Core Project

Task 1 - Proposal
The theme I have chosen to do for my core project is Northern Landscape and choosing that I have decided to take pictures of the urban landscapes of derelict buildings, from that I decided to photograph the remains of a castle in Leeds which has the forest and trees etc grown around it, which I think makes a nice mix of urban and rural surroundings. I would like to do my images on black and white film as I think this will look the best and suit my theme very well.

The concept of my project is going to be that I want to show a mix of urban and rural surroundings in my photographs rather than taking some urban images and some rural. My images will be quite dark and gloomy, that is why I chose black and white film as that will portray my images as I would like them to be.

The choice of format I have chosen for my project is Exhibition and I also want to create a poster of my work, I will do this by scanning in the negatives and blowing up the photo and printing it on large paper for a poster.

I am going to make references to several other photographers work, Philip Pankov is going to be one of them as he photographs in black and white film and he also did a project that was shot in Dublin. He took photographs of Dublin at night time so I want to try that out for my project also, his images are quite dark but include a lot of lights as it is night time and the lights really stand out and look interesting.
I will also use references to Fay Godwin as she used black and white film photography doing landscapes and as I have noticed her images are very dark which is also how I would like mine to be.

Fay Godwin

Philip Paknov

My schedule for completing this project is that I am going to carry on planning my shoots this week and then start shooting this weekend, then this and next weekend I will go to the castle and photograph it to get as many photos as I can then have a more variety to chose from for my final photographs. After I have used all the film I have I will develop the film and photographs at college on my days off and also scan the negatives onto the computer so that I can create my poster.

The resources I will need include:
Film camera
Black and white film
Tripod
Developing chemicals
Photographic paper
Access to the dark room

Task 2 - Generating Ideas

Mind Map 

Mood Board

Word Association

Landscapes

Rural

Fields

Trees

Rivers

Rocks

Ruins

Buildings

Architecture

Daytime

Nighttime

Sunrise

Sunset

Sun

Moon

Sky

Clouds

Rain

Mud

Grass

Task 3 - Research how artists/photographers develop ideas etc


Francis Bacon


When Bacon's studio was completely removed and placed into an art gallery a couple of years ago people discovered where he developed his ideas from a lot of his art work. Hundreds of photographs taken by John Deacon were found scattered around his studio which had been folded, ripped and ruined. He used them as inspiration for art work that he did of people that were sketchy and had a lot of movement in them and were quite surreal.

His whole studio was also said to be inspiration for his artwork as there was markings all over the walls and the place was just a mess filled with different art materials and paintings. A quote that someone said from a video clip that I watched about his studio - "it was like actually being in the artists head" describing his studio.

What he also did when he created artwork on canvas, he would cut out part of the canvas with a painting already on and add it to another piece of artwork that he created to create something completely new.

David Hockney

Recently he had an exhibition on paintings that he did around Yorkshire, he wanted to show Yorkshire how he saw it. He used a lot of different techniques for creating his artwork for this exhibition, but the main one that he used was a drawing app on an iPad. He wanted to show how he saw Yorkshire after being in LA for so long, his drawings were very colorful and bright. 

JR

JR photographs peoples portraits and blows them up onto a large scale and puts them on urban areas outside such as buildings and trains. His project from a couple of years ago came about by photographing people in the Suburbs of Paris in 2004 and blew them up to large images and put them up around that area. Riots formed 2 years later in that same place and his photograph was spotted on the footage of a burning car. He returned there the next year and other places and photographed people as their own caricature and did the same by posting them on the side of buildings and houses. I watched a video about this project and he said that the reason he did it is because he wanted everywhere to be its own museum/gallery including the streets and surroundings of everyone, he also wanted to show that there are heroes everywhere you go and all around you.

Task 4 - Describe how visual language communicates ideas & meaning

 In this photograph of Beyonce which is used commercially for advertising perfume. She is made to look good because they want the product to look good and people to think that they will look as sexy as this if they use the product, which will make them more money. This photograph is more than likely photoshopped to make her look even better and hide all her imperfections.

Where as in these photographs which were taken by paparazzi are purposefully shot to make Beyonce look bad, taken from bad angles. This particular image was taken at a certain point to show something bad going on on her face and that has been highlighted with a circle around it to make you notice it.  Paparazzi take these kind of images to make celebrities look bad and to make people realize that they don't always look as good as you think.

This photo here was taken with bright lighting and has also used a lot of editing on photoshop to create an image that looks almost perfect with no blemishes or wrinkles or anything. A photo like this will also be used commercially to sell an album or perfume etc.