AO1:
Develop ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding.
What theme did you explore? What were your first thoughts about the theme?
How did your ideas and feelings change about it as you developed your work?
Which artists/photographers have you researched during this project? How did you discover them? What have you learned from studying their work?
Which of the Threshold Concepts (big ideas about photography) have you tackled? Explain how you did this.
AO2:
Experiment with and select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining work as it develops.
Describe the experiments you have carried out with different media, materials, techniques and processes and explain the decisions you made about how to refine and develop your work.
How did you develop your investigation?
What decisions have you made?
How has it become more sophisticated over time?
What changed along the way?
Which Habits of Mind have you exercised the most?
What have you found most challenging about working like an artist/photographer? How did you change along the way?
AO3:
Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions, reflecting critically on work and progress.
How have you used your website to record the progress of your thinking and making?
How have you designed your Online Exhibition page to best reflect the quality and thoughtfulness of your work?
AO4:
Present a personal, informed and meaningful response demonstrating critical understanding, realising intentions and, where appropriate, making connections between visual, written, oral or other elements.
Describe your final outcome(s) for this Personal Project in some detail.
What were you hoping to create? Did it work?
Do you think you have successfully explored the theme? Why/why not?
If you had more time, what else would you have liked to try?
What is personal about your work?
What do you hope viewers will understand from looking at it?
Develop ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding.
What theme did you explore? What were your first thoughts about the theme?
How did your ideas and feelings change about it as you developed your work?
Which artists/photographers have you researched during this project? How did you discover them? What have you learned from studying their work?
Which of the Threshold Concepts (big ideas about photography) have you tackled? Explain how you did this.
AO2:
Experiment with and select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining work as it develops.
Describe the experiments you have carried out with different media, materials, techniques and processes and explain the decisions you made about how to refine and develop your work.
How did you develop your investigation?
What decisions have you made?
How has it become more sophisticated over time?
What changed along the way?
Which Habits of Mind have you exercised the most?
What have you found most challenging about working like an artist/photographer? How did you change along the way?
AO3:
Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions, reflecting critically on work and progress.
How have you used your website to record the progress of your thinking and making?
How have you designed your Online Exhibition page to best reflect the quality and thoughtfulness of your work?
AO4:
Present a personal, informed and meaningful response demonstrating critical understanding, realising intentions and, where appropriate, making connections between visual, written, oral or other elements.
Describe your final outcome(s) for this Personal Project in some detail.
What were you hoping to create? Did it work?
Do you think you have successfully explored the theme? Why/why not?
If you had more time, what else would you have liked to try?
What is personal about your work?
What do you hope viewers will understand from looking at it?
We explored many themes throughout component 1: Make do and mend, Selfies, Documenting Communities and Constructed Landscapes however the final evaluation's main focus is on Constructed Landscapes. My first thoughts on the theme were about exactly how we would construct a landscape as we got further into the project I began to feel more comfortable with producing work to fit the theme and I feel that my responses gradually became more personal to me. During the time we where focusing on constructed landscapes I researched many artists in order to gain inspiration for different projects some of these artists include Dafnor Talmor, Dioone Lee, Uta Barth, Ray Metzker, John Divola, Charles Wilkin, Penelope Umbrico & Rachel Mukendi most of these artists where discovered through the Thomas Tallis GCSE Photography website I then did further research on each of the artists through other sites. By studying the work of some of these artists I learnt many new things and I was inspired to experiment in my work in many different ways. We also did some work with threshold concepts within component 1 where we covered some of the important ideas in and around photography from concept 1 to 10 which enabled me to see photography in a more in-depth way. For the first few responses in component 1 for constructed landscapes I printed and created collages to respond to the work of Dioone Lee during this process I also had to create and edit a video in order to document this piece of work the next piece I did was in response to the work of Uta Barth where we where tasked to create a series of blurred images