GCSE: Photography

Hi everyone,

In todays post I will be talking about GCSE Photography.

To do GCSE Photography, you must :-

- Have a genuine interest in photography

- Have a digital camera or a recent model smartphone on which photographs can be taken in your own time, as part of the course.

- Work on a portfolio of evidence

Assessed

- Through two assignments (60% of final mark)

- Exam over a ten hour period (40% of final mark)

Work in ONE OR MORE areas of photography in both units.

Areas of Photography :-

- Portraiture

- Location photography

- Studio photography

- Experimental imagery

- Documentary photography

- Photo journalism

- Moving image: film, video and animation

- Fashion photography

- Installation

You may explore overlapping areas and also a combination of areas

You must develop and apply the knowledge, understanding and skills specified in the subject content to realise personal intentions relevant to photography and their selected areas of study.

- How sources relate to historical, contemporary, social, cultural and issues based contexts and external considerations such as those with the cultural industries and client orientated requirements.

- How ideas, themes, subjects and feelings can inspire creative responses informed by different styles, genres and aesthetic consideration and/ or individuals distinctive view of the world.

Photography Skills & Techniques

- Lighting

- Viewpoint

- Aperture

- Depth of Field

- Shutter Speed & Movement

- Use of Enlarger

- Chemical and/ or digital processes

Photography Materials

- Film

- Photographic papers

- Chemicals appropriate to darkroom practices

- Digital media, programs and related technologies

- Graphic media for purposes such as storyboarding, planning and constructing shoots