James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2002

PT3720:03

Applied Photography 3

Townsville

HECS Band 1

26 hours practicals, 26 hours workshops. Semester 2.

Available to Bachelor of Photography students.

Students enrolling in this subject will gain further insight and experience in a variety of fields of professional photography. A series of guest lectures, demonstrations and participation in live work projects will enhance students’ understanding of, and ability to operate within, a professional work environment.

Learning Objectives:

  1. evaluating how best to meet a client’s needs from the supplied brief;
  2. achieving the best possible match between client’s needs and photographic product within the given parameters;
  3. asserting the student’s own philosophic and artistic values and preferences in interactions with clients;
  4. expressing the student’s own philosophic and artistic viewpoints and capabilities through their photographic work.

Assessment by two folios of work produced for actual clients (80%); participation in workshops and practicals (20%).