Y02 - Research tasks overview (Independent English)

Refer to the assignment issued the first week back.

"Historical and contemporary photography Y02" (Independent English)

The format for the work is exactly the same every 2 weeks.

This is the work that you do during your Independent English sessions.

On the days indicated above you should make a start on the work, what is important is the deadline as at each deadline you will have to upload your work to Turnitin.

Turnitin records when you;ve submitted the work and how much of the work has been plagiarised (Copied). Non-submissions and work that has been plagiarised will not be acceptable.

Each of these tasks if under-taken with commitment and the required level of enthusiasm should take around 3-4 hours. They are an essential part of your studies and must be completed. If under-taken with any real sense of purpose these tasks should enable you to generate ideas more readily and give you a good grounding in understanding photography.
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New Format

This is a suggestion for an alternative way of producing your research. You may want to adopt it or try it out - it's up to you.

On the left-hand page Where possible include an image of the Photographer with their equipment/camera and an image that you know has influenced the work or may have influenced the work if you recognise similarities in older photography. The written section is your initial response to the work prior to studying and reading about it.

2nd page (Right) With this page select one of the images from the series you're looking at and studying and then use about 10 of the headings from the list of prompts (See side bar) and write up the facts around the image. You should use 2 - 3 quotes making sure that they are used in conjunction with speech marks, otherwise they will be picked up by Turnitin as plagiarism. Also include 4 or 5 of your research references and where possible include books or journals.

This is how you need to work with your research or if you prefer use the way you have been using in the first year. The important thing is to get it done. Use your time effectively and make sure the work is handed in on time and not plagiarised.

Location Photography - Shooting on beach

This was a shoot that I observed on Camber Sands beach in Kent.

We turned up at about 11.00 and shortly after we'd settled on the beach a couple of blokes started to bring equipment down from a large beach-side house... Click on the image to go to the website to access the prices to rent this house.

The houses in such locations are frequently used for shooting films and photographic shoots. In this case it was used as the base for the model and the crew - search "Sea Gem, Camber Sands".

It soon became apparent that the equipment that was being brought down to the beach was Photographic and that we were about to witness an elaborate  Photo-shoot on the beach directly in front of where we were sitting.

There appeared at this point to be 4 assistants and the equipment being brought down included petrol generators and studio light and heavy duty light stands. The equipment was brought down from the house using carts as seen here. You can see the base house in the distance. The light at this point was diffuse as there was some sea mist which has yet to burn off.

One of the generators, probably 'Silent running' or as near as possible.

A few hours in, the mist had burnt off and the Model Jasmin Le Bon was brought down to the beach and more people started to turn up - make-up, hair stylist, stylist and probably people from the magazine - features writer, artistic director, picture editor, editor and their assistants?

This was the last shot that I took and we left shortly after this at about 5pm and at this point they'd been there about 6 hours and were still not shooting. They probably started to shoot a short time after we left as the light would have dipped lower in the sky and and become more conducive with shooting. If you search Jonty Davies Jasmin Le Bon in Google you'll be able to find some of the images that were published - a mixture of B&W shots and colour

This was in July and the images and article was published in the November issue of 'Red' magazine. The photographer who I spoke to and asked if I could shoot the image was Jonty Davies