This evaluation is about the project Person X. For this assignment, I chose to photograph my mother, who was a dancer in the 60's and 70's. She appeared on shows such as Junior show time were she regularly performed. When she was 16, she quit her dancing career to focus on other studies. A decision which she admitted she sometimes regrets.
The images also include black and white pictures of my grandmother, who was a famous singer, actress and dancer in the 1930's and 40's. This shows the family connection through the generations.
I chose to do this project on my mother as I think she has had a very interesting life and the images would make a clear and interesting narrative.
When I started shooting this project, I thought of the idea of making the staged images colour, and the upstaged black and white. Although, after I did this I found that the images then did not mix well together and it made the narrative much more difficult to understand due to the distracting colour changes. After this, I decided to keep the images all in colour to edit the tones of colour to distinguish which were natural and which were staged. I found this worked effectively while still making the images flow effortlessly.
I chose to order my images so it started with images of dancing objects that would appear in the following images. I also mixed staged and natural images together to show how in her everyday life, she still thinks about dancing.
If I could do anything differently with my project, I would have shot an image of my mothers ordinary shoes, to go along side the images of her tap shoes. I think this would have made an interesting contrasting shot.
I am happy with my shoot as I think it successfully communciated my narrative in a creative and innervating way.
The way I am going to present my work is in a book. I am going to keep the same order as in my book and I will have no words to accompany them.
The images also include black and white pictures of my grandmother, who was a famous singer, actress and dancer in the 1930's and 40's. This shows the family connection through the generations.
I chose to do this project on my mother as I think she has had a very interesting life and the images would make a clear and interesting narrative.
When I started shooting this project, I thought of the idea of making the staged images colour, and the upstaged black and white. Although, after I did this I found that the images then did not mix well together and it made the narrative much more difficult to understand due to the distracting colour changes. After this, I decided to keep the images all in colour to edit the tones of colour to distinguish which were natural and which were staged. I found this worked effectively while still making the images flow effortlessly.
I chose to order my images so it started with images of dancing objects that would appear in the following images. I also mixed staged and natural images together to show how in her everyday life, she still thinks about dancing.
If I could do anything differently with my project, I would have shot an image of my mothers ordinary shoes, to go along side the images of her tap shoes. I think this would have made an interesting contrasting shot.
I am happy with my shoot as I think it successfully communciated my narrative in a creative and innervating way.
The way I am going to present my work is in a book. I am going to keep the same order as in my book and I will have no words to accompany them.
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