Photography, Video and Digital Imaging

PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO AND DIGITAL IMAGING

1 UNIT PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO AND DIGITAL IMAGING (1Unit in Year 11 / 1 Unit in Year 12 Non – ATAR Course

Students can choose to study Photography, Video and Digital Imaging in Year 11 and 12 as a 1 Unit course running fortwo years. The subject is internally assessed and does not contribute towards a student’s final ATAR mark.

Photography, Video and Digital Imaging offers students the opportunity to explore contemporary artistic practices thatmake use of photography, video, and digital imaging.

These fields of artistic practice resonate with students’ experience and understanding of the world and are highly relevant to contemporary ways of interpreting the world. The course offers opportunities for the student to investigate one or more of these fields and to develop understanding and skills that contribute to an informed critical practice.

Photography, Video and Digital Imaging also offers opportunities for students to investigate the pervasiveness of these fields in the contemporary world in visual arts and design, television, film, video, the mass media, social media, and multimedia, and to investigate the ways in which these fields of artistic practice have adapted and evolved over the twentieth century.

Photography, Video and Digital Imaging acknowledges that traditionally accepted boundaries of photography are changing as a consequence of the widespread use of digital technologies.

Photography as a medium in everyday lives, and as a fine art form, has been understood as documentary, reproductive and world-boundin character. In the public imaginationit often continues to be understoodin these terms. Increasingly, however, advanced digital technologies and the digital image seek not only to represent aspects of reality, but also to simulate the real in worlds of virtual reality and the hyper-real. Today, images can be manipulated, transformed, captured, stored, and managed in ways that are unprecedented. Students will use Photoshop and other Digital ImagingPrograms to manipulate photos.

Course Objectives:

Students will develop knowledge, skills and understanding that demonstrate conceptual and technical accomplishment and accomplished critical and historical investigations of photography and/or video and/or digital imaging.

Components and Weightings:

Making 70% Critical and historical studies 30%

Excursions

Visits are planned to local photography exhibitions, “Art Express” at the Art Gallery of NSW, workshops at the Real Film Festival, Newcastle, as well as an incursion workshop with a guest film maker.

Equipment

It is not essential for you to have your DSLR camera or Video Camera as the school has equipment that can be borrowed by students. However, having your own camera will give you greater opportunities to take photos and video as the borrowing of equipment is always subject to availability. Students will need to have their own Memory Cards (2 x 8gb is recommended) and USB to bring to each lesson. Depending on timetables the course may be held after school hours.