Gcse unit 2 Photography exam 2011.12

Unit 2: Externally Set Task

GCSE Photography

People & Places

• Focus on documentary• Aim to explore different cultures, times,

locations, individuals• Try to tell a story via your work• Can be highly personal• Can be biased or removed• Research should include film• Final work can include film as well as images

Tina Barney

Marina’s bedroom 1987 - 1997

Richard Billingham

Bill Brandt

John Grierson (film maker)

Video Link about Grierson

Night mail

Walker Evans

Lewis Hine

Animals in Motion

• Wildlife or domestic• Explore a variety of speeds - impact of long

exposure?• Various methods of display appropriate –

zoopraxiscope, timelapse,

Eadward Muybridge

Zoopraxiscope

Video link

Video link

Johannes Sciehsl

Link

Street version

Zoetrobe

Sony Zeotrobe

Eric Hosking

Carli Davidson

Tony Mendoza

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Dance

• Emphasis on movement• Exploring the meaning of the dance via

imagery• Focus on form • Potential to use experimental techniques• Could include a documentary approach

Isabel Munoz

Vipal Sangoi

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Music

• Focus on display• Could create online showreal, digital or

traditional• Free website template tools or more complex

blogs and site creation possible• Can focus on one genre of music or many

Mixed Media

• MEMORIES or REFLECTING MY POINT OF VIEW• Respond to either of the above in your own way• Must use more than just photography in either

work or method of display• Could include.... sculpture, painting, video,

online, craft or anything!• Photography could simply be used as a form of

documentation

Jurgita Remeikyte

Sally Mankus

Anette Messager

Composition

• The Golden Section is a ratio based on a phi• The Golden Section is also known as the Golden Mean, Golden

Ratio and Divine Proportion. It is a ratio or proportion defined by the number Phi ( = 1.618033988749895... )

• It can be derived with a number of geometric constructions, each of which divides a line segment at the unique point where:

the ratio of the whole line (A) to the large segment (B) is the same as the ratio of the large segment (B) to the small

segment (C). In other words, A is to B as B is to C. This occurs only where A is 1.618 ... times B and B is 1.618 ...

times C.

• Artists, mathematicians, architects and scientists have found it uniquely applicable to the physical world.

• It establishes a singularly pleasing visual balance.

• It describes the efficient packing of seeds and the arrangement of petals on some flowers.

• It describes the development of some mollusk shells, and population growth in some species.

• Recreate this in your compositions

Video Link

Here and Now

• Anything you want as long as it is developed from ‘here and now’

• Reportage/Documentary

• Sequence of images that form journey

Saiful Huq Omi

The Disowned and Denied

For decades, the xenophobic, Burmese military junta has refused to recognize the Rohingya as a distinct Muslim ethnic minority living in western Burma. Internationally, their story is under reported. The Rohingya are probably the most voiceless and stateless refugee community in the world

Jürgen Bodamer

Galways fishing

By 1970 only two boats remained, whereas eye witnesses report that they have seen 20 boats in the harbour of Inis Mór, the biggest of the three Árainn Islands and 35 boats sailing out of Conamara