Interior Digital Media & Journalism

The elective that opens an alternative career path for a designer — telling the story of interiors in words and images, as a journalist and a photographer — and it treats both as crafts of the eye, the discipline and the ethic rather than of gear or gloss. It begins with an introduction to interior journalism and photography, their history and their contemporary life online, and above all their ethics, the duty of accuracy and honest representation that grounds everything else. It teaches interior journaling and storytelling, the principles of journalistic writing with its five Ws and its inverted pyramid, the craft of researching and interviewing and reporting on interior topics, and the shaping of raw material into a compelling narrative, while making clear that real journalism researches and verifies and keeps its independence and can be critical, so that it is not the same as public relations. It teaches the fundamentals of interior photography, the exposure triangle of aperture and shutter speed and ISO, the composition that leads the eye through the rule of thirds and leading lines and framing, the lighting that is most of the game, and the lens and the straight verticals that let a room look like itself, and it insists that a good camera does not make good photographs because the eye and the composition and the light matter far more. It moves into advanced interior photography, advanced composition with its depth and layering and reflections and telling details, the post-production workflow that processes a raw file and corrects exposure and colour and perspective, and the development of a personal style, while drawing the honest line that editing may refine an image but must not misrepresent the real space, and that a styled shot may show a room at its best but must not lie about it. And it ends in multimedia storytelling and a final project, the formats of text and image and audio and video and interactive media integrated into one rich feature, with the honest reminder that more media does not make a better story because the medium serves the story, and it closes with a portfolio, the curated body of work that is the journalist-photographer's calling card. Throughout, it treats interior journalism and photography as a real and distinct professional voice, built on seeing truly, telling honestly, and working with discipline.