ST PETER’S SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHY PLANNING 2013/14: Year 11/12 Term 1 (Providing opportunities for 2 c/w projects for yr11)
(Term 2 to include opportunity for self-directed project work / final outcome. A mock / previous exam paper theme for yr 11. Personal development from this unit for Yr 12)
Key
Objectives
Personal learning skills
Idea Development
Knowledge/
understanding
Use of Media
Media
Practical Skills
Key Learning
Concepts
Potential
outcomes
Personal,
Social,
Cultural,
Spiritual,
Emotional
Vocational
opportunities
Habits of
Mind
TERM 1A
YR 11/12: THE PHOTOGRAPH AS DOCUMENT: PORTRAITS
TERM 1B
YR 11/12: DOCUMENTARY
Understanding and exploring Photography genres, styles & purposes, from past to present
Understanding the (changing) role of the portrait
Understanding roles / relationships of photography and art
Pinhole / darkroom
Digital / Studio
Tactile manipulations: Collage, ink etc.
Film: documentary
Understanding and exploring documentary photography from past to present
Developing key practical skills (see below)
Developing key transferable skills (see below: personal, social, and vocational)
Digital / Darkroom
Working on location
Film: documentary
Using darkroom
Using studio / lighting techniques
Film editing
Portraits as evidence: Anthropological, legal, medical, educational
‘Objective’ and ‘subjective’ photography
Questioning the ‘Selfie’: Self – portraiture, personal expression and online identities
The ‘family snapshot’ – portraits and family history
Physical interventions / surface manipulations
Pinhole portraits (shutter speed, aperture, developing processes)
Studio portraits (camera intros: resolutions, focus, DOF, white balance, ISO)
Fieldwork Studies (classifications / thematic approaches, framing, consistencies, dealing with people)
Personal explorations: family portraits / ‘selfies’
Constructed and manipulated (self) portraits
Documentary film work
Documenting society, insights into lives of others, personal reflections on (depiction of) family and self
Panning, dealing with movement, compositional considerations, working on location
Dealing with models, studio lighting, insights into different roles for photography
Working to a brief, photojournalism, prospectus / website commissions
Documentary Photography: Social, photojournalism, commercial, citizen journalism
Photography as a tool for ‘social change’, to denote dissatisfaction (absurdity, satire, futility etc.)
‘Reading’ and contextualising imagery
Composition
Selecting, organising and curating
Locational experiments (e.g. focal points, light reading, panning, composing)
Documentary challenge
My family / social documentary task
Events photography / commercial brief
New insights into lives and experiences of others, personal reflections on own environments, cultures
INQUISITIVE
INQUISITIVE
IMAGINATIVE
COLLABORATIVE
PERSISTENT
DISCIPLINED
Habits of
Mind: Notes
Higher order questioning and researching skills, independent working, self initiated research, personal
curiosity
Time management. Developing strong foundations of understanding
Stephen Bull: Photography Chapters 6 (and parts of 5)
Photography Changes…How Cultural Groups are represented Pg 137
How family history is constructed Pg 238
Photography A Cultural History pg 455 - 459
Organisational skills, persuading, planning, identifying and creating new opportunities
Vocabulary
Exposure, aperture, shutter speed, focal point, DOF, white balance
Document, evidence, objectivity, subjectivity, Enlightenment – era, positivism, genre, anthropology,
colonialism, surveillance, snapshot
Documentary Photography: Social, photojournalism, commercial, citizen journalism, Composition, rule of thirds,
golden section, leading the eye, balance, contrast, tension.
Curating, juxtaposition, irony, satire
Artists
Daguerre, Fox Talbot, Alphonse Bertillon (19th C police photographer) Francis Galton (eugenicist), Dr Hugh
Diamond (1850’s inmates of Surrey County Asylum), JH Lamprey & TH Huxley, Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, FSA
commissions – Walker Evans, Dorethea Lange
JR, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Thomas Ruff (New Objectivity), Stephen Gill, Nan Goldin, Richard Billingham, Sally
Mann, Larry Sultan, Gillian Wearing
Darrel Ellis, Clarissa Sligh, Albert Chong, Adolfo Patino
Walker Evans, Robert Frank, William Eggleston, Chris Killip, David Hurn, Paul Graham, Elliot Erwitt, Martin Parr
Notes /
references
The Photo as Contemporary Art
Stephen Bull: Photography Chapter 6
Photography A Cultural History pg 401
Personal learning skills
Idea
Development
Knowledge/
understanding
Use of Media
ST PETER’S SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHY PLANNING 2013/14: Year 13 Term 1
TERM 1A
YR 13: PREPARATION FOR PERSONAL STUDY
TERM 1B
YR 13: PERSONAL STUDY
Key
Objectives
To prepare students for their Personal Study (see Term 1B)
To recap key technical understanding
To reinforce independent learning skills
To recap / build on prior contextual study work: History of Art / Photography genres
TO BE COMPLETED BY STUDENTS INDIVIDUALLY
A personal body of work (practical experiments, contextual study, idea development, conclusive outcomes etc.) with
reference to A2 specification / Assessment objectives
Media
Digital / Studio
Photoshop
Tactile manipulations: Collage, ink etc.
Film
Practical Skills
Focal points, White Balance, ISO, aperture
Replicating effects in Photoshop, Resolution, output preparation
Using studio / flash & lighting techniques
Film editing
Understanding of camera settings, pre/in/post-production
Composition – considered in contexts of different genres / approaches
Awareness of independent / transferable learning skills
Working to a brief / developing a personal brief / developing a portfolio
Developing a personal style / creative ‘voice’ and awareness of its potential / context / relevance
Key Learning
Concepts
Potential
outcomes
Controlled portraits exploring lighting & camera settings
Portrait Challenge (independently set brief with an unknown person)
Producing film based lesson guidance for KS4 classes on camera settings
Film proposals for Personal Study
Personal,
Social,
Cultural,
Spiritual,
Emotional
Vocational
opportunities
Habits of
Mind
Working with others, demonstrating and sharing skills, insights into lives of others
Habits of
Mind: Notes
Notes /
references
Vocabulary
Artists
Student Leader / teaching experience, responding to a brief
INQUISITIVE
INQUISITIVE
IMAGINATIVE
IMAGINATIVE
COLLABORATIVE
COLLABORATIVE
PERSISTENT
PERSISTENT
DISCIPLINED
DISCIPLINED
Higher order questioning and researching skills, independent working, self initiated research, personal
curiosity, working with others (known and unknown), persisting with difficulties, embracing /learning
from mistakes. Working to a brief and deadline
1. Camera settings / lighting (studio portrait challenges). Photoshop: potential of post – production
work
2. Producing and delivering ‘How to’ teaching resources (students given a setting each, eg ISO, to
explain)
3. Composition – different approaches (with reference to own genres of interest. In depthresearch to be produced)
4. Portrait Challenge (individual briefs, relative to areas of interest)
5. Film proposals (setting out intentions and summarising / incorporating prior work)
Weekly sequence above. Each task to be developed in context of Personal Study interests
DOF, white balance, ISO, Composition, Rule of Thirds, Golden Ratio, resolution, pre/post-production…
Students to identify key vocabulary relevant to interests
Examples supporting studio exercises / camera settings, range of portrait examples relevant to student
interests eg. Fashion, Sports etc.
Students to develop own reference bank (Pinterest etc.)