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How to write a final piece evaluation
Final Piece Evaluation
Please write an evaluation about your final piece. It should be typed up and around 150-200 words.
Title: Final Piece Evaluation
If you aren’t sure how to get started you can use the following sentence starters…
Please write an evaluation about your final piece. It should be typed up and around 150-200 words.
Title: Final Piece Evaluation
If you aren’t sure how to get started you can use the following sentence starters…
- I chose to paint...
- Before I created it I did a range of experiments such as…
- These helped me because…
- To create my final piece I…
- The main artist that inspired me was…because…
- Something that I am pleased with about my outcome is…
- If I had to continue to develop this project I would…
Talking about YOUR work
Ideas
- What is the idea about and how does it relate to your title?
- Which artists/photographers have inspired you and how?
- What are the strengths and weaknesses?
- How would you develop the idea further? Eg. What experiments/further research would you do?
- Why did you choose to do this experiment? What were you hoping to achieve from it?
- What editing/materials /techniques did you use and how did you use them?
- How does your editing enhance your concept?
- Which Photographer/ artist inspired the experiment and how?
- What are the strengths and weaknesses and why?
- How will you develop what you did here? Next experiment? Variation?
Talking about an artist's work
- When and where were they born/did they die?
- What is their work about and how is it created?
- Analyse their use of colour, materials, subject matter etc.
- Give your opinion of the work. Positive – or don’t use this artist!
- Link to your ideas – how will this artist inspire you?
For the higher marks - ANALYSE rather than describe! Ask yourself WHY the artist has done something in a certain way. WHAT effect does it have?
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Photography Analysis and Evaluation
How to analyse and evaluate photographs
When you are writing about how you FEEL about the piece you could use…
When you are writing about the STRUCTURE of the piece of art you could discuss…
When you are writing about EFFECTS (filters or layers) you could use…
When you are talking about CONTEXT (how it relates to other things) you should talk about:
When you are writing about COLOUR use words like…
When you are writing or talking about a STYLE of work refer to Photographic genres like…
When you are writing about how you FEEL about the piece you could use…
- Mood
- The photograph gives the impression of…
- Attitude and Focus (is there a key feature?)
- Subject (what is in the picture)
- The photographer gives a sense of….
- There is a suggestion of…
- The scene portrays a…
- There is a feeling of…
- The immediate impact this image has on me is…
When you are writing about the STRUCTURE of the piece of art you could discuss…
- Composition (the layout of the piece, is it in thirds? Off centre?)
- What is in the Foreground/mid-ground/background? (where is the focus?)
- Diagonal/vertical/horizontal lines
- Form (what is the shape of the key objects in the image?)
- Layers (building it up, in Photoshop)
- Sections (different parts, is it broken up or merged together?)
- Procedure (the steps taken to achieve the finished piece)
When you are writing about EFFECTS (filters or layers) you could use…
- Different lenses (wide angle, telephoto, macro)
- Balance of Curves, contrast, colour (with lots of expression)
- Filters- Glows, Vignette, Blur, render, sketch
- Collage
- Saturation of colour
- Cropping (this can massively change the way you read the image!)
- TONE – (is there lots of extreme black and white or soft mid-tones/greys?)
When you are talking about CONTEXT (how it relates to other things) you should talk about:
- Influences (e.g. My photograph is influenced by the Photographer…)
- Does it look like any other Photographers work? How?
- Why did artists of this time choose to work this way?
- The culture of the time
- Are they influenced by FILM, PAINTING, THEATRE or MUSIC
When you are writing about COLOUR use words like…
- Saturated, de-saturated
- Warm, Cool, atmospheric
- Certain tints of one colour
- The Photographer has used a very limited colour palette (range)
- Complimentary colours (these look good together)
- Clashing colours (these look bad together)
- Sensitive (careful and with much thought)
- Does it fit with the image? What does it add/take away?
When you are writing or talking about a STYLE of work refer to Photographic genres like…
- Portrait/Landscape
- Surrealist (dream-like, make-believe)
- Documentary (recording events, political, informative)
- Conceptual (with complex ideas and meaning)
- Fashion
- Media (news, magazine, newspaper)
- Fine Art ( geared towards galleries, can be very experimental and abstract)