GCSE Art & Design (Photography)

Exam Board and Specification Code: AQA (8206) The Course Our photography courses at David Game College offer focused, exciting and challenging learning strategies to develop knowledge, creativity and technical skills in the theory and practice of photography. The teaching and learning strategy for these courses is based on the AQA exam board, learning and assessment requirement. The creative potential stimulated in this course will enable you to apply analytical, critical thinking and problem solving skills, in order to visually communicate ideas through photography skilfully.

Our Facilities We have a wide range of facilities to accommodate enthusiastic exploration of project investigations which include the use of black-and-white darkroom to explore experimental photography and a digital studio with one personalised Mac per student to use postproduction in Photo Shop and iMovie for video editing. Our lighting studio offers flash lighting, light meters and studio equipment to engage the refinement and exploration of photographic techniques. In the main studio we participate in project development and engage an understanding for the theory side of photography through Image decoding presentations and student/ teacher discussion.

How is the Course Assessed? We teach a curriculum around the AQA exam board which is assessed as coursework and a final exam. We offer intensive GCSE and intensive A-level courses as well as two year courses for each.

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