Approaches to Learning and developing a creative practice task 1 & 2

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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