Student led Documentary hangout 4.6.20
There were six of us on this hangout and we discussed a variety of topics:
- Critical reviews: We shared our thoughts about a peer’s essay and discussed word counts.
- Book making: For assignment 3 we are asked to make a pdf of a book and blurb is suggested; I learnt that this can also be done in lightroom and will check this out.
- Use of archive images: we reminded ourselves that it is allowable to use our own archive images, which could be very useful at the moment.
- Truth in photography: we asked ourselves if things are constructed more now because the expectation of audiences have changed. I wonder if this could be a critical review topic?
- Assessment: Those applying for July assessment shared that it is a good idea to use one document to give links to everything else to help assessors find everything.
- Learning outcomes: Apparently there are different learning outcomes now to those in the course book – I found the document “Preparing for digital assessment for photography units” which contains the learning objectives that we should evaluate and evidence against; I am not currently sure how I mesh these and the assessment criteria I currently evaluate against (doing this will make it easier for me at the end of the course?). I have now watched the session run by Dan RobinsonMay 13th in photography forum: https://discuss.oca-student.com/t/photography-specific-adaptations-to-covid-19/11641/140
- Listening to this I learnt that another change is that assignment 1 can be assessed if you wish as can non assignment work, whereas previously assignment 1 wasn’t assessed but was a beginning benchmark.
I was able to share my initial ideas for assignment 2 (Economic scarring) and my peers had some comments and suggestions:
- I could ask on the forums for images of scars to use
- I could make scars – construction!
- Bob suggested I look at a photographer that displays different images together to create a third message: https://www.zednelson.com/?TearsheetsStories:thumbnails This might be useful for ideas I am currently formulating to use for assignment 3 and 5.
- Lynda suggested: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/24/industrial-scars-landscapes-of-south-wales-toxic-j-henry-fair . She also suggested that at an “armchair street photography” workshop with Head on Photo festival in Australia and the photographer (Natan Dvir) stated that it is photography as you still have to choose your focus point, line the shot up from a certain angle, choose to zoom in/out, etc. You are taking photographs of a “virtual world”. Other photographers mentioned were Doug Rickard, Jon Rafman, Mishka Henner, Clement Valla. Just a few more options to think about”. This could be useful going forward.
- It also gave me some food for thought about what I could do for my assignment 5, personal project.
Photography 2: Documentary 