Syllabus

Course Code: P-304    Course Name: Photography & Videography

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 Photography
• Development of Photography in India
• Still Camera, parts, types, lenses
• Genres of Photography- Candid, Glamour, Wildlife, Sports and War
• Analogue and Digital
• Aesthetics of Photography- Composition, light, frame, color and monochrome effects
• Study of Photographers and their work – Cartier Bresson and Raghu Rai
2 Chemistry of photography
• Image formation, view finder cameras, twin lens cameras, single lens cameras
• Types of lenses
• Aperture, exposure time, film speed, exposure meters
• Image formation in available light, Lighting, Image formation in artificial light
• Editing of photographs in the form of cropping,compressing, retouching and enlargeming.
3 Photo journalism
• Concepts of Photojournalism,
• Power of visuals, attributes of a good photograph (Aesthetic and technical), photo size, resolution and correction:
• Photo as a News: Text vs. photo.
• Use of photos in a newspapers.
• selection and placement of photographs, cropping, use of cutouts, photo features
• Caption and outlines: writing about photo captions, selection and significance of cover page photograph in a mazagines.
4 Videography
• Camera basic concepts
• Lighting basic Concepts
• Sound basic Concepts
• Editing Basic Concepts
• Graphics Basic Concepts
• Key persons Technical Team, Production Team, Management Team
• Creative and Aesthetics approaches- conceptualization & visualization
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