Personal Critical Review

Social Action - Task Four

Final Images
 Social Action - Task 4

Reflect upon your Reflect upon your

own social action photographic
work work
 Reflecting on your work

This will not only explain the

For the final task on the SOCIAL
effectiveness of your work and
ACTION project you are required
the decisions you made but will
to write a comprehensive and
also make critical comparisons
critically objective assessment of
between your own work and that
your project in the form of a
of current and past photographers
personal critical review.
that have inspired your project.
 • Consider your objectives and intentions – did
you do what you set out to do?, consider the
audience you were trying to reach and the
social issue you were discussing, did the
message or idea change once you started
shooting? Did you succeed in transferring the
message or story into a visual image?
What do I • Consider past and current photographers, how
need to their work has influenced your images and ideas
throughout the project, ensure you critically
write about? reflect upon the effectiveness of your social
action campaign i.e. do you think it provokes
change or raises awareness?
• Consider feedback from your peers.
 Key topics to cover
Sources of information; your planning documents, notes and research compiled and peer feedback

Visual language; composition & design (e.g. shape, form, angles etc.) and storytelling within the image (e.g. metaphors,
juxtaposition etc.)

The audience; do the images appeal to the target audience?,

Past and present influences; photographers, promotions, campaigns etc.

The final images; technical and aesthetic quality, skills and knowledge learned, are they fit for purpose?

Production process; technical and creative ability. Time, project, production management etc.
Reflecting - tips
• Describe what happened, what did you do?
• How did you feel before, during and afterwards
(now).
• Evaluate what went well and what didn’t go so
well.
• Analyse what may have helped the situation and
what hindered it.
• Conclusions – how could this have been
better?, what could you do different? What skills
do you need to develop in order to do this better
in the future?
 Post your final images to the Teams 'general'
group chat.

Leave constructive feedback for other student's

images in your group.

Tasks Write your Personal Critical Review. (hand in

Monday 27th 3pm)

Add it to the Social Action page on your website

under the heading 'Personal Critical Review'

Take a screenshot of it on the page and submit

that as evidence of work complete