Regents Review - Autumn 2024

The Regents Review Autumn 2024

DEPARTMENTAL NEWS

Year 8 Graphics Students have been researching and learning about how food packaging is developed and made by graphic designers. Students have created their own logo designs, developed their knowledge on Serif and San Serif fonts and created wonderful final products, which show off these skills.

KS3 Photography Club Photography club students have been learning to take still life and portrait photographs in the studio using DSLR cameras. From here, the students have produced work that includes: hand rendered outcomes (embroidery), used a graphics tablet to digitally draw their photographs and created interesting compositions using their portraits and the opacity tool on Photoshop. The students have been intrigued to learn about camera settings such as: ISO, aperture and shutter speed, as well as some basics of using Photoshop.

Year 9 Photography

Students have looked at several portrait photographers and have researched and annotated the photographers work. Students then began to take photographs in the style of the photographer they have looked at, to try different editing techniques, such as: glitch, double exposure and colour select. To finish their photography rotation, Year 9s are given a self-study to take their own portraiture images, inspired

by the artists and the work they have been doing in lesson to create a final piece, using an edit they have enjoyed and learned over the past ten weeks.

This year, Year 9s take part in a 10 week photography rotation, as part of their design and technology overview. Two classes have finished their photography rotation, with two new Year 9 classes having just started their rotation. In Year 9 photography, we are looking at portraiture.

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