Sunday, 18 January 2009
Saturday, 17 January 2009
TIME MANAGEMENT!
In order to inspire myself i went out and brought a large piece of paper and created a gantt chart by hand. I have stuck it too my bedroom wall, so i can be referring to it everyday rather than loosing track of time because its hidden away in a folder on my computer. This gantt chart is more thought out and in depth compared to previous gantt charts i have created. I have broken down each section of this project that needs to be completed in order to fully engage with this brief and have allowed myself a significant amount of time on each section in order to get the brief completed by the deadline.
As this is a 7 week brief, i have allowed myself 2 weeks to research, as i will need to gain a vast amount of information both gathered by primary and secondary sources to help educate and inspire my ideas around the subject area of wealth and poverty. During these 2 weeks i plan to visit a number of exhibitions (photographic and other disciplines), look through books and magazines, conduct a questionnaire on the issues/stereotypes/opinions/discussions surrounding wealth and poverty and look at existing organizations, such as the World Photo Press that deal with and exploit photography around this subject.
During the second week of research i will be using the information and imagery i have viewed in order to formulate a variety of ideas for this brief. Using the journalistic pyramid to break down the big ideas and themes. Then development of that idea will begin in the third week there i shall be entering the realm of photography and carrying out a series of test shoots, to start visualizing my ideas and testing what works and what doesn't work. This phase will also see the development of the narrative and establish a storyboard of what i wish to contain within each frame. After establishing exactly what i want to achieve out of every photograph within the essay i will then use 5 days within week five to photograph the narrative, which may include the hiring of models, space and props.
After taking the photographs a selection process will then need to be carried out, as i'm only allowed to submit five images. Any editing/implementing or re-shooting will be carried out in week 6, then the final images need to be placed on presentation boards in the final week. I work every Sunday therefore have assigned these days to be spent updating my blog and writing up a week by week reflection and putting work into my workbook template.
Obviously this time plan could be adjusted throughout the project due to unforeseen reasons, however this will be reflected upon in my workbook.
Semester 2... ideas for research
A photo essay is a set or series of photographs that are intended to tell a story or evoke a series of emotions in the viewer. Photo essays range from purely photographic works to photographs with captions or small notes to full text essays with a few or many accompanying photographs. Photo essays can be sequential in nature, intended to be viewed in a particular order, or they may consist of non-ordered photographs which may be viewed all at once or in an order chosen by the viewer. All photo essays are collections of photographs, but not all collections of photographs are photo essays. Photo essays often address a certain issue or attempt to capture the character of places and events. People who have undertaken photo essays include Bruce Davidson, W. Eugene Smith and Walker Evans.
The main aims >
1. Change the way people think about wealth and poverty.
2. Challenge the visual stereotypes associated and the gap between the two.
3. Confront and upturn the traditional concepts of what it means to be wealthy or poor.
4. Challenge the viewer to redefine or rethink.
5. Communicate about it in a new way or something original.
6. Present a strong and clear narrative and structure. (good story, pace, tone of voice)
Friday, 16 January 2009
Victor & Susie: a snail tale made of type
Victor and Susie is a new children’s book from design studio Brighten the Corners, illustrated entirely from type. The story concerns Victor – a snail with a hole in his shell – and Susie, who decides to help him get better…
“The main idea was to stress the images and text equally,” explains the book’s author, Billy Kiossoglou of BTC, “and play with the fact that they’re both made out of the same ‘ingredients’, which are simply arranged and subsequently read differently. Children’s books often treat text and images like they belong to altogether different worlds and we wanted to avoid that.”
Kiossoglou also wanted to create a narrative that evoked the sense of rhythm and pacing found in comic books. “I didn’t want to rush the story,” he says, “but allow time for dialogue, and let Victor & Susie have the odd exchange about little things that weren’t really crucial for the story.
“Keeping the conventional third person narrative in the text, as opposed to speech bubbles, meant a parent could read the story to a child, while at the same time, the text treatment was sufficiently unobtrusive, not to annoy a ‘trained’ adult comic reader.”
