Year 10 - Art and design
The role of a photography journal in developing your style
Photography
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Unit Summary
This unit introduces pupils to developing their own voice. They will learn about key components in shaping their artistic voice, including research, reflection and refining ideas. The unit takes them on a journey of discovery leading to planning a final piece.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use your photography journal to develop your style and guide your artistic choices.
Key Notes
- Despite diverse backgrounds and approaches, common threads emerge in how photographers develop a journal.
- Photographers use journals to think through ideas and develop concepts for future projects or photoshoots.
- Journals are a space for practising techniques, experimenting with styles, and testing materials without pressure.
Vocabulary To Learn
- develop: to improve and refine artistic skills, ideas, or techniques through practice and experimentation
- journal: a personal space to explore, experiment, and develop artistic skills
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Photography journals are always in book form.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Despite diverse backgrounds and approaches, common threads emerge in how photographers develop a journal. Photographers use journals to think through ideas and develop concepts for future projects or photoshoots.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'develop'
to improve and refine artistic skills, ideas, or techniques through practice and experimentation.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Photography journals are always in book form. Correction: They can also exist digitally or as collections of images, notes, and sketches in various formats.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Developing a unique concept for a photography project Study Guide
- Developing your photographic voice Study Guide
- Interpreting and responding to a theme in photography Study Guide
- Planning and executing a final photographic series Study Guide
- Refining your photographic style through experimentation Study Guide
- Researching and presenting a photographer's work Study Guide
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