BA (Hons) Photography

This module will introduce you to the creative possibilities of moving image creation. Whether it is using your smartphone or our professional filmmaking equipment you will have an opportunity to choose your own subject matter to create a short film. You’ll experience practical workshops, group discussions, and tutorials, led by professional filmmakers, and an end of module film show to showcase your work.

In this module you’ll focus on creating a professional practice including building a website, understanding copyright, utilising social media, connecting with industry and presenting your work. Professional photographers, art directors, and editors contribute to this module to ensure that you hear directly from those across the creative industries.

In this module you’ll learn how to apply the skills you’ve learnt through practical work and lectures within a professional context. You’ll develop your abilities to build a professional photography practice and undertake a short period of work placement based on your personal interests and passions.

This module focuses on notions of representation, political and the ethic dimensions of photography within media communication, with specific reference to the responsibilities a photographer must accept. This is considered alongside key media and cultural theories.

At this stage you will be developing a critical and vocational awareness of visual narrative and cultural contexts in relation to your career expectations. You’ll explore the relationships between industry and photographic images, creating a contextually aware series of photographs, that will be the foundation for your Level 6 Final Major Project.

This outward facing module allows you to develop your professional profile. You will be invited to respond to Live and competition briefs: D&AD, ISTD, YCN, RSA, Design Museum are examples. It will build on the skills and behaviours you have acquired in previous modules. Graphic Communicators have tremendous potential power in collectively shaping the visual environment of a whole culture, affecting its social, moral and linguistic framework. Visual communicators are able to make public the thoughts, ideas and aims of any organisation that consults them. This is an opportunity to work in a commercial context responding to the needs of an organisation or brand.

This module will further explore the role that photography plays across different cultural contexts, and its relationships in how we experience photographs. You will be introduced to ideas from anthropology, ethnography and auto-ethnography, and engage in philosophical debates that shape and inform the stories that photographs tell.

The aim of this module is to develop your professional profile and professional confidence of through experiential learning opportunities and engagement with external organisations by undergoing work placements, internships and industry experiences. It aims to enable you to manage their own learning and self-direction through identifying opportunities that align to their disciplinary ambitions, situating your practice in a professional context. It offers a range of options including an Enterprise Residency where you can operate as a freelancer and develop ideas for a start-up business with the full support of Brookes Enterprise Support.

This module gives you the opportunity to undertake an intensive and extended period of self-directed, practice-based work as a foundation for your future career. You’ll compile your strongest work into a portfolio of original, professional photographic stills and/or moving image work that showcases your creative, professional and conceptual development during the course. This is your chance to frame your public-facing professional profile and career entrance strategies, culminating in an exciting end-of-year exhibition presentation.

This module allows you to consolidate your critical, contextual and evaluative thinking within a supportive, structured environment in which to produce an extended piece of written research.

In this module, you’ll be given the exciting challenge of undertaking a period of in-depth career-based research, and the development of your degree show. Throughout you will be in close contact with your tutors as you develop further ideas and outcomes for your exhibition and future employability.