Video Tutorial and Written Feedback 10

In this last meeting, a general assessment of the unit was made, from the point of view of the training path, of the 10 practice projects and of the link between the learning outcomes and the results. The Tutor congratulated the quantity, quality and professionalism of the work. Project 10 is the conclusion of a work that lasted 11 months and the synthesis of all the steps, all the evolutions, and the reworkings on a very broad theme, from which specific research and the selection of a visual work were obtained. In particular, the final selection of the images was made and the new grouping was conceived. All visual material is displayed on Padlet. It is important to highlight that the final selection and grouping of the images are the result of the ideas received from the Tutor in project 9, but, above all, of a further effort of judgment and discernment with which I am satisfied and in which I recognize myself, also because of the further development in the next Unit. The research and reflection process that led me to this result is summarized in a specific section of the learning log.

• The visual outcome now is much more focused.
• In the "presences" Padlet, there is a mix of images with an explicit meaning and others full of ambiguity. The common thread that binds them is the "outsider" path of the photographer, who focuses on his emotions. 
• Unless you want to explain, with text, image by image, it is also important to consider the effect that the image can have on the viewer and what meanings it can generate.
• It is necessary that the Assessors can understand, from the very first moment, the structure of the content and the path of study and critical reflection carried out to arrive at the result.


Feedback based on Learning outcomes
 [Found in the course Introduction]
• The learning log is structured so that there is an area that concerns research and an area that concerns projects & experiments (practice): in each project, there are one or more hyperlinks to reflection and research pages and posts, which informed the execution and content of the experiments.


Action points
• A suggestion for the next unit is to focus, albeit starting from the photographer's emotions, on the effect that the images can have on the viewer.
• Build a more schematic version of the reflective diary, in order to make the assessors easily understand the process of discernment and judgment that led to the final outcome. 

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Hi Giorgio,

Excellent to see you and your work yesterday. Again, well done for reaching the end of 3.1 - you've done very well indeed to complete the unit in good time, especially with such a delayed start and considering also your winter injury.

Your learning log reflects your constant thinking and reflection, your appetite for research (visual and theoretical) your practical experimentation, your discernment/judgement and your capacity to express your unique creative impressions. Your approach to scheduling and organisation has also been a great asset and shows professionalism. To recap the main points of your journey:

  • research: theoretical & visual
  • experimentation (informed by research)
  • development of project plan and methodology
  • discernment in critically selecting from a large volume of work and ideas
  • result: solid foundation and strong direction for 3.2. Ultimately you have built the foundations here of a practice
  • as you say, as a "flaneurial [and/or] psychogeographical' photographer".

As discussed, your task now is to find the best way to present assessors with the key points from your learning log, particularly with specific reference to the COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES https://learn.oca.ac.uk/mod/page/view.php?id=15866. Do include the discernment/judgement you have shown between assignments 9 and 10 in particular, coming up with fresh sub-headings for your work(-in-progress). You can use your CRITICAL EVALUATION draw attention to the key points.  

Beyond that, we discussed further sub-topics (which may or may not be necessary to develop). Firstly, your title, 'Resonances", could use a brief definition leading into your psychogeographical questions such as 'What does this place make me feel?' (rather like Barthes' punctum, isn't it? The studium in this context might be your flaneurial impression of the "everyday life" or genius loci of this place); and 'How does this moment, here, spark my imagination, my emotion?"

We also discussed the difference in affect between the images of people 'lost in their own worlds', as it were, and those very much engaged within their surroundings. Re. the former, I suggested you might take a look at the Kertesz book On Reading. There's an implied psychological interiority here, also very much present in the work of Edward Hopper, and Johnannes Vermeer too. (In your case, the exteriority; the 'surface of things' is manifest in the town itself.) I mention this as possible point of interest, not as something you necessarily need to follow through on.

Good luck in your assessment, Giorgio - and I'll look forward to working with you again, on 3.2.

Best wishes,
Jayne