Media and film studies

Photography: Practice and Theory

Module code: P4065
Level 4
15 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Workshop
Assessment modes: Coursework

This module introduces you to using the still image and encourages you to reflect critically on issues of narrative, form and representation in order to convey a story. You will learn key processes and techniques involved in digital imaging: research, composition, exposure, editing and devices for storytelling. You will work individually to realise set exercises in and out of class and produce a completed series of images to a set brief.

Module learning outcomes

• Demonstrate a proficient and competent use of production technology in a specific medium.
• Conceive, research, develop, design and execute a medium-specific creative media project.
• Apply medium-specific critical and aesthetic discourses to their own and others' creative media projects.
• Demonstrate critical reflection on the intersection of practice and theory.