Photography (Top-Up)
Entry requirements
UCAS Tariff
From completed Pearson HNC Photography or HNC Art and Design (Merit grade)
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Attend an interview
Present a portfolio
About this course
This course is the natural progression from the HNC Photography and enables further development and exploration of your studies to top-up your achievement to HND level. It offers a strong emphasis in specialist advanced techniques, opportunities for developing a personal style and guidance in producing a unique portfolio of commercial as well as artistic images, based around themed projects, including portraiture, photojournalism, landscape, fashion, advertising, etc. In addition, the course is underpinned by theory units and involves visiting specialist workshops. Walsall College is proud to boast its many industry links, in particular a dynamic partnership with The New Art Gallery Walsall.
500,000 images worldwide are uploaded onto Facebook every second. If you are an art student interested in photography, you’ll be glad to know that in recent times, photography has become elevated in status as an art and displayed readily in art galleries. No other visual medium competes with photography in its capacity for immediacy in capturing the intensity of the moment. There has never been a better time to study photography.
Here at Walsall College, in addition to well qualified and experienced creative staff, we have an excellent range of industry-standard equipment, including large and medium format cameras, a large darkroom and digital post-production facilities.
Modules
Core units will develop your understanding of photography as a working practice. They also focus on contextual research, dealing with influential and important photographers, artists and ideas.
Unit 32: Professional Practice
Unit 33: Applied-Practice Collaborative Project
Unit 38: Advanced Photography Studies
Unit 42: Styling
Unit 48: Conceptual Practice
Unit 49: Art Direction
Assessment methods
100% coursework
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Walsall College
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