Chas Bedford's OCA learning blog (BA Photography 2 • Landscape, Place and Environment)
Part of the digital assessment process is to produce a six minute reflective presentation. Mine takes the form of a video, uploaded to my Google Drive and to YouTube. https://youtu.be/gXo2miv1D_0 I had bought Adobe Premiere Elements some years ago, on a whim, and used it about once a year - having to relearn from scratch... Continue Reading →
LO5 demonstrate increasing autonomy and a developing personal voice, and exercise your communication skills confidently and interact effectively within a learning group LO5 Your learning log will likely demonstrate your developing personal voice and engagement with your learning community - this could be amongst the OCA student body through forum activity, group work sessions, study... Continue Reading →
LO4 manage learning resources, conduct self-directed contextual and visual research, and be able to appraise your progress with increasing confidence LO4 The Critical Review (2,000 word essay) in part 4 will evidence the main focal point for evidencing your awareness of the wider social and cultural contexts will likely help to show your ability to... Continue Reading →
LO3 explore and realise a range of ideas and creative starting points, and exercise judgement in the production of visual material LO3 Your range of ideas and creative starting points is likely best evidenced in your learning log entries: demonstrating initial ideas, test-shoots, edits and final workings out. These could be accompanied by some evidence... Continue Reading →
LO2 demonstrate an awareness of the wider social and cultural contexts that surround the representation of place, and be able to discuss relevant ethical perspectives in relation to your own practice LO2 It is likely that your learning log entries will evidence your emerging awareness of the wider social and cultural contexts that surround the... Continue Reading →
LO1 demonstrate detailed knowledge of visual and conceptual strategies in landscape photography, the representation of place and be able to explore your own critical photographic projects. LO1 To evidence this part you could select learning log entries and examples of assignment work that show your knowledge of visual and conceptual strategies in landscape photography and... Continue Reading →
When undertaking a project with a documentary element it is essential to do some background research, in order that the photographer have some understanding of the subject matter beyond simply ‘this is what it looks like’. Graffiti in its modern form is embedded in a youth (or young adult) culture – mainly in the form... Continue Reading →
The second half of the ‘Cahoot!’ workshop was held, over Zoom, earlier today. 50 students, representing 12 of the original teams returned and showed the results of our collaborations. More on that later because equally important is the process of collaboration and art-making in a team that can only meet remotely. Our team was given... Continue Reading →
Life, the Universe –in seventeen syllables- and Everything‘Haiku on haiku’ Chas Bedford 2021 The South East Regional Group (SERG) online meeting on Monday was a rather ‘different’ spark to creativity. Group coordinator Liz515728 had set us the challenge of producing an image and linked haiku, which pushed us all gently outside our comfort zones. Creative... Continue Reading →
I have mixed feelings about the current project, ‘Landscape and gender’. One the one hand, it has introduced me to some new practitioners and at least one fascinating concept. One the other hand, it is arranged poorly, being a mass of non-sequiturs with only a passing connection to the title. Jesse Alexander, the author of... Continue Reading →
Landscape Lines 