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On this course at City College Brighton and Hove you will explore the theory and practice of photography in a work-related context. The transition from film-based practice to digital imaging capture is emphasised, and it is possible to work exclusively in film or digital production during assignments. In addition, different studio lighting techniques are used in both tungsten and flash lighting disciplines. You will gain experience of different ways of working in the sector and have the opportunity to develop your own work whilst learning new skills alongside practitioners in the industry.
Course structure

In year 1, you study Digital Imaging, Studio Lighting Practice and Contextual and Critical Studies. You also explore working in the industry and examine different professional practices, working towards an end-of-year project.

Digital Imaging focuses on producing self-promotional material through print and the web using industrial software packages. In contrast, an additional module focuses on traditional film methods using negatives to produce handmade prints from a darkroom.

You will be able to publish and exhibit your own work as well as developing project management skills in working to a brief, to budget and to deadlines. There are lots of opportunities to apply your newly acquired skills within practical workshops. Theory sessions focus on the historical aspects of photography as well as exploring philosophical and social perspectives.

Professional practitioners and specialist speakers take part in the course, and give advice and practical assistance in the development of your portfolio and ideas for individual assignments.
Career and progression opportunities

Photographers have a large range of work opportunities open to them. They can work with artists who use this medium in their work, or equally, may wish to become a photographer in their own right. Photography has a major role to play in the publishing and advertising industries and there are opportunities to work as a photographer, desktop publisher or designer. Similarly there are employment opportunities in the web industry for individuals who can specialise in image production and manipulation. The opportunities are available to provide photo-images for a vast range of products including magazines, CD covers, posters and promotional material, packaging and book covers.

Depending on your final result it maybe possible for graduates to go on to the second or final year of an honours degree in a related subject.

Course Aims:
This short course will concentrate on improving your visual photography skills and help you realise your pictures using Photoshop. Students will be expected to take photographs on an ongoing basis throughout the duration of the course as part of the assessment procedure.

Course Outline:
Participants will be introduced to:
• Using camera features for creative control
• Being creative with your camera
• Understanding exposure
• Using Flash
• Approach’s to composition
• Digital darkroom techniques – learning about dodging and burning
• Colour toning
• Selective colouring
• Retouching
• Selection & Masking
• Composing images
• Using the History palette
• Advanced layers

Course Structure:
This course will be offered one evening per week for 10 weeks commencing October 2009.

Entry Requirements:
Completion of Digital Photography and Photoshop Level 1 is compulsory. You will need a digital camera for this course.

Course Fee:
Course fee is €250.

Programme Location:
Tipperary Institute – Thurles and Clonmel.

The emphasis on photographic studies as a Plan at Marlboro is fine art in nature, although photography is ideally suited for interdisciplinary work in all fields of study. The course structure emphasizes the study of the medium as a form of personal vision and visual communication. The courses accommodate individual needs and interest and are technically, critically, and historically relevant to contemporary culture. Students explore seeing artistically, production of imagery and the possibilities for presentation most appropriate to content. Courses throughout the liberal arts tradition assist students in exploration and development of personal vision.

Photography provides us with a means to explore the world and our existence within it. John continually strives to heighten his sensitivity in life, and when he photographs, he chooses subject matter that is important to him. The photographs themselves, as with the process of seeing, must strike him on a personal level in order for him to appreciate an image. As Frederick Sommer liked to say, “It is not subject matter, but a subject that matters.”

John has always attempted to find a balance between aesthetic and communicative concerns. At times, he feels like a modernist in a postmodern world. When he considers himself a postmodernist, it’s due to his concern with the social and political implications an image presents from the conception through creation and on to the presentation’s final expression. When he considers himself a modernist, it’s because he is more invested in the metaphorical interpretations in each step of the process and the image that is ultimately created, and he is always searching to be moved by the image’s aesthetic beauty.
Starting Points (Basic and Introductory Courses)

Introduction to Black & White Photography (ART9)
This course will be an introduction to black and white photography with an emphasis given both to visual communication and technique. Students will learn basic procedures of camera operation, film exposure and development and enlargement of the image, while exploring the visual and expressive qualities of the medium. (Introductory)

Intermediate Photography (ART358)
The intermediate photography class is intended to give more technical and visual breadth to the students understanding of the medium of photography. Students will work on three differing photographic genres over a five week period each. The class will explore the medium and its possibilities as an art form. We will discuss issues and methodologies concerning contemporary photographers. (Intermediate)

Constructed Realities (ART701)
The histories of photography and, more recently, sculpture / installation art, are rife with examples of artists who are not content to simply observe reality as it exists but who find it necessary to construct their own. This course will focus on the conjunction of the disciplines of sculpture and photography and provide a venue for students to make work that reflects their own constructed reality. The end product of the work of this class will sometimes be photographs and sculpture at times independent of each other. Both skills will be important. Objects and spaces will be transformed and become the subject of new observations, new work. Students will be encouraged to work collaboratively.

More Than One: Photography & The Visual Book (ART844)
In this course we will consider the various ways images work together in the book format. The word book will be thought of in its broadest terms. Imagery may relate together formally, sequentially or in narrative form, and with or without text. We will research the use of photographic imagery in books from the documentary genre to individual artist books and more. Everyone will be creating his or her own books throughout the course.

The Photographic Image and Word (ART886)
This course is an exploration of image and text relationships in nonfiction and fictional story telling. This intermediate/advanced level course will predominately be taught through digital processes. Class time will be divided between visiting professors and artists, reviewing historical and contemporary works, critiquing of individual and group projects, as well as technical demonstrations. It is likely the group projects will have a service-learning component.

Photographic Methods (ART669)
Successful photography is a fine balance of technical skills with the aesthetic and visual expression. This course will be an exploration of more advanced photographic controls. Throughout the term we will explore various photographic methods through demonstrations and hands on lab work. Technical procedures covered will include camera techniques including view camera use, The Zone System, lighting controls and darkroom processes including liquid light, enlarged negatives, Cyanotypes, Platinum Prints, as well as creation of digital negatives and prints. While experimenting with the various processes we will also view historical photographic works and discuss the artist’s choice of methodology in relationship to the intended visual communication.

Documentary Photography (ART686)
Throughout the history of photography many practitioners have used the medium as a tool for social commentary. Traditionally this has largely been done through the genre of documentary work. We will view historical and contemporary documentary projects, while reading various writings exploring the process, ethics, and value of documentary photography.

Advanced Photography Critique (ART514)
This course will explore the medium of photography and its possibilities as an art form and visual language. We will discuss issues and methods that concern the contemporary photographer. There will be assigned readings from critical theoretical writings. Students will choose one thematic project to photograph. Technical demonstrations will be given as necessary; however, the majority of class time will present a forum for critiques and slide presentations. (Advanced)

Photography Plan Seminar (ART574)
This is a seminar for all students on Plan in photography.

Documentary Photography vs. The Photography of Invention (ART554)
This course will review photography’s use as social commentary through conflicting approaches of documentary, photo as evidence, and constructed realities, a more post-modernist approach. Students will be expected to create personal work from both genres while viewing imagery from photo history and theoretical writings. Traditional photographic processes will be utilized as well as digital imaging.

The emphasis on photographic studies as a Plan at Marlboro is fine art in nature, although photography is ideally suited for interdisciplinary work in all fields of study. The course structure emphasizes the study of the medium as a form of personal vision and visual communication. The courses accommodate individual needs and interest and are technically, critically, and historically relevant to contemporary culture. Students explore seeing artistically, production of imagery and the possibilities for presentation most appropriate to content. Courses throughout the liberal arts tradition assist students in exploration and development of personal vision.

Photography provides us with a means to explore the world and our existence within it. John continually strives to heighten his sensitivity in life, and when he photographs, he chooses subject matter that is important to him. The photographs themselves, as with the process of seeing, must strike him on a personal level in order for him to appreciate an image. As Frederick Sommer liked to say, “It is not subject matter, but a subject that matters.”

John has always attempted to find a balance between aesthetic and communicative concerns. At times, he feels like a modernist in a postmodern world. When he considers himself a postmodernist, it’s due to his concern with the social and political implications an image presents from the conception through creation and on to the presentation’s final expression. When he considers himself a modernist, it’s because he is more invested in the metaphorical interpretations in each step of the process and the image that is ultimately created, and he is always searching to be moved by the image’s aesthetic beauty.

Course structure

This course offers transferable and convergent skills for working in diverse environments with the image. 70% of coursework is studio based and 30% theory based.
Course content

Year 1

Units cover studio, digital and darkroom practices, as well as the history and theory of photography to help contextualise and inform the development of your work. There is an opportunuty to visit Paris in the first semester.

Year 2

Option and core units provide the opportunity to investigate more specific areas of practice, explore new directions and develop practical skills. There is an opportunity to visit New York in the second semester.

Year 3

Two extended practice units and an extended essay allow you to define your practice. Your final year culminates in a Degree Show presentation, public exhibition and publication.

Course overview
Illustration and Animation looks to the interaction between the two disciplines to develop a strong authorial voice. At the heart of both disciplines is visual communication, and this is underpinned by the development of a personal visual language. Experimentation is seen as paramount in achieving this. A keen interest in the visual world should inform this experimentation and there is a strong emphasis on drawing as a means of exploring the visual environment. The development of sequential narratives through animation allows students to use structure and composition as a key ingredients and this feeds back into illustration work, while elements of autographic mark-making and the use of text and image developed through illustration practice feed into the visual language of animation.
Course Structure
In the First Year, students spend around one third of their studio time on animation projects and two thirds on illustration. In the Second Year this ratio is reversed, while in the third year students are expected to negotiate their practice. The illustration modules in first and second years are run jointly with students form the B.A. (hons) Illustration course. Throughout the programme a number of contextual studies modules are run culminating in a Research Seminar in Third Year

Level 1 (Year 1)
llustration Practice 1 (both semesters)

Illustration in the round (first semester)
This module examines the possibilities of using sequential images to create the illusion of a 3D space. Ideas of movement, parallax, on and off screen space, and timing are at the heart of this module. Students are expected to develop a reduced visual vocabulary to develop drawn animation.

Texture, Light and Surface (second semester)
This module introduces students to 3D animation software. In particular it looks at how sequential lighting, camera movement and framing can be used to create atmosphere and meaning. Students are expected to draw from the work of cinema and theatre direction to inform their own work.

Level 2 (Year 2)
Animation Practice (both semesters)
Students are expected to build on their previous animation experience to develop more complex and challenging films. The module runs over the whole academic year allowing students to create a number of animated pieces. Teamwork is a vital part of the animation industry and one of the briefs in this module will be a group project.

Drawing Studies (first semester)

Ideas Through Design (second semester)

Level 3 (Year 3)
Depending on the direction their work and career aspirations take them, students are expected to decide whether to concentrate more on illustration or animation in their final year. In Semester 1, students can chose between Showreel and Portfolio Presentation modules, while in Semester 2, the Major Project is self driven in negotiation with the teaching staff.

Showreel Preparation (first semester)
The third year sees the student consolidating practice within a professional framework. The Showreel Preparation module allows students the space to think holistically about animation and illustration and develop the means of presenting their work for different audiences.

Portfolio Preparation (first semester)

Major Project (second semester)
Students are expected to negotiate a programme of study in accordance with their career aspirations

Module guide
Year one core modules:
Illustration Practice 1
Illustration in the Round
Texture, Light and Surface
Illustration:Contextual Studies
Modern and Contemporary Illustration
Anglia Language Programme Module
Year two core modules:
Animation Practice
Ideas Through Design
Drawing Studies
Censorship in Text and Image
Contemporary Film and Video
Forms and Themes in Artists? Film and Video
Identities
Islamic Visual Culture
Issues in Contemporary Design
Traditions of Art
Visual Theories
Writing for Images
Anglia Language Programme Module
Year three core modules:
Showreel Preparation
Portfolio Preparation
Major Project
Research Seminar
Associated careers

There is a growing demand for illustrators, fine artists and graphic designers who have exposure to both 3D design and animation. Graduates from this course should certainly have the right skills to help meet that demand.
Assessment

Through written work and practice.
Links with industry

This course was written with the kind assistance of personnel from Nexus Productions, StudioAKA and Th1ng.
Other areas of interest

Each year our second year and third year students enter the D & AD awards. Students will be encouraged to take part in 3D animation and motion graphics events such as Resfest and OneDotZero, and both the London and Norwich International Animation Festivals.

As a fee paying student, the Australian Government does not contribute towards your study costs, you pay a tuition fee for each subject in the course. Fee paying students may be eligible for a loan to help pay for tuition fees through the Commonwealth Government Fee Help program.

For further course enquiries call info.csu on 1800 334 733 (free call within Australia).

The standard equivalent full-time load at CSU is 64 points studied over two sessions, or four 8 point subjects per session. NB: only a small number of courses are offered in trimesters (three sessions per year).

Phase out of domestic full fee paying undergraduate places:

Commencing from 2009, in line with Australian Governments committment to phase out domestic full fee paying undergraduate places in public universities.

please refer to the fees schedule for commonwealth supported students
Starting from 2009 CSU

To access your tuition fees, first select the appropriate Faculty below:
Faculty of Arts
Faculty of Business
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Science

For additional information about the higher education reforms, visit: http://www.goingtouni.gov.au/
Undergraduate Fee Paying Places in the Faculty of Arts for 2009

As a fee paying student, the Australian Government does not contribute towards your study costs; you pay a tuition fee for each subject in the course. Fee paying students may be eligible for a loan to help pay for tuition fees through the Commonwealth Government Fee Help program.

For further course enquiries call info.csu on 1800 334 733 (free call within Australia).

The standard equivalent full-time load at CSU is 64 points studied over two sessions, or four 8 point subjects per session. NB: only a small number of courses are offered in trimesters (three sessions per year).

To calculate Tuition Fees:
Go to the course information for your chosen course and consult the course structure to determine the subject codes.
Got to the subject band information [.xls] page to identify how many points and which band your subject s fall into.
Refer to the 2009 Undergraduate tuition fees schedule below to determine the relevant fee level for each subject.
Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Course Fees Faculty of Arts Course Fee per 8 point subject
All Bands
Faculty of Arts all Domestic Fee Paying Undergraduate Courses $1,200

Above, excludes Employer Reserved arrangements

Students who fail a subject and have to repeat it are required to pay for the subject again.
The published fees are for 2009 only. Fees are reviewed annually and may change throughout the duration of your course of study.

Payment due dates for fees.

Undergraduate Fee paying places in the Faculty of Business for 2009

As a fee paying student, the Australian Government does not contribute towards your study costs; you pay a tuition fee for each subject in the course. Fee paying students may be eligible for a loan to help pay for tuition fees through the Commonwealth Government Fee Help program.

For further course enquiries call info.csu on 1800 334 733 (free call within Australia).

The standard equivalent full-time load at CSU is 64 points studied over two sessions, or four 8 point subjects per session. NB: only a small number of courses are offered in trimesters (three sessions per year).

To calculate Tuition Fees:
Go to the course information for your chosen course and consult the course structure to determine the subject codes.
Got to the subject band information [.xls] page to identify how many points and which band your subject s fall into.
Refer to the 2009 Undergraduate tuition fees schedule below to determine the relevant fee level for each subject
Faculty of Business Undergraduate Course Fees Faculty of Business Course Fee per 8 point subject
All Bands
Faculty of Business – All Domestic Fee Paying undergraduate Courses – CSU Campus’s $1,200
Faculty of Business – Bachelor of Hotel Management (study through Holmesglen TAFE) ++ $1,420

++ offered to students studying through Holmesglen TAFE, Melbourne who have gained permanent residency status.

Above, excludes Employer Reserved arrangements

Students who fail a subject and have to repeat it are required to pay for the subject again.
The published fees are for 2009 only. Fees are reviewed annually and may increase throughout the duration of your course of study.

Payment due dates for fees.

Undergraduate Fee paying places in the Faculty of Education for 2009

As a fee paying student, the Australian Government does not contribute towards your study costs; you pay a tuition fee for each subject in the course. Fee paying students may be eligible for a loan to help pay for tuition fees through the Commonwealth Government Fee Help program.

For further course enquiries call info.csu on 1800 334 733 (free call within Australia).

The standard equivalent full-time load at CSU is 64 points studied over two sessions, or four 8 point subjects per session. NB: only a small number of courses are offered in trimesters (three sessions per year).

To calculate Tuition Fees:
Go to the course information for your chosen course and consult the course structure to determine the subject codes.
Got to the subject band information [.xls] page to identify how many points and which band your subject s fall into.
Refer to the 2009 Undergraduate tuition fees schedule below to determine the relevant fee level for each subject
Faculty of Education Undergraduate Course Fees Faculty of Education Fee per 8 point subject
All Bands
Bachelor of Education (Secondary Mathematics) $1,452
Bachelor of Education (Technology & Applied Studies) $1,452
Faculty of Education – All other Domestic Fee Paying undergraduate courses $1,200

Above, excludes Employer Reserved arrangements

Students who fail a subject and have to repeat it are required to pay for the subject again.
The published fees are for 2009 only. Fees are reviewed annually and may increase throughout the duration of your course of study.

Payment due dates for fees.

Undergraduate Fee paying places in the Faculty of Science for 2009

As a fee paying student, the Australian Government does not contribute towards your study costs; you pay a tuition fee for each subject in the course. Fee paying students may be eligible for a loan to help pay for tuition fees through the Commonwealth Government Fee Help program.

For further course enquiries call info.csu on 1800 334 733 (free call within Australia).

The standard equivalent full-time load at CSU is 64 points studied over two sessions, or four 8 point subjects per session. NB: only a small number of courses are offered in trimesters (three sessions per year).

To calculate Tuition Fees:
Go to the course information for your chosen course and consult the course structure to determine the subject codes.
Got to the subject band information [.xls] page to identify how many points and which band your subject s fall into.
Refer to the 2009 Undergraduate tuition fees schedule below to determine the relevant fee level for each subject
Faculty of Science Undergraduate Course Fees Faculty of Science Fee per 8 point subjectAll Bands
Faculty of Science-All Domestic Fee Paying undergraduate courses $1,200

Above, excludes Employer Reserved arrangements
Undergraduate Fee Paying Places for 2009 – Studied On Campus

There will be no Undergraduate Fee Paying places on offer for 2009