NM2202 - Photojournalism: Documentation and Communication

Credit points:	03
Year:	2010
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Creative Arts

Available to all students

This subject will provide students with intensive quasi real-world experiences in working to a supplied brief and working to deadlines within the genre of Photojournalism. In Stage 1 all students will initially attend full time lectures and tutorials covering aspects of documentary photography and working journalism. In the final session students will be individually supplied with a detailed brief, each based on a separate issue of environmental concern in North Queensland. The following week will comprise unsupervised background research to contextualise the topic, identify issues and key players and develop an action plan to investigate and report on their topic. Stage two involves field-work invoking the action plan. All photography, interviews and further related research will be done at this time. Students will return to class towards the end of July to complete write-ups and format images and articles.

Learning Outcomes

• Awareness of image making as a medium for social, political and cultural change;
• Knowledge of location based lighting theory and its application to a range of lighting situations in the field;
• Knowledge of the professional working norms and ethical considerations of photojournalism;
• High levels of skill and knowledge on aspects of documentary photographic reportage, interview and research techniques.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to read complex and demanding texts accurately, critically and insightfully;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion;
• The ability to work individually and independently;
• The ability to select and use appropriate tools and technologies;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Assumed Knowledge:	Students will have some foundation skills in either photography, journalism or creative writing
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	JN5501

Availabilities
Townsville, Block, Study Period 7
Census Date 08-Jul-2010
Face to face teaching (29/6/10 - 16/7/10)
Lecturer:	Ms Kirsten Heritage.
Contact hours:	39 hours workshops/Seminars
Assessment:	presentations (30%); portfolio of images at culmination of project (50%); assignments (20%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.