Copy and paste from the following data to produce each assessment task. Write these in plain English and spell out how, when and where the task is to be carried out, under what conditions, and what resources are needed. Include guidelines about how well the candidate has to perform a task for it to be judged satisfactory.
Required skills
photo imaging skills to:
archive, maintain and manage analog and digital assets
competently operate imaging technologies along with design and allied technologies used within the imaging environment
create and optimise files and film to photo imaging industry standards
implement OHS and quality control procedures as they apply to all aspects of the imaging process
research skills to access and compare contemporary styles and conceptual and aesthetic approaches to photo imaging
critical thinking skills to:
reflect on and analyse own performance
recognise innovative imaging opportunities from research and testing processes
literacy skills to:
interpret technical information relating to the imaging environment
obtain necessary permits and licences to operate equipment and work in special locations
numeracy skills to determine mathematical problems arising from technical imaging processes
communication skills to:
engage with subjects and professionals in a meaningful and respectful way
explain and describe work practices and methods
negotiate with models, creative teams and project stakeholders
learning skills to:
learn the operation of equipment
review personal performance within project context
upgrade knowledge required to work in varied locations
planning and organising skills to:
coordinate activities of models and assistants
organise shoots on location or in studio and prepare shoot management timelines
technology skills to check and reinstate equipment, studio and props.
Required knowledge
OHS procedures and standards associated with imaging technology
imaging technology to determine suitability for innovative and creative production purposes
traditions and contemporary issues that inform imaging technology.
The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.
Historical, contemporary and emerging imaging technologies may include: | camera-less imaging processes and devices: digital scanners photocopiers photograms and chemigrams cameras: aerial low-tech (toy and single use) panorama pinhole cameras and camera obscura devices rangefinder SLR, including 35mm/120 film and digital capture/sensor underwater view camera (4 x 5, 5 x 7, 10 x 8) devices that produce books, magazines and newspapers enhancement technologies: analog and wet darkroom digital darkroom and imaging software applications historical cameras and techniques: ambrotype cyanotype daguerreotype Van Dyke brown and salted papers wet plate hybrid processes: digital back on a pinhole camera simulating and emulating analog effects via digital software techniques using an inter-negative from digital capture for contact printing processes (e.g. cyanotype, palladiotype and platinotype) output technologies, including all kinds of print-making, presentation and projection devices: analog and digital enlargers and printers/papers film writers inkjet, laser, dye-sublimation and thermal printers and media CMYK offset printing devices monitor/television screen display and/or data projector images screen printing and print-making processes thermo-autochrome (e.g. pictograph). |
Appropriate people may include: | critics, commentators and polemicists members of relevant professional associations mentors and peers practising photographers, photo imagists and members of allied fields. |
Discipline, subject matter and themes may include: | disciplines: art photo images commercial photo images domestic photo images illustrative photo images media photo images stock photo images technical photo images wedding clients subject matter and themes: abstraction advertising beauty culture gender identity landscape nature philosophical and classical themes religion reportage science and technology sexuality social issues the human condition the nude the photograph as truth the portrait. |
Visual representation, attributes and opportunities may include: | controlling and displaying time imaging the passage of time integrating images into other technologies to provide a range of audio, sensory and tactile human experiences making images in which an emotive or emotional content is enabled by the selected imaging technology making images of subjects in environments that are too hot or cold, or too dangerous or life threatening for human observation pictorial representation of subjects normally beyond human vision, comprehension or understanding: making images where abstract concepts are explained using the representational opportunities provided by selected imaging technologies making minute things visible to the naked eye making subjects of immense distance visible presenting images in ways that enhance the communicative quality of the work. |
Specialised imaging technologies may include: | aerial cameras high speed cameras non-visible electromagnetic spectrum: ultraviolet and infra-red imaging x-ray and gamma ray microscopy photo finish cameras remote sensing devices scanning electron microscopes telescopes thermal imaging three-dimensional imaging devices and software applications time and motion cameras ultrasound imaging. |
Body of work may include: | electronic presentation exhibition of images magazine, newspaper or book portfolio of work. |
Copy and paste from the following performance criteria to create an observation checklist for each task. When you have finished writing your assessment tool every one of these must have been addressed, preferably several times in a variety of contexts. To ensure this occurs download the assessment matrix for the unit; enter each assessment task as a column header and place check marks against each performance criteria that task addresses.
Observation Checklist