School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Context and the Choreographed Image
  • Unit Code

    PHO2140
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Duncan BARNES

Description

In this unit students investigate the discourses of contemporary art and applied photographic production, incorporated in the picturing of locations and constructed and choreographed images. Students can apply knowledge and concepts in a variety of professional practices including, architectural, art and fashion photography.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Competently use equipment associated with advanced studio and location based photomedia production.
  2. Analyse the work of selected studio and location based photographic workers known for their investigation of the choreographed image.
  3. Identify the characteristics of the choreographed image and the tableau form.
  4. Integrate advanced technical knowledge with a critical synthesis of past, and contemporary practices towards the innovative picturing of locations and the choreographed image.

Unit Content

  1. Advanced camera management practises including the use of medium format, monorail and 5x4 cameras. The process and printing of analogue and digitally produced images including the scanning of analogue based materials.
  2. An inquiry into practices defined by the qualities of medium and large format photography including, art, advertising, architectural, corporate and fashion photography.
  3. An inquiry into the course and methods that artists use to arrive at the selection and photographic rendering of particular sites.
  4. An investigation and critique of past and present uses of the choreographed image and The Tableau Form in the arts.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationResearch review20%
ProjectProject 1 Picturing Locations, Installations, Structures 40%
ProjectProject 2 The choreographed image 40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Context and the Choreographed Image
  • Unit Code

    PHO2140
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Duncan BARNES

Description

In this unit students investigate the discourses of contemporary art and applied photographic production, incorporated in the picturing of locations and constructed and choreographed images. Students can apply knowledge and concepts in a variety of professional practices including, architectural, art and fashion photography.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Competently use equipment associated with advanced studio and location based photomedia production.
  2. Analyse the work of selected studio and location based photographic workers known for their investigation of the choreographed image.
  3. Identify the characteristics of the choreographed image and the tableau form.
  4. Integrate advanced technical knowledge with a critical synthesis of past, and contemporary practices towards the innovative picturing of locations and the choreographed image.

Unit Content

  1. Advanced camera management practises including the use of medium format, monorail and 5x4 cameras. The process and printing of analogue and digitally produced images including the scanning of analogue based materials.
  2. An inquiry into practices defined by the qualities of medium and large format photography including, art, advertising, architectural, corporate and fashion photography.
  3. An inquiry into the course and methods that artists use to arrive at the selection and photographic rendering of particular sites.
  4. An investigation and critique of past and present uses of the choreographed image and The Tableau Form in the arts.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationResearch review20%
ProjectProject 1 Picturing Locations, Installations, Structures 40%
ProjectProject 2 The choreographed image 40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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