Design sheet - A3 Template (3 column) 2020

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See the link below to upload a new copy of the 3 column A3 design sheet.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1adoWzaxL4cZvpe05kaKrMPPmm4GBia5v/view?usp=sharing

When the document opens do not work with it in Google docs download it to your USB or hard-drive and work with it in Word. 

As soon as you have downloaded the file re-name it for the purpose that it's going to be used for. If you're downloading it at the start of the unit you'll need several copies of it e.g.

• 001 Douglas Brothers (Research)
• 002 Rania Matar (Research)
• 003 Ed Drew (Research)
• 004 Richard Avdeon (Research)
• 005 Practical work (Main part).
• 006 Final Images
• 007 Final Evaluation

If you name the files with the numbered pre-fix as above this helps when converting the whole project to one big PDF at the end of the Unit when you have to upload it to Turnitin.

Top Tip work in a timely manner e.g. when you finish your day at college make sure you do all of your write-ups that same day or before the next lesson. If you've got hard-copy work to scan, do that before you leave college so that you can input them that evening or a soon as possible. Aim to get the work into your design sheets in the order that you produce it. 

Remember - Scans need to be 100 ppi/inch resolution for design sheet purposes. Scans that might be used for portfolios need to be scanned at 300 ppi/inch resolution. 

Design sheet best practice

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Here's an example of how to layout your work in response to your practical activities.

This is 2 pages using the 3 column design sheet.

As you'll notice it's very 'Image dominant' with a good amount of written content and this is how I would recommend you produce your work in response to any practical activities.

The top left-hand corner Highlighted in blue is the Planned intention/action plan or your plan for the activity. Plans are increasingly important as you go forward and they're one of the key things you're assessed against. Your plans need to outline what you're going to do and can be written up retrospectively - normally I write up an outline of what you'll be doing at the start of the sessions, so you can use my description as the basis for any plans. Things that you can include in your plans include...

• What is it you're aiming to do/learn/improve with regards your practice (Photography).
• What resources/equipment you'll be using (Use images).
• Floor plans if shooting pictures indicating the light type/direction/equipment see below for example.
• Where you'll be shooting/working.
• Who your model or assistant/s will be. 
• What your creative intention is (If relevant).
• If you're shooting images and your idea for your images is influenced by photographers or artists that differ from your main research done at the start of the project, you should include a Micro research element. This might be as simple as one image that demonstrates what you're work is based on. Along with the single image include the Photographers/artists name and the name of the work and where it was seen/published. 

The practical work  this should constitute 75% of the pages. Things that should be included here are...

• Images of equipment, materials and techniques used.
• Wide shots of the environment your working in showing the equipment and set up (Studio/darkroom/location).
• Contact sheets - showing a range of the ideas you tried. *Note if you shot hundreds of images pick out the 48 or 72  of those that represent what you did and make 2 or 3 x contact sheets of 24. if you use 2 or 3 contact sheets you'll probably produce more than one page for the whole activity.
• Screen grabs if using Photoshop showing new learning. 
• Your work from the activity at different stages showing a representation of what you did and how it came together.
• Images that identify processes.
• Annotations that support the images, but as much as you can let the images serve as explanations avoid writing large annotations.

The Gibbs Reflections This is the section highlighted in the salmon colour. This is the other bit that requires the bulk of the written material. (See the link in the sidebar to the right for an explanation). 

Read the explanation first.

The first 3 parts of the Gibbs Reflective method are kept to a minimum - literally 2 or 3 sentences should suffice. The 4th section is the key part and this is where you Reflect on what you've done in accordance with the criteria from the brief/assignment below...

In this analysis section you need to do as indicated in 4/D.P7 and 4/D.P8 above in the grid. 

(1). Explain why what you've done meets the requirements of the brief.

(2). How what you've done has improved your knowledge and understanding of photography - what have you learned and can you see the potential for it? 

(3) Identify areas of skills deficiencies or lack of knowledge/understanding and explain what you need to do to improve.

If you do all of this each time you have a practical session in the darkroom and every time you shoot you will almost certainly be working at a very high level. In time if you adopt this process, it'll become so easy to produce your work to a very high standard. 

"Supports" Specialist Photographic papers

During the Unit 04 assignment you'll be introduced to some of the specialist materials (Photographic papers) used in analogue Photographic printing (Darkroom). 

A generic terms used in Art for materials you draw or print on is "Supports". The process of painting or printing onto the 'Supports' is known as 'Mark making' (Even Photography).

Double click on the link above to access the website this image is sourced from. 

These are high-end papers for use with professional applications – two of them are especially worthy of your attention and it would be great to see some of this paper being used in your finals. One of them combined with drawing or painting or some other mark making approach would be exceptionally well received by anyone marking the work showing exceptionally high knowledge and advanced use of MTP’s. (Providing the written support was evident).

These papers are very expensive, so we sell them in smaller packs. The packs contain 3 types of paper and the price of the paper will be added to the price list on the door of the technicians office on the 3rd floor.

 A ‘Multipack’ of specialist papers will include papers that will allow for easy 'Mark making' - drawing or painting on the surface of the print to 'Hand tint' the images and other methods. There will be 3 or 4 sheets of each of the papers to enable you to make test strips and make a few 1/2 sheets sized images. If you like any of the papers and want more you can request to buy packs of 5, 10 or 25.

2020 - The pack contains 10 sheets of paper and costs £12.00. 

4 x sheets of Ilford MG300

3 x sheets of Ilford classic Fibre based 

3 x sheets of one other.

With the specialist papers go on to the Ilford website and use a screen grabs as below for your design sheets - do one for each of the papers you use as well your standard RC VC paper...

Digital Photography examples.

Those of you that have bought the Print Space sample pack also have the option of identifying digital papers and researching these. If you go onto the print space website (Double click the image above) you'll be able to find the 'Product data' page that gives you the basic information regarding the papers characteristics and properties. With the paper in your hand and the descriptions on-line you'll be able to write up good analysis of these papers - choose 3 or 4 to do this with. 

Simply screen grab (Snipping tool) 2-4 of the papers...

And the screen grab to your design sheets. This includes a basic description. Add the weblink below to show where you've sourced the image and information and if you're working at merit or distinction level - look at the paper, have feel of it and comment on the paper and it's qualities and characteristics... thickness and weight, does it feel high-quality, does it look high quality, how much better than photo-copy paper is it? Also look at the price in the price list on-line - compare with the B&W papers you're using - imagine if the course was digital and you had to produce your finals on this stuff? What would the cost implications be - how log might it take for the work to be ordered and sent by post.

Portfolio - In the second year you'll need to come back to this information again in two of the later Units so don't discard your Sample Pack. You might decide (Depending on what your long term goals are in Photography) that you might upgrade your portfolio that you're starting to compile now by having all of your images printed on one of these superb supports (papers). 

Essential to Pass -4/A.P2

4/A.P2 Explain how materials, techniques and processes are used to communicate creative intentions.

 This criteria relates to your research. 

You're advised to explain it in conjunction with the Rania Matar images "Girl in her room". See the link in the sidebar for more details relating to the work that needs to be done. 

1. Use 3/4 of column worth of images from the series 'Girl in her room'. 

2. Use the heading *Creative Intention with this work.

3. Read the articles relating to Girl in her room and explain what Rania Matar's *creative Intention is. 

• What are the images about?
• What is the message behind the images?
• What mood do they evoke?
• What's the story/narrative of the images?
• Are the images Subjective? E,g., have they been set up with the model involved and are they portraying the subject allowing them to evoke some sense of their personality. Discuss and explain why?
• Are the images objective? Like the Becher's and Thomas Ruff where there's little consideration regarding personality and the process of shooting is almost mechanical?

*Creative Intention is a key word that's used within the criteria. It's useful to use such keywords in your explanations of your work as they demonstrate that your work is addressing the criteria. 

Essential to Pass -4/A.P1

 4/A.P1 Explain how materials, techniques and processes have been used in the work of art and design practitioners.

This criteria relates to your research - 

You're advised to explain it in conjunction with the Rania Matar images "Girl in her room". See the link in the sidebar for more details relating to the work that needs to be done. 

1. Write this up with the other pass criteria see here Both AP1 and AP2 should be written up with the 'Girl in her room' images. 

2. Use the heading... "How materials, techniques and processes have been used in the work of art and design practitioners". 

3. Read the articles relating to Girl in her room and explain what equipment, materials, techniques and processes Rania Matar has used to produce this set of images. You could use sub-headings as follows...

• Equipment - Identify the camera she uses and whether she uses a tripod, flash or other equipment. Find images of the camera and use these in your design sheets too. 
• Materials - What film does she use or does she use digital? If she uses film - use images of the film type, add the product data for the film.
• Technique - what technique does she use - wide shots, close-ups, plain backgrounds, on location, eye level, looking down, or from below, low key, high key, hand held, ambient light, flash, reflectors, objective or subjective? 
• Process - How do you think the shoot is organised, are these girls her daughters? What do you think is  involved in the process of organising of this kind of shoot - particularly on the day at the girls house?
• How is colour film processed (C41) basic description. (Images)?

Key words and phrases to use in the heading (All above that are in bold text). 

Essential to Pass 4/BP3

 Essential to Pass 4/BP3

In order to pass this criteria...

Demonstrate an exploration into art and design materials, techniques and processes.

The main evidence you need to include comprises of images with the support of minimal annotation...

• Your prints with any of the techniques that you've used.
• Spraying
• Scratching
• Weave
• Diffusion
• Burning 
• Grade filters 0, 5 and no filter
• Cut and re-configure
• A small selection of test strips.
• Contact sheets
• Your liquid emulsion prints
• Your Sellotape transfer prints
• Your digital images that you've drawn on with charcoal
• Your Cyanotypes
• Prints that you've painted or drawn on

Processes (Any images that show process e.g. the stages of the techniques you've used). These were mostly shot on your phones and include the following...

• Wide shots of your sets 
• Images of the stage of liquid emulsion
• Images of set-up for deadpan images in the studio
• Image of wide shots of shoots on the balcony
• Images of the equipment and stages for film processing
• Images of the equipment and stage for print developing - trays, enlargers etc
• Images of chemicals used

Technique (You might have already evidenced technique using images above)

• Images of any capturing devices you've used DSLR, Pentax, your Phone, scanner and Photo-copier
• Wide shots of the darkroom
• Wide shots of you working at any stage or your sets
• The results of your techniques

*Note; using image alone will enable you to pass if you get a lot of them in. Make sure you use the images to their full advantage - make sure they fit the width of the columns and occasionally use some of your better images as full size folio image mid-project.

If you add annotations... who knows, you might get the higher grade. 

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Essential to Pass 4/BP4

 In order to pass, you need to meet the following criteria seen in the Assignment/Brief

4/B.P4

Demonstrate consideration of health and safety issues when exploring art and design materials, techniques and processes.

You need to have identified some knowledge and learning with regards to Health and Safety.

Make sure you use a heading using the key words from the criteria when you put the work in your design sheet...

Health and Safety  and the write the work and use the images below the heading.

You need 2 or 3 as a minimum choose from the following that were covered...

• Darkroom Health and Safety 
• Chemical Health and safety
• Lifting and carrying
• COSHH and MSDS documents (Chemicals)
• Aware of location hazards
• Studio H&S

Remember to use images as much as you can.

If you do all of these well and have them spread throughout your work with images, you might meet the higher graded criteria. 

Essential to Pass 4/CP5

 C.P5

In order to pass this Criteria (CP.5) you need to show that you've gone from producing In-class experiments to producing images independently for the theme - in this case identity focusing on someone of your choice.

Therefore you need to show that you've shot your chosen person and used MTP's to produce a set of images suitable to be included in the composite.

As an absolute minimum, if you run out of time, you can shoot your chosen person using a digital method and make the composite using printed off digital images. You still need to re-photograph these using a flat-copying technique in the studio and also experiment with scanning using the Photo-copiers.

In order to bolster your grade potential you need to research and identify digital print output options. Use your Print Space Sample Pack and the Print Space Website...

• Use this Link here and screen grab the products and the description and then look up the prices for these products (A4)  or (10 x 8) to compare with the cost of the Black and White paper you use in college.
• Use this Link here and screen grab the products and the description and then look up the prices for these products (A4)  or (10 x 8) to compare with the cost of the Black and White paper you use in college.
• Ask Dave Thompson for the sample pack if you don't have one so that you're able to feel and describe the papers in your own words. 

Essential to Pass 4/CP6

 CP6 - Pass Criteria

This one is reliant on you having the experimental prints produced during the Unit with mention and or images of Materials (Chemicals, papers, equipment); Techniques - written explanation of what you've done or images of you doing it - Wide shots showing the techniques you've used when shooting or making images; Processes - explanations of processes e.g. the stages of your techniques - Printing - setting up lights in the studio, the stages of making and preparing the liquid emulsion paper etc.

Essential to Pass 4/DP7

 Final Evaluation criteria (1 of 2)

In your evaluation you need to explain what the brief demanded involved e.g. what do you have to produce and what was the theme. 

What MTP's have been used have used in your finals why has the use of these MTP's met the brief?

The explain what materials, techniques and processes you've used across the unit generally and why they have met the Brief.