Media Arts: Photography (Elective)

“For the Christian, God is the supremen artis. God looked at His creation as it progressed and swa that it was good; when he had completed it, He said it was ‘very good’. The Great Artist was evidently much pleased with His World” Clide S Kilby

This unit aims to further introduce students to digital photography and to begin to explore the more advanced modes of the camera. Students will understand the scope and nature of digital photography and will be able to select appropriate equipment to use, depending upon the exposure settings they require. They will explore various elements of composition so as to take more interesting photography and will further develop their understanding of camera modes and settings such as shutter speed, aperture and ISO. Students will develop their theoretical knowledge of exposure and begin to apply this knowledge to their photographic works. They will analyse the use of production techniques in professional media texts and will develop an understanding of how media texts are created in a variety of genres, styles, traditions and cultures.

Aims

• To understand and use appropriate arts language related to media productions
• To produce photographic works which convey appropriate ideas and values
• To understand and follow the correct safety procedures for using digital photographic equipment
• To create different media products for specific audiences and briefs
• To compare, analyse, evaluate, and interpret the content, meaning and qualities in media works created in different social, cultural and historical contexts
• To produce a media product from pre-production through to post-production
• To develop an ability to discuss their own and others’ use of media elements, principles and/or contentions, skills, techniques, processes, equipment and technologies

Topics Include

• Elements of Composition
• The Exposure Trianges: Aperture, ISO and Shutter Speed
• An Eye for Apeture
• Nomenclature and Camera Theory

Time Allocation

• 5 periods per cycle
• Media Arts: Photography is only offered in one Semester. The complementary unit, Media Arts: Film is offered in the subsequent Sementer.

Requirements

• Minimum 8GB SD Card
• Levy Cost

Assessment

• Final photographic productions
• Film analysis activities
• Reflection on learning tasks

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11