Project Review
The project has vastly differed from the initial shoot to my final images. I felt like my work has developed naturally. The beginning of my project saw me take images of various locations and then add compositional lines to them. The images I first took had a majority of pastel colours which I liked and I added lines where I felt the viewers eye would direct them.
I felt like editing them on illustrator was more effective than cutting them. I wanted the lines to be different to work I had done previously. I now feel confident using illustrator. I then attempted to use acetate and recreate the same lines from thew first edit. Weather conditions did not allow this ; it did however lead me on to my new focus of newspapers. I initially wanted to capture the curves in the paper as it folded as I thought it would be most effective in this way. Using monochrome on the camera aided the serious tone I wanted to capture as well as the bold fonts and shadows.
The titles and headings were something I wanted the viewer to be instantly drawn to and when I was shooting I intentionally focused the lens onto the titles. Using both manual mode and manual focus allowed me to achieve both the aesthetic and the shadows I wanted to capture. The images I felt were most successful were the ones that had layers in the papers. I liked the way the paper curled and I wanted to capture the various layers. I wanted to clearly portray how the press portray news as I think the news can mask the reality in the world. When shooting, I tried to capture this with context outside of the foreground, although this was difficult to put into practise. To improve, I would try and find scenarios where the newspaper relates more to the background. Something I wanted to highlight more in my work is the title pages and articles. I think this could have created an even greater bond between both the images and the text.
My images would be displayed in frames in a series as I believe they work better as a collective rather than standalone pieces. Overall, I feel like the final piece came out the way I wanted it to and I am happy with the result. I felt like I successfully displayed the newspaper in coherence with my images. I think the frames not being part of a set also worked well. This creates a visual inconsistency within the work which I think works well.
I felt like editing them on illustrator was more effective than cutting them. I wanted the lines to be different to work I had done previously. I now feel confident using illustrator. I then attempted to use acetate and recreate the same lines from thew first edit. Weather conditions did not allow this ; it did however lead me on to my new focus of newspapers. I initially wanted to capture the curves in the paper as it folded as I thought it would be most effective in this way. Using monochrome on the camera aided the serious tone I wanted to capture as well as the bold fonts and shadows.
The titles and headings were something I wanted the viewer to be instantly drawn to and when I was shooting I intentionally focused the lens onto the titles. Using both manual mode and manual focus allowed me to achieve both the aesthetic and the shadows I wanted to capture. The images I felt were most successful were the ones that had layers in the papers. I liked the way the paper curled and I wanted to capture the various layers. I wanted to clearly portray how the press portray news as I think the news can mask the reality in the world. When shooting, I tried to capture this with context outside of the foreground, although this was difficult to put into practise. To improve, I would try and find scenarios where the newspaper relates more to the background. Something I wanted to highlight more in my work is the title pages and articles. I think this could have created an even greater bond between both the images and the text.
My images would be displayed in frames in a series as I believe they work better as a collective rather than standalone pieces. Overall, I feel like the final piece came out the way I wanted it to and I am happy with the result. I felt like I successfully displayed the newspaper in coherence with my images. I think the frames not being part of a set also worked well. This creates a visual inconsistency within the work which I think works well.
