So far my work placement has got off to a slow start,
after sending out a number of emails containing details of why i would like to complete a work placement at a particular place, what i would bring to their workplace, how it would help me along with personal assets... I have still heard nothing back.
I have only emailed 3 places to do with archiving so far
Including
Tate
Suffolk Records Office
Suffolk Police Deparment
And for the education choice I have emailed 3 places
Kesgrave Sixth Form Photographic Department
Stoke High School Art Depratment
I am also planning on emailing Suffolk One Sixth Form, as my former head tutor of high school is now the head of this sixth form center creating an easier contact but last resort for me.
I will be contiuing to email a number of different places over the next few weeks, and i believe that this work placement project will be an ongoing progession during my time at university and beyond. I have found that experience is the best way to be accepted soemwhere so I aim to get lots of it!
I have found the work placement hard, as I hate having to rely on other people for responses, but I have found in the past that follow up calls always speed up a process and therefore in the next few days I will be ringing all of the above to find out where i stand.
April 16, 2013
Buisness Cards
I decided that I wanted to create some business cards for professional practice, and also as I seem to be getting on top of web design, and promotion within my photography, business cards would be a nice touch to the final outcome of my work.
I used vista print for my cards,
and overall i spent £16 which included 250 cards of my own design, and a free steel card holder included.
My buisness cards are plain black, with white writing, very simple yet quite attractive.
I have:
Zoe Barrett
Photographer
www.zoedbarrett.com
on the front of the cards
Along with:
www.facebook.com/zoebarrettphotography
On the back of the cards.
At first i did include imagery, but then decided that the more plain and simple they are, the more people might take interest in them.
Also, if i was to have an image on them, it would give away my style of work, therefore just providing a website might intruige people to go and have a look!
Due to the buisness cards being of great value, with a matte finish, they do look fairly cheap, but cheerful.
When I decided to make some more I would invest in a higher quality finish. Mostly because first impressions are everything, and that card could be a very important factor in providing me with jobs in the futrure therefore need to be of a high standard if they are representing me and my work.
The cards can be found inside of my portfolio box once handed in.
I used vista print for my cards,
and overall i spent £16 which included 250 cards of my own design, and a free steel card holder included.
My buisness cards are plain black, with white writing, very simple yet quite attractive.
I have:
Zoe Barrett
Photographer
www.zoedbarrett.com
on the front of the cards
Along with:
www.facebook.com/zoebarrettphotography
On the back of the cards.
At first i did include imagery, but then decided that the more plain and simple they are, the more people might take interest in them.
Also, if i was to have an image on them, it would give away my style of work, therefore just providing a website might intruige people to go and have a look!
Due to the buisness cards being of great value, with a matte finish, they do look fairly cheap, but cheerful.
When I decided to make some more I would invest in a higher quality finish. Mostly because first impressions are everything, and that card could be a very important factor in providing me with jobs in the futrure therefore need to be of a high standard if they are representing me and my work.
The cards can be found inside of my portfolio box once handed in.
Website Update
My website is now complete and can be found at
www.zoedbarrett.com
The website will always be a working progress, as they all are, but for now I have all my images which are relevant to date on there.
I ended up with SquareSpace, and I am happy with my final decison.
I paid a one off fee of $94.. around £65 for a yearly subscription to the sight. Along with a free domain name, and the templates I was given:
- 20 pages, galleries and blogs
- 500GB bandwidth
- 2GB storage
- Mobile website
- custom domian
and 24/7 support from squarespace.
For now I am happy with the amount i paid along with the features which were included.
If at any point I run out of memory I canalways upgrade, there are 2 accounts above my one which offer unlimited images, vidoes and blogs etc.
I have decided that thre cheaper option was the best for me, and 2GB storage is fine as my images are low resolution of no more than 1MB each anyway.
It took me a long while to find a template which I liked, but I eventaully came to a final decison after making a few sacrifices when it came to personal preferences in alinement with what my web creator - SquareSpace offered.
I ended up with a really simple white background, simple black font, and minimal pages to make the whole experience easy, stress free, and enjoyable (hopefully).
I have a running slide show on each gallery page and also on the home page of the website, although the viewer also has the option to click on each thumbnail, or the images itself in order to move quickly to the next one if he/she wants to.
I have included a contact page which features my University email adress. I believe this is the most appropriate at this time, as my personal hotmail one is not a professional enough name.
At some point I will spend more money on making an "info@" email address linking to my website, but for now my uni one, and the website comment/contact section works just fine.
I have an information page which says a little about myself, but more importantly states any upcoming exhibitons my work will be shown in.
My website has a slightly different template layout when shown on a phone, which actually compliments it well with the sizing onf the screen. Although at first I was slightly annoyed by this, I think the way it is shown works in my favour.
I have checked my website on one tablet and it has the same format and teomplate as if you were vieiwng it on a laptop of PC which I am happy with.
I have tried to keep all of my images at the same aspect ratio throughout each gallery, although my portraits vary due to working on a digitial camera, and a
medium format with 6x6 square negatives. I think this isn't to much of a big deal and I am happy with them varying slightly. Other than that they are pretty consistent throughout.
I feel aslthough my website is easy to navigate, fairly quick and aesthetically pleasing also, I am very happy with the overall outcome and although I havent done anything like this before I am pleased how it has turned out.
I believe that as my work progresses, my website will become better and better.
www.zoedbarrett.com
The website will always be a working progress, as they all are, but for now I have all my images which are relevant to date on there.
I ended up with SquareSpace, and I am happy with my final decison.
- 20 pages, galleries and blogs
- 500GB bandwidth
- 2GB storage
- Mobile website
- custom domian
and 24/7 support from squarespace.
For now I am happy with the amount i paid along with the features which were included.
If at any point I run out of memory I canalways upgrade, there are 2 accounts above my one which offer unlimited images, vidoes and blogs etc.
I have decided that thre cheaper option was the best for me, and 2GB storage is fine as my images are low resolution of no more than 1MB each anyway.
It took me a long while to find a template which I liked, but I eventaully came to a final decison after making a few sacrifices when it came to personal preferences in alinement with what my web creator - SquareSpace offered.
I ended up with a really simple white background, simple black font, and minimal pages to make the whole experience easy, stress free, and enjoyable (hopefully).
I have a running slide show on each gallery page and also on the home page of the website, although the viewer also has the option to click on each thumbnail, or the images itself in order to move quickly to the next one if he/she wants to.
I have included a contact page which features my University email adress. I believe this is the most appropriate at this time, as my personal hotmail one is not a professional enough name.
At some point I will spend more money on making an "info@" email address linking to my website, but for now my uni one, and the website comment/contact section works just fine.
I have an information page which says a little about myself, but more importantly states any upcoming exhibitons my work will be shown in.
My website has a slightly different template layout when shown on a phone, which actually compliments it well with the sizing onf the screen. Although at first I was slightly annoyed by this, I think the way it is shown works in my favour.
I have checked my website on one tablet and it has the same format and teomplate as if you were vieiwng it on a laptop of PC which I am happy with.
I have tried to keep all of my images at the same aspect ratio throughout each gallery, although my portraits vary due to working on a digitial camera, and a
medium format with 6x6 square negatives. I think this isn't to much of a big deal and I am happy with them varying slightly. Other than that they are pretty consistent throughout.
I feel aslthough my website is easy to navigate, fairly quick and aesthetically pleasing also, I am very happy with the overall outcome and although I havent done anything like this before I am pleased how it has turned out.
I believe that as my work progresses, my website will become better and better.
Portfolio box update
I think that I have pretty much finished my portfolio box.
Although I possible made a mistake with both the size and the depth of my box (8x10, 65mm), I am pretty happy with the overall outcome.
I decided to put a range of work into my box, the basis being constructing narratives final hang.
Along with that I have a few different portraits, and a few different landscapes also, along with this i have included 2 images from my collaboration from situation practice.
In doing some research I have found out that the best way to present a portfolio box is with minimal images from the same series, this is because this option allows you to include more areas of work, meaning you are showing a diverse range of skills and genres.
I agree with this in a way, as you don't want the person viewing the portfolio box to get bored of similar images, but also because you'd have more room to show a variety of images in one place.
The negatives to this include the fact that many jobs in photography are dedicated to specific areas, meaning if you show a series of images based on the same subject, and that subject is based on the kind of photography the person viewing the images wants you to work on, then it would be more benefical to fill a portfolio with work in that area to show your full range. Whereas if you were going to work in a photography studio who focus on family portraits, weddings, animals etc, it is best that you show lots of different work to show that you can be creative and skilled in different areas.
A portfolio box would be the most important thing in an interview.
It has to be well presented and easily read you you won'e always be there to talk someone through each image or set.
This is why I have decided to group my portraits together, my landscapes together and order the projects one after each other so that it is obvious and ther eis a clear definition between the different genres.
I concidered the idea of putting title pages inbetween each area photographed or series shown, but i thought this may look ameture, and slightly unprofessional so decided to just let them flow nicely from the box.
If i were to do anything differently with my box I would have ordered one bigger, due to my work always being of a bigger scale. I have found the smaller 8x10 box doesnt do my images much justice compared to when they were big on the wall.
I would also reconsider the depth of the box. I originally thought it would be best to mount my images in the box, therefore picked the thicker depth of 65mm, over the thinner one of 35mm.
Now i realise that portfolio archive sleeves are much better presentation wise than the images being mounted, and therefore if the box was to be moved quickly there is a lot of space above the photographs for them to fly around. Rather than being tightly compacted if i were to chose the 35mm box.
I think that my portfolio box looks clean, tidy and is nice and simple so wouldn't put someone off looking at it if they had the option. I am pleased with the overall out come and i would be comfortable to let someone look through it without my being there, which i think is the most important factor. It has also been a learning curve for me and has helped me find out what people would prefer or not like when looking at a box containing my photography.
Although I possible made a mistake with both the size and the depth of my box (8x10, 65mm), I am pretty happy with the overall outcome.
I decided to put a range of work into my box, the basis being constructing narratives final hang.
Along with that I have a few different portraits, and a few different landscapes also, along with this i have included 2 images from my collaboration from situation practice.
In doing some research I have found out that the best way to present a portfolio box is with minimal images from the same series, this is because this option allows you to include more areas of work, meaning you are showing a diverse range of skills and genres.
I agree with this in a way, as you don't want the person viewing the portfolio box to get bored of similar images, but also because you'd have more room to show a variety of images in one place.
The negatives to this include the fact that many jobs in photography are dedicated to specific areas, meaning if you show a series of images based on the same subject, and that subject is based on the kind of photography the person viewing the images wants you to work on, then it would be more benefical to fill a portfolio with work in that area to show your full range. Whereas if you were going to work in a photography studio who focus on family portraits, weddings, animals etc, it is best that you show lots of different work to show that you can be creative and skilled in different areas.
A portfolio box would be the most important thing in an interview.
It has to be well presented and easily read you you won'e always be there to talk someone through each image or set.
This is why I have decided to group my portraits together, my landscapes together and order the projects one after each other so that it is obvious and ther eis a clear definition between the different genres.
I concidered the idea of putting title pages inbetween each area photographed or series shown, but i thought this may look ameture, and slightly unprofessional so decided to just let them flow nicely from the box.
If i were to do anything differently with my box I would have ordered one bigger, due to my work always being of a bigger scale. I have found the smaller 8x10 box doesnt do my images much justice compared to when they were big on the wall.
I would also reconsider the depth of the box. I originally thought it would be best to mount my images in the box, therefore picked the thicker depth of 65mm, over the thinner one of 35mm.
Now i realise that portfolio archive sleeves are much better presentation wise than the images being mounted, and therefore if the box was to be moved quickly there is a lot of space above the photographs for them to fly around. Rather than being tightly compacted if i were to chose the 35mm box.
I think that my portfolio box looks clean, tidy and is nice and simple so wouldn't put someone off looking at it if they had the option. I am pleased with the overall out come and i would be comfortable to let someone look through it without my being there, which i think is the most important factor. It has also been a learning curve for me and has helped me find out what people would prefer or not like when looking at a box containing my photography.
April 03, 2013
Work Placement
I have began to research a lot about the two areas I am focusing on when it comes to my work placement. The areas are education and Archiving.
Below is different parts of research so far (some coming from Group 2s task based on education)
Education
PGCE
PGCE courses are available to do after your degree at some universities and colleges in the UK.
You also need grade C at english and maths at GCSE level.
One year full-time, two part-time.
You can apply for funding while you're studying.
Ypu can apply for help with tuition fees, with grants and student loans.
Sometimes a training bursary you don't pay back.
Course consists of written tasks, key skills tests, and teaching practice (placement).
If you wish to teach in any state primary or secondary school you'll need to have achieved Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) which you can get from a PGCE. However, you do not need this to teach in independent schools.
Types of PGCE;
primary
secondary
further/adult education
MA Study
To study an MA (which is needed to become a university lecturer) you will need at least a 2:2 at degree level, or in some cases a 2:1. The course usually takes 1 year full time and 2 years part time. Funding is a huge issue when considering post graduate study.
Information on Post Grad funding:
https://www.gov.uk/funding-for-postgraduate-study
http://www.findamasters.com/students/studyguide/masters-funding-guide.aspx
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/apr/13/funding-postgrad-studies
University Lecturer
It has become clear that to become a lecturer you will need to carry through education after a graduate qualification. More specifically it seems that the grade most desired by university employers is a 2.1 and above at degree level as well as the further continuation into a phd level and / or a masters. Though this is something that can by different for different universities it appears the majority look for these qualities.
It is also a great advantage to have some general experience in the subject, such as evidence of projects, exhibitions and how well they have ranked.
Teaching Workshops:
You could either start your own workshop business or be employed to do so. If you are employed to do so it would be, in most cases, necessary to have a degree in the area and some industry experience. If working for yourself you would need to register yourself as self employed http://www.artsjobs.org.uk/index.php?id=25&ne_post_id=96413
http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/report/2197437/the-new-economics-of-photojournalism-online-photography-workshops
Further
After having completed a graduate teaching course like the PGCE you can then move on to an NQT stage. This stands for Newly Qualified Teacher and results in an observed year in a school environment.
Induction is assessed across the equivalent of three full school terms, with assessment at the end of each term. It can be completed full or part-time.
Towards the end of each term of your induction period, you should meet your induction tutor or head teacher for a formal assessment. The main focus is your progress towards meeting the core professional standards.After each of the first two meetings, the head teacher should make a report to the local authority (LA) or the Independent Schools Council Teacher Induction Panel (ISCtip), recording your progress towards meeting the core professional standards. Following the assessment at the end of your third term, your head teacher will make a recommendation to the LA or ISCtip about whether you have met the core professional standards.
Below is different parts of research so far (some coming from Group 2s task based on education)
Education
PGCE
PGCE courses are available to do after your degree at some universities and colleges in the UK.
You also need grade C at english and maths at GCSE level.
One year full-time, two part-time.
You can apply for funding while you're studying.
Ypu can apply for help with tuition fees, with grants and student loans.
Sometimes a training bursary you don't pay back.
Course consists of written tasks, key skills tests, and teaching practice (placement).
If you wish to teach in any state primary or secondary school you'll need to have achieved Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) which you can get from a PGCE. However, you do not need this to teach in independent schools.
Types of PGCE;
primary
secondary
further/adult education
MA Study
To study an MA (which is needed to become a university lecturer) you will need at least a 2:2 at degree level, or in some cases a 2:1. The course usually takes 1 year full time and 2 years part time. Funding is a huge issue when considering post graduate study.
Information on Post Grad funding:
https://www.gov.uk/funding-for-postgraduate-study
http://www.findamasters.com/students/studyguide/masters-funding-guide.aspx
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/apr/13/funding-postgrad-studies
University Lecturer
It has become clear that to become a lecturer you will need to carry through education after a graduate qualification. More specifically it seems that the grade most desired by university employers is a 2.1 and above at degree level as well as the further continuation into a phd level and / or a masters. Though this is something that can by different for different universities it appears the majority look for these qualities.
It is also a great advantage to have some general experience in the subject, such as evidence of projects, exhibitions and how well they have ranked.
Teaching Workshops:
You could either start your own workshop business or be employed to do so. If you are employed to do so it would be, in most cases, necessary to have a degree in the area and some industry experience. If working for yourself you would need to register yourself as self employed http://www.artsjobs.org.uk/index.php?id=25&ne_post_id=96413
http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/report/2197437/the-new-economics-of-photojournalism-online-photography-workshops
Further
After having completed a graduate teaching course like the PGCE you can then move on to an NQT stage. This stands for Newly Qualified Teacher and results in an observed year in a school environment.
Induction is assessed across the equivalent of three full school terms, with assessment at the end of each term. It can be completed full or part-time.
Towards the end of each term of your induction period, you should meet your induction tutor or head teacher for a formal assessment. The main focus is your progress towards meeting the core professional standards.After each of the first two meetings, the head teacher should make a report to the local authority (LA) or the Independent Schools Council Teacher Induction Panel (ISCtip), recording your progress towards meeting the core professional standards. Following the assessment at the end of your third term, your head teacher will make a recommendation to the LA or ISCtip about whether you have met the core professional standards.
March 24, 2013
Portfolio Box Update
My porfolio box has come a long way in the past few days.
I have scanned in and printed almost half of the photographs which are going to be in it.
So far I have included an edited version of my narritives series, and also a collection of my situated practice collaboration.
My portfolio box is 8x10, and although it may be a little bit small for the the style of work I produce, I am still using this module as an experience and I know now that when I want to buy my next portfolio box I will go bigger with a thinner depth in order to compact my work a little bit more.
Over the next few weeks I will be includng more images into the box and also playing with the idea of putting in different aspect ratios. I have a lot of square format prints which I would like to display in my work. I have thought about displaying two images on one sheet to fill it, although my box is only 8x10 which means the images would be tiny.
This is the next thing I need to figure out.
I have scanned in and printed almost half of the photographs which are going to be in it.
So far I have included an edited version of my narritives series, and also a collection of my situated practice collaboration.
My portfolio box is 8x10, and although it may be a little bit small for the the style of work I produce, I am still using this module as an experience and I know now that when I want to buy my next portfolio box I will go bigger with a thinner depth in order to compact my work a little bit more.
Over the next few weeks I will be includng more images into the box and also playing with the idea of putting in different aspect ratios. I have a lot of square format prints which I would like to display in my work. I have thought about displaying two images on one sheet to fill it, although my box is only 8x10 which means the images would be tiny.
This is the next thing I need to figure out.
Website Update
My wesbite has been going well so far, and I am happy with how it looks at this stage.
I have been scanning in different images I want to include in my website, and testing out loads of different templates to see which ones fits my style of work best, and asethically pleases my target audience.
I have decided so far to have a white background, with simple black text with a simple font which doesn't domiante the page to much.
I am goin to include a contact and information page on my website with a number of diffeerent galleries containing different series of work.
I am still using squarespace to design my website. It is going to cost me around £63 yearly, that cost includes a free domain.
I browsed different web designs to try and find the best one and I decided on squarespace as it seemed simple to use and not to costly.
The website will constantly be a working progress and I will try to update it as often as possible woth new work and information.
I have been scanning in different images I want to include in my website, and testing out loads of different templates to see which ones fits my style of work best, and asethically pleases my target audience.
I have decided so far to have a white background, with simple black text with a simple font which doesn't domiante the page to much.
I am goin to include a contact and information page on my website with a number of diffeerent galleries containing different series of work.
I am still using squarespace to design my website. It is going to cost me around £63 yearly, that cost includes a free domain.
I browsed different web designs to try and find the best one and I decided on squarespace as it seemed simple to use and not to costly.
The website will constantly be a working progress and I will try to update it as often as possible woth new work and information.
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