Photography, Video and Digital Imaging

Content Endorsed Course – 2 Unit

Exclusions:  Visual Arts – Photography HSC submitted work

Course Description:

Photography and its products are an integral part of our lives.  We view significant events in snapshots and on the television news; we study pictures that figure prominently in newspapers and holiday brochures; we see satellite photographs of cloud cover on television weather reports; we know the surface of Mars and the moons of Jupiter from computer enhanced images transmitted across space; we take x-ray photographs of our interiors to a doctor for interpretation; we use photocopiers and fax machines as standard office equipment.

This course in Photography will allow student to:

• Increase visual awareness of their environment and the way photographic representations can be created from this to communicate ideas and feelings

• Develop an understanding of the methods photographers use to build meanings

• Develop skills through the acquisition of the techniques of photography

• Experiment with creative techniques e.g. Sepia, Colourvir, hand colouring etc.

• Use photograph as a means of visual communications and a process to aid observation and analysis

• Develop digital skills, montage, animation and video production

• Gain an understanding of careers involving photography

School Fees: Preliminary Course $80 HSC Course $80