20/06/2017

TASK: Find a photograph and Upload to blog

WRITE: Write about weaknesses. INCLUDE THESE WORDS: Setting, composition, lighting, focus, character, meaning, colour, balance, contrast.

IN PHOTOSHOP, MAKE QUICK IMPROVEMENTS BY: 1. Enhance the colour. 2. Enhance the contrast. 3. Select and crop.

Nathan on Martin Parr

IMAGE ONE

This is uncropped. Natural. My first shot 

Obvious mistakes: 
I need a tripod or a gorillapod so that the camera could be even more steady.
I should have chosen to focus into the foreground or back ground but not both.
I must take the date off of the camera settings.
I need to take fifty photographs for one to work. I was luck to get these but the woman is moving too quickly and is blurred.
Good qualities are:
High colour and composition is full. there is a lot going on.
I think that the sign above is head is funny. I like the contrast of the door frame and position.
The only blue is in the sunglasses.

NOW: Low angle, medium close up shot.

 Cropped is better. I have enhanced both contrast and colour saturation. I added light. I love the depth of this and it reminds me of an early Martin Parr (See Below)

SECOND IMAGE: Two shot.

Needed to enhance the colour and add higher contrast and lighting.

I copped the date out and it now looks more intimate. Like I have stepped closer into the shot which I know is a trick of photojournalists.

Final Piece

I love my final piece and I have printed it too. It is modern and it could be a design for a product or CD cover.

CREATING MY IMAGE: Making changes in Photoshop

I have to show at least five changes

Firstly, I chose my photograph and I enhanced the colour slightly. By enhancing both the saturation and extending the contrast, I think that the photograph looks as though it was taken by a more expensive camera!

Of course I had to chose the colour of the background. Grey seemed to close the jumper. I had used the pipette tool and grabbed some grey off of the jumper, thinking that it would harmonious, but the character blended into the background too much.

I thought of who the character was. I wanted a bright and modern image. I wanted to avoid flag type colours and I did want to create an 'anti football' feel. The composition was easy. I knew that I wanted to reflect the artist's work and use a large figure, looking out towards the viewer.

I took the prop image of Messi, From a wall in a shop. I want to play games with the image of the most famous footballer and the message will be of something else. I had to include a minimum of five shapes and I wanted to reflect the idea of a football and/or bubbles ('I'm forever blowing bubbles!). Circles are more fluid than straight edge shapes which also feel somehow more violent and angry - which is definitely not the message that I want to give.

The circles, although they were making the composition well-balanced, were a bit boring. I made an image based on a bar code - the message here is that we are paying footballers too much.  But I made the bar code separately, using rectangles on the same yellow colour. I then cropped the bar code into another circle and cut and pasted it on.

Too many circles? I kept borrowing the same colours by using the pipette, and added some simple stars using the simple brush shape. It was important to keep limiting my colour so that I was able to almost create a brand or a really professional design.

I had to play with the idea of 'binary Opposites'. This is where in art, design and film-making, a theorist Claude Levi Strauss, believed that imagery and meanings had more impact to the viewer, when they played with opposites. Love v hate, peace v war etc. I decided to just play with the idea of showing a footballer, but picked another sport to type. We had to use a minimum of three words. This is not really binary opposites, but I love the idea that it is playing games with the viewer. Because I am tricking the viewer they might look even closer.

I created some graffiti shapes to enhance the modern feel of the piece and also to make the composition balanced. I created the graffiti on the white board. It was brilliant because working so large meant that I really felt as though I was spraying an aerosol. The letters were not trendy enough, so I changed the colour of the first letter. I was worried though that you couldn't read the word so I created dark lettering and super-imposed a brighter/lighter word on top. I had to make certain that both words were the same shape and then I just shifted the top layer by the keys on the keyboard, rather than the mouse.

A strange gap meant that I created a separate arrow and cut and pasted it on, resizing and moving into place. I flattened the image and thought that this was the final piece.

I loved it but it wasn't as trendy as I had imagined. I returned to the original artist and knew that I had to remove all saturation form the character.

Carefully, I selected an area and removed all colour from the character, and with real care and patience, I infilled by hand using both, pipette and paintbrush and fill tool.

The Seven C's

Creating a Powerpoint and using slideshare

Go to Slideshare

Sign up and create an account - this is where you will be able to upload powerpoints onto your blog.

Create a 5 screen Powerpoint

Title: Mise-en Scene
You must create the design and it must include text and 5 different pictures.

Slide one: A photograph of your own and 100 words about Setting
Include words composition, balance, 

Slide two: A photograph of your own and 100 words about Costume and make-up
Include words (or opposites) fashionable, wealthy, gender,


Slide three: A photograph of your own and 100 words about Expressions 
Include words (or opposites) mood, anger,,


Slide four: A photograph of your own and 100 words about Lighting 
Include words (or opposites) soft, focus, contrast, shadow, 


Slide five: A photograph of your own and 100 words about props
Include words (or opposites) meaning, semiotics,

TEN STAGE ANALYSIS

1. Genre: describe the theme, subject, 

2. Capturing light natural, artificial, soft, harsh, realistic, exaggerated, manipulated, filtered
3. Multi-disciplinary = science and humanities – manipulation of camera and function
4. Unique art form = Starts blank/improvement/removal from frame
5. Framing + focus: Camera sees the world differently (outside of the frame/notice other things)
6. Formal elements line, shape, curvilinear, composition, balance, weight, tone, contrast,
7. Chance/accident
8. Meanings across time - not fixed/historical context
9. Ideology neutral? abuse of power?
10 Warped sense of timing/hidden meanings/signs, signifiers, symbols