Lecture Notes
- Next week Laura Pannack 3pm
- Tutorials with Rob 10-12
- Sidney Cooper 11th to 13th June = Hang.
- 6pm to 8pm on 13th = Private View
- Tear down is the eve of 21st
- Year group curator
- 20th = Karen will be doing an instant photography workshop
- Greater editorial control
- Show concept? Discuss in class
- Free Range?
- Kickstarter
Lecture Notes
- Dissertation - 'Abstract'
- Look at it from the readers perspective
- Academic discourse
- The role of the supervisor
- Marked by Karen, second marked by someone in the related field
- Third examiner - external will do three, plus all firsts and fails and borders (49/59/69)
- 1 - Looks at the title (must not be an either or, not binary oppositions)
- Run title changes by Karen
- Lure the reader in
- 2 - Scrutinises the Bibliography
- Need to be good and needs to be accurate
- True and substantial
- Build it as you go
- Look also at bibliographies in books you are reading
- Everything that has informed your writing
- Not just what you quote from
- 5-14 pages!
- 3 - Abstract
- Mandatory
- You write it last
- It is an account of what you have done
- It gives the game away first
- What you say needs to be evidenced in the 'paper'
- 200 words - not verbose -tightly written
- revelation
- compared (comparative analysis)
- names - substantiated
- 4 - Discourse (level of language)
- Vocabulary
- Syntax
- 'clarity of exposition'
- do not start 'i shall...'
- see how others do it - make it interesting
- whack it out in any speak (never submit)
- Then you craft it
- Harden up soft language
- Setup - establish
- Can add things to footnote if you don't want to break flow of text
- eg Sontag suggests
- Quotes need to have (who, year)
- use of the word 'i' in conclusion
- it could be proposed
- it could be argued
- such and such says... however it could be argued
- Remember this may not be the only valid arguement
- 28th Nov - Looking at proposals
- Make them substantial so feedback can be given
Photographer: Gareth McConnell 'No Surrender'
These portraits, taken over the Easter Period of 1999, were situated in a Loyalist Bar in my home town of Carrickfergus. It was a place I had only ever glimpsed into as a teenager - through a cracked door or through the security bars of the adjoining off sales. I wanted to create a set of images of the loyalist community which did not adhere to the strict media guidelines of bowler hatted men, apprentice boys, Drumcree rioters and super star terrorists posed against backdrops of Shankill Road murals. I wanted to make photographs with all the dignity and poise of old masters and not to revel in the slogans and iconography so closely associated with the protestant people.
Photographer: Chris Shaw 'Life as a Night Porter'
The thing I like most about the pictures is the large element of what I call the chance meeting, the times I was so tired I lost the artifice and techniques of photography. I just took photographs to keep me awake. It became artless. The people I photographed, these episodes in the social fantastic would heighten and illuminate my whole night, often making a difficult job and my twelve-hour shift bearable. The sum of the book is really a hotel of my own imagination constructed from several hotels I have worked in and some Ive stayed in as a paying guest. In reality these hotels bear little or no resemblance to my actual pictures. It just depends on how you look at things. In my experience heaven and hell are places right here on earth, and you can stay in either one.
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