PROJECT BRIEF - FP6005

BA (Hons) Photography – Kingston School of Art

MODULE: FP6005 LEVEL: 6 CREDITS: 60

TITLE: Final Major Project

Final Major Project – 90% coursework

2022-23


WHEN & WHERE:

FP6005 will take place primarily in KPLB206 with Nana Varveropoulou on Thursdays & Fridays and Diego Ferrari on Thursdays. The sessions will include group critiques, workshops, exhibition visits, seminars and talks from guest speakers.

Please note: Individual tutorials are offered weekly during the year on Mondays or Fridays (11am-1pm) – both on campus/online. You will be allocated your tutor at the start of the academic year. We rotate (tutors and days) over the year to give you different insights and voices to aid development of your FMP work.

Wednesdays at 12:30-1:30pm Professional Photographers’ lecture series (online).


Visiting Lecturers & Visits (all tbc):

  • Nadav Kander
  • Nick Knight
  • Effie Palaiologou
  • Robie Lawrence
  • Alexandra Lethbridge
  • Lewis Khan


FINAL DEADLINE: Thursday 4th May 2023


Brief

Your Final Major Project (FMP) gives you the chance to consolidate the theoretical, practical and critical research processes that are embedded within your individual photographic practice. You will be expected to evidence and discuss how you have integrated your individual practical response with the processes of in-depth research and arrived at an understanding of the outcomes within a contemporary context. You will also be required to participate in group reviews, tutorials and group discussions inviting you to critically engage with your project production and also with the work of others.

This module is concerned with realising a coherent body of independent photographic work that will contribute to your final portfolio of work and be suitable for exhibition. Extending and developing from your work from the Interim Project, you will advance and apply skills of idea generation and development, research and analysis, editing, selection, sequencing and presentation, in order to produce a fully resolved production and presentation of a major body of work including exhibition (physical or virtual) installation.


For this project you must submit the following:

  1. Final Portfolio of Photography (70% of total grade):
  2. A professional selection of final images prepared for display. Presented professionally to relevant industry standards. Include a digital visualisation gallery installation doc as part of the folio display considerations.
  3. Photography Research and Documentation Log (20% of total grade): (aka - Process Workbook – Digital doc only - PDF/Word or PowerPoint - approx. 30-60 pages). Documenting the development of your ideas and project production and providing a comprehensive overview of this development. This will be evidenced in ongoing visual research from a wide range of sources and practitioners, drawings, contact sheets, test prints, and an ongoing critical analytical commentary, which will tie these various elements together and further contextualize the development of your ideas and your project.
  4. A project statement (approx. 500 words, Word doc or PDF only.
  5. Final evaluation (approx. 1000 words, Word doc or PDF only)


In your process workbook you are required to include the following:

  • Evidence of ongoing and expansive research of both contemporary and historical practitioners in your area of interest.
  • Critical analysis of your research
  • A commentary and visual evidence of your working methodologies.
  • Visual observations, i.e. Photographing, sketching, note taking.
  • Ongoing critical analysis and evaluation or your own work
  • Evidence of concept development and realization
  • Comparing and contrasting your own work with your research
  • Discussion on how you have applied what you have learnt in technical workshops to your own work.
  • Ethical and Legal considerations (where applicable)
  • Health and safety regulations and practice (where applicable)
  • Materials, techniques and processes used throughout the module and evidence of consideration on how these have influenced the final outcomes.
  • Editing and preparation for final selection.

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