Sketchbook Contents
For the Photography qualification, you are required
to submit a sketchbook that records the progression of your ideas throughout
the completion of the coursework. It is important that you explore all your ideas
thoroughly and document everything as you are going along. To ensure that you
are satisfying the requirements of the exam board, use the following to guide
to help you.
1. Complete Personal Investigation.
2. Then move on to stage two. This is:
·
Produce a mindmap of your chosen theme
·
Look up the word in a dictionary and write down the
definition
·
Look up the word in a thesaurus and write down all
the suggestion
3. Choose three
ideas from your original mindmap that you will research in more depth.
4. You
then need to write a brief paragraph about why you’ve chosen the ideas you have
and how you plan to research them.
5. For
each of the three ideas, you must find 3 or 4 images that you will analyse in
detail using the guidance on the blog.
6. You
must then write a review of your research, talking about what you learnt from
your analyses, how you will use them in the rest of your work and which of the
three ideas you will look at further.
7. When
you’ve chosen the idea you want to look at in greater depth, write a brief
outline of the idea you think you might want to do. You then need to find
additional photos that explore your planned idea further.
8. You
must then write a list of experimentations you’d like to conduct in order to
find out about the sorts of techniques you might use in your final photographic
piece. This could be exploring the
effect of different lenses or filters; or how framing impacts on the meaning of
an image; shutter speed; Photoshop techniques; video etc.
9. All the
experimentations that you undertake must be recorded visually in your
sketchbook with annotations.
10. You
must then write a review of your experimentations, talking about what you
learnt from them and how you will use them in your final photographic piece.
11. Before
you start on your final piece, you must produce a brief plan of how you will go
about shooting and presenting your work.
12. Finally,
you need to write a review of your finished photographic piece, explaining how
your initial research and experimentations have been used in its completion.
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REMEMBER, YOU ARE MARKED ACROSS FOUR ASSESSMENT OBJECTIVES (AO):
AO1 – RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS
AO2 – EXPERIMENTATIONS AND EXPLANATION
AO3 – RECORDING OF IDEAS, OBSERVATIONS, INTENTIONS AND HOW WORK IS PROGRESSING
AO4 – THE FINAL PIECE AND HOW IT’S BEEN INFLUENCED BY THE RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATIONS
