PHASE 2 week 4

Y10 PHOTOGRAPHY

DEVELOPING A PERSONAL

DIRECTION

WEEK 4 TASK:

You task this week is to complete your key themes grid for your VINTAGE coursework project.

Remember:

• The grid is a way of coming up with 4-5 photoshoot ideas and getting you to think about what you want to communicate and how you will do this.

• It should be based on your chosen theme within the Vintage project e.g. collections, memories, urban decay, natural decay, fashion… IT IS VITAL YOU DO NOT DEVIATE FROM YOUR CHOSEN PERSONAL THEME. (If you have forgotten what this think back to your montage)

• Check the assessment page to see how your work will be assessed

COMPLETE ALL WORK IN POWER POINT

FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE SLIDES.

How will

my work

be

assessed

at the end

of this

phase?

Here are the PLC

criteria for this piece

of work.

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RECALLING KEY

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INTENTIONS

SUBJECT

VISUAL ELEMENTS

DEVICES

TECHNIQUES

CONCEPT

ALL will:

Describe your intentions for future photo-shoots explaining subject and visual elements

MOST will:

Identify 4 aspects of your theme that you will try to interpret and explain how you will use subject, visual elements and devices to help you to communicate your intentions

SOME will:

Develop a clear plan of your ideas for future photo-shoots, relate this to related concepts, devices, subject & visual elements in response to looking at artists work

Features of VintageSubject

Matter

Concepts

(ideas behind

work)

Devices (ways of

expressing

ideas)

Artists Techniques &

processes

Visual

elements

Objects- old

cameras,

records,

dolls,

ornaments,

books,

photos,

jewellery….

Landscape

s – urban

rural

Portraits-staged,

candid,

close up,

full body, in

a setting

Nature-flowers,

shells,

trees,

leaves,

butterflies

….

Destruction

Memories

Decay

Urban decay

Natural decay

Aged

Collections

nostalgia

SYMBOLISM

LIGHTING

Layering

Repetition

Destruction

Distortion

Location

Metaphor

Illusion

Juxtaposition

Scale

Proportion

NARRATIVE

CHANGE IN SCALE

DISTORTION

REFLECTION

MOVEMENT

ABSTRACTION

METAMORPHOSIS

VIEWPOINT

Alicia bock

Bruce ray

Starn brothers

Macro

Stop motion

Motion blur

Layering

Cropping

Colour change

Colour- sepia,

monochrome

Light- soft, harsh,

studio, available,

sunset, sunrise,

back lighting,

silhouette

Tone- high key,

low key

Pattern/shape/t

exture symmetry,

asymmetry,

abstract

Organic

geometric

Form/ structure

– large, small,

organic, man-

made.

Repeated,

*YOU MUST

INCLUDE ONE

SHOOT WHICH

EXPLORES

SYMBOLISM

THROUGH

OBJECTS & ONE

WHICH

EXPLORES

LIGHTING

SUPPORT SHEET

10 minute TASK

• Identify 3-4 key THEMES of your chosen concept that you can explore visually e.g. within the theme of psychological states there may be aspects of :

• Contrast (opposites) ‘jackal and hide’

• The senses – sight, touch, taste

• Hallucinations/ paranoia

• Disorganisation

• Identity issues

• All of these could then be used as key areas to develop a photo shoot.

TO HELP YOU DO THIS:

Look at images you have collected and write words which come into your head

5 minute task

CREATE A GRID WITH THE FOLLOWING TITLES:

1. Along the top row come up

with 3-4 key themes related to your

chosen vintage theme. These will be

ideas for photoshoots

2. Down the left side column write the following in this order,

depending on your group:

Photoshoot plan

Subject matter

Visual elements

Devices/ techniques and processes

+ above

Artists

Context + above

TASK 10 minutes

TO COME UP WITH A PHOTOSHOOT

IDEA FOR EACH OF YOUR KEY THEMES

TASK 15 minutesTO DECIDE ON WHAT SUBJECT MATTER YOUR WILL PHOTOGRAPH

EACH OF YOUR KEY THEMES

15 minute Task

TO DECIDE ON THE IMPORTANT VISUAL

ELEMENTS FOR EACH OF YOUR KEY

THEMES

TASK 15 minutesTO DECIDE ON THE IMPORTANT DEVICES

FOR EACH OF YOUR KEY THEMES

RED TASK-

NOW LOOK BACK AT YOUR

GRID. Have you come up with 5

things for each section. If not

use your images to help you

come up with words for each

section.

NOSTALGIA CHILDHOOD

To show a happy memory

• Photographs• Letters• Memory boxes• Postcards• Diaries • Songs/music

• Low light• Studio light• Sunrise light• Warm colours• Sepia colours

To photograph objects or family members playing childhood games

• Toys• Dolls• Family• Photographs• Clothes • Games

• Pastel colours• Instagram effects• sepia and b&w

colour

LANGUAGE

To photograph a language object which reminds us of a memory

• Books• Novels• Letters• Postcards• Diaries • Telegrams

• Mono-chrome colours• Directional lighting

IDEA

SUBJECT

MATTER

VISUAL

ELEMENTSLight, colour, shape,

pattern, texture, tone,

structure, form,

Red task example

URBAN

DECAY

Destruction Beauty in Decay Cohabitation Traces Regeneration

Ideas For this theme I had a

idea to get a broken

down and rusted car as

nature has eventually

destroyed the man made

object

For beauty in decay I

planned to take images

of a room in a urban

building that’s been

abandoned and left to

decay.

I was going to show how

humans & nature live

together in urban living

through human

interaction with nature

e.g. recycling

For traces I am going to

show how a abandoned

building with surrounding

trees and leaves can

leave a trace of urban

living.

For regeneration I'm

going to show how

photography in certain

areas can show

improvement of the area

and the new life of the

city.

Subject Matter Cars, Buildings, Trees,

Windows and Statues

could be used to show

the various things within

living in a urban

environment that can be

destroyed.

Flowers, Buildings,

Architecture, Structures

and Bicycles could be

used to show the beauty

in worn urban objects.

Things like Weeds,

fountains, gardens,

flowers and Trees are

things that are in

cohabitation in Urban

areas that live along side

one another.

Leaves, Trees,

Brickwork, Cars and train

tracks are things that can

be used to find a trace

from objects that were

once there before.

Regeneration in urban

areas are made by

adding/changing

Gardens, Sculptures,

fountains, architectural

buildings and

Visual Elements The visual elements that I

will use for this theme is

tone, contrast, line, form

and texture.

The visual elements for

the theme beauty in

decay will be contrast,

tone, line, colour and

texture.

The visual elements for

this theme will be line,

shape, texture, form and

contrast.

The visual elements for

this theme will be texture,

shape, tone, line and

contrast.

The visual elements for

this theme will be colour,

tone, line, form and

texture.

Devices Devices for this theme

will be focal point,

aperture, structure, filter

and panoramic.

Devices for this theme

will be filter, focus,

structure, focal point and

panoramic, symbolism

Devices for this theme

will be emphasis, focal

point, structure, aperture

and cropping

Devices for this theme

will be lighting, cropping,

focal point, structure and

filter.

Devices for this theme

will be structure, focal

point, focus, emphasis

and lighting.

AMBER task example

Society Phobias Media Concealment

Photo-shoot plan

For this photo-shoot I am going to take multiple portrait photo-shoots of various people (all different ages etc.) and place them together to create a portrait image including people from society to show everyone is perfect in their own way

In this photo-shoot I will show the fearthanatophobia being captured by a person through the use of a skull and a cage. The photo-shoot could involve a model grasping a cage with a skull in to show that the person has confronted their fears and beaten them.

In this photo-shoots I want to show how the media judges the individual person in society. To do this I am going to take photo-shoots of models legs which I can edit onto images from a magazine shoot t show that media ‘eats’ imperfect people

This photo-shoot will be showing the masking of flaws by a disguise of pure beauty or prettiness. The model could wear a beautiful mask covering her face or a edited airbrushed human face of perfection.

artists

Visualelements

The visual element shape could be used In this photo-shoot as the different images placed on the photographs will have to be different shapes and sizes to create effect in the final phonograph

The visual element I will consider using for this photo-shoot is dramatic lighting and shadows to create a eerie atmosphere to link to the theme of phobias. Dark lighting also links to phobias as some people are scared of the dark.

Colour will be an important visual element in this photo-shoot as colour in media is used to make an eye catching advertisement therefore I can link this to my work by making my photographs eye-catching through the use of colour

Silhouette lighting and also shadows lighting are good visual elements to use in this photo-shoot as the theme of concealment and hiding of faces will be helped by the darkness of the photographs.

devices Distortion will help to show the differences in people appearance and their uniqueness whereas Metamorphosis can shows that although peoples appearances change heir basic shape is the same.

Dark Lighting could be a good device to use to communicate the dark subject matter of confronting fears (death). Viewpoint can help communicate the feeling of the model.

focus will help to attract the viewers attention to specific important points on a photograph to communicate the theme.

I could use Composition to create an interesting setup that will help communicate the theme of concealment and also draw the audiences attention.Lighting could be used to capture detail in the image or help communicate concealment through hiding and shadows.

Techniques & processes

As this photo-shoot requires close up shots of peoples faces, sharp focus will help keep all the detail needed to create a detailed photograph. Collage photography could also be a important technique to create face from multiple photographs

For this photo-shoot Under exposedlighting could be used to make the photograph darker. Also Out of focuselements of the photograph will help create a focus point within the image.

Panning the camera will give a wider view for a wider photograph. If the subject is large such as the planned photo-shoot of the models arms and legs coming out of the magazine image. Panning may be needed to capture the whole length of the image.

The use of Depth of field could enhance the concealed effect. If the surrounding area was in focus and the model was not then the model will appear to be concealed by the photographs fuzziness.

context People will be the main context in this photoshoot as I will need multiple models to show society.

Capturing fears is what this photoshoot is about as the phobia is going to be overcome.

Influences is the context in which this photoshoot is based as I am trying to show how people are influences by media

People will be the context I am going to use as the photoshoot is biased on their concealment.

Lizzie VichiannaUlric ColletteDavid hockeny

Thomas RobsonBarbara Stéger

RahneyAnna ArominLevi van veluw

GREEN task example

Q: review your key theme grid

1. Have you come up with 4 themes?(4)

2. Have you written an idea for each key theme shoot? (4)

3. Have you explained the subject matter (4), visual

elements (4), devices and concepts (5-6)

4. Have you written in full sentences and in detail

explaining your ideas (7-9)

5. Have you included artists which might influence your

work (7-9)

Now complete any thing which is missing

CHALLENGE TASK

Compare artists work that relate to each of your

themes in the grid. Looking at the following. Find

a way to do this visually and in writing

How they communicate their theme:

a) Use of visual elements, colour, shape, pattern

b) Devices- symbolism

c) Composition - vantage point, framing

d) Subject matter

30 minutesNow you need to identify ways (devices) artists have used to

communicate their theme. Come up with 3 main devices that you

want to explore to communicate your theme. E.g. colour

dominance, CHANGE IN SCALE, JUXTAPOSITION….

NOW COMPLETE A SLIDE ON EACH OF THESE THEMES

AND COLLECT ARTISTS WORK WHICH FITS INTO THIS

THEME. Write a short paragraph and explain how they use the

devices.

CHALLENGE TASK