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1. STATEMENT OF INTENT
BTEC LEVEL 3/4 FOUNDATION DIPLOMA (ART & DESIGN)
THIS SECTION TO BE COMPLETED BY THE STUDENT
Centre Name
Epping Forest College
Working title or theme
Time and Light Photography
Number of words Projected Grade (Programme Leader to insert on completion of the SOI)
Foundation Tutor
Signature Date
Guidance (electronic template will expand boxes automatically)
Your Statement of Intent (SOI) must provide an outline brief of your Final Major Project (FMP).
The brief will normally be of your own choosing. If you decide to work on a team/group brief
(with other students) ensure that you explain how you will respond individually to the brief and
the extent of your individual responsibilities and contribution.
Prepare your SOI carefully, referring to the guidance in each section below. The guidance should
be seen as a prompt and not be regarded as being prescriptive.
The SOI must be a minimum of 300 and must not exceed 500 words (excluding the APPENDIX).
Each section, One to Four, has a guide to the number of words to best structure your statement
to meet the grading criteria for the Confirmatory Stage. You are reminded that the bibliography
and timescale should be included in the APPENDIX and will not be included in the overall word
count.
The SOI must be word processed.
Your Statement of Intent must be no less than 300 words and be no more than 500 words.
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2. SECTION ONE – Your Final Major Project (guide 150 words)
What is the title of your Project? What will you work towards producing and what is your proposed end point? Explain
how this relates to your work and ideas from the Pathway Stage and how it extends your knowledge, understanding and
creative ability.
Time and Light Photography
I will produce a body of photographic experiments that explores time lapse and night photography. I aim to select my
most effective developments with a presentation of about 12 A3 photographs and also a computer presentation to show
my time lapse work.
I have not had much experience in both night and time based photography, so I hope that the research and some trial
and error will help me to produce a range of work and also will show development. By the end of this project I hope to
be more knowledgeable of how to shot at night and to have produced a body of work that I am happy to say that I have
produced.
The previous project I did not challenge me on the technical side because everything I did I had previously done
before. So this project I have chosen the parts of photography that I know little about so the project challenges me
more.
SECTION TWO – Influences, Research, Sources and Ideas (guide 150 words)
What are the influences, starting points and contextual references and why are they relevant to your ideas? Indicate
the subject areas you intend to research and the likely sources of information including any museums, specific
locations, performances, etc you plan to visit. However you should not make extensive lists in this section. Instead you
should compile an accurate bibliography correctly acknowledging all references including texts, periodicals, websites
and video/DVD’s etc. Enter your bibliography in the APPENDIX.
The work of photographers both past and present who have explored the key themes of time based and night
photography I will look into in detail. Examples include: Winston- o links, 1950’s, American night scenes. Anya
Gallaccio, 1991–2000, preserve ‘beauty’ and Chris Friel, Abstract landscape photography. All of these are good
starting points.
I will have to research how to set up my camera for different types of night photography and the equipment I will have
to use. I will also need to research how to produce a time lapse and the best editing software to use.
I intent to order some ND filters to capture movement with a long shutter speed. I will also need to purchase an
intervalometer for time lapse photography.
Galleries that I think would be good to visit would be the Photographers Gallery near Oxford Street and The National
Portrait Gallery. I think going to this gallery will inspire me and also will give me ideas of how to present my work in
the final stage of this project.
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3. SECTION THREE – Techniques, Processes and Timescale (guide 150 words)
Refer to any techniques and processes you intend to use. Describe the range of media and materials relevant to your
project and how you may use them to explore and develop your ideas. Include aspects of studio practice, workshop
procedures or the use of particular equipment and software etc. Provide an indicative timescale for your project and
indicate the manner in which you intend to divide your time in order to investigate, develop, produce and evaluate
your project appropriately. This should be a meaningful plan to you and should be personalised to your project. You
may wish to write your plan as a daily or weekly schedule in which case enter your timescale in the APPENDIX.
There will be many different techniques and processes I will be using and many of them will require research as I am
unfamiliar with them. The techniques and processes I will be using are: time lapse, different shutter speeds and night
photography. All of these will require techniques that I will research and try in trial shoots. I hope that after trying
these techniques they will give me new ideas or will require new techniques that will make my photography more
effective. I will also need to plan my specific locations for visual content.
SECTION FOUR – Method of Evaluation (guide 50 words)
How will you critically review and analyse your work and determine if it is successful? How will you identify directions
for on-going development? Do you have a method to record the critical response to your ideas? How do you propose to
assess the success of your Final Major Project and what will be your methods of evaluation? Unit 9 requires you to
produce a supporting statement at the end of your project. This section can inform your analysis.
To ensure my photographic shoots get better and I learn from my mistakes before every shoot I will produce a plan and
a list of equipment required. After the shoot I will review the things that worked well and the things that didn’t, this
includes how I edit the images or film. I also will ask my peers opinion on my work and take this into consideration in
the following shoots. I will be writing this on a blog, I will also have the edited images or videos from that shoot on the
blog. Finally I will compare my work with that of the professional practitioners who have inspired me.
APPENDIX
Use this appendix for the bibliography and timescale for your Final Major Project.
O. Winston Link: Life Along the Line by Tony Reevy
http://www.tylerwestcott.com/
http://www.xavierrey.com/crbst_184.html
Anya Gallaccio by Jan Van Adrichem, Norman Bryson and Briony Fer
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4. http://www.mattiabicchiphotography.com/
http://www.robwhitworth.co.uk/
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Things I hope to achieve in
this week
Notes
Week 1 Research time and light
photography and have a
clear idea for first shoot.
Week 2 Shoot one, edit and
review. (Shutter speed
experiments)
Shoot two, edited and
review.(Time Lapse of sky)
Week 3 Shoot Three develop work
from shoot one
Week 4
Week 5