Theatre in Education and Beyond

Introduction 
Teaching and learning is a process which requires free flow of communication between the teacher and the students. The important question to be asked when considering the use of a particular teaching technique is why one wants it? Or do not want to use that particular technique. The key issue is how it fits into the whole learning process.

Conventional method of teaching and learning such as lectures, reading, discussions and writing can be used successfully to help students to acquire knowledge of factual material and to impart them essential theoretical frame work, but it has its own limitations to change the students attitude or behavior. To read or hear about something is altogether different from experiencing it. The problems of unprivileged class can be discussed in the intellectual conferences, but the felling of being unprivileged cannot be obtained in the air-condition conference hall.  

Theatre is one form of teaching techniques which help to students to cope up with handling human situation and its uncertainty. The technique of theatre can be applied in different ways; one of its applications can be in ‘Case Method of Teaching’

‘Case Method’ of Teaching 
Case Method of teaching is an active learning method, which requires participation and involvement of the students. The entire approach of learning is different. The participants are supposed to learn from the given situation, constraints and problems. The trainer or teacher acts as facilitator, helping the participants to analyze the situation. A case is usually a description of an actual situation, involving a decision, a challenge, an opportunity, a problem or an issue faced by a person of a group of persons. In learning with the case method, the participant must deal with situation described in the case, in a role of manger or decision maker facing the situation. Case can have multiple solutions; each solution has its own logical argument.

In the lecture method, learners receive the knowledge from an expert. In case method of learners should make the knowledge with the help of an expert. Cases have multiple meanings and thus always controversial, in a class of one hundred students every student comes with different view.

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Introduction to Photography - Lighting, Composition, Camera Formats

Principles of Lighting

Three Point Lighting
The Three Point Lighting Technique is a standard method used in visual media such as video, film, still photography and computer-generated imagery. It is a simple but versatile system which forms the basis of most lighting.

Key Light
This is the principal light source. It is usually the strongest and has the most influence on the look of the scene. It is placed to one side of the camera/subject so that this side is well lit and the other side has some shadow. 

Fill Light
This is the secondary light and is placed on the opposite side of the key light. It is used to fill the shadows created by the key. The fill will usually be softer and less bright than the key. To achieve this, you could move the light further away or use some spun. You might also want to set the fill light to more of a flood than the key.

Back Light
The back light is placed behind the subject and lights it from the rear. Rather than providing direct lighting (like the key and fill), its purpose is to provide definition and subtle highlights around the subject's outlines. This helps separate the subject from the background and provide a three-dimensional look.

Background Light
The background light is used to illuminate the background area of a set .The background light will also provide separation between the subject and the background. 

Inverse Square Law
The intensity of light observed from a source of constant intrinsic luminosity falls off as the square of the distance from the object. This is known as the inverse square law for light intensity.
Colour Temperature
Colour temperature is a characteristic of visible light that has important applications in lighting, photography, videography, publishing, manufacturing, astrophysics, and other fields. The colour temperature of a light source is the temperature of an ideal black-body radiator that radiates light of comparable hue to that of the light source. Colour temperature is conventionally stated in the unit of absolute temperature, the Kelvin, having the unit symbol K. Colour temperatures over 5,000K are called cool colors (bluish white), while lower colour temperatures (2,700–3,000 K) are called warm colors (yellowish white through red).

Principles of Composition:

Less is better
Let simplicity be the first factor in your mind when photographing any subject.  Make sure that what you are photographing has a "subject of interest" that is clearly conveyed to the viewer.  Do not try to fit in every bit of information nearby.
A few good ways to simplify your pictures are: 

1. Get close to your subject and fill the frame with it.
2. Avoid backgrounds that are confusing or complicated, as they can detract from your subject.
3. Do not have more than one or two points of interest, because the subjects will begin to "compete" for your viewer's attention

Rule of Third
The rule of thirds is another way to compose your picture.  The rule of thirds simply states that one should think of their picture in segments of 3's...and place their subject matter accordingly, therefore avoiding a perfectly centered, and most boring composition. inverse-square-law.jpg
The horizon dividing the frame in 1:2 ratio .

Avoid Merger
The merger of this tree with the person’s head is so obvious; you probably think no one could avoid seeing it before snapping the shutter. Remember: we see things in three dimensions, so it's easier than you might guess to focus our eyes on the principal subject only and not see that background at all. Avoiding mergers is one of the important guideline for better composition.

Balancing a frame
Balance is also important. Balance means things like highlights and shadows, contrast and brightness, color, texture, and geometry of your  image.

Symmetrical balance is the type of balance where one side is very similar or exactly the same as the other. Taking a picture of a person standing in the middle would be symmetrical because if the person were cut in half both sides would be the same. This is also true of taking pictures of many other things that aren't exactly equal. Symmetrical balance conveys a sense that is stable or static.

Asymmetrical balance is the type of balance where the picture, although not symmetrical, is balanced. This can be achieved through balancing of objects in the foreground, middle ground, and background. In other words, placing the main subject off-center and balancing the "weight" with other objects (smaller or lower impact) will be more effective than placing the subject in the center.

Shape The way subjects connect to each other in a photo forms shapes that draw the eye from subject to subject. If the photo composition lacks shape, then the photo becomes too busy and awkward to appreciate. Some shapes are more effective than others in providing an interesting frame for the photo.

Here's what we're looking for. The flamingo has relaxed, and his neck now forms a pleasing S curve against a better background. So, the S curve is an attractive shape to look for when you compose a photograph.


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Introduction to Photography

Introduction 

“Photography”, or “Light Drawing”, is essentially a combination of technique and visual observation. Traditional silver halide photography has been replaced by digital photography in almost all the areas of photographic profession. The digital photography industry has seen unprecedented growth in the last few years. This has been primarily due to the availability of high quality electronic imaging devices and fast and affordable computing power and digital storage. 

Developing the ability to make successful photographs must include some basic technical theories and compositional tricks. Learning photography is like learning to write: first you have to shape the letters forming words, then spell, then string together sentences and paragraphs. But individuals who can do all this is no writer until he or she has ideas to express through words. In the same way technical theory to photographer is a means to a visual end, something which allows better control and self-confidence in achieving what you want to say (Langford, 2000).

Principles of Photography: Technical Routines and Creative Choices
First, there are set routines where consistency is all important for example focusing, exposure, processing and final printing.

• Focusing is the process of placing the film- plane or sensor (CCD/CMOS) -on the focal point.
• Exposure is the exact amount of light that should hit the film or sensor to expose it correctly.
• Processing and Printing is a responsible job and essentially a consistent, controlled routine as this gives you the final output.

Second, there are those stages at which creative decisions must be made. These include composition of your subject, lighting and camera handling, as well as editing before final output.

• Composition defines what should be the content of a frame that we see. It also defines what is implied beyond what we see.
• Lighting is a creative way of illuminating the subject to express the texture, form, depth, detail and mood.
• Editing encompasses the processes of altering images as per the requirement before final print out, whether they be digital photographs, traditional analog photographs, or illustrations.

Equipment and functions

Lenses:
The most vital optical element of a camera is lens. The main object of photographic lens design and manufacture is to produce lenses which minimize optical defects (known as aberrations) while increasing resolution and image brightness.

Focal Length:
The focal length of a lens is the distance from its centre to the focal point (where the film is).

Type of Lenses

Normal: a normal lens is a lens that reproduces perspective that generally looks "natural" to a human observer under normal viewing conditions, as compared with lenses with longer or shorter focal lengths than 50 mm.

Wide angle: A wide angle lens is a lens whose angle of view is wider than normal lens that is around 50 mm.

Telephoto: A telephoto lens is a lens whose angle of view is narrower than the normal lens.

Lens Focal Length*	Terminology	Typical Photography
Less than 21 mm	Extreme Wide Angle	Architecture
21-45 mm	Wide Angle	Landscape
45-55 mm	Normal	Street & Documentary
55-135 mm	Medium Telephoto	Portraiture
135-300+ mm	Telephoto	Sports, Bird & Wildlife

Zoom lenses: A lens with variable focal length altered by shifting glass element. It is built into most modern compact cameras which do not allow interchangeable lenses. Good quality zoom lens is optically complex.

Macro lenses: A lens specifically designed for close work and with a long barrel for close focusing, called a macro lens. Some manufacturers call it a micro, which might actually be scientifically more accurate, but can be confusing, since it goes against the established convention. A macro lens might be optimized to provide its best performance at a magnification of 1:1.

Fish Eye Lens: Fisheye lens is a wide-angle lens that takes in an extremely wide, hemispherical image. Originally developed for use in meteorology to study cloud formation and called "whole-sky lenses", fisheye lenses quickly became popular in general photography for their unique, distorted appearance. The picture angle produced by these lenses only measures 180 degrees when measured from corner to corner: these have a 180° diagonal angle of view, while the horizontal and vertical angles of view will be smaller around 147o and 94o respectively . 


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