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Module 5: Composition and Visual Design

Learn to organise the frame so attention, balance and meaning are clear.

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What you will learn

1. Explain the purpose of module 5: composition and visual design

Use this outcome in the page activity and record useful evidence in your photography journal.

2. Apply a practical method to organise the frame so attention, balance and meaning are clear

Use this outcome in the page activity and record useful evidence in your photography journal.

3. Recognise the main technical, safety or professional risk

Use this outcome in the page activity and record useful evidence in your photography journal.

4. Review the result and record one useful improvement

Use this outcome in the page activity and record useful evidence in your photography journal.

Step-by-step practice

Step 1. Identify why module 5: composition and visual design matters to the photograph you want to make.
Step 2. Prepare the subject, location, equipment and any required permission.
Step 3. Practise how to organise the frame so attention, balance and meaning are clear.
Step 4. Review focus, exposure, light, composition, story and responsible practice.
Step 5. Complete this activity: Create four versions of one subject using different composition choices.
Safe and responsible practice: Represent people and places honestly and remove distractions by changing position first.

Practical activity

Complete and record this task

Create four versions of one subject using different composition choices.

Good-practice checklist

The main subject is clear
Every frame adds new information
Complete the practical activity for module 5: composition and visual design
Record settings or decisions that produced the best result
Review the result on a second screen or as a print
Ask a qualified person when safety, privacy or legal consequences are significant

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