I'm currently having a bit of a problem with my critical module... my task is to produce a 5 minute presentation...

I want to just have two or three slides including:

• my aims
• the picture
• the end

and I'd just keep the image up whilst I spoke about it however... I don't know if that'd go down well against the university grading criteria or if they'd complain and expect more slides...

anyone got any tips or advice?

This image by Helmut Newton is the image I've decided to analyse for my first module in Critical Practice and I will be producing a 5 minute presentation based on it. I'll describe the image, talk about the connotations it's giving the us as the viewer and potentially photographic techniques Newton has included. 

University Update

This week we've touched upon what we have to do for our first module in Critical Practise which is to produce a 5 minute PowerPoint presentation analysing an image of our choice from about 20 different pictures ranging from:

Stephen Shore

to Annie Liebovitz

In our Powerpoints we have to look at one or more of the different analytical techniques and ways of interpreting images we've learnt about over the past few weeks such as the following:

• Structuralism
• Hermeneutics
• Feminism

As for visual practise, so far we've been asked to create images which deal with 'The thing itself', 'frame', 'time', 'vantage point' and 'detail'. This week we've had to create images which represent 'formalist', 'straight', 'document' and 'equivalent'. All of this along with research has to be collated in a sketchbook which is proving harder than it should be as I can't break myself from wanting to shove everything on a folder like in college!

I shall try to keep uploading images and posts updating on my projects and modules so far as I go along!