assessment

Overview of submission deadlines
Element Description Deadline
1. the everyday and the uncanny (37.5%) Photographic series. Topic: Defamiliarise the familar Week 6 (monday 5 March)

2. the self and the masquerade (37.5%) Photographic series. Topic: Performing the self Week 12 (monday 7 May)
3. oral presentation of your production analysis (25%) Analysis of the working methodologies Week 6 (monday 5 March)

The unit will be assessed by 2 practical projects (75%) and the oral presentation of your production analysis (25%). The first practical project is about the everyday and the uncanny (37.5%). The second practical project is about the self and the masquerade (37.5%). The production analysis is your response to the experience of working with the everyday, grounding your analysis in two of the main key texts.

Project 1. Everyday (37.5%). Submission deadline: week 6 (monday 5 March) including presentation of the production analysis.
For the first project you will be required to produce a photographic series that reinterprets the surrealist strategy of defamilarising the familiar. This will be an individual project that should explore one or more of the following:
1. The concepts of the unconscious and the uncanny as a theoretical model to interpret photographically an aspect of daily life
2. The use of surrealism as a social research into the residues of the everyday, for example, to create an archive of the banal (found photography, objects, etc)
3. The role of surrealist techniques of ready-made, free association and/or collage in finding the marvellous in the familiar

Project 2. Masquerade (37.5%). Submission deadline: Monday 7 May (week 12) 2 pm (followed by hanging of the exhibition for opening at 5pm)
For this part of the project you will be required to produce a photographic series of portraits that explore the performative aspects related to the presentation of the self. You should engage with one or more of the following:
1.The concept of masquerade as a theoretical model to interpret photographically the staging of the self
2. The relationship between performativity and cultural constructs such as gender, race, class, sexuality or disabilty
3. The subversion of the gaze and visual pleasure in challenging fixed representations the body

For both projects you are required to produce a porftfolio of exhibition-quality prints according to these criteria (flexible for revision at the time of the exhibition):
- Printed for wall display
- Colour or black and white
- Size: A3
-Unmounted

Submission procedure:
To submit your work it will be necessary to save it in a cd in the following formats:
• Photographs selected for the exhibitiion must be digitised and saved as
1-tiff files at 300 dpi, no larger than 10×12 cm in size
2-Jpeg files at 72dpi, no larger than 10×12 cm in size.
• Text, including production analysis, must be sent as word documents.
• ALL SUBMITTED FILES MUST BE CLEARLY MARKED WITH YOUR NAME.

Generic Assessment Criteria for Practical Work
Percentage
70% – 100%
60% – 69%
50% – 59%
40% – 49%
40% or below Quality
Excellent
Very good
Good
Weak
Poor Classification
1st
2:1
2:2
3rd
Fail

Project
1st
Outstanding work: your conceptual framework has been effectively transported into a site-specific format, with originality and technical skill. Outstanding presentation – excellent photographic work, excellent online documentation of the process, critical texts- everything will demonstrate consistent attention to detail.
2:1 Well-presented, conscientious work, with a strong concept. While exploring an intellectually challenging idea, the project may be undermined by some minor technical problems; alternatively, while technically proficient, the project may be lacking conceptual rigour or originality. Nonetheless the work stands out as a strong project.
2:2 Well-presented project displaying a good research concept but somewhat unoriginal or not fully pursued in terms of intellectual coherence. Technically competent but may contain a number of significant errors or lack inspiration or ambition in the use of the medium. Alternatively it maybe be unrealistically ambitious and the research lack behind the proposal.
3rd
This represents a poor project in all aspects: unoriginal or poorly developed concept and incomplete research. Overall it will demonstrate a lack of basic understanding of the brief and problems in developing the basic technical skills to fulfil it.
Fail Project failed to address all or most of the aspects formulated in the brief. The concept may be weak and /or unoriginal; technically, little or no attempt has been made to achieve the required basic technical skills; presentation may also be poor.

Part 3. Production Analysis for oral presentation (25%) Monday 5 May 2pm
For the production analysis of your photographic project, you will write a 1500 words essay explaining the roots of surrealism, the photographic and artistic strategies used in your project and its outcome. You should:
1- relate your work to at least one of the works in the exhibition that you visited in week 2.
2- discuss you work at the light of the two strategies used by surrealism and artists working within the legacy of surrealism that we analysed in class. These are: defamiliarising the familiar (the marvellous/uncanny in everyday life) and gender performance (self as masquerade).

The written text will be graded based on the following criteria:
Each item is scored from 0 to 5. A score of zero means that either no attempt to complete that element was observed or that the attempt was so poorly done as not to be effective. A score of three indicates that an attempt was made but it could be more successfully done. Four is satisfactory and five indicates that the job was very well done. At the end of the rubric you will see a total of your points.

1. Effective title that indicates not only topic but also focus. 0 1 2 3 4 5
2. Thesis (your focus for the essay) is concisely worded and effectively positioned in the text. 0 1 2 3 4 5
3. Introduction (150w) is effective and interesting. Presents the reader with an idea regarding the content and organization of the essay. 0 1 2 3 4 5
4. 4 Body paragraphs (300w) each establish and develop the main idea. 0 1 2 3 4 5
5. Paragraphs offer logical support of each main idea through well-organised sentences that develop the idea in a way the reader can follow. 0 1 2 3 4 5
6. Points of argument are well thought out and support the thesis 0 1 2 3 4 5
7. Appropriate transitions are created between paragraphs to link each main idea to the next and to the thesis. 0 1 2 3 4 5
8. Conclusion (150w) is effective in that it feels complete, doesn’t introduce any new or unexpected ideas, is the proper length for the essay, and ties up the main ideas and the thesis in new ways. 0 1 2 3 4 5
9. Essay makes a clear connection between key theory texts and your photography project
0 1 2 3 4 5
11. Essay utilizes sources effectively overall. Essay should make use of three sources with
paraphrases, quotes, or summaries. 0 1 2 3 4 5
12. Sources are appropriate and well chosen. 0 1 2 3 4 5
13. Surface Concerns: Evidence of revision and proofreading efforts
A. Spelling 0 1 2 3 4 5
B. Punctuation 0 1 2 3 4 5
C. Word Choice 0 1 2 3 4 5