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Module Title |
Photograph and Print Design 1
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Module Code |
CM206
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School |
School of Communications
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Online Module Resources
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Level |
2
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Credit Rating |
10
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Pre-requisite |
None
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Co-requisite |
None
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Module Aims
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To provide skills and knowledge in advanced aesthetic and compositional image making.
To further explore and expand mastery of advanced production techniques, language, styles and uses of the photographic image in print and digital media. Students continue to investigate exposure/development relationships in the processing and print photo dark room laboratories. Post-production exercises in presentation, publishing, exhibitions, and multimedia are undertaken. An introduction to flash and the use of artificial light in the photographic discipline defines project perimeters.
To establish an understanding of project concept building and content
Students are exposed to contemporary image-makers , critical concerns and issues
of representation In photography, visual culture and various forms of multimedia
product. Slide presentations, lectures, and video documentaries on such subjects as
advertising, graphics, typography, photo-journalism, censorship, new technology,
art and media representation are included.
Students are involved with a variety of image making processes, including photograms,
drawings, photo-montage, and 3-D photographic constructions.
An interdisciplinary vocabulary in all image making mediums is defined.
Emphasis on new media and its relationship to the lens-based image is stressed.
The digital camera and basic digital precepts introduced.
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Learning Outcomes
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Indicative Time Allowances
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Hours
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Lectures |
24
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Tutorials |
0
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Laboratories |
24
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Seminars |
0
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Independent Learning Time |
102
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Total |
150
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NOTE
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Assume that a 10 credit module load represents approximately 150 hours' work, which includes all teaching, in-course assignments, laboratory work or other specialised training and an estimated private learning time associated with the module.
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Indicative Syllabus
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Weeks 1 - 6 : advanced photographic techniques - photomontage - 3D
photographic construction -- contemporary image analysis -
projects presentations and critiques - installation & performance
photobased exercises - editing photographs for publication
Weeks 6 - 12 advanced darkroom procedures & techniques
flash attachment -studio light -- meters
introduction to digital camera - interpolation
sensor chips - colour channels - image resolution -
general preferences -- final project studio critique
Functional History of Photography
History of Photojournalism, The digital in contemporary documentary
Images, Issues: censorship, consumerism, capitalist cultural identity.
Aesthetic History of Photography
Contemporary Image makers, Issues: gender and trans-gendered images,
colonialism and post colonialism, race and the representation of "the other:
as marketing device and personal statement
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| Assessment | | Continuous Assessment | 100% | Examination Weight | 0% |
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Indicative Reading List
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Warren, B Photography West Publishing Company, NYC, 1993
Mirzoeff, N Visual Culture Reader Routledge, NY, 1998
Tolsen, A Mediations Arnold, London, 1996
Rush, M New Media in Late 20th Century Art, Thames & Hudson, London, 1999
Lister, Martin The Photographic Image in Digital Culture Routledge, London, 1998
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Programme or List of Programmes
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| CS | BA in Communication Studies |
| HMSA | Study Abroad (Humanities & Soc Science) |
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