1st blog of Yr 3 Level 6

As I left year 2, Level 5, I had the big and tough decision to make of whether I was wanting/ going to study either Fine Art Photography or Commercial Photography. I had thought that commercial would be better to study and would also perhaps look better on a certificate and if and when I went looking for a job somewhere as I thought it would be good and handy to have learned the things I need to in order for me to be a professional photographer, i.e. learning more of being in the studio and shooting for clients etc.

For my first year my projects are split in to two. The 1^st being the minor project, worth 20 credits and the 2^nd being an extension of the first project worth 60 credits and lasting 18 weeks. My Final Major Project – also known as my FMP. The first project lasts 9 weeks and on the 9^th week, on the Monday at 4.00pm is hand in. For the summer homework we got asked to write a draft of our brief for the minor project, which is also known as an ILA – Independent Learning Agreement. I started thinking of ideas in July and came up with a few; one being about the notion of beauty, another doing documentary and I was thinking either shooting/ recording my life or my hometown instead or anything else better I could come up with, I also thought of Street photography and lastly an idea of technology, focussing on cameras somehow and the advancement of them and how they’ve evolved and photography because of it and the popularity of photography from when it first began. Over the course of a couple of month I come up with an idea of doing something with the idea of beauty. I thought that it is always a popular subject with someone always having something to say about it and with everything these days being about image and the way we all look I thought it is something which is relevant at the minute. I also tried coming up with suggestions that could be expanded upon so I wouldn’t run out of ideas and ways to go about shooting my subject idea as my final project had to expand from the first, so I thought of choosing something I could shoot with slightly different solutions.