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COURSE: ADVANCED PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT YEAR COURSE: 10 credits AGOURA ONLY UC/CSU: Subject F
COURSE CODE: BYHA
PREREQUISITE: Two or three years of a sequential Visual Arts and teacher approval GRADES: 11, 12
Advanced Portfolio Development is an Advanced Visual Arts course that allows students to pursue a third or fourth year level of a sequenced visual arts course. This course is designed for the student who would like to study a course sequence in greater depth than is offered at the school or who is concurrently enrolled in the most advanced level offered within a sequence. This would be equivalent to any one of the following: Fine Arts III or IV, Photography IV, Contemporary Media III or IV, Ceramic IV, Stained Glass III or IV, Studio Art (P) II or Studio Art AP II.
LAB FEES FOR PHOTOGRAPHY COURSES AGOURA ONLY
Class Materials costs are used for many areas of photography. It is very expensive to operate a photography lab/class. The $100 material cost used for printer ink, photographic paper, darkroom chemicals and film, seamless for the studio, studio light bulbs, brushes, mount board, dry mount tissue, spotone, blades, and miscellaneous lab needs. All of these items are needed in order produce student results that allow the student to perform as a photographer. Students would need to provide their own flash stick. Note: Computers access outside of school is strongly advised so the students can work on their projects at home as well as school. Our school library and the public library have the same computers used at Agoura. Please see http://www.ahsphoto.com for additional information on cameras, equipment, course descriptions, additional supplies and class work/examples.
COURSE: PHOTOGRAPHY I COURSE CODE: BPA1 PREREQUISITE: None AGOURA ONLY
YEAR COURSE: 10 credits UC/CSU: Subject F
Class materials cost: $120 GRADES: 9, 10, 11, 12
SUPPLY LIST: Students MUST HAVE a digital camera. The camera needs manual operations as well as automatic. It is strongly preferred that this camera is a single lens reflex digital camera. (Please see http://www.ahsphoto.com for additional information on cameras.) Although basic point & shoot cameras are discouraged, the Photo I student may use this type camera for their basic photography training. Students will find that the simple point and shoot automatic digital camera presents some limitations in photographic & creative expression. Basic computer skills are important & helpful, but not required. This course will give the student a strong foundation in the area of photography. This class should be thought of as a Photography course and not a computer course. Students are introduced to Digital Photography and Adobe Photoshop as their primary tool. Basic computer knowledge is a plus but not required. The student explores the photographic process as a means of creative visual communication. Photography will be considered as an art form expressive of ideas and feelings. The course will incorporate art elements as well as digital processes of photography. Students will learn camera skills, digital computer manipulations, exploring many areas of this discipline, which may include any of the following: depth of field, night photography, special effects, studio portraiture, portraiture, and studio illustration. Reading,