Plans:
⧫ I will capture images using a polaroid camera (Fujifilm Instax Mini 8)
⧫ I will capture images using a digital camera (Canon EOS 450D)
⧫ I will edit the digital photographs using Photoshop CC 2014
⧫ I will compose all images on an A3 sheet
Hope to Achieve:
My plan for what I hope to achieve in this photoshoot is to continue the idea that originated in my preparatory shoots and was also implemented in my penultimate shoot, photoshoot 3, and that it will show how I have developed my documentary photography skills but also how I have continued to stick to the brief of connected images and my chosen theme of identity. I plan on this photoshoot to study friendships and youth through a style that is reminiscent of David Shama and other such photographers who I have perviously studied as part of my project.
Actually Achieved:
I am very pleased with the final outcome of the individual photographs and the physical experiment final piece. The link to the exam topic of connected images is present in that the photographs work together and the theme of identity continues across all of my photoshoots. The aesthetic is more pleasing to me than my first two photoshoots simply because of my personal tastes and preferences in photographic stylisations.
The theme of youth is well addressed in a series of photographs that make references to polaroid usage, a technique of Dash Snow's, consideration of colourisation, as seen in David Shama's work, and the idea of focusing on a clear and concise theme with mine being youth whilst an influential photographer, Julius D High, was love.
Progression:
The above photoshoot was my final exam exploration and I am very pleased to end it on such a positive and conclusive ending. I had built a style that I liked for its aesthetic and ideologies but I continued to explore both in my preparatory shoots and my exam shoots before making the conscious decision to return to a similar style that started the project. In this respect I am very similar to my influential photographers in that most have a favoured medium and style and have minimal variation; an example being Dash Snow's polaroid works as his main portfolio whilst his experimentation with gallery installations was less evident. Another example being Julius D High whose main project is the polaroid diptych love series whilst he has another less prominent project using a 35mm film camera.
As this is the last shoot of my exam I will not be progressing any further with more photoshoots.
Process -
ISO: Various
F/ Stop: Various
Shutter Speed: Various
(Some variations of the process include my use of the black and white filter tool)
Final -
The above photographic compilation is one of two physical installations that were formulated as an extension of my preparatory photoshoots and also the examination shoot prior to this one. The above photographs study ideas of friendships and youth culture but from a more positive and less stereotypically mediated perspective. For instance, I developed some of the ideas formulated in my preparatory shoot 4 in that I wanted to depict youth as fun opposed to destructive and hateful or nihilistic. As such I chose the locations of a playground and a petting zoo as I wanted to convey the idea that young people are struggling with their own identities due to the lacking sense of belonging to either childhood and naivety or adulthood and wisdom. There is a no-mans land of age where youth fit and as such I wanted to convey the fun childhood side of my age group and that the images seen in media and photography are too often biased. To further this I wanted to implement lots of bold colours, alongside black and white photography, to emphasise the fun nature that youth strive for but the negativity that often ensues as a result of society.
This compilation is the second of my final exam photoshoot and was again designed to continue the study and t representations of youth culture within society but also the strong bonds of friendships. The photographs are captured to tell narratives through semiotic symbolism and connotation with one example being the photograph that shows a graffiti statement saying "Graffiti is wrong" and this stuck out to me as it demonstrates the conflicted nature of youth. Furthermore, the overexposed photograph of me and three friends makes me appear almost ghost-like which again links to ideas of walking between planes of childhood and adulthood without a definite identity which is why youth is often portrayed as a time of conflict. Additionally, I wanted to make a link to a media theory that describes youth as an artificial tribe, as coined by Ann Gould, and I wanted to take this idea and change it to fit my project and convey that artificial tribe as something positive, a strong bond of friendship as a result of shared situation, instead of as a group responsible for horrible societal happenings. As such the use of friends in this project helped to create better photographs as a result of the relationships that are evident; much like David Shama said he wanted photos that were in some ways posed but in another way natural as a result of the bonds between the subjects of the photographs.
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