Using the mark scheme, I intend to annotate and explore how successful or unsuccessful my work has been through the past recent works and shoot, and which areas are the primary concern where I should draw my attention and create more work accessing the highest level on the grade boundary.
Currently throughout this project I have done, around 6 shoots with all differing themes. The first shoot was one which focused upon the combination of fine art and surrealism, forming elements of natural landscape and communicating themes in such a way to place a person within a whole new world, placing people within an art work and a fine art scenario. However, the idea sounds interesting, but the outcomes, I believe, are probably too surreal, that the whole objective of fine art itself is lost. There is no real raw representation of a photography skill or observation due to the lack of narrative and emotion, and completely photoshopped and falsely developed. This shoot will definitely not make it into the final book as I believe it no longer relates to my project, and too is not my most successful work so far.
My second Shoot was my first direct observational of the beauty around the home and area I live, However, despite this shoot having some sort of relevancy to my project itself, I do not belive it is the best representation of beauty or my life. The images although along the right track just do not show a narrative construct or are successfully to my standard and objectively I believe I Would want to present.
My next three shoots all used the same persons, it was done with three separate objectives. The first shoot, and in my opinion possibly the most successful, is a way of communicating a discussion of fluidity and structuralism, it allows a discussion between the model and the fabric itself, and an exposure and lack of identity. I believe too this shoot accompanied with the darker tonal background and the use of strong golds covering and wrapping around the body, has some if not many religious connotations, so could possibly be included within my new narrative story. My second Idea for the shoot was to show elements of chaos, within a different angles, many of which have been distorted in order to create a different persona or sorts. I wanted to use an array in order to get firstly a curved distortion that allowed an extension to his face, secondly I wanted to show a force of impact and a movement to his face, so having it pressed up against glass creates the illusion of the camera being pressed against his face. I believe this shoot was very experimental but if I tonally develop it in such a way, it could really be a successful performance of chaos, and really start to form an interesting concept of emotions. Finally I was inspired by the shoot previous ,to get more basic portraits, all with different forms of emotions in order to overlay and show a movement and struggle of inner emotions and chaos, forming a movement within the image itself. These developments are some of my favourite current work, I believe it is really interesting too see the forming of different emotional states all accompanied within one image. I belive all these three shoots, really started to help myself, learn what I can do to achieve a successful narrative to my book. It also opened up the idea to not just look at beauty but both elements, which is what I am currently looking at within reason of the church.
My most recent shoot was a long shoot which took around 2 hours, And I did this shoot in order to experiment within the different areas that I believed had the most relevancy and relation to the themes of haiku, so natural beauty within areas of minimalism. I believe this shoot was really a more successful expansion from my second shoot I had done previous. It allows more areas to focus on light and an emotional state and shows combinations of animals and people. I believe I could still carry out elements from this shoot, however, I do not really enjoy how I edited the image, they to my taste are too pastel and girlish, and I believe if I were to create more black and white imagery, it might create a more interesting narrative construct. I was recently looking at an artists who was trying to present light and darkness, and edited all their images to be a really light black and white all on black paper, and I believe this is a large central interests of mine, and I would like to produce black and whit images to possibly even be presented on black paper.
Overall I believe from my current shoot, they probably differ between different areas on level 4, nothing yet I belive is extremely successful, and I believe I need to tie the narrative concept up. However with the planning of my new shoots, I believe I could really both form the combination of all these shoots, and using the combination of light and darkness and the evolution of life, showing birth, light, and the run to death and darkness, will really help this project to prevail, As I would be able to use all of my images. I will after Easter once more look back at my work and see if my level to my mind has gotten better, and if my project is going in a successful direction.