Earth, air, fire and water. Edexcel 2014 exam. Photography
1. HALF TERM TASKS
• Feel inspired. Searchprovided websites/my collection.
This should take a good couple
of hours.
• Collect Visual
Research in connection to sub theme/area of interest
• Save to usb in a folder called ‘Visual Research’.
This will be presented into your book when you return titled ‘Visual Research’.
(if you can do this over half term then you will get ahead )
• Choose from your Visual Research an artists’ work you are most inspired by.
artist research that you will create a response to.
• Complete the Prelimary Research.
• This will be your first
2. Prelimary Research
Guidelines
A01 – look at grading criteria for assessment.
• Print of a selection of images (3-5) of the work by the artist you are interested
in.
• Write a list of questions you'd like to know about the work (before you research)
• Find at least 5 quotes about the work that relate to the meaning/purpose/feeling/mood and
to the techniques and processes used. These must be from established sources.
• Use these quotes to form answers to your questions.
• Describe how you think the work relates to your exam theme/sub theme.
• Create a visual diagram, describing elements you think are important in communicating the
meaning/ purpose/feeling if the image. (light/colour/tone/texture/shape/pattern/technical
elements – shutter speed/aperture/dof/focus)
• What idea/s has this inspired to create your own images?
3. Our relationship with the earth,
air, fire and water.
The way we see it evolve,
change.
4. Our relationship with the earth, air,
fire and water.
The way we engage with it
The way it makes us feel
5. Our relationship with the earth,
air, fire and water.
Our relationship to places;
public, private, personal.
6. Our relationship with the earth, air,
fire and water.
The way we pollute it
Destroy it
7. Our relationship with the earth,
air, fire and water.
Our ability to turn the ordinary
into extraordinary.
