gcse unit 2 photography exam 2011.12
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Unit 2: Externally Set Task
GCSE Photography
People & Places
• Focus on documentary• Aim to explore different cultures, times,
locations, individuals• Try to tell a story via your work• Can be highly personal• Can be biased or removed• Research should include film• Final work can include film as well as images
Tina Barney
Marina’s bedroom 1987 - 1997
Richard Billingham
Bill Brandt
John Grierson (film maker)
Video Link about Grierson
Night mail
Walker Evans
Lewis Hine
Animals in Motion
• Wildlife or domestic• Explore a variety of speeds - impact of long
exposure?• Various methods of display appropriate –
zoopraxiscope, timelapse,
Eadward Muybridge
Zoopraxiscope
Video link
Video link
Johannes Sciehsl
Link
Street version
Zoetrobe
Sony Zeotrobe
Eric Hosking
Carli Davidson
Tony Mendoza
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Dance
• Emphasis on movement• Exploring the meaning of the dance via
imagery• Focus on form • Potential to use experimental techniques• Could include a documentary approach
Isabel Munoz
Vipal Sangoi
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Music
• Focus on display• Could create online showreal, digital or
traditional• Free website template tools or more complex
blogs and site creation possible• Can focus on one genre of music or many
Mixed Media
• MEMORIES or REFLECTING MY POINT OF VIEW• Respond to either of the above in your own way• Must use more than just photography in either
work or method of display• Could include.... sculpture, painting, video,
online, craft or anything!• Photography could simply be used as a form of
documentation
Jurgita Remeikyte
Sally Mankus
Anette Messager
Composition
• The Golden Section is a ratio based on a phi• The Golden Section is also known as the Golden Mean, Golden
Ratio and Divine Proportion. It is a ratio or proportion defined by the number Phi ( = 1.618033988749895... )
• It can be derived with a number of geometric constructions, each of which divides a line segment at the unique point where:
the ratio of the whole line (A) to the large segment (B) is the same as the ratio of the large segment (B) to the small
segment (C). In other words, A is to B as B is to C. This occurs only where A is 1.618 ... times B and B is 1.618 ...
times C.
• Artists, mathematicians, architects and scientists have found it uniquely applicable to the physical world.
• It establishes a singularly pleasing visual balance.
• It describes the efficient packing of seeds and the arrangement of petals on some flowers.
• It describes the development of some mollusk shells, and population growth in some species.
• Recreate this in your compositions
Here and Now
• Anything you want as long as it is developed from ‘here and now’
• Reportage/Documentary
• Sequence of images that form journey
Saiful Huq Omi
The Disowned and Denied
For decades, the xenophobic, Burmese military junta has refused to recognize the Rohingya as a distinct Muslim ethnic minority living in western Burma. Internationally, their story is under reported. The Rohingya are probably the most voiceless and stateless refugee community in the world
Jürgen Bodamer
Galways fishing
By 1970 only two boats remained, whereas eye witnesses report that they have seen 20 boats in the harbour of Inis Mór, the biggest of the three Árainn Islands and 35 boats sailing out of Conamara