Final Major Project

1. STATEMENT OF INTENT
BTEC LEVEL 3/4 FOUNDATION DIPLOMA (ART & DESIGN)
THIS SECTION TO BE COMPLETED BY THE STUDENT EMMA WAITE
Centre Name
Epping Forest College
Working title or theme
Abstract Nature Photography
Number of words Projected Grade (Programme Leader to insert on completion of the SOI)
Foundation Tutor
Signature Date
Guidance (electronic template will expand boxes automatically)
Your Statement of Intent (SOI) must provide an outline brief of your Final Major Project (FMP).
The brief will normally be of your own choosing. If you decide to work on a team/group brief
(with other students) ensure that you explain how you will respond individually to the brief and
the extent of your individual responsibilities and contribution.
Prepare your SOI carefully, referring to the guidance in each section below. The guidance should
be seen as a prompt and not be regarded as being prescriptive.
The SOI must be a minimum of 300 and must not exceed 500 words (excluding the APPENDIX).
Each section, One to Four, has a guide to the number of words to best structure your statement
to meet the grading criteria for the Confirmatory Stage. You are reminded that the bibliography
and timescale should be included in the APPENDIX and will not be included in the overall word
count.
The SOI must be word processed.
Your Statement of Intent must be no less than 300 words and be no more than 500 words.
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2. SECTION ONE – Your Final Major Project (guide 150 words)
What is the title of your Project? What will you work towards producing and what is your proposed end point? Explain
how this relates to your work and ideas from the Pathway Stage and how it extends your knowledge, understanding and
creative ability.
Abstract Photography in Nature
I will produce a body of photographic experiments that explores abstract photography in nature. I aim to do a range of
different shoots exploring different ideas and for my final shoot I will pick the most effective and re shoot it. I will print
the series of images on A5- A4 sheets. I want the images to be still recognizable but be an extreme abstraction.
In the previous project my work developed into abstract photography and I found this worked well. Because I only
started developing abstract work I wanted to continue this because I feel I could develop this further.
In this project I will be very experimental because I will be trying to find the best way to make the setting become
abstract. My main location for my shoots will be Epping Forest.
SECTION TWO – Influences, Research, Sources and Ideas (guide 150 words)
What are the influences, starting points and contextual references and why are they relevant to your ideas? Indicate
the subject areas you intend to research and the likely sources of information including any museums, specific
locations, performances, etc you plan to visit. However you should not make extensive lists in this section. Instead you
should compile an accurate bibliography correctly acknowledging all references including texts, periodicals, websites
and video/DVD’s etc. Enter your bibliography in the APPENDIX.
I don’t want to look at just the beauty of nature but to look at the strange and more of the unseen of
nature. This is my main influence, trying to find unseen parts of nature and the abstract side of nature and this idea is
the main reason I wanted to explore Abstract Photography. The work of photographers both past and present who have
explored the key theme Abstract Photography I will look into in detail. Examples include: Byron Jorjorian, Daniel
Sroka, Imogen Cunningham and Karl Blossfeldt. All I feel are good starting point.
Galleries that I think would be good to visit would be the Photographers Gallery near Oxford Street and The National
Portrait Gallery. I think going to this gallery will inspire me and also will give me ideas of how to present my work in
the final stage of this project.
SECTION THREE – Techniques, Processes and Timescale (guide 150 words)
Refer to any techniques and processes you intend to use. Describe the range of media and materials relevant to your
project and how you may use them to explore and develop your ideas. Include aspects of studio practice, workshop
procedures or the use of particular equipment and software etc. Provide an indicative timescale for your project and
indicate the manner in which you intend to divide your time in order to investigate, develop, produce and evaluate
your project appropriately. This should be a meaningful plan to you and should be personalised to your project. You
may wish to write your plan as a daily or weekly schedule in which case enter your timescale in the APPENDIX.
There will be many different techniques and processes I will be using and some will need research because I am
unfamiliar with them but most I will be trial and error and learning what works best. The techniques and processes I
will be using are: different shutter speeds and different filters manmade and natural. I also want to use different
lenses, including magnifying. All of these will require techniques that I will research and try in trial shoots. I hope that
after trying these techniques they will give me new ideas or will require new techniques that will make my photography
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3. more effective.
SECTION FOUR – Method of Evaluation (guide 50 words)
How will you critically review and analyse your work and determine if it is successful? How will you identify directions
for on-going development? Do you have a method to record the critical response to your ideas? How do you propose to
assess the success of your Final Major Project and what will be your methods of evaluation? Unit 9 requires you to
produce a supporting statement at the end of your project. This section can inform your analysis.
To ensure my photographic shoots get better and I learn from my mistakes, before every shoot I will produce a plan and
a list of equipment required. After the shoot I will review the things that worked well and the things that didn’t, this
includes how I edit the images. I also will ask my peers opinion on my work and take this into consideration in the
following shoots. I will be writing this on a blog, I will also have the edited images from that shoot on this blog. Finally
I will compare my work with that of the professional practitioners who have inspired me.
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4. APPENDIX
Use this appendix for the bibliography and timescale for your Final Major Project.
Books:
Skywriting Journal
By Byron Jorjorian
The Edge of Vision: The rise of Abstraction in Photography
By Lyle Rexer
Karl Blossfeldt. The Complete Published Work
By Hans Christian Adam
Group f.64: Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and the Community of Artists Who
Revolutionized American Photography
By Mary Street Alinder
Imogen Cunningham
by Celina Lunsford
Websites:
Byron Jorjorian
www.byronjorjorian.com/index.php
Daniel Sroka
Nature From a Different Angles
www.danielsroka.com
Mark Raymond Mason
www.markraymondmason.com
http://www.hipgnosiscovers.com/
May Ray
F64 School of Photography
Imogen Cunnungham
http://www.imogencunningham.com/
Karl Blossfeldt
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/karl-blossfeldt/
For each shoot I will have the same plan:
• Write shoot plan
• Equipment needed
• Shoot
• Edit
• Review and analyse what worked and what didn’t
• Write what I’m doing for the next shoot.
• Further research if needed
The 1st
week -Research: photographers, Techniques, Equipment and locations. I will also go on gallery visits.
The 2nd
week -Experiment with ideas from my research.
The 3rd
week -Continue testing out ideas but also thinking about what worked the best.
The 4th
week -Develop the shoots and ideas, which I think, worked the best.
The 5th
week -Re shoot the most effective ideas and developments.
The last week -Print, present and design my exhibition.
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