Post-Digital Photojournalism - JJM466

• Title: Post-Digital Photojournalism
• Czech title: Postdigitální fotožurnalismus
• Guaranteed by: Department of Journalism (23-KZ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2024 to 2024
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, MC [HT]
• Capacity: 17 / 17 (17)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. Robert Silverio, Ph.D.; Mgr. Sandra Lábová, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Sandra Lábová, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses for incoming students

Annotation

Course Post-Digital Photojournalism is introducing the current situation of visual journalism. With the rise of digital technologies, theoreticians started to describe the era as post-photographic, as the death of traditional photography. Now, twenty years later it is obvious, that visual messages are more powerful than ever. This course will introduce today's condition of visual journalism. Students will learn about the transition from traditional, film-based photography to digital imaging, to the current post-digital condition. Part of the course are also practical assignments, which will help to better understand the nature of problems introduced in theoretical lectures. Students will use traditional photo equipment, DSLRs, mobile photojournalism, drone journalism, VR journalism.

MOODLE:
https://dl2.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=5710

Last update: Lábová Sandra, Mgr., Ph.D. (03.10.2024)

Literature

CHAMBERLAIN, Phillip (2017). Drones and Journalism: How the media is making use of unmanned aerial vehicles (Routledge Focus on Journalism Studies) 1st Edition. ISBN-13: 978-1138668782.

LESTER, P., M., ROSS, S., D. (2011). Images that injure [elektronický zdroj]: pictorial stereotypes in the media / Susan Dente Ross and Paul Martin Lester, editors. ISBN 9780313378935.

Kobre, K. (2008). Photojournalism: the professionals' approach. Amsterdam; Boston: Focal Press.

Láb, F. L., & Štefaniková, S. (2017). Photojournalism in Central Europe: Editorial and Working Practices. Nordicom Review, 387-23. doi:10.1515/nor-2017-041.

LANGTON, L. (2009). Photojournalism and today's news: creating visual reality / Loup Langton. ISBN 9781405178976.

PANZER, M. (2005). Things as they are: photojournalism in context since 1955 / by Mary Panzerr ; afterword by Christian Caujolle. ISBN 9781597110365.

RITCHIN, F. (2010). Bending the frame: photojournalism, documentary, and the citizen / Fred Ritchin. ISBN 9781597111201.

WHEELER, T. (2002). Phototruth or photofiction? [electronic resource]: ethics and media imagery in the digital age / Tom Wheeler. ISBN 0805842616.

ZAVOINA, S. C. (2002). Digital photojournalism / Susan C. Zavoina, John H. Davidson. ISBN 0205332404.

 

https://witness.worldpressphoto.org

https://www.worldpressphoto.org/activities/research/state-news-photography-2016

https://www.worldpressphoto.org/news/2016-02-29/world-press-photo-foundation-releases-technical-report-2016-photo-contest

Last update: Němcová Tejkalová Alice, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (19.02.2023)

Requirements to the exam

Requirements: 

1) Active participation in lectures is expected
2) Three photo assignments submitted on time. (Photo story, multimedia project, portrait) (max. 30 points - 10 each)
Note: assignments not submitted via MOODLE on time are automatically evaluated with 5 points less if submitted within a week from the deadline. If submitted later than that, they are evaluated with 0 points
3) Semestral project - picture story (30 points total)
4) Student presentation (10 points)
5) Compulsory final test (min. 16, max. 30 points) - consists only of the information the class covers.

Final Grading
Successful finishing: at least 51 points.
• over 91 => A
• 81-90 => B
• 71-80 => C
• 61-70 => D
• 51-60 => E
• 0-50 => F

Assignments evaluation: 

Each assignment might be evaluated with up to 10 points. This evaluation consists of: 

1) On-time submission (10 points) - One hour before the class commences, at 8:00 both groups

Important: The course requires independent work outside scheduled lectures (taking pictures).

Last update: Lábová Sandra, Mgr., Ph.D. (18.11.2024)

Syllabus

Week 1 (3/10): Course Introduction and Foundations (100 minutes)
Overview of the Course Structure and Objectives
Contemporary photojournalism  
All students together 

Week 2 (10/10): Technology of photography (100 minutes)
Technology of Photography 
Online: Picture Editing
All students together 

Week 3 (17/10): Visual Storytelling Basics (100 minutes)
Aesthetics of Photojournalism and Composition 
Semestral Project I: Proposal 
All students together 

Week 4 (24/10): Assignment I: discussion (100 minutes)
Assignment I: Photo Story
Group I: 9:00-10:40
Group II: 11:50 -12:30

Week  5 (31/11): Light and Portrait Workshop I (200 minutes)
Lecture: Portrait, Light and Shadow; 
Only GROUP I: 9:00-12:00

Week  6 (7/11): Light and Portrait Workshop II (200 minutes)
Lecture: Portrait, Light and Shadow; 
Only GROUP I: 9:00-12:00

Week 7 (14/11 and 17/11): Multimedia collaborative project I (100 minutes)
14/10 Lecture 
17/10 Multimedia collaborative team project - Velvet Revolution 
All students together from 9:00

Week 8 (21/11): Multimedia Collaborative Project II (100 minutes)
Assignment II: Multimedia collaborative team project  
All students together from 9:00

Week 9 (28/11): Semestral Project II (100 minutes)
Group I: 9:00-10:40
Group II: 11:50 -12:30

Week 10 (5/12): Assignment III: Portrait  (100 minutes)
Group I: 9:00-10:40
Group II: 11:50 -12:30

Week  11  (14/12): Guest lecture and Student presentation of inspiring contemporary photojournalistic work (200 minutes)
All students together 

Week 12 (19/12): Semestral Project III
Semestral Project III

Week 13 (4/1/24): Fakery and ethics in photojournalism
All students together, available online

January: Semestral Project Finals
Student presentation of Semestral Project (with Peer Review)

Last update: Lábová Sandra, Mgr., Ph.D. (02.10.2024)