Beginning and/or End. It is the beginning of the end for you. Final GCSE project: Feb-April 2017

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1 Beginning and/or End It is the beginning of the end for you. Final GCSE project: Feb-April 2017

2 Think about all the media and materials you have seen since being at Thetford Academy What did you enjoy the most? Dark room Pinhole Digital Mono-chrome Animation Filter changes. Accent colours Techniques Double Exposure Photoshop Stitch Saturation change Layers Collage Drawing into photographs. Cardboard Wood Materials Canvas Acetate Paper Fabric Photo-shop Stitch Wire

3 Art is never ending. It does not stop with one drawing, it only finishes with another idea. The four Assessment Objectives are... AO1 = 20 marks Develop Ideas: through investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and cultural understanding. AO2 = 20 marks Refine Ideas: through experimenting and selecting appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes. You must make sure that everything you create and produce is done to the best of your ability. AO3 = 20 marks Record Ideas: observations and insights relevant to intentions in visual and/or other forms. AO4 = 20 marks Present: a personal, informed and meaningful response demonstrating analytical and critical understanding, realising intentions and, where appropriate, making connections between visual, written, oral or other elements. One chance at A04= 10 hour Art exam. Working towards this now until April/May Every page should answer A01, A02 and A03.

4 beginning bɪˈɡɪnɪŋ/ noun 1. the point in time or space at which something begins. Objects Natural World Imagination Activities People 1 Title, 6 Sub-Headings. Places end ɛnd/ noun a final part of something, especially a period of time, an activity, or a story.

5 Objects How can objects change the way they are used? Could they be used to send a message? Can the purpose of an object change from when it began? Re-use / Re-cycle objects = change their purpose. What was the ending of one purpose could be the start of another. Sentimental objects. Where did precious objects begin in your family?

6 Objects How do objects change with use? Sam Taylor-Wood Carl Burtner Decay How does food end over time? How does food begin and end when going through the digestive process? Can you document the state changes?

7 People David Hockney. Documents ageing through photo collages. Bobby Neal Adams - Age maps. How do you begin as a person and how do you end?

8 People Emotions. How can someone start their day feeling one thing and end feeling another? How do people change over time? Have they taken on a new persona with a change to their lifestyle due to: Marriage? Christening? New relationship? Friendship? Motherhood? Addiction? Promotion?

9 People How can life experiences begin a new chapter of your life? Where did your family begin? Come from? Who does your family start and end with? How do people begin and end their day? Relationships. How did it begin and/or end?

10 Activities Richard Heeks Document activities that you may partake in. How can you capture this? Getting ready. How does your day start and end? Duane Michals - Chance Meeting. Document day-to-day activities. Using techniques and contrast to make photographs appear more mysterious. Where did they begin and end their journey?

11 Sports. How does a sport motion begin and end? Activities How could you document movement? Action series shots of how someone begins and ends an action.

12 Imagination Chloe Otsmo Lucas Chimello Simoes How can people become distorted/disjointed? Did they become disorientated? Annagret Soltau. How could you stitch together beginnings and endings within people to make something from your imagination? Did they get a warped personality? Do they daydream?

13 Imagination Brad Carlile Create illusions with photographs. How does something begin/end using your imagination? Can you create something surreal through shadows and light? How can your photograph begin to take on a new meaning?

14 Places Star trails across the night sky. Global Warming. How has this changed the beginning state of an environment? Fong Qi Wei How does day turn into night? How do you begin/end your day?

15 Places You could look at places that have no ending. You would need to have a strong compositional focus to your work to achieve photographs like this. Abigail Reynolds. How has environments changed due to the beginning of the industrialised revolution that we now live in? Where could the start of something take you? Look into the journeys you have been on and how they have begun and end.

16 Natural World The beginning of natural organisms. How nature begins to encapsulate our man-made world? How nature is born and created. Structures of the cells. How do life-cycles of plants, begin and end? How do places change with time?

17 Natural World Abigail Reynolds Concentrates on how landscapes have changed with the industrial revolution and modernisation of society. Shelly Goldsmith. Display work in its context. Documents how times have changed within fashion and how fashion has also changed with time. How have places changed with weathering/erosion?

18 Natural World Beginning of Spring. End of Winter Look at cycles/ objects/ nature that has no beginning or ending.

19 Final piece possibilities.

20 Final piece possibilities. Liz Orton

21 Extension. Complete a personalised mind map of your own ideas. You can select 1 or 2 sub-headings to focus on. Fertile Question: How can you independently and creatively respond to the GCSE title Beginning and/or End Seed Question: Can you generate a variety of ideas through self and peer critical thinking? Mind map ideas. You are to create your own Mind map based on today s discussions and ideas. You should include the sub-headings: people, activities, objects, natural world and imagination.

22 Fertile Question: How can you independently and creatively respond to the GCSE title Beginning and/or End Seed Question: Can you use depth of field/macro to create photographs that have a beginning and/or end? Challenge: Can you photograph something that has an ending but no beginning? The aperture you use is the main factor in dictating how much of the scene appears in focus. The narrower the lens (higher number) the more the image will be in focus. Using the macro setting on your camera, can you capture the buds on trees to capture the beginning signs of Spring? Change your position and perspective to get some interesting and creative shots!

23 Fertile Question: How can you independently and creatively respond to the GCSE title Beginning and/or End Seed Question: Can you use depth of field/macro to create photographs that have a beginning and/or end? 1. Using your photographs from your previous photoshoot, you should use photoshop/materials/equipment today to manipulate them into a result that clearly reflects influences from your artist. 2. Next week you will go onto another photo-shoot to expand visual research and reference. Research into another photographer to influence your subject matter. Remember: Upload and paste all images / contact sheet and annotation to your on-going power-point, this will be stuck straight into your books! Challenge: Combine photographer influences with a combination of different photo-shoots you have taken.

24 Fertile Question: How can you independently and creatively respond to the GCSE title Beginning and/or End Seed Question: Can you experiment with composition to create photographs that have a beginning and/or end? Think about the placement of your subject matter and take a range of photographs with composition as the key focus. This will dramatically change the appearance and the success of your viewpoint. Take between 5-10 different photographs in sets of min. 3. Totalling : photographs to mount and evaluate. Challenge: Change your viewpoint as well as the camera placement to get a height and perspective difference. Stand tall / crouch down. Be a butterfly and an ant in one afternoon! Remember: Upload and paste all images / contact sheet and annotation to your on-going power-point, this will be stuck straight into your books!

25 Fertile Question: How can you independently and creatively respond to the GCSE title Beginning and/or End Seed Question: Can you use depth of field/macro to create photographs that have a beginning and/or end? 1. Using your photographs from your previous photoshoot, you should use photoshop/materials/equipment today to manipulate them into a result that clearly reflects influences from your artist. 2. Next week you will go onto another photo-shoot to expand visual research and reference. Research into another photographer to influence your subject matter. Remember: Upload and paste all images / contact sheet and annotation to your on-going power-point, this will be stuck straight into your books! Challenge: Combine photographer influences with a combination of different photo-shoots you have taken.

26 Fertile Question: How can you independently and creatively respond to the GCSE title Beginning and/or End Seed Question: Can you experiment with a range of lighting to create photographs that have a beginning and/or end? Think about the placement of your subject matter and take a range of photographs with lighting as the key focus. This will dramatically change the appearance and the clarity of the photograph. Take between 5-10 different photographs to have a range of photographs that you can evaluate comparatively against one another. Challenge: Can you use shadows in a creative way to play around with positive and negative space? Remember: Upload and paste all images / contact sheet and annotation to your on-going power-point, this will be stuck straight into your books!

27 Photography: Beginning and/or End Exam Checklist. -Mind map. Remember: -Image bank. Each A0 is -Depth of Field/ Macro focus photo-shoot. worth 25% -Half term photo-shoot based on photographer ideas. each! -Photographer essay based on theme. -Photo-shoot based on analysis of photographers work. -Compositional focus photo-shoot. -Photographer essay based photographic techniques. -Photo-shoot based on new photographer. -Photo-shoot with a focus on lighting. -Statement of Intent -Photographer essay based on editing. -Photoshop edits of imagery. -Combinational edits of ALL photo-shoots to date. -Photo-shoot of refined ideas. -Practice technique in photoshop based on photographers. Blue - Research = A01 Green - Edits and Techniques = A02 Red- Photoshoots = A03 Whole project: Minimum of 30 pages. This is a minimum expectation of all of you. You of course are independent and creative and as a result, will produce more exciting and innovative outcomes. Things you must include: -Sketches of planned photoshoots. -Clear titles. -Evaluation/ analysis of own work. -Screen shots of tutorial/ Photoshop processes along with development process. Assessment marks out of 20 for each A0: 0= No work to grade 1-4 : E/F = Limited ability 5-8: D = Basic ability 9-11: Low C not safe = emerging consistent ability 12-14: Safe C/low B = competent and consistent ability Safe B/ Low A = confident and assured ability

28 Fertile Question: How can you independently and creatively respond to the GCSE title Beginning and/or End Seed Question: Does your work have a journey? Can it be followed and make sense without narration from you? 25% 25% 25% What you should have so far [minimum]: -Title page -Mind map -Image bank -Artist essay -Comparative artist essay on main photographers. -Image manipulations on 1 photo-shoot. -Physical manipulations of photo-graphs so far. Today: work on combining both photo-shoots together in Photoshop. Be inventive! Challenge: Can you incorporate elements from all the photographers you have looked into a considered development page?

29 Fertile Question: How can you independently and creatively respond to the GCSE title Beginning and/or End Seed Question: How are you combining ideas together to produce a unique and innovative final piece? 25% 25% You should have researched a minimum of 3 photographers during beginning and /or end, that you can get ideas from. Your task: To combine all ideas together into a unique final piece. 25% Using these ideas from photographers you develop these through different photoshop edits. e.g. different blurs/ compositions. 25% Evaluating your experiments you need to practice your idea through refining the experiments in a more concise way. Your final piece should have a clear relationship between your book and outcome. You should be able to tell who's book it came from. It should show off your refined skills. Extension: Can you produce a mini final piece before committing to final idea to show further and more complex development.