds you have used, how have
these helped develop your images?
Research the work of artists related to personal
intentions and discuss the techniques they have used
and the links to your own work.

Assessment Point 1 Work to be assessed during lessons in week 4

Wk 5

AO3 - REFLECTIVE RECORDING 25%

Studio Techniques - Poses

AO1 - CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDING 25%

Shutter Speed Use long exposure to capture

movement or freeze a pose
Shutter Speed Drawing with light
Aperture Use depth of field to change area of
focus in images
Aperture Use aperture to adjust the amount
of light coming into the camera so that you can
produce long exposure images in the daylight.

AO4 PERSONAL PRESENTATION 25%

HW

Use this space to describe what you have done to

personalise each point use purple ink or type please!

Camera Techniques

Wk2

DEADLINE: Week Beginning 28th September 2015

AO2 - CREATIVE MAKING 25%

Wk 1

Photography, Lens & Light based media

Presentation of Outcomes

Print outcomes in an appropriate format based

on the work of photographers you have
researched.
Consider the type of paper, the size and the
framing, discuss this through a final evaluation of
your outcomes.

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Teacher Day

Teacher Day

Disaggregated Teacher Day

Twilights

Portraiture & Studio

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01 Jan

Assesment 1

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Mid Term Break

Location

Assessment 2

Narrative
Assessment 3
Christmas & New Year Break

04 Jan

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Disaggregated Teacher Day

16 Twilights

11 Jan

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Assessment 4

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Mixed Media
Portfolio Preparation
Statement of Intent Writing

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06 Jun

Tuesday

Mid Term Break

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Personal Investigation

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Assessment 5
Easter Break

Personal Investigation

Assessment 6
Mid Term Break

10 Jun

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Personal Investigation
Portfolio Prep

Teacher Day
(Performance Management)