Final Piece Review

My aim with the newspaper section of my work was to create a discussion with regards to how newspapers display the news. I felt the most effective way to do so was printing my images onto newspaper. Although I was not happy with all of my original prints, Once I had created collages of pages and then printed my images onto them I found it was much more successful. I wanted for the images to be obscured with the various jumbled articles and I felt that this worked effectively. Some of the images were harder to see than others which is why I tried to use mainly text articles. The previous images ( printed onto a single page ) I felt were too obscured by the articles and I wanted the the text to be more of an importance in my work. I chose recent headlines and attempted to use at least one in each collage. One thing I think did worked well was the large font seeping through the images. I want the viewer to be somewhat in confusion on initial viewing, to be then aware of both the image and the text. My thoughts is that once your eyes focus, more will be exposed in the final piece. I felt this was done effectively and each image should have a loose connection to the article. In the future, I would like to have better links with the articles and the images. This would be hard to achieve without lots of pre-planning however I think it would be an interesting dynamic to my work. I would have also liked to experiment with other materials such as the McDonalds bag as I think it worked well as a background to the image.

I felt once I made the decision to collate the newspapers, my images and the text worked more effectively. The frames helped capture that '1000th of a second' Joel Meyerowitz and make my images feel more finalised in my opinion. I felt like I successfully completed my aims for the final piece and although some were altered to fit my plan, I feel like I still achieved what I set out to do.