cjp222 Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 I found an interesting photography project that I wanted to do, and it just happens to also be a perfect activity for CAS. Its something called project 365 where you take a picture every single day for a year as a kind of visual journal of sorts. I was also planning on doing another photography project with taking portraits of friends and people and comparing them to see how different they are and if there is any certain reason why. Anyway, would this count? Do I get cas hours if I am doing it completely independently and there is no one to moderate or to keep track of what I am doing? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abu Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 I can't see it counting for anything but creativity. And that might be a long shot, since you're not being supervised / and how long does a photo take anyway? You'd have to spice it up for it to be accepted. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjp222 Posted April 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 (edited) well, I take time to edit the photos and do retouching and whatnot, so depending on the photo it can take anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour or so. Edited April 15, 2009 by cjp222 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abu Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 All right, but even if it does get accepted, my co-ordinator told me that one activity can't count for all hours of one aspect. Ideally each activity should be a maximum of 20 hours, but then again I did cycling for 46 hours and no one stopped me. It all depends on how lenient your CAS co-ordinator is. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
m20 Posted April 16, 2009 Report Share Posted April 16, 2009 I also do photography. its one of my hobbies but i did abit of it for cas. if your idea doesnt work, what you can try and do is take photos for all your school activities like if you guys had a sports day or watever. that could count as cas. you can also edit the photos you take and that might give you both action and creativity. I take photos for all school activities and then in the end im gonna put the best pics in a big poster or board. Oh.. and you can try and be the school photographer or something. that could work. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
meh Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 See if you can get some of those pictures of friends into the school newspaper or something. Or get into the yearbook commitee and take pictures for that - I think it should count there. But schools seem to vary on how strict they are about what doe/doesn't count, so check with your IB coordinator. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-2-3 Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 [quote name='cjp222' post='43312' date='Apr 14 2009, 08:20 PM']I found an interesting photography project that I wanted to do, and it just happens to also be a perfect activity for CAS. Its something called project 365 where you take a picture every single day for a year as a kind of visual journal of sorts. I was also planning on doing another photography project with taking portraits of friends and people and comparing them to see how different they are and if there is any certain reason why. Anyway, would this count? Do I get cas hours if I am doing it completely independently and there is no one to moderate or to keep track of what I am doing?[/quote] I think that putting together the journal/making it creative would count as creativity. However, you probably won't be spending more than 10 seconds taking each photograph. Editing might take longer But then, who will be your CAS activity supervisor? Talk to your coordinator about it... I personally think it will only be creativity. Unless you sell copies of the journal to collect money for charitable organizations... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJB10 Posted April 27, 2009 Report Share Posted April 27, 2009 Photography is a hobby of mine and happened to be short of Creative hours just before the deadline. I travelled a fair bit of the US last summer with my new DSLR; showed the pics to my co-ordinator and she was cool with it. Got about 15 hours worth.. Happy Days Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
herong2x Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 well it will definitely count for creativity Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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