This post only relates to the start of the year and is 'Entry level' Reflective Practice.
You'll need to use a more detailed approach later in the year.
Practical work Reflective Practice
This is done in response to your practical work - The Deadpan shoot in the atrium.
Once you've completed a practical activity such as the deadpan shoot we all did in the atrium, you should then write up a reflection. When you do this you should write up your response to these prompts... (Use the bold headings in your work to demonstrate you're using a process to work through the reflections.
(1). What happened? - This only needs to be a very basic explanation made up of about 2 sentences.
(2). How do I feel it went? Similarly this only needs to be a couple of sentences and is usually an emotive response... I was unsure/confused/apprehensive/confident/optimistic/nervous out of my comfort zone etc.
(3). What was good/bad? Again a few sentences, highlighting in basic terms 2 good things and 1 negative aspect to the activity/work.
(4). Analysis; This is the important bit. The Key here is not to describe the obvious and things that we can see in your images and annotations.
This is where you have to critically un-pick what you have done and explain the value of doing the work. Every-time you do this, you should consider you're on this course with the intention of becoming a professional photographer, therefore any new learning, any advancement in knowledge or skills has value and this needs to be explained in your analysis.
- What have you done that was new - how will this help going forwards?
- What new equipment have you used - how might this impact on your development as a practitioner?
- What have you learned about light and lighting techniques?
- In the instance of deadpan photography - can you see any reason for applying this approach to your own images - what value does it have?
- Has this shoot and the associated research into the Bechers broadened your understanding of the different genres of Photography - what are your thoughts on this?
- Do you understand the principles of objectivity in conjunction with Photography?
- Looking at the basics - what did you get wrong - composition, focus, consistency of approach - look and see from your contact sheet whether you can get 4 images shot against white or dark backgrounds?
- If you've started to print your images - are your images fit for purpose? Compare your images and their sharpness, tones etc with the image of the boy with glasses on the wall of 3B17
- Discuss/analyse your work in terms of it's Operational context what type of photography do your images look like - what and how could they be used?
- What do you think you could do to improve them further or develop the idea further?
