Unit 13: Final Major Project
FMP ASSESSMENT APPOINTMENTS FRIDAY 20TH MAY:
11:30 – Laura
11:45 – Reece
12:00 – Tasharna
12:15 – Karolina
1:30 – Natalia
1:45 – Gosia
2:00 – Sesilla
2:15 – Charlotte
2:30 – Sohni
FMP “CHECKLIST” – FMP checklist
Your blog/sketchbook should be able to display the following in order to achieve at PASS on your Unit 13/FMP
- SOI with pencil annotated timetable at front of sketchbook or at top of blog page.
- Research – all research which is listed on your SOI (Harvard Format) must be presented and show ANALYSIS (FMP Research Guides) of work, in own words, and show a clear developmental relationship to your FMP
- Other Research – anything in addition to your SOI and the London EXHIBITIONS (exhibitions guide)
- All elements of the fmp-flows must be completed and presented in full, including FMP action plan and Post-Shoot Evaluations – this must be done for all shoots!
- A minimum of 6 shoots should be presented, and 8 shoots is a guide to be considered as “good” – therefore you should show the flow process 6-8 different times. Each flow should be presented as shoot 1, shoot 2, shoot 3, etc and be dated! This will link to your FMP timetable.
- Evidence of participation in 3 group critiques – post the PowerPoint presentations, recorded feedback from peers, recorded feedback from lecturer
- Editing evidence is presented – screenshots, manipulations, etc – discussion of how it adds value to work and concept
- Reflection on feedback from all 3 Crits (Reflective Journal)
- Clear evidence of how you have altered your FMP due to feedback or other problem solving
- Analysis of work at all stages!
- Use of a variety of creative and technically strong photographic materials, techniques and processes, including editing
- REFLECTIVE JOURNAL – with at least weekly entries (dated) for a pass, more frequent to achieve higher
- Evidence of process to select Final Outcomes, analysis of how images fulfill original concept from SOI
- Final Written Evaluation – 2 drafts – completion of project, audience, and how images illustration concept
- Show diagram & planning
- Self-Promotion to be displayed at show (due no later than Friday 10th June) – Year 2 Portfolio, poster, business cards, show reels, pricing work, private view planning and participation
- Show reels – Year 1 & Year 2 work can be done together in one show reel; Year 2 FMP in a separate show reel.
- Add this title: NAME, WEST THAMES COLLEGE, UAL L3 EXTENDED DIPLOMA PHOTOGRAPHY, 2016
FINAL CRIT 3 PRESENTATION GUIDE: Crit 3 final
FINAL EVALUATION WORKSHEET: final-evaluation
MERIT / DISTINCTION DESCRIPTORS:
V&A and Barbican Exhibition Worksheet: exhibitions
Info on the Paul Strand Exhibition:
Statement: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/paul-stand-about-the-exhibition
Intro: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/paul-strand-an-introduction
Un Paese Project: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/paul-strand-un-paese
Hebrides: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/paul-strand-in-the-hebride
Here is a link to all of the artist statements for the Strange & Familiar Exhibition: http://www.barbican.org.uk/media/events/17922strangefamiliarwalltexts.pdf
Crit 2 Wednesday 27th – All students 2:20. Must follow the Powerpoint Format. Please do not show us all images from your shoots, but also not too few. We do not want to just see what you have chosen as finals but we do not want to see 20 images of more or less the same thing either! 10-15% from each shoot would be a good aim. Powerpoint should be visually presented, not text heavy. Use bullet points and be prepared to discuss your work with your group rather than reading to them.
Laura
Charlotte
Sesilla
Tasharna
Karolina
Reece
Natalia
Gosia
Sohni
FMP – 2016
FMP FLOW CHART fmp-flows
Crit 2 – crit-2-fmp-presentation-guide
FMP ACTION PLAN fmp-action-plan-temp (pdf)
FMP Research Analysis Guide how-to-present-final-major-project-research-in-your-sketchbook
POST SHOOT EVALUATIONS post shoot eval
Requirements:
- FMP – completed project by w/c 16th May (Assessment 1) & w/c 30th May (Examiners)
- Participate in 3 Critiques: w/c 11th April, w/c 25th April, w/c 9th May
- Attend 2/3 trips for exhibitions: Paul Strand, Strange/Familiar, Sony World Photography, Deutsche Börse Photography, 100 Years of Vogue, Free Range Shows
- Prepare a final poster for your FMP project for Creative Arts Week
- Prepare your Year 1 and Year 2 showreel and contribute to class showreel.
- Create a final business card with original design for Creative Arts Week
- Work as a team, with peers, to design final group show poster & name
- Work with peers to organize a private view
- Show build, present/mount work for show
- Prepare final portfolio for examiners
Reflective Journal – Guidance
- The journal is about you—so write in the first person.
- Got questions? If so, write them down!
- Found an answer you don’t want to forget? Write it down.
- Keep your to-do lists in the journal. Also record the steps you performed if they are not part of the action plan. Checklists also belong in journals.
- Keep the journal on your person at all times while performing study tasks and observations. Think of it this way—if it is not handy when you need it, then what good is it?
- Record ideas of value to you.
- Use the back inside cover for special notes to yourself.
- If you notice cultural issues emerging in your study, record it!
- Got a new idea for your research or for your next AR cycle? Write it down!
- Did you screw up? If so, record your mistake.
- Did you sense a power distance while meeting with stakeholders? If so, write about how you felt and what you observed.
- Did you make a mistake while collecting data? If so, you better leave yourself a note in the journal.
- Did you have a new, positive, confusing, negative, or utterly befuddling experience while researching? Well, write it down!
- Did you sense emotion from yourself or a stakeholder? Was it relevant to the moment in which you were conducting the study? If so, record it. Emotions are part of being human and are a very valuable component to action research.
- Did you have a moment where you were unprepared or felt like a total idiot during the study? If so, good! Record that moment and think about what you need to learn.
- Make sure you have a safe place to keep your journal.
- Never let anyone else write in your journal.
EXHIBITION TRIP – FRIDAY 29th APRIL, 9am
Paul Strand – V&A
A major retrospective of the work of American photographer and film maker, Paul Strand (1890-1976), and the first in the UK since the artist’s death. Strand was one of the greatest and most influential photographers of the 20th century whose images have defined the way fine art and documentary photography is understood and practiced today.
Reviews:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/paul-strand-at-the-va-review-a-moving-experience/
Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers
Curated by the iconic British photographer Martin Parr,Strange and Familiar considers how international photographers from the 1930s onwards have captured the social, cultural and political identity of the UK.
From social documentary and portraiture to street and architectural photography, the exhibition celebrates the work of leading photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson,Rineke Dijkstra, Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand. Bringing together over 250 compelling photographs and previously unseen bodies of work, Strange and Familiarpresents a vibrant portrait of modern Britain.
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=17922
Reviews:
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/great-britain-strange-and-familiar
NOT RELEVANT YET – DO NOT USE BELOW
DUE BY THE 12TH:
YOUR WORK DISPLAYED ON THE WALL IN THE SHOW
ARTIST STATEMENT W/HEAD SHOTS ON WALL
WORK PRICED
BUSINESS CARDS – FIND HOLDERS
PERSONAL FMP POSTER – A4
SHOW EVALUATION
PORTFOLIO
BLOG
UNIT 10/11 PORTFOLIO
MERIT & DISTINCTION CRITERIA:
UALab Grade Criteria Exemplification Matrix Level 3 – v1.0
Presenting FMP Work in Sketchbook – Presenting the Flow: FMP Flow
FMP Action Plans: FMP Action plan temp
Post Evaluation & Evaluation of Developmental Images: Shoot & Image eval guide
FMP PITCH – FOLLOW THIS STRUCTURE YOUR PITCH
FMP MINI PRESENTATION – FMP Presentation Year 2
Past Student Work from FMP: contact-1 contact-2 contact-3 contact-4
HOW TO PRESENT RESEARCH HANDOUT: HOW TO PRESENT FINAL MAJOR PROJECT RESEARCH IN YOUR SKETCHBOOK
Use Emma’s blog as an example of how to set up and maintain a reflective journal (diary). Notice the differences between the content in the journal and what would be in your sketchbook:
https://emmaferrariphotography.wordpress.com/
** Wide variety of research and influences presented.
** Personal report of her progress – critical of what is going well, and what has been challenging along the way.
** Recording change of ideas or direction.
** Recording and reacting to feedback from peers/tutors.
** Reflective language on the quality of her work
** Identifying improvements needing to be made
** Evaluation of how she has stuck to her original plan
** Include work of other artist, embedded videos, research that she is keeping in mind whilst shooting.
Example FMP Poposals:
** Keep in mind that these are BTEC Edexcel FMP proposals, and we are now UAL. Our forms are now different so the examples will not cover everything that we are asking you to do.
SHOW REELS:
Extended Diploma Photography West Thames College 