Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Fashion Image

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
GRAP2881	City Campus	Postgraduate	350H Fashion & Textiles	Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2020, Sem 1 2021, Sem 1 2022, Sem 1 2023, Sem 1 2024, Sem 1 2025

Course Coordinator: Dr Remie Cibis / Dr Nirma Madhoo

Course Coordinator Phone: By email

Course Coordinator Email: remie.cibis@rmit.edu.au / nirma.madhoo.chipps@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: B008 L12 R006 / B511 L03 R013

Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None

Course Description

This course enables you to refine and increase your technical and creative skills in fashion communication. These creative skills will enable you to advance the ways through which you produce and present your own fashion images for use in defining and communicating your fashion practice.

This course will cover techniques and design processes across multiple platforms relevant to industry, providing skills and capabilities needed to enter professional practice, including basic fashion image methods and techniques to document your work, and to produce and curate fashion imagery. This draws on relevant skills in editing of photographic images, graphic design and layout for portfolios, lookbooks and fashion publications/exhibitions.

Please note that if you take this course for a bachelor honours program, your overall mark in this course will be one of the course marks that will be used to calculate the weighted average mark (WAM) that will determine your award level. See the WAM information web page (https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/student-essentials/assessment-and-exams/results/weighted-average-mark--wam-) for more information. 

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

As this is a program option course, only Course Learning Outcomes are applicable

Course Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

CLO1: Advance your fashion image-making skills to produce and curate content for portfolios, lookbooks and publications.

CLO2: Apply creative direction skills in working with industry collaborators.

CLO3: Apply photographic techniques including editing, enhancing and managing digital image files for presentation, to better document your fashion practice.

CLO4: Plan and produce fashion imagery.

 

Overview of Learning Activities

Your learning will be facilitated via a range of in-class activities that will require both individual and collaborative engagement. You will work with industry practitioners and specialists in fashion image and graphic design to refine and advance your skills in documenting work, producing fashion images and content to communicate and present your emerging design practice.  

You will work individually and within a team to produce an image-based exhibition/publication. You will cover all areas of professional practice, such as development of briefs, mood boards, styling, casting and location sourcing. This will require research, planning and curation to realise your fashion imagery.

Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems.

A list of recommended learning resources will be provided by your lecturer, including books, journal articles and web resources. You will also be expected to seek further resources relevant to the focus of your own learning.

There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal. 

Overview of Assessment

You will be assessed on how well you meet the course learning outcomes and on your development against the program learning outcomes. 

Assessment tasks are directly aligned with each Course Learning Outcome. They are as follows: 

 

Assessment Task 1: EXPLORATORY FOLIO OF FASHION IMAGES  – Individual submission  (50%) CLO 1 and CLO 3 

Assessment Task 2: FASHION IMAGE EXHIBITION/PUBLICATION –  Individual or group submission (50%) CLO 1, CLO 2, CLO 3 and CLO 4  

 

Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks. 

If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equity Learning Services 

( https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/support-services/equitable-learning) if you would like to find out more. 

Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions.