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For this photography project I will be exploring the everyday struggles via young adult eyes. This project will show how overwhelming living on your own can be, especially in a different country, in which no one speaks your first language. I will present these struggles in a series of six photographs. The photographs will be a merge of background macro photographs of activities and a photos of myself sized down in order to create a literally overwhelming scene. During this process I will further develop my macro photography skills, colour grading skills my compositing skills.
The above mentioned six photographs will show everyday encounters like being late for a bus, getting lost in the city, washing dishes or falling asleep while writing an essay.
As an example of how the photographs might look I made this very quick 'sketch'.
Obviously the compositing and composition will be far more profound in the final pieces than in this ten minutes sketch, but the photo above represent the general idea.
The first artist from whom I will be taking inspirations from is a Japanese miniature artist and animator Tanaka Tatsuya.
He specialises in making pictures of miniatures created with everyday objects. I will be studying his photographs and techniques thoroughly in order to learn the most about macro photography.
Another source of my inspiration comes from the 2017 film 'Downsizing' directed by Alexander Payne. In this picture the filmmakers used the combination of CGI and smart compositing in order to achieve the miniature effect. This movie is a great study from which I can learn a lot about how to shoot big and small things at the same time. The way little things are shown in this film is very realistic and accurate to macro photography.
During the process of creating my artwork I will also be watching a lot of tutorials in order to learn how to composit my pictures better. Here are some of them.
Besides these I will spend a lot of time on developing my colour grading skills. In order to improve them I will be watching tutorials about it and research work of some of my favourite filmmakers whose colour palettes are superb. As my main colour palette inspiration I have chosen the films made by David Fincher, since they usually have a very desaturated, steely and uneasy feeling grading.
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Okay the concept is clear and 'look' you wish to create - this should work well as a digital project - please also add your initial research with the photographers that you will be looking at
The editing can produce some challenges but I see you are already busy with your research into it. I wonder which situations you will show and how. Will you be using a real life objects or mini substitutes, like Tanaka Tatsuya in his work? Are you planning to use yourself as a model for some of it?
Good luck! I am really looking forward to seeing your final work!
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You could say that the origin of sequential photography, as important by itself, is also the origin of cinema. Not the Lumière brothers, but Eadweard Muybridge can be recognized as a pioneer of film. Edweard Muybridge was an English photographer. His fame started when in 1868 Eadweard photographed Yosemite Valley in California, but today he is famous for initiating a new photography trend which is our today's topic. Sequential Photography 1 Sequential imagery is a photographic technique of taking many following pictures in a short period of time. It can be used for a variety of reasons, ranging from showing movement of someone or something to telling a compelling story. An actual origin story of the pictures above is interesting in itself. Eadweard Muybridge wanted to prove his friend that horses during gallop are pulling or their legs at the same time. Because of this trivial bet we now can enjoy films and TV series. Sequential photography 2 First set of my sequential photos I too...
As of now I completed three days of shooting, and shot around 30%-35% of the needed footage. It takes more time than I anticipated but I think I will finish everything on time. I cannot really shoot outside during the weekend since there is a lot of people on the streets at night during these days, so I have to go out during the weekdays. It slows the production a bit since now I have most of the interior shots done, so the only things I need to shoot are outside. I also understood quickly that making everything by myself is far more difficult and complicated than I anticipated. There are some shots which I imagined in my mind that are not looking as good when I shoot it. Nevertheless, focusing on the positive I have finished shooting and editing first page of the script. The entire editing process with the actual edited part of the film at the end. You can view it here. This part ranges from the beginning of the script to the first scene on the second page. Shooting around one to thre...
Okay the concept is clear and 'look' you wish to create - this should work well as a digital project - please also add your initial research with the photographers that you will be looking at
ReplyDeleteI really like your idea Nick.
ReplyDeleteThe editing can produce some challenges but I see you are already busy with your research into it. I wonder which situations you will show and how. Will you be using a real life objects or mini substitutes, like Tanaka Tatsuya in his work?
Are you planning to use yourself as a model for some of it?
Good luck! I am really looking forward to seeing your final work!