Award in Photography – Advanced

N.B. Kindly note that applicants will be requested to register for their attendance on Classter. Failure to achieve the full enrolment will entitle the lecturer to exclude student from classes and no certification can be issued. A minimum attendance of 70% is required for certification attainment.

Institute Contact: 

Ms. Anna Marie Muscat E: [email protected]

Ms. Abbie Rose Hebein E: [email protected]

Course Description

The advanced photography course is dedicated to those students who already possess good knowledge and understanding of the photographic medium and its techniques and would like to develop their competencies to a more professional level. This unit will give students the opportunity to evolve a conceptual idea into a fully developed and produced project.

The rationale behind this course is to guide students through their creative thinking process, whilst instructing them as they produce a journal documenting their creative process from the initial research phase, through their production process, and finally reaching their work delivery.

Furthermore, this course will also explore the importance of ethical and legal considerations when working on a photographic project, including the documents required for location scouting and of course talent and location release forms.

Career Paths

The target audience for this course would be students who completed their introduction and intermediate course to photography and would like to further their understanding of contextual photography, other photographers who perhaps have mastered their photographic skills but would like to experiment with more conceptual photography, and potentially interested mature students as per maturity clause.

Assessments

These may be either Home-Based Assignments or Time-Constrained Assessments, on both an Individual Basis, as well as on a Group-Level Basis according to the Units being assessed, and may also include evaluation of hands-on practice.

Learning Outcomes

1. Apply practices of photographic equipment and techniques
2. Research a concept to gather inspiration
3. Compile a Production Folder with the required paperwork and documentation
4. Produce a conceptual series of photographs
5. Present and evaluate own work whilst giving critical feedback to others

Entry Requirements

Participants should be able to communicate in Maltese and/or English

Applicants should be in possession of Award in Photography [Beginners] & Award in Photography [Intermediate]

Participants should have a basic understanding of photographic techniques including at least exposure values, lens uses and light concepts. and

Participants should also have a basic understanding of different photographic genres and post-processing skills

Participants should be in possession of an Award in Photography – Intermediate certificate and/or a Level 3 in Media Literacy studies

Students who do not have either a certification in Award in Photography – Intermediate or a Level 3 in Media Literacy Studies must present a portfolio.