ACI203 - Darkroom Practices

Unit details

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Year:

2020 unit information

Important Update:

Classes and seminars in Trimester 2/Semester 2, 2020 will be online. Physical distancing for coronavirus (COVID-19) will affect delivery of other learning experiences in this unit. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates one week prior to the start of your trimester or semester.

Last updated: 2 June 2020

Enrolment modes:

This unit has been discontinued and will no longer be offered in T3 2020

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Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Cohort rule:

Students must be enrolled in an Arts or Arts combined course

Previously:

ACM203

Prerequisite:

Students must have completed unit ACI101

Corequisite:

Nil

Incompatible with:

Nil

Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

Scheduled learning activities - campus:

1 x 3-hour seminar per week

Note:

Student enrolment quotas apply to this unit

Content

Students are introduced to medium format cameras, hand held exposure meters, black and white processing and printing. Topics include advanced exposure and image sequencing. Media output includes silver-based and digital. Emphasis is placed equally on technical refinement coupled with conceptual and editing skills. Students will also be shown approaches for researching and presenting a seminar paper on a significant photographic practitioner.

 

These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit

At the completion of this unit, successful students can:

Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes

ULO1

Demonstrated competence with a medium format camera, a light meter, film processing, printing and darkroom practice

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO2: Communication

GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO2

To demonstrate and communicate a critical and analytical response to the specific research topics

GLO5: Problem solving

GLO6: Self-management

ULO3

Demonstrate an ability to creatively develop a theme or a group of ideas and to present these as a resolved set of images

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO6: Self-management

ULO4

Enact the OHS standards required in darkroom practice and procedure

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO5: Problem solving

GLO6: Self-management

ULO5

Plan, experiment, research and resolve technical and aesthetic issues towards the resolution of a self-devised creative folio

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO6: Self-management

ULO6

Demonstrated ability to develop a reflective and critical photographic response to location and field work practice

GLO4: Critical thinking

These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link ACI203
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list.

Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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