Surreal Environment

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Proposal

It was watching an advert by Michel Gondry when I first discovered there was a different side to photography other than just the ordinary point and shoot. The beginning of this year I decided to experiment with the impossible. I did this by putting frame after frame together to produce a moving image, which I later found out, was called Stop Motion. This form of media made audiences that saw my work question how it was done. This then encouraged me to produce more and more experimental subjects.

After pushing the boundaries with stop motion I was reminded of Man Ray and his shadow prints, they were evolutionary at the time and played on an idea of image manipulation and illusion. I now want to progress from stop motion and interpret it into other forms of media such as film. I want to create truly original pieces that play on the audience’s interpretation of what they have just seen.

If I was painting a picture my work would reflect that of the artist Magritte. However, I want to bring his view of art into digital media. My main inspiration was his painting of a person looking into a mirror and reflection in the mirror is the back of his head, this is similar to the approach I made on the future portrait task before summer. I manipulated two images in Photoshop to create one where I am looking at my future self. Magritte is producing work that is beyond reality and leaves his audience intrigued.

What I want to achieve:
My main aim is to communicate via different forms of manipulated media that push the boundaries of my current photography experiences and widen my knowledge of different software.

Brighton Pier

17mm, f/2.8, ISO 200, exposed for 4 seconds

I Magritte Did Stop Motion...

Portfolio for the Proposal

Link to first booklet design:

https://acrobat.com/#d=86g7HjLd4quJjsLZCMp8Pw

Link to developed booklet design:

https://acrobat.com/#d=RuznmN3p0HjGGNygvlLqMA

*Correction alterations & justifications in sketchbook

Black Square Animation

Improvements it made made are the brightness correction between every frame and some advanced Photoshop editing need to be done.

I feel this idea can be taken one step further, in the same style as Michel Gondry, by creating a stop motion that is played in 3D.

Guardian Topic of the Week: Trick

Can you spot the car?

Guardian Topic of the Week: Pairs (from start of summer)

Short Animation Experiments

Guardian Topic of the Week: City

Taken seconds after the 'Night' entry, however, I decided to send this in as I missed the deadline for the previous competition.



Description submitted: "On the way back from a busy day in London as the city starts to come alive."

Guardian Topic of the Week: Weather

An English Summer

Guardian Topic of the Week: Teen

I decided to, again, prolong the shutter speed and lowering the aperture to emphasise speed and I increased the saturation to make it look more like a painting than a photo.

Guardian Topic of the Week: Night

Unfortunately I didn't get to send this photo off as the deadline for the competition is at 12pm (and it's now 3pm.) However, I took this picture on the coach back from London making sure to lower the shutter speed so that I could capture the liveliness of the city after dark.

Task 2: Future Portrait

In this task I wanted to develop my Photoshop skills by changing the clothes that I'm wearing outside the mirror to the clothes I am wearing in the reflection of the mirror. I achieved this though layering; rubbing out and burning in one layer on top of another. Next I needed to make myself look older, I did this by using the colour replacement tool and changing my hair to grey. Next I used this same tool to create a beard, however, this made the image look cheap, because it didn't look realistic. When printed off I then wanted to pencil in the slight winkles, because again, doing this on Photoshop ruins the image, unless it is done perfectly.

A Animation

Here I wanted to create something that, when someone watched it, would ask "how was it done?", and I wanted to do this by making the image interact with me.

Experiment 1.

I decided to experiment with a white board and create an animation with moving pictures, which also allows the animation to become limitless with what could potentially happen. However, in my next animation I want to make it more interactive and playful

Task 1: The Letter 'A'

After being told to experiment with the subject of the letter 'A', and to do this in such a way that it expresses my passion in photography, I decided to give stop-frame animation another go.

This time, however, I wanted to start off by experimenting with ideas in the style of the stop motion feature that was later used to advertise the 'Carphone Warehouse.' It was done by drawing and manipulating images on a whiteboard.