Overview

Introduction to Digital Imaging builds knowledge and skills related to the visual cultures, theories and practices that inform the production of media-images. This unit introduces basic principles of visual practice and aesthetics within the context of digital images. Students will progressively build knowledge, critical thinking, and practical skills associated with digital image production. Students are encouraged to develop critical thinking around the particular opportunities and challenges involved in constructing narrative meaning through digital images and engage in reflective practice strategies and basic research methods

Requisites

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
26-February-2024
26-May-2024
Last self-enrolment date
10-March-2024
Census date
31-March-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
12-April-2024
Results released date
02-July-2024

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Demonstrate basic visual literacy and communication skills
  • Understand visual culture and visual rhetoric
  • Demonstrate a basic understanding of reflective practice
  • Understand the synergies between media theory and creative practice
  • Demonstrate a basic knowledge of relevant digital imaging techniques and production methods

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
On-campus
Lecture
1.00 12 weeks 12
On-campus
Class
3.00 12 weeks 36
Specified Activities
Various
5.00 12 weeks 60
Unspecified Activities
Various
3.50 12 weeks 42
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Assignment 1Individual 20% 1,2,3,4,5 
Assignment 2Individual 20% 1,2,3,4,5 
Assignment 3Individual 50% 1,2,3,4,5 
JournalIndividual 10% 1,3,4 

Content

  • Use digital cameras and industry-based software to produce a series of digital images
  • Introduction to digital image production/post-production techniques
  • Planning strategies and techniques relevant to media content production
  • Introduction to image capture strategies and techniques
  • Analyse and discuss relevant media theory and texts

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.