The assignment was to create photos, images using freak or unique as the title. I had to make images or photos freaky or unique looking because that was the main brief that I had to follow. I think the brief was something to do with freakiness to get used to montaging images together.
The images that inspired me with this project is the freaky images that I found off the internet. The inspiring images that inspired me was the image of a dog and some-ones face in it, another image that inspired me was an image of a person with a doll face. This inspired me because it made me feel as though I could do something very similar. Also it showed me that the image was a freaky image from the fact that it was more than one image merged together with another image. These were the images that I could recreate because they were simple to recreate and they only used about 2 images joined together.
The characteristics of freaky/unusual photography would be strange, odd and slightly scary looking. I think this because that is what I think freaky images are. They are also images that are unusual because they have strange parts joined together like the baby and doll image. Freaky images to me are images that use more than one image to make one freaky image. They are also freaky if they have some strange, unusual part on them that they wouldn't already like a face growing from the body. This is unusual and freaky because you wouldn't literally have a face growing out of a body. This is what I think characteristics of a freaky image is.
My ideas that I intended to do was to have a doll and mix it with a person. I didn't do this in the end because I ran out of time to do this. I wrote a proposal for the idea that I wanted to get across. I managed to do and finish my merged final freak or unique piece using photo shop and photography lessons. My idea was to merge a doll and a person together to create a new freaky doll. I quite liked my idea because it would have worked if I finished doing it. It would have been freaky looking also if I did this because of the face or body with a doll. This would have been very unusual which is what I wanted to get across to tell the audience the advert that I wanted to create a doll type advert crossed with something like a dog.
I had to take into account the location of where I would have taken the images, how long it would take me to take the correct and the right number of photos. I also had to take into account the lighting of where I would take the photos. This was hard to sort the lighting because the room that I took the relevant photos in wasn't as great as it probably could have been. I had to set up the camera and the tripod with the backdrop for the lighting to create the descant images. This was because I didn't want the lighting to dark otherwise you wouldn't be able to see the photos, I wanted it to be bright enough so you could see the images.
The editing process that I had to go through was using photo shop to edit my four images. I did this by using levels and curves on the adjustments setting of photo shop. I used photo shop to edit my images because it was the easiest programme to edit the images that I needed to edit. The images of mine that I took that I found the hardest to edit was my images of images. This was because they were images of images. I found it hard to edit because I found it hard to change the colours of the images. I had fun taking photos of photos apart from having this problem.
I haven't got examples of my final advert that I would have liked to do but I have my magazine advert example on my blog. This is because I didn't have time to finish my actual piece so I used my magazine advert. This is because my magazine advert is joined with the two lessons. This is because they are basically the same type of thing. The magazine advert is joined with making the advert. It isn't freaky but more of a unique piece instead of a freaky one. I feel as though the magazine advert has gone very well. It has gone better than I expected it to which is great and amazing.
If I was to do this project again I would change my proposal abit. This is because my proposal didn't fit my actual piece. I ran out of time to make my final piece which would have fitted my proposal. I have learnt from my first assignment that I need to keep up with time and do things on time. This is because otherwise I would be behind work which I don't want to be. I think next time I do another assignment I should keep my proposal identical/ slightly different to my actual piece so it fits. Otherwise it looks slightly strange and odd.
I have learnt some new skills whilst I have had Photography. I have enjoyed the lessons because I have managed to learn new skills that I didn't think I would be able to. I have liked learning how a simple photography camera is used with all of the techniques and buttons on the camera. I have loved using the camera and the tripods because it gave me new skills to get the grips of when taking simple photos using a camera.
I have made some images using the camera that I am very proud of. In my opinion my favourite piece of work that I have done is probably the mixed piece of work. This is because I have emerged a photo shop lesson and a photography lesson together to create a montage/magazine advert image. I like this image because it shows a few skills that I have learnt throughout the weeks. Also it shows how well I can work when I have a time pressure which is great practise for the future.
Throughout this course I have learnt what A,S,M and P means. They mean Apature, Speed, Manual and Program. I didn't know that the cameras have these dials, letters on them which indicates a new skill of the cameras.
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