The purpose of your assignment is for you to
share your thoughts and feelings about the environment in which most of us live,
work and play: the city. In other words: how do YOU experience the urban environment?
What do you have to do?
You will work in pairs to comment an aspect of city life using annotated photos.
Here is a list of words ("themes") that might inspire you (to help you find an aspect of city life to comment): flows, energy, waste, pollution, water, noise, light, green spaces and initiatives, guerrilla gardening, people, crowds, solitude, private/public space, art, architecture, monuments, hidden places, fun, timewasting, night life, advertising, signposts, problems, urban-rural divide, boredom, civic pride, sense of place, belonging, innovation, activism, foreigners, new inhabitants, places we meet, change, conflict, decay, traces, tribes, danger, waiting, sacred and profane, details, labyrinths…
Here is a list of words ("themes") that might inspire you (to help you find an aspect of city life to comment): flows, energy, waste, pollution, water, noise, light, green spaces and initiatives, guerrilla gardening, people, crowds, solitude, private/public space, art, architecture, monuments, hidden places, fun, timewasting, night life, advertising, signposts, problems, urban-rural divide, boredom, civic pride, sense of place, belonging, innovation, activism, foreigners, new inhabitants, places we meet, change, conflict, decay, traces, tribes, danger, waiting, sacred and profane, details, labyrinths…
First:
Take a high-quality photojournalism-type photo of somewhere in your/a city. It can be a place that you know well, or not at all, or that you find interesting, or that you dislike, or that brings back memories, whatever... Then take a second photo (not necessarily of the same place) which contrasts with the first.
Take a high-quality photojournalism-type photo of somewhere in your/a city. It can be a place that you know well, or not at all, or that you find interesting, or that you dislike, or that brings back memories, whatever... Then take a second photo (not necessarily of the same place) which contrasts with the first.
Second:
Do the following written work:
Do the following written work:
- Note where and when you took the photos (try to explain your photographic choices such as format, black and white or colour, angle, effects, etc.).
- List what you heard, smelt, and felt physically (the wind, the temperature, etc.) in the places where you took the photos and also how you felt emotionally (bored, curious, happy, whatever).
- Describe in detail each photo (try to describe also how - if at all - the photos reflect your mood at the time you took them).
- Give the photos a title each (explain your choice of titles).
- Note what you know about the various elements that make up the picture (for example, if your photo shows a cathedral, give historical details about it); you may need to carry out research.
- Note what significance the various elements that make up the picture have for you personally.
- Give your two photos a common title (explain it).
- Explain clearly the contrast(s), in form and/or content, between the two pictures.
- Explain what, for you, the photos (together) "say" about the urban environment (about the place, about social values and practices, about events past and present, about social-spatial divide, etc.).
- Note the feelings, positive or negative, your photos conjure up for you regarding the city.
Send an email to Mr Nettleship
(ortisbateau@gmail.com) with, as attached documents: your two photos in jpg
format + your written work on a Word document. Work sent in any other format (PDF, etc.) will not be marked! Don't forget to put your names, your class, and your school name on your documents and on your email!
The DEADLINE is Monday 29 February 2016
Your photos and comments will be published on
this blog.
Nota bene: Do not take pictures of people you do not know (other than of an anonymous crowd in which it is difficult to distinguish individuals). You must have the permission of the people who have accepted to be included in your photo(s), to post the photos (in which they are shown) on this blog.
Marking scheme:
There is a mark out of 20 (coefficient 4) for this assignment.
Maximum of 10 points for the photos (are they good quality, i.e. is there a real effort at taking a photograph like a "real" photojournalist? + do the photos "stand alone", i.e. do they "tell a story" with no accompanying comments, just the titles?).
Maximum of 10 points for the written work (one point for each of the ten stages of the written work, cf. above, + quality of the English).
Nota bene: Do not take pictures of people you do not know (other than of an anonymous crowd in which it is difficult to distinguish individuals). You must have the permission of the people who have accepted to be included in your photo(s), to post the photos (in which they are shown) on this blog.
Marking scheme:
There is a mark out of 20 (coefficient 4) for this assignment.
Maximum of 10 points for the photos (are they good quality, i.e. is there a real effort at taking a photograph like a "real" photojournalist? + do the photos "stand alone", i.e. do they "tell a story" with no accompanying comments, just the titles?).
Maximum of 10 points for the written work (one point for each of the ten stages of the written work, cf. above, + quality of the English).
