module specification

The PH4002 Techniques: Photography module introduces students to and engages them with digital and analogue photography and approaches to photographic production. Focusing upon key skills and concepts, the module introduces students to relevant photography materials, processes and techniques for the development of ideas and photographs, enabling students to make informed connections between intention, process, and outcome.

The module involves a series of demonstrations and practical tasks, introducing and developing basic skills and techniques relevant to photography practice and supporting the development of individual briefed projects in PH4000.

PH4002 Techniques: Photography serves and sustains awards in the BA Photography and BA Fashion Photography courses, delivered in a seamless and integral relationship with the work of other core modules on Level 4. Students are expected to investigate and develop critical and aesthetic working relationships between and across the Level 4 modules.

This module aims to enable students to apply photography processes and techniques effectively, with students learning to operate digital and analogue cameras with fluency and control, to use workshop facilities, darkrooms, studios and equipment with confidence and ease and to understand good working practices within digital workflows.

The module thus aims to give maximum opportunities in the practical aspects of photography, enabling students to craft photographs by their careful printing and finishing, with due attention to professional and organised archiving.

At the beginning of the module, its aims and key concepts will be outlined to all students. Students will engage with a programme of photography technique workshops in digital and analogue processes.

Students will be guided in the approaches to recording, evidencing and submitting the briefed technical tasks carried out within the module (Learning Outcome 1).

The programme of photography technique workshops will demonstrate and induct in the complex operations of both digital and analogue cameras (Learning Outcome 2 and 5). Sessions will be also spent in learning skills in the post-production of complex digital images using photo-editing software and darkroom techniques (Learning Outcome 3 and 5), as well as in the printing and finishing of photographic prints and organisation and archiving of digital images (Learning Outcome 6).

Scheduled teaching provides the guidance and foundation to ensure that independent study is effective in addressing the module’s learning outcomes and assessment tasks.

In-class activity makes use of varied student-centred approaches such as active, flipped and blended learning, so that a range of learning strategies is deployed, and individual learning styles are accommodated. Information is provided through a range of means and sources to minimise and remove barriers to successful progress through the module. The course team seeks to embed the University’s Education for Social Justice Framework in fostering learning that is enjoyable, accessible, relevant and that takes account of the social and cultural context and capital of its students.

Activities foster peer-to-peer community building and support for learning. Interim formative feedback points help students to reflect on their progress and receive help to identify the opportunity for improvement in learning strategies and outcomes. Throughout the module, students work on a series of set tasks that develop their technical and professional understanding.

The School’s programme of employability events and embedded work-based learning within the curriculum supports students’ personal and career development planning. Through these initiatives, students are increasingly able, as they progress from year to year, to understand the professional environment of their disciplines, the various opportunities available to them, and how to shape their learning according to their ambitions.

1. demonstrate an ability to complete and clearly evidence and record briefed technical tasks;

2. demonstrate an ability to use digital and analogue cameras and techniques on location and in studio;

3. demonstrate an understanding of digital and analogue photographic post production processes;

4. demonstrate an ability to expand your knowledge of digital and analogue cameras and techniques on location and in studio;

5. demonstrate an ability to expand your knowledge of digital and analogue photographic post production processes;

6. Demonstrate an understanding of good practices in storing digital and analogue photographic artefacts.

The assessment strategy includes formative assessments that will take place at mid-semester in the form of tutorial feedback designed to encourage and help students to develop and improve their work. These will inform the student of their progress through the module.

SEMESTER 1 SUMMATIVE SUBMISSION DATE:
WEEK 13 (Week 1 of January Assessment period)

Semester 1 Journal and outcomes responding to tasks.

(LO1, LO2, LO3)

SEMESTER 2 SUMMATIVE SUBMISSION DATE:
WEEK 28

Semester 2 Journal and outcomes responding to tasks.

(LO4, LO5, LO6)

Written feedback addresses the strengths and areas for development of individual summative submissions in relation to the learning outcomes and assessment criteria.

Work will be assessed against the learning outcomes in relation to the following criteria:
• Appropriate use of problem solving, testing and experimentation
• Appropriate use of research methods and enquiry
• Quality of analysis and interpretation
• Knowledge of relevant photographic techniques and practices
• Quality of communication and presentation
• Management of own learning and personal professional development

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