Task 1: Approaches to
Learning and Developing a Creativity Practice
Within this brief I want to achieve images that I am proud of and can
add to my portfolio of work, because it will help in future practice to show
what I can do, in order to help me get work, I can achieve this by managing my
time. Making lists of what I have to do, and set a time in the day each day to
sit and do that work. This will help me keep on top of everything I have to do
so I am not leaving my work to the last minute where it may be rushed and not
be to my full potential. So I can not say it would be work I am proud of. I
want to produce work that is creative and inspires other to try something
different, to approach something in a different way than what they would
normally do. I want to achieve this because, well isn’t it everyones dream to
make a difference to at least one person? In some way or another? If my work
inspires others to pick up a camera and start doing photography then that is
making a difference. I don’t know how I would achieve this otherwise, other
than to keep making work I am proud of and get it out there in some way so that
someone can see it and be inspired by what I do.
I need to approach learning by being critical, creative and cooperative,
to help others when they need help, to get involved with feedback in the group
crits and manage my time so I don’t leave everything to the last minute and
rush to get everything done, which is when mistakes are made.
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Task 2: Subject and
Experimental Approaches
I have chosen to photograph a family to show how
they interact with one another and to show the personality of each individual
person, when doing this the five approaches I am going to look into are:
1)
Painting directly onto photographs because I have always liked the idea of doing
it but never had the right opportunity to try it and see how it works in my
images.
2)
Overlaying tracing paper over the image to obscure parts of it because I
want to obscure some of the images so the viewer is only focussed on one part
to show personality this might be too distracting but I wont know until I try
it.
3)
Burn into the photographs because this seems like an interesting technique
to use and I just want to try it, I’m not sure whether it will be too sinister
when it is done and not fit in with the rest of my work but like anything else
you don’t know until you try it.
4)
Stain, smudge and erode photographs using water because I liked the
affect it had when I was doing research. This might not work physically because
it is hard to erode images with water in a short space of time, you have to
leave them for extended periods of time to actually get any water damage to the
pictures.
5)
Creating a composition which creates a narrative or story. I think this
will be the easiest one to achieve out of the 5 approaches because really it is
already what I am aiming for when I am out photographing this family. I am
creating a narrative of who the family is within each picture.
To see examples of this work please see research
in visual log book
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