HSDC Alton Full Time Prospectus 2023/2024

PHOTOGRAPHY A Level

Venue: Alton Campus Duration: 2 years

Teaching & Learning Lesson activities are wide-ranging and stimulating from theory-based to practical exploration. You will develop your own ideas by researching other artists and be encouraged to examine the world around you visually. You will work through a variety of techniques and learn to work with appropriate media, materials and processes. Photography students are expected to annotate work, to express personal and creative ideas and produce final outcomes using a range of approaches and methods from the darkroom to digital. Assessment 60% personal investigation, 40% externally set task. Externally set task includes a 15-hour controlled element. Entry Requirements Five GCSEs at grade 4 or above including English Language and Mathematics and a grade 5 or above in an art-related GCSE. If you do not have an art-related GCSE then we ask to see a portfolio of artwork before being accepted onto the course.

Overview If you want to discover the thrill of expressing yourself through still images, exploring traditional skills and being creative with digital technology, come and be inspired by our enthusiastic staff. Lessons take place in our specialist photographic department with its superb darkroom, three fully professional-standard studios and computer suite with Adobe Creative Cloud software. You’ll be encouraged to explore and engage in different ideas and practices, developing the person behind the camera and producing work that reflects you and the changing world we live in. Visits to galleries and exhibitions are encouraged on this course and each year there is the opportunity to travel overseas to experience a different culture to enhance your studies. Structure You will study: – Traditional darkroom techniques, which will enable you to fully appreciate how photography has evolved into the 21st century. It will be a hands-on practical history lesson! – How to think about visual communication and how imagery is used to communicate an idea or viewpoint of an individual – Research into a variety of worldwide photographic artists, to help and influence your own creative image-making – Digital workflow & editing as an extension of the darkroom using Adobe Creative Cloud – A personal investigation in Year 2 of this course, exploring artists, photographers and technique to gain an in-depth practical understanding of the process you apply within your photographic practice, supported by a related written study – Independently and be encouraged to take responsibility for directing much of your own practical projects and research work

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