Final piece ideas

I've began to think about my final piece and what I intend to create, and soon decided that I wanted to create a photography based piece because from researching other photographers they have inspired me to try and recreate the emotions and atmosphere's that they create from their own work. I was particularly drawn to Lorna Simpson, Sally Mann and Bill Brandt who all are black and white photographers creating similar atmosphere's but in their own unique way, which has inspired me to create a similar atmosphere by using a narrative based on the themes of growing up and the loss of innocence to try and evoke thoughts from the viewer that they may not think about on a regular basis. I will experiment with different locations and possibly different models to create the correct atmosphere or get as close to it as possible.

Sergey Shapiro

   


                               
Sergey Shapiro is a typographer who has a very clean and defined style, he has a variety of fonts but the ones shown above caught my eye most mainly because they are quite loose in the quality of line but also have a classy edge to them. The use of pen in two of them are effective because they give a variety in lines which makes the font more visually interesting than if the weight of the line remained constant. The 'Brotherly love' font is effective because of the use of negative, the black backgrounf defines the lines of the font making it bold although the weight of the line is quite thin.

Lettering

I was asked to create a series of letters that were linked to things young people are interested in today. I decided to create the letters as seen because the words are all things that most teenagers  are linked to and enjoy, I tried to make them exciting with a slight sense of humour to reflect our generation today.

Typography

I had a lesson on typography focusing on the different styles available, my first task was to create as many different letter A's as possible (see left) and the afterwards I was asked to fill the page with random words, song lyrics, sentence etc horizontally and then once I had filled it I had to turn the page on it side so that the writing became vertical, I like the effect that this created because it creates and interesting texture and it is visually exciting in a slightly abstract form.

Gregory Crewdson

    

I was advised to look at this photography because he has a very strong narrative in his photo's, he re-creates scenes in America of average people in different situations and scenarios, in each one there is a clear narrative and you can instantly get an idea of what kind of emotion Crewdson is trying to evoke from the viewer which he manages to do successfully. I like his choices of colour and lighting because it makes the image look real rather than over the top and unrealistic, which then draws the viewer in further because they want to get a better understanding of what the individual's lives and stories are. They also make you feel like you are looking in on a scene through a window almost as though you aren't meant to be there seeing what is going on at the time. 

                        

Sally Mann

 

Sally Mann




Sally Mann is an American photographer who caught my eye, mainly because of her unique way of portraying a strong narrative, instantly the use of black and white makes a statement because it detracts the colour making the viewer focus on the content of the image in more detail. In her collections there are various sexual references, especially in her collection "At Twelve" which highlights some young girls urges to grow up and also focuses on sexual relationships and isolation in a controversial way as they are slightly disturbing because they are so blunt.

Building a character

 I was given the photo above as part of a task to illustrate and explain the story behind a specific character. I chose the woman in the centre at the back and named her Jill Matthews. Jill was born on October 3rd, 1874 and is currently 40 years old, she's lives alone as her husband disappeared in the first World War and she has no clue where he is or wether he is alive or dead. She lives alone in a church and preeches on a regular basis to local people from her hometown of cornwall. She eats cabbage soup because she can't afford many luxuries because most of her money is used to
look after her widowed mother who is in a wheel chair and needs full time care. She also has a brother but he is quite high up in a local cotton mill therefore he cannot be around to assist as much as he would like and her father has passed away three years ago from natural causes so she has to provide everything for herself with little help.

Beauty and the Beast Comic Strip

After researching into various comics strips, contemporary and from the 1950s, I soon realised that there was a basic pattern to all comics strips and began thinking about themes and ideas for my own comic strip. I based the theme on Walt Disney's Beauty and the Beast but interpreted it in my own way, I used the style from the comic Peanuts, which has famous characters such as Snoopy and Charlie Brown, to re-create my characters. I thought this simple style was suitable because the story is mainly read by young children therefore the images can't be too comlicated or overly busy in each scene.