Unit 2 Final Pieces

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Multiple Imagery - Lips

Looking back over my Unit 1 work, I wasn't 100% happy with my final prints, so I decided to create an all new piece involving multiple imagery techniques. My favourite shoot of the Unit was my 'Sweets' shoot, so I decided to create the piece using a variety of images of lips.

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Soft Grunge

Today's Tasks/Target (10/05/2013)

Now that I have completed my Unit 2 work, I have a number of small tasks I would like to do in order to improve my work:

• I am going to go through my blog and ensure that it is organised and structured appropriately.
• I still have some images from my last few shoots that I would like to experiment with: I have downloaded some new music-related brushes that I would like to try out.
• I may look into conducting another shoot, but this may require me to go into PoundLand in town to see if they have any toy instruments I can use. I would also like to experiment by cutting out musical notes and hanging them around a model with or without the instruments to represent more of the performance side of the brief for this topic.

Music For The Soul

Here is a selection of edits from my 12th shoot where I originally planned to create an iPod-style advert. I created one like this, but I felt like I couldn't develop this idea much further as it didn't properly resemble photography, which is why I have made these few edits. I found quite a range of different brushes for photoshop online which I used to edit and decorate the shapes created by the silhouettes.

With this image, I tried to create the idea that music was flowing out of my models head as she swished her hair. I think the idea may have looked better if the silhouette was darker all the way to the tips of the hair so that the colour of the brush marks looked like they matched the hair colour more appropriately.

When I shot this shoot, I tried to get my model positioned so that it looked like she were holding a musical instrument, but the silhouettes didn't resemble this well enough. The one photo I felt like I could use was this one, and I had a microphone brush which I felt fit in with the shape of my model's hand. I then used a white pencil brush to continue the line down to the bottom of the image to make it look as if my model was preparing to perform on stage. With this image I like the contrast between the darkness of the silhouette and the white microphone.

This image is simply a repetition creation using the first image, as I felt it made the model look like she were moving and dancing in a performance.

With the silhouette shoot I also shot some normal photos which, with the dark background, created a nice amount of empty space around the model. I decided to use a selection of guitar brushes I had to create a pattern around my model involving different shapes of different sizes. The white brush marks I feel look really effective and striking against the black background, however, I feel like I might try this effect again with a slightly better picture as the actual picture of my model isn't as 'nice' as it could have been. 

'The Performer In You'

Shoot 12 - Emma/iPod-style adverts - Work Record

Plans for the shoot:
My plan for this shoot is to use the studio to take silhouette-type shots of my model, to allow me to create iPod/Apple-inspired adverts with background designs created by instruments I have photographed throughout the Unit. I will need to set up the studio so that the lighting comes from behind my model in order to create the darkened silhouette.

What I hope to achieve:
By conducting this shoot, I hope to effectively show the formal element of shape as the silhouettes will represent a variety of irregular shapes against the patterned backgrounds I will design using existing photos for my 'adverts'. I'm also going to use a variety of brushes, such as fire brushes to create detailed backgrounds and designs with the silhouettes. I feel like fire backgrounds will help to reflect the 'performance' section  of the topic brief as rock and roll artists are associated with setting things on fire, flames, fireworks etc.

What I actually achieved:
In the end I photographed my model in two different ways - First I used a dark background to make actually cutting around my model easier, allowing for slightly more intricate shapes as I had more space in the studio. After this, I then changed the setup of the studio so that the lighting was behind my model to allow me to actually capture a silhouette rather than changing my image into a silhouette.

What I am going to do next:
Now that I have conducting all 12 of my required shoots, I am going to spend the rest of my time on my outstanding contextual work and improving any of my physical work that I feel is not the best that I could have done.