Yay. The end of my fifth year at the University Of Wolverhampton has seen its last taught week session and we are due to hand in all of the files ahead of the deadline in early May.
Part One – Dissertation
Version 17 of my diss consisted of 5250 words which is well inside the 5000 +/- 10% and is titled:
Does Photography Help Us Grieve? Loss, Memory, and the Disappearance of Place
It has taken many months of putting together, including research, reading, referencing, editing, re-reading, proof reading, creating a table of contents, a reference list and a bibliography.
The draft was submitted at Christmas time and the feed-forward from Gavin was utilised in the clean up and restructuring that I completed over the Easter break. More of that can be found here.
The last step was to convert the word document into a PDF file and prepared for upload by placing in my Submissions folder on my Uni Onedrive.
The dissertation accounts for 20% of the marks for this module for the whole year.
Part Two – Portfolio
The second file required is the Portfolio of images that might consist of the pictures I would have printed in the event that I had been exhibiting at the Degree Show. The tutors and course leaders have told us all that the portfolio should contain our best work. I like to think that mine does have these photos within.
There are 14 photos inside my portfolio file, these are a small selection of 2123 photos in my catalogue that are tagged with “Shirehall”. I could easily fill 50 slides with photos that I like from my shoots at the building, inside, outside and above it. Four of the photos in there are from my drones, two of them are scanned redscale negatives, and the rest are a mixture of digital photos from interiors and exteriors.
It has taken a long time to gather a large number of images together in my Lightroom catalogue in a collection, and then whittle them down into a smaller collection where it ended up as the 16, until I spoke with Gavin last week and asked him about two of the images that I didn’t think fitted in with the rest. I’ve chosen to have the backgrounds of the pages as a solid grey colour as it allows a shadow effect of the image, and each image is surrounded by a black small frame, as if I was using the unglazed frames that I prefer at the moment for these images.
With a front page containing a shot of one photo and then my name and the title of the project, and then no other visible words within the slides. I made notes in the footnotes of each slide but these won’t transfer into the PDF file.
Part Three – Reflective Journal
You’re reading my Reflective Journal, it’s an online wordpress blog. So how am I submitting that? Well, an easy way to submit it so that the course staff can see the relevant parts are to create a list of Semesters and Weeks in those semesters, then by the side of each I add a line saying what a post is about then change it to a hyperlink so that the lecturer can click the link to be instantly transported to the blog post.
The blog is my journal and I update it after every week in the uni, every review, every tutorial, every talk, every practical lesson, every shoot, every negative scanning session, every printing session, well you get the idea. It even contains trips that I take that are based around photography and whilst some of these are relevant to the project or the course in general, many are not, apart from the inspiration they give me. I will create many posts for these trips too but might not include them in the list of links to the journal.
I also separately called out the artists I researched for the year in a separate list as this is mentioned in the Learning Objectives, and rather than the lecturer or marker having to read through the posts to find the references to the artists I have this list.
With this document in a word format I create a copy as a PDF and then move this into the Submissions folder, ahead of the final upload.
The Final Upload
Once the three documents were converted into PDFs and stored in my OneDrive Submissions folder I open the Assignment labelled Coursework in Canvas and then upload the files required. Once they’re uploaded I press the submit button and hey presto! that’s it. I am complete.
Now it’s time to get on with more photography, over the summer break that might inspire me to find a different subject to focus on for the next academic year. Cheers!
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