…get started.
I’ve been thinking for so long how to get this thing going. I really just need to get started!
This is the second OCA course I’ve done. The first course was An Introduction to Digital Photography, which I’m about to submit for formal assessment. My original intention and hope was to get a degree in Photography, but the best it seems I can do at the moment through the OCA is to gain a degree in the creative arts. And I want to do it purely with photography. Unfortunately perhaps I didn’t really get that much guidance when I first signed up for my Intro to DP course and that’s why it seems to be a little bit backwards, to say the least, that I’m doing TAoP after the Intro to DP! What is perhaps a little more galling is the fact that several of the assignments are the same for both courses! I’ve raised this issue with the OCA and I have heard that some of the courses are going through a rewrite (I believe the Intro to DP course is now called Digital Photgraphic Practice: I wonder if the assignments have changed). We shall see. I guess too late for me.
I’m hoping that even though there is overlap I will get something out of the course. I guess what does cause another problem is that if I do want this course to be formally assessed I’m going to have to treat it as a whole, and by that I mean that assignments will have to be submitted to my tutor, I will need to go through all the projects. There is a temptation to skip, to skim, as topics will have been covered previously. I will need to transcribe any relevant notes from my previous course to this blog – notes I’ve made reading various books, etc – as all of my work has previously been hard-copy. The course may force me to re-read certain texts, to reappraise my way of working, to reappraise my images, to redo assignment images completely even though several of the assignments are exactly the same. Perhaps all of these things are good things.
I thought I could go fairly speedily through this course and then onto the next level 1 course, People and Place, but I don’t think I’m going to be able to do that: if I’m to pass this course I am going to have to treat it as a separate entity.
So, here I go…
PS As I start catching up (I’ve spent so much time thinking about how to go about this course, particularly this whole blogging thing, I feel I’ve fallen behind somewhat) the first however many posts are going to be a bit of a chronological disaster! But as it says somewhere in the courseware, I can always come back to projects/posts… And I will… You’ll see…
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