Course Title: Make illustrative photo images for publication and display

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C5351 Diploma of Photography and Photo Imaging

Course Title: Make illustrative photo images for publication and display

Portfolio: Vocational Education

Nominal Hours: 45

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Important Information:

Please note that this course may have compulsory in-person attendance requirements for some teaching activities. 

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Please read the Student website for additional requirements of in-person attendance: https://www.rmit.edu.au/covid/coming-to-campus 


Please check your Canvas course shell closer to when the course starts to see if this course requires mandatory in-person attendance. The delivery method of the course might have to change quickly in response to changes in the local state/national directive regarding in-person course attendance. 


Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

VART6404C

City Campus

TAFE

340T Art

Face-to-Face

Term1 2017,
Term1 2018

VART6404C

City Campus

TAFE

375T Vocational Design and Social Context

Face-to-Face

Term1 2020,
Term1 2021

Course Contact: Nat Morawski

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 5583

Course Contact Email: nat.morawski@rmit.edu.au



Course Description

In this course you will develop the techniques required to research, conceive, capture and produce a substantial photographic project. The focus of the unit involves each student producing their own photojournalistic narrative in a book format. The unit is taught in conjunction with ‘Prepare images for Prepress Processing’ (CUAPHI514), which concentrates on the output skills to process images and produce a print ready PDF for final production of the book in print.


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None



National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

CUAPHI511 Make illustrative photo images for publication and display

Elements:

1. Establish project requirements

2. Prepare for shoot

3. Shoot and produce images

4. Wrap up and review shoot


Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this course you will have developed and applied the skills and knowledge required to demonstrate competency in the above elements. 
The critical aspects of assessment will give you a good guide to the learning outcomes.


Overview of Assessment

Assessment is ongoing throughout the semester. Your knowledge and understanding of course content is assessed through participation in class exercises, oral presentations and through the application of learned skills and insights to your assessment tasks. Full assessment briefs will be provided and can be found on myRMIT.