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Photography AS/A2
Examination Board: OCR (H163)
Why choose Photography?
Photography will enhance students who are creative in mind, providing an opportunity to explore
communication of ideas responding at all levels. Students need to have a genuine interest in the subject and be
very self-motivated, working upon initiative and completing work outside the timetable structure in order to
reach their full potential in response to the work of others.
You do not necessarily have to have studied Art at GCSE but must be fully committed to learning all aspects of
the course, which will enable students to develop spiritual, moral, ethical and social/cultural issues. This
learning will be explored in their practical work.
Course Details
The AS/A2 Photography course explores creating visual meaning through Art by an expressive or interpretive
response to still and moving imagery through lens based media, experimental photography and digital
(Photoshop).
Students will use formal elements, techniques and technologies and their application to selected lens based
media. Using this acquired knowledge their understanding and personal development of creative practical work
will be demonstrated in an expressive outcome reflecting the ideas they wish to communicate. The unit
specifications run in parallel with the Art AS/A2 course, and are broken down as follows:
AS Units
Unit F410-F416: Coursework Portfolio
• Candidates produce a portfolio of work from starting
• Points/topics or themes. Portraiture, movement and Still Life.
• The focus is on including work that shows exploration research acquisition of techniques and skills.
Unit F410-F416: Controlled Assignment
• Candidates select one starting point from an early release question paper,
• Candidates are to be given at least three weeks in which to plan and prepare.
• Candidates are then given five hours of controlled time to work on developing their ideas to
realization(s)/outcome(s).
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