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Photographic Production Processes

• Module code: FP4005
• Year: 2018/9
• Level: 4
• Credits: 30
• Pre-requisites: None
• Co-requisites: None

Summary

This module's focus is on the attainment of an array of production and technical skills to expand and enhance the development of a personal (and professional standard) photographic language. It is primarily concerned with the development of a critical awareness of photography processes, photography and related transferable skills, research and critical thinking. It begins with active learning through skills based projects, both analogue and digital. All projects will encompass conceptual concerns, individual development and critical engagement with a photographic 'way of seeing' and working with light, both natural and artificial, which lead from thematic and conceptual to self-initiated and developmental projects. Each project will be introduced and continue with technical workshops, group seminars a series of group project reviews. and individual tutorial support.

Aims

• To introduce students to a broad range of photography production processes practices, both analogue and digital.
• To develop and enhance students' confidence and familiarity with photography work and research across a broad spectrum of photographic practices processes through set and self-initiated projects and related skills workshops, consolidating through reflective practice.
• To support students towards developing an increasingly critically engaged independent practice.
• Students will increase their knowledge and photography skillset, becoming able to construct and produce a distinct practice.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:

• Use the processes of photographic practical and technical work aligned with research to work in more experimental and challenging ways within their chosen areas of practice.
• Demonstrate appropriate practical and technical skills and apply with confidence
• Demonstrate an understanding and knowledge of a broad range of techniques and relevant photographic practitioners.
• Demonstrate a confident and increasing ability to work individually and as a part of an inter-disciplinary student group, and to continue to apply more developed skills.
• Extend the work of the set projects to investigate and expand the potential for a personal and professionally informed practice.
• Effectively manage time and resources towards module's briefs and goals.

Curriculum content

• Seminars and tutorials to enhance and extend students' abilities and critical awareness to be able to edit succinctly and with success (audience reception) and present their finished work in specific and considered appropriate forms.
• Set projects to enable students to become familiar with a broad and diverse range of photography practices. The set projects will be ideas-based, challenging students to research and produce photography in response to themes such as: 'Light', 'Appropriation & Transformation', 'Time Sequence Memory', 'The Studio as Personal Theatre' and so on.
• Workshops will include introductions to both analogue and digital darkroom skills, working with processing and developing of films, prints and digital workflow to further enhance and support students' abilities to develop learning methodologies and skillsets appropriate to individual progress and work.
• Appropriate competitions for students will be integrated into the programme.
• Group working and peer review will be an important element to engage with.
• Research 'reflective journals' will be introduced to support and extend work.

Teaching and learning strategy

An appropriately planned combination of lectures, seminars, workshops, and reviews -to be agreed with the Course Leader in advance of the academic year.

• Student learning will be planned through the use of projects which will address the set aims and learning outcomes of the module.
• Photography and research skills will be supported through appropriate workshops.
• Project teaching will include lectures and seminars to introduce appropriate visual material and research references.
• Seminars and tutorials will be arranged to enable students to monitor their progress.
• Students will be given feedback to enable them to achieve set learning outcomes.
• The reflective journal will encourage contemplation about their learning and critical self-awareness

The module will make use of the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) Canvas for communication and dissemination of information between students and staff as well as making online learning materials available to all.

All courses based in the Kingston School of Art offer students free access to the online video tutorial platform Lynda.com. This provides a wide range of subjects to choose from, many with downloadable exercise files, including software tutorials covering photography, graphics, web design, audio and music, CAD and Microsoft Office software, as well as courses on business and management skills. Some of these are embedded in the curriculum and offer additional self-paced learning, others may be taken at will by students wishing to broaden their employability skills in other areas.

Breakdown of Teaching and Learning Hours

Assessment strategy

Formative assessment and feedback/feedforward will be continuous through seminars, tutorials and project reviews. There will be a first summative (40%) assessment point at the end of Teaching Block 1 to enable the student and the staff team to reflect on progress and to further support student learning and achievement. This will be primarily assessed on developmental responses to technical workshop briefs and reflective journals/online blogs supporting processes and research. This will be followed by a formal feedback review in January. There will be a final summative assessment (60%) when students present their final complete portfolio of work at the end of the module in Teaching Block 2. This will include final responses to set project briefs relevant to the module, detailing and demonstrating an ability to utilise a diversity of photographic production processes to achieve goals. Reflective journals/online blogs supporting processes and research are also assessed alongside production portfolios of work.

Mapping of Learning Outcomes to Assessment Strategy (Indicative)

Elements of Assessment

Achieving a pass

It is NOT a requirement that any element of assessment is passed separately in order to achieve an overall pass for the module.

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