Nicola South Student 514516

LO1 produce convincing visual products that communicate your intentions, using accomplished techniques in complex and unfamiliar environments, with minimal supervision from your tutor.

• In my final portfolio for my Body of Work, I am on the way to producing a convincing visual product.
• In my final shooting during part five I majored on a using a ‘bottom up’ intuitive responsive approach to the landscape. Mindfulness whilst photographing and editing and sequencing has influenced my work.
• My editing and sequencing has been enhanced as I have increasingly used padlet as a virtual table when experimenting and making decisions.
• Working in a familiar place over time has honed my observation skills. I am confident that the portfolio images have strength and …This has been achieved in a dynamic landscape with variables beyond my control.  I have learnt techniques to gain the best of it photographically.
• Where I need to develop it to reach this point is by finding successful mechanisms to communicate my intentions. I have experimented in several ways but I have some way to go and believe that ‘Sustaining Your Practice’ will give me the space to do this.

LO2 demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of your area of specialisation and be able to situate your own work within a larger context of practice in your field.

• I have carried the research, learning and knowledge of relevant practitioners and theories gained through my Contextual Studies work: Affect and effect: The landscape photography of Minor White. Which led me to other practitioners such as Alfred Steiglitz, and Edward Weston along with contemporary practitioners using photography to present the invisible in the visible.
• I have added to this research for my BOW many other practitioners and writers who use the landscape to share their internal and external passage.

LO3 transform abstract concepts and ideas into rich narratives and integrate them in your images.

• This work is all about transforming abstract concepts into narratives, which I hope are integrated into my images. It is the crux of this Body of Work.
• My portfolio is pinned on using an ancient woodland as a visual representation, a metaphor for my feelings about community.
• The narrative is also dependant on my signposting of my intentions, to integrate these with the images. This signposting is still a work in progress, I am still finding a balance between sharing my message and allowing room for interpretation and completing the meaning by my viewers.

LO4 critically review your own work and evaluate it against desired outcomes.

• I critically review my work at every turn and have been held to this by my peers and my tutor.
• I have learnt to evaluate frequently against my personal intentions.
• I also evaluate against the learning outcomes.

LO5 demonstrate management, leadership and communication skills and have deployed them during the negotiation and production of the final body of work with your tutor and third parties.

• To produce this Body of Work I have mainly self-managed the work, but there has been negotiation along the way with my Tutor and peers to reach this final portfolio of work.
• I will take this Body of Work into Sustaining your Practice and involve those outside of the OCA .