Week 7 - Workshop Notes

Project Proposal in Week 8:

Prepare a presentation about your project so far for next week Thursday.

In next week Tuesday's session, we shall meet in Fulton to watch a presentation.

Presentation Brief:

You are required to give a 5-10 minute presentation outlining your initial project ideas, essentially an early proposal. It should include aspects of Theme, Research and Practice and could address some of these questions below:

Theme: What is it, and what is it about?

Research:
How have you developed initial ideas into this proposal? What have you learned from reading, looking and listening?

Practice: How could you communicate and visualize your ideas? What materials have you produced so far, and how have the processes and results informed you?


Written Work:

Please submit a short written digest of the presentation/proposal, incorporating some of the content above. (250 words)

You should also include a section that addresses perceived strengths and weaknesses of the proposed project in its present its present form. (250 words max)

We are fully expecting your ideas to develop and change after this point, but try to be as definite as possible at this stage; it will help you to focus and form the idea and allow us to provide more targeted feedback.

All of this work and detail should also be included, and expanded, in your journal.

Feedback From My Peers About My Project's Practice Shoots:

- Try cropping down you images, narrow your point of view.
- Use a grid live-view when shooting but make sure the corners are perfectly aligned with the structures you are shooting.
- Maybe look into going more minimalist architecture structures such as the tops of buildings or just specific structures.

Other Journal Notes - What Else You Should Include:

Don't throw any work away, treat your journal like a scrap box. Throw everything in it and when it comes closer to the deadline, you can get rid of it then if it's useless.

Treat it as a tool that helps develop my project.

Do not forget to annotate!

Brainstorms, doddles, notes and links to anything you can think of.

Notebooks are a good resource to use, especially when out on shooting.

Lectures will all contribute in some form to your project. Make sure that you try and link it to your own project's development.

Let your other readings inspire you. Think like a detective, and find other readings that inspired the piece your reading so you go even deeper for your project's development.

Use a variety of mediums to learn from - Documentaries, YouTube clips, Social Media and current photographers work.

For myself, research symmetry, repetition, graphic and architectural design. You need to understand the full concept of your project's theme.

Go out to other photography exhibitions, just because the Brighton Biennal is over, do not limit yourself.

Talk to academics on campus! For me, go to the mathematics or architectural departments and go and see them in their office hour. There's no harm running past you project's idea to them and gaining their feedback. 

Appendix for your project. You need to make a thorough schedule for your final project. Production timeline. Huge list of what needs to be done and then date it. Ensure it's for next term.

Research on printing, framing/mounting and exhibition. 

Tray of water for reflections

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In our practical session, we all spoke openly and informally about our ideas so far for each of our project's theme. 

1. Burning Relationships
- You can experiment in many different ways when you're playing with fire.
- Look at other professionals work such as Rodchenko, who crossed and scribbled out people from his work during Soviet union
- Ethics, do you show the whole face or just part of it or even show them physically in the photographs at all?
- For found imagery, look at the works of Joachim Schmidt

2. Complications in Identity
- Playing with the idea of identity and going against the norms of society.
- Morphing of faces with software and glitch art

3. Mini-figure Models and Environmental Protection
- Make your environments more minimalist as to not distract away from the message you are trying to convey in your images.
- Reminds us of films such as Ant-Man and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids