Course info

This module gives you the opportunity to work using an editorial approach to photography, enabling you to identify visual strategies and editing skills that are necessary to create believable editorial images and stories. Editorial Photography will primarily address the visual message, but you also will need to consider the framework of how such images are contextualised by headline, caption and text. You will be introduced to the use of basic studio lighting which you will use both in the studio and on location, alongside of this you will be using on camera flash and learning about the importance of light in gaining successful editorial images. We will also explore the key photographic typologies commonly used in magazines, for example the portrait and the establishing shot. You will be introduced to magazine feature writing skills, which will help you understand the relationship between image and text. You will also be asked to develop a greater understanding the house styles that magazines adopt and how such styles can be used by publications across the broader scope of mass-media. To enhance your understanding of how magazines are made, you will work alongside other students to produce and develop a group publication, for which you will also engage in peer review.