Week 3 already....

By now you should have a very clear idea on what you intend to do. You should have downloaded and printed all the units you have chosen to do and read them thoroughly.

Also you should have done at least one of your two statements of intent in full. The choices that you have made will then need to be researched via the web, books, magazine, youtube videos, etc..etc..of the photographers who work in your chosen areas.

We will look at research and what is required, also you can look in the archive on the main site to gain access to valuable information to help you on this course. Ask me about this and I will show you where and what you need to be looking at.

You should also be starting to label all your blog work so you can self track it all via the labels gadget which we went through the other week, any problems with this please ask me.

Also you need to be starting your photography now to run alongside your research. There is an expectation that you will be working a lot online away from the college at all times to add more content each week. This has to happen often in order that you might want to use the studio for a session, or go out to do some night photography whilst at college for example. For those who cant work online away from college, prep all your written work in word and I will show you how to copy and paste it into blogger, put your images in a seperate folder to allow a quick upload.

For those of you who do have access to the internet there is a high expectation that you are working a lot from home.After this session you will all be getting feedback from me as to how you are getting on and support.

Also you should all be commenting on each others work each week, this must be done as it is very valuable to have others critique your work as we go along throughout the whole course.

Welcome

A hearty welcome to Burton and South Derbyshire College!
Also welcome to the City and Guilds Photography courses. I hope you had a smooth process in enrolling onto the course that you have chosen. The levels within the framework of these courses rise from level 1 to 4, if at anytime you feel that you cant cope, or the course is too easy for you, please speak to the tutor in charge of your group for clear advice and guidance. We can migrate you across to different levels in negotiation with your tutor.

Enjoy your time at Burton and South Derbyshire College!

Steve Davies & Marie Holliday

New Level 4 Photography Course

The new City and Guilds Level 4 Photography course is now online and you can see all the latest information via this new weblink;

http://cityandguildslevel4.blogspot.com

Please take a look and see if its for you, there are all sorts of new and exciting prospects with our link with a large modern photography studio that has 40 years experience in a broad range of commercial and advertising photography.

Please let me know if you are interested. Thank you.

stephen.davies@burton-college.ac.uk

Well Done!

All marking and grading of work is now complete, I have left comments on all of your blogs on how well you have all done. Can I take a moment to congratulate you all on all of your hard work and commitment to achieving high grades across all of the courses.

The City and Guilds Photography course can offer you all with a progression onto the next level or the same level but in different themes, for example if you did Location Photography last time why not try your hand at Studio Photography in September.

I am available to give advice and guidance on all of these courses should you require more information.

Please email me for any information about any of the courses. Can you also forward this link to others who may wish to join in September

stephen.davies@burton-college.ac.uk

Again well done to every one of you, the course would not be as successful as it is without all of your excellent photography and drive to succeed.

Steve

On line final Critique

As we are virtually over the finish line can I ask that you visit each others sites that you are following and leave 'Critique Comments' on their final images for both themes please. This feedback from each other in the group is very valuable and supportive. Can you all at least do a minimum of around 5 other blog websites within your group. You may even wish to comment on students who are on different City and Guilds Photography levels.

The Final Countdown......

As both the level 2 and level 3 courses finish this week can you make sure that you have all your final images to give me on a cd ready for me to collect. I need all of your images as final PSD files along with your original jpegs before being put through photoshop.

Please can everyone make sure that all blogs are up to date as far as can be with all blogs requiring a label as per unit requirements. This is to ensure the highest possible grades are achievable from all the hard work that everyone has put in.

We are in a very strong position as a groups with potentially a large proportion of the groups on line for distinctions which is where we all need to dig deep and give it a final push.

Allowances will be made to all students work and extensions will be allowed via discussion. All work will be marked around 2 weeks after the final hand in day.

Last chance saloon

Can everyone make sure that they have all their images with them in the next class, as I will be doing a final collection of all student work for the college wide exhibition.

Some images are for the showreel which will play on all the TV screens in the main reception, the others will be used in a printed and framed exhibition in room CS118.

All printing and framing will be done via the college, so all I need is your high quality PSD files so that I can start to print them. This is a last minute change to space allocation that has become available so I grabbed it for City and Guild students to use.

If not a posse will be sent out and your on the next stage owt a town!!

(Oh and next week is the last session, so please can you bring all your finished sets of 10 images for each theme in ready for me to collect if I havent got them already).