Stand-alone pages: Equipment

 Stand-alone page Equipment                                                                                                      19324

This is best done using a word document with columns. Or, create a PPT and lay it out in columns maybe?

Keep these stand-alone pages as separate documents and just keep adding to them over the period of the course as you use more of the equipment and gain a greater understanding of how it’s used. 

Towards the deadline modify the pages, bring them up to-date making them relevant to what you’re doing and paste the content into your main design sheet. 

Typically, use images of the equipment (Product) and then screen grab the product data sheet. You can use images that show how you’ve used the equipment in your own work,

The Key Part of the work is your own commentary and analysis of your use of the equipment. Properties and characteristics, Pros and cons of using it, why you’ve used, how it might be used and whether its fit for purpose in conjunction with your own work. Another thing you might do is name the components of the equipment explaining how they’re used. In the case of something quite complex (Camera)  this might take a full page of explanations detailing how they’re used. 

Typically, this will be all of the cameras you use, lights, light meter, enlargers, tripods, even small items such as hot-shoe adapters and synch leads. The studio has lots of equipment that can be identified. Probably the best way to approach this is, is to add these items to these pages as you go along. For instance if your processing film and you've not previously identified and written about film processing equipment, that would then be an opportunity to write about...

The developer tanks and components

Drying cabinets

Enlargers

Light boxes

Flat bed dryers

Roller dryers

Enlargers

Safelights

Contact sheet printers

Masking cards 

Focus finders

Easels

*Remember, if you've done this previously copy it across from your previous work and add it to your "Equipment" stand-alone page and update it with more depth and understanding, as this might be the 2nd or third time you've used the equipment.