SUPPORTING YOUR ANNOTATIONS
ANNOTATING YOUR WORK
These questions are your starting points when writing about your own work. Your notes should include AT LEAST 2 complete sentences on each of these points.
- Have you begun your notes by connecting to previous work and your research?
- What were the settings on the camera? What camera did you use?
- What post-processing tools and techniques have you used?
- What is the context of the work in relation to your project? Do you think your images are a set?
- Have you been influenced by any art/photography in this work? Who? How?
- What reaction are you expecting (or hoping for) from the viewer?
- Are your images successful?
- What would you do differently if you repeated this work?
- What ideas will you take from this work to your next work?
ANNOTATING YOUR RESEARCH
These questions are your starting points when writing about your research. Your notes should include AT LEAST 2 complete sentences on each of these points.
CULTURAL CONTEXT – When and where an artist worked? Why was the work originally produced?
- Have you included basic details (name, birth/date dates, nationality)?
- Have you identified specific parts of the work that you see as influential to your work?
- Have you analyzed the image against relevant formal elements (colour, tone, composition, line, viewpoint, shape/form, texture)?
- Have you commented on the cultural context of the work you are researching?
- Have you dated the works that you have copies of in your book?
- Have you directly connected to specific examples of your work?
- Have you discovered and given a brief account of the 'back story' for the image(s) wherever relevant? This could connect to the cultural context of the image as well.
- Do your notes explain how you feel about the work you are highlighting? What is your emotional response to the work?
CULTURAL CONTEXT – When and where an artist worked? Why was the work originally produced?