The document provides guidance and inspiration for a photography project on capturing growth and evolution through a sequence of images over time. It suggests various techniques for documenting physical or psychological change through portraits, collections, or images taken from the same viewpoint daily. Students are also given websites to find visual examples and instructed to select an artist for further research to inspire their own photographic series.
Operations Management - Book1.p - Dr. Abdulfatah A. Salem
Growth and Evoloution, Year 13 Edexcel exam project. Photography
1. Growth and Evolution
'the gradual development of something‘
Select key words/ideas from exam paper.
Highlight initial areas of interest for subtheme.
2.
3. Photographic Challenges
Photograph a sequence of images that captures the physical and psychological growth and evolution.
Suggested actions - running, dancing, holding breath, sleeping, arguing.
Create a sequence of portraits over time – years/days
/minutes.
Create a sequence of images comparing physicality
between family members.
Put something on internet and document it's
development.
Put something in the street/a place and document how
it changes.
Photograph collections /things you collect find over a
day week/ found.
Make a picture out of the same window same time
every day.
Make a picture of the same place every day
Make a photograph if something exploding /burning /melting /freezing/ wilting/ dying /boiling .
4. Stuck for inspiration?
Explore the following websites...
http://www.pinterest.com/ihta/photography
http://www.studentartguide.com/featured/a-level-photography-futuristic
http://www.booooooom.com/blog/photo/
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/category/photography/page/2/
http://www.pinterest.com/ccvisualarts/
http://www.art2day.co.uk/
http://www.pinterest.com/tallisarts/
http://www.itsnicethat.com/categories/photography
http://thetypologist.tumblr.com/archive
http://trendland.com/photography/
http://pinterest.com/jobaker90/
http://fubiz.net
5. HALF TERM TASKS
• Feel inspired. Searchprovided websites/my collection.
This should take a good couple
of hours.
• Collect Visual
Research in connection to exam theme/sub theme. (15-20 images)
• 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
6. 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?