When you plan and make a photograph, there are many things that you use to communicate your intention to your audience. This section includes the elements that you include to produce particular thoughts, feelings or story: the things that are in front of the camera. Examples include:

• Subject, the main part of the image (where your subject is a person, include positions or facial expressions)

• Background (What is the background? Which type of background?) 

• Props & Objects

• Actions that are occurring

• Lighting (direction, time of day, artificial / natural, outside / inside, warm / cool tone)

Example: Metallica' master of puppets includes hands in the sky with strings attached to soldier's gravestones to represent the idea of soldiers not making their own choices but being controlled by the government.

Metallica (1986) Master of Puppets. URL.

Method means the process that you take to make something (for example, in a recipe, the method section tells you what to do with ingredients to cook something). In photography, this relates to the ways that you capture the things in the 'Make' section above: the choices you make behind the camera to convey your intention to your audience. These choices include:

• Camera settings (shutter speed, aperture, ISO)

• Compositional Tools & Colours used

• Angles

• Using a tripod / self timer / remote 

• Anything you thought about or did to set up or capture your photograph

Example: In Joker (2019), the shot of the Joker on the stairs uses leading lines to draw attention to the Joker, while the low angle and fill the frame make him seem important, powerful and scary.

Gleiberman, O. (2018) Why 'Joker' is All of Us. URL.