Applying for the post of Co-ordinator

Photography Club(2014-15)

Mission and Vision

To expand the work done by my predecessors and introduce some

initiatives of my own

To increase the participation to include all people across the campus who
wish to engage in this beautiful art form

To increase the reach of the club and to bring out the hidden potential in
campus community

To improve the quality of work and take the reputation of the club to a
higher level

Areas of Concern

Skill development among the incoming second year and first year
students

Management of equipment (cameras and tripods especially)

Maintaining the interest of secretaries as well as the previous club

members

Publicity of the club and promotion of best works of the club

Management of team during the coverage activities

People give a second preference to the club

Future Plans

Increasing Participation
For first year students:

Publicity of club during Orientation itself to increase the participation of first year
students

Proper exhibition of photographs with SnT Pavilion during the orientation itself

Small photography competitions after the introductory lecture of the club during the
orientation programme

Workshops will be conducted for the first year students right after the extended
orientation in which there will be one workshop on one topic in one week and one
competition at the end of the week in which the judgement criterion will be the topics
covered in the past workshops.

Experience of photography with DSLRs in will attract the students towards the club

Some of the freshers will be provided with the digicams during the freshers night
preparation who will work with the secys clicking the photographs of freshers night
preparation and finally a video can be made using those photographs

There will be a big enough section on UG brochure where various activities of

photography club will be mentioned along with some of the good photographs
of the club

For PG participation:

Special workshops for PGs which will be taken by the PGs or the fifth year students

Special competitions for PGs during impressions

Equipments:

Most of the studio equipments are not in good state, so maintenance is needed

Increasing the number of digicams in the club so that the people who dont know
DSLR handling can also take the benefit of the club

Only one tripod in the council is in working state, so getting some new tripods in
association with film club and also maintaining the old ones for long exposure
photography etc.

Camera bags and lens caps are to be purchased

Also some more lenses for macro photography and wide angle lenses will be
purchased

Also I will try to purchase a bouncing ball camera for camera toss photography

Budget for equipments:

For Studio equipments, camera bags and lens caps council budget of 40000 will be
used. Digicams can be bought with funds from DOSA and DORA*. Tripods will be mostly
from the budget of film club. Lenses will be bought combining the council budget of
photography club and film club

Summer Workshop

Summer workshop will be conducted by a professional who will be taking a

whole series of workshop and will focus on both outdoor and indoor
photography

There will be workshops on photoshop in association with design club

Photowalks will be there in every 3-4 days for in hand experience

There will be nominal charges for the people attending the workshop

A trip will be conducted with senior members of the club and another
professional (if possible)

Certificates will be given to the people attending the workshop. Also

appreciation certificates and gifts will be given to the most sincere person
during the workshop and also to the best pictures during the photowalks

All the photographs taken during the trip will be compiled in form of a travel
journal

Budget for summer workshop:

The budget from the SSF will be used for the accommodation and lodging of the
professional and also for the certificates and prizes. Trip will be mainly from the
fee given by the students attending the workshop.

Institute Gallery

An institute gallery will be established in front of senate hall in new SAC with
proper lightening

Photographs and fine arts will be displayed

Photographs will be changed every month

Photographs will be from the club, PGs and the professors

Budget for institute gallery:

The budget for the institute gallery will be from the new SAC renovation fund.

Fortnightly Learning Sessions

Fortnightly learning sessions will be conducted with senior members of the

club

Different techniques and different of photography will be discussed like

Portrait photography, long exposure photography, camera toss photography,
high speed photography, tilt shift photography, HDR photography, panorama,
macro photography, fashion photography etc.

Some assignments will be taken each time we meet and then next time there
will be discussion on the photographs clicked by the people

Also there can be some of the trips to nearby places on the weekends and the
techniques discussed can be practised together

Antaragni Exhibition

Antaragni exhibition will be conducted at the same place as before

Proper promotion of exhibition will be done through Antaragni page through

some of our best photographs

Whole exhibitions will be divided into sections which will include Portrait
photography, Theme based, sports, photoshop based etc.

Also there will be photo story section in which nothing will be mentioned. A
board or papers will be there in which people will write their own story and
some of the prizes will be given to the best 3 stories of the day in association
with informals

Photographs will be sold during the exhibition

Camera issuing

All cameras will be issued from new SAC

There will be a doc present which will be updated as soon as any camera is
issued

The doc will be open to all where everything about the people carrying the
camera will be there. Editing rights will be there with the coordinators, the
person in new SAC and the General secretary

Online Publicity and Annual Photobook

There will be a facebook group or a flickr group where people can upload
their photographs and the senior members will comment on it

Photographs of photography club will be uploaded on the page along with the
name of the photographer so that people get proper recognition

There will be an online photobook which will be published at the end of the
year. Also there will be a hard copy (if possible)

Spectrum

Some of the competitions like theme based photography will be held in first
semester which will be focussed mostly on the second year students by which
they will get a chance to practice what they have learnt till then

Some of the competitions will be there based on the campus life so that there
will be some photographs related to campus life. Also it will provide some
photos for the UG brochure

During the spectrum festival there will be some of on the spot competitions
related to studio photography for the first year students

We will have at least 15 days during the main spectrum festival in which all 56 competitions will have 2 to 3 days for submission with deadline of no 2
competitions on the same day

There will be a competition for campus architectural photography through

which we will get some of the good pictures of the campus

Other initiatives

Astrophotography will be introduced in collaboration with astronomy club

Outdoor fashion photography will be introduced

To take part in most of the competitions held in other IITs and BITS so that
there will be an incentive for the people related to club to remain in club

Sports photography workshop before Udghosh14

Competitions like eye spy will be introduced while treasure hunt etc. will be
going on.

Preparing a promotional video for the club

To retain the current team

Current team will be involved in all decision making processes including the
selection of secretaries

I will be personally calling all the people from the current team for any of the
events or activities such as workshops or lectures, coverage etc.

Sending their photographs to various competitions held at other places

Keeping their name in official site of photography club as the members of

photography club

Things that went wrong last year

SUMMER WORKSHOPS: None of the professional came to visit during the

workshop and also the lectures were not held in proper order. Also there was
no trip at the end
If the workshops will be conducted by any of the camera making companies
like canon or Nikon, they will bring a professional photographer with them
there are very less chances of cancellation at last stage

ORIENTATION AND FRESHERS NIGHT PREPARATION: People didnt know that the
competition that was conducted during the orientation programme was
conducted by the photography club. Also there was no activity of photography
club to show in freshers night which would be an attraction for the freshers
students to join with the club.

ANTARAGNI EXHIBITION: Things went wrong during Antaragni exhibition. Even

though we had good photographs we could not present it in a pleasant way.

SPECTRUM: Deadline of many of events clashed with each other leading to

involved people leaving the classes. Also the time clashed with the quizzes.

Timeline
Events

Tentative timings during the year

Summer workshop

During last 20 days of SnT summer

projects so that the trip can be
organised just after their presentation

Club Video

Some of the part during the summers

and the remaining during the
orientation period

Publicity during the orientation

Orientation period

Workshops

Workshops will be conducted just after

the extended orientation in appropriate
timings so that there is no coincidence
with the Snt clubs workshops

Spectrum

The part of spectrum to be held

during the 1st semester will be held
just after Udghosh so that we will get
some of the pics for antaragni
exhibition and also people will get
prepared for the Antaragni
competition.
The second part will be held in parts:
One or two competition will be held
before elections in second semester.
One or two just after the election
before the quizzes.
And the rest just after the quizzes.

Past experience in the council

Secretary, Photography Club

1st fashion photography competition, Antaragni13

Member of media coverage team Antaragni13

Took part in photography competitions in Spectrum12 and Spectrum13

3rd photography competition on Celebrating life conducted by photography

club and counselling service on world suicide prevention day

Actively involved in all kind of workshops and lectures of photography club

through out the year

Thank You