PROJECT BRIEF TWO - FP6006

 BA (Hons) Photography – Kingston School of Art

Module: FP6006 LEVEL: 6 CREDITS: 30

Title: Professional Practice and Personal Development / Brief 3

Self-Promotion - Website, CV, Social Media, Presentation

2022-23


When & Where:

FP6006 will take place on various Thursdays (see timetable) & Friday afternoons between 2-4:30pm with Nana Varveropoulou and a series of Photographic industry guests online and in room KPLB 206 and in tutor groups on your allocated day.


Visiting Lecturers & Visits (all tbc):

  • Nadav Kander
  • Nick Knight
  • Effie Palaiologou
  • Robie Lawrence
  • Alexandra Lethbridge
  • Lewis Khan

ASSESSED PRESENTATION DEADLINE: Thursday 6th April 2023

FINAL DEADLINE: Thursday 4th May 2023


FP6006 - Brief 3 – 30% coursework

This brief is a continuation and refinement for FP6006 Professional Practice & Personal Development. Brief 3 has a strong and determined focus on self-promotion, developing professional practice and near future progression. You will create and maintain an industry-standard digital professional profile.

The overall aim of this module is to ensure that you are well prepared to further a career in photography and the creative industries (and/or other related fields) upon graduation and thereafter.

Coursework will encourage you to formulate your exit strategy and consolidate your individual approach to managing your career and future learning, by continuing to plan your own personal and professional development, as a means of developing your reflexivity.

As part of this, the module helps to ensure that you benefit from the Personal Tutor Scheme, and of input provided by the Careers & Employability Service in particular.


For this brief you are expected to continue populating your professional blog and update your Personal Development Plan (PDP) with new entries providing evidence of the following:

WEBSITE – Provide link / URL

  • Include a dated entry of how your website looks at the beginning of the module (screen shot & discussion).
  • Research on a minimum of 5x photographer/artists websites. Discuss what works and what doesn’t and how this may be relevant to your own.
  • Produce and/or populate a carefully designed and fully functioning website, promoting your work – minimum of 30 images.
  • Screen shot and discuss the before and after of your website (from beginning to the end of module)

INSTAGRAM – Provide link / name

  • Include a dated entry of how your Instagram looks at the beginning of the module (screen shot & discussion).
  • Research and discuss the Instagram presence of artists that use it effectively (minimum of 5). Discuss why and relate to your own use of social media.
  • Continue to curate and update your Instagram (and other social media). Use it solely for the promotion of your photographic practice. Minimum 25 posts. Include screen shots in your blog.
  • Discuss the updates and improvements that you have made to your Instagram presence from the beginning to the end of the module (before & after).
  • Research Instagram Take-Overs and their function. Discuss in your blog.
  • Evidence and discuss your own Instagram Take Over of the KSA Photography Instagram.

Creative CV

  • Research and discuss the CV’s or creative practitioners (minimum 3) vs ‘traditional’ CV’s.
  • Produce and submit an up to date CV (Word doc or PDF only)

PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL / EXHIBITIONS

  • Evidence and discuss a minimum of 4 photography shows that you have visited (online/virtual) with a focus on curation and installation techniques and promotional material.
  • Discuss printed promotional material (take away material, press releases, business cards etc) used in the exhibitions you have visited. Critique their effectiveness.

ONLINE PRESENTATION: Thursday 6th April 2023

  • Produce (Powerpoint) and conduct (via Microsoft Teams) a 3-5 minutes presentation discussing your own practice. Coherently defend your photography work.

ALL of the above evidence for this module is crucial, compulsory and summatively assessed.

Include evidence of your research and the creation of your final outcomes as above in a new section of your Professional Practice blog. Provide blog link.

The delivery of this module will be supported through by a programme of talks and workshops delivered by a range of photographic practitioners.


REMEMBER TO:

  • Research the websites and social media accounts of other photographers. Discuss in your illustrated blog and credit all images used for educational purposes.
  • Research the best web platform for you.
  • Be active on the social media you sign up to professionally and keep all sites up to date.
  • Check sites on different browsers and devices to check compatibility.
  • Screenshot and annotate developments and changes in your sites.
  • Visit numerous exhibitions and take images and notes.
  • Evidence all your reflections, processes and development (as above).
  • Look at other artists promotional materials.

This is the third and final brief out of 3 for FP6006 Professional Practice & Personal Development


Final Submission Requirements:

Create and maintain an industry-standard digital professional profile to include all the below:

  • Illustrated Blog or digital PDF
  • Live and Updated Website – provide URL
  • Live and Updated Instagram (and/or other social media). – provide link(s).
  • Online Presentation – 3-5 minutes on your work – ‘live’ presentation.
  • Creative CV (Word or PDF only)
  • An Updated Personal Development Plan document (PDP) – Word or PDF

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