Updated 28/6/24
(Summer Part 1)
Portfolio Fillers x 5
Pictures only
You need to shoot 5 or more sets of images for your portfolio. This will only require a simple approach focused on simply taking pictures and getting them down-loaded and into a named folder in your Y02 folder.
Make use of the good summer light, try and do something different, but still in-line with your overall career/University progression goals or maybe broaden your scope?
(Summer Part 2)
The Big Practical Project (Optional)
You decide the theme/subject, the work simply must be representative of your skill-set and your chosen specialism.
This will require research into 2 photographers/artists associated with the specialism you will have chosen and identified at the end of the first year that your work generally gravitates towards. The research needs to be high-quality as it will need to meet the 2nd year standards.
The research will then need to be reflected upon analysing why it will be of use to you in terms of inspiring your project and generating ideas. You also need to clearly state your Intention and where your work fits within an operational context (What kind of work it is, where it would be seen, who might the client be and the audience).
Once back in September... (Unless you want to make a start over the break)
Over several stages, you will need to Plan - Execute and Reflect on your work as you bring it together, experimenting, trying different approaches, developing, refining and improving your work. This work will be on-going through Sept, Oct, Nov and December with the potential that the shoots you do feed into your portfolio and website.
The rationale...
The bulk of the work you have to do in the period between September and December at college is primarily researched based. You'll be researching your options for when you leave college - Universities, Assisting, Gap year, Camp America, working on cruise ships, FT employment, freelancing, apprenticeships and internships; along with bringing together all of the work you've done over your time at college to form a range of different portfolios and a website to cater for different types of employers and universities.
See team under files for the summer project brief.
