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P G Diploma in Still Photography (20 Seats)

( Self Financed Full Time Diploma Course of Still Photography )

Duration: One Year

Number of Students: 20

The unprecedented rate of growth and the general media boom has put tremendous pressure on media education institutes to provide skilled and enlightened men and women to meet the growing needs of the media industry. Still Photography as a profession covers a vast area of the media industry, ranging from journalism to advertising and to the creative art media. Still photography is also passing through an era where a major transition from the film to the digital format is taking place; no longer is there a demand for just a printed picture in the hard copy form. Nowadays the web-world is a major consumer of photographs.

There are very few training institutes that are dealing with the growing and transition pains of this industry. Whereas on one hand technology is making it easy for us to take pictures, specialised hardware as well as software is coming out in the market every day to give the photographers the tools to further refine their images. We at AJK Mass Communication Research Centre are already equipped with the required infrastructure for teaching Still Photography and keep ourselves updated with the latest hardware as well as software. We realise the need to start a professional course in this field keeping in view the demand of the industry so that we produce creative photographers with technical skills who can fulfill the growing void that is being created by the growth of the industry.

The objective of the course is to produce Still Photographers with a sensitivity towards Visual Media to cater to various branches of Still Photography, such as Photojournalism, Advertising Photography, Industrial Photography, Science and Research based photography etc. It needs to be emphasised here that though we will be providing technical training in Still Photography, the aim of the course is not to create just photography technicians but to make sensitive, thinking professionals in the field of Photography. Therefore the course is also designed to equip and impart knowledge to the students towards trends, issues and debates of culture and ethics vis-a-vis photographed images that have prevailed throughout in this field.

Eligibility

Students holding a bachelors degree with a minimum of 50% marks will be eligible for admission in this course.
Medium of Instruction: English

Admission Process

The admission test will be held in Delhi on a given date. This shall be followed by an interview of candidates who qualify the written test. The number of students called for the interview shall be three times the number of seats (Category wise) in order of the merit provided that they have secured at least 33% marks in written test.
The written test shall be designed to assess the potential talent of the candidate in the field of visual/creative media along with issues of general awareness.

Entrance Test

The List of candidates short-listed for written test and final interview shall be posted on the Centre’s website as per admission schedule. Students who are called for the interview shall be required to present a portfolio of previous work. The distribution of marks will be as follows:

Written Test : 200 marks

Interview: 45 marks

Portfolio: 55 marks

Course Input

The input includes class-room theoretical sessions and hands on/practical. The time given for the practical will be half of the duration of the course.

The course shall contain the following Papers:

Paper I: Basics of Photography

Paper II: Visual Studies: History and Debates on Representation and Contemporary

Practices

Paper III: Techniques in Photography

Paper IV: Combined Practical for Paper I &III

Fees and Dues for P.G. Diploma in Still Photography 2007-08

A.	Admission Charges	Rupees
I	Admission Fee	100
II	Enrolment Fee (if not already enrolled)	50
III	Library Admission Fee (When the student joins Jamia first time)	100
IV	Identity Card Fee	50
V	Cost of Syllabus	300
	Total A	600
B.	Annual Fees
I	Canteen Establishment Charges	50
II	Community Radio/Misc	150
III	Cultural Activities	160
IV	Equipment Caution Money (Refundable)	10,000
*V	Examination Fees	500
VI	Foundation Day Celebration	100
VII	Garden Fees/ Campus Maint. Fee	100
VIII	Library Caution Money (Refundable)	2,000
IX	Medical Fee	100
X	Sports and Games	150
XI	Student Aid Fund	50
XII	Subject Association Fund	100
XIII	University development fund	500
XIV	University Magazine	40
	Total B	14,000
C.	Tuition Fees	25,000
D.	Consumables charges	25,000
E.	Training & Production Fees	10,000
	Grand Total (A+B+C+D)	74,600