Week 12 + 13 Completing The Portrait Unit

You now have 2 weeks to complete…

  • FINAL photo shoots as a direct response to your chosen photographer Re : Case Study (AO1 + AO3)
  • get out “on location” and explore tableau approaches in depth
  • explore a wider range of editing techniques (AO2)
  • blog-based presentation of final outcomes (AO4)

Ensure you have enough evidence of…

  1. moodboards
  2. mindmaps
  3. case studies (artist references)
  4. action plans
  5. photoshoots + contact sheets (annotated)
  6. appropriate selection and editing techniques
  7. presentation of final ideas and personal responses
  8. analysis and evaluation of process
  9. compare and contrast to a key photographer
  10. critique / review / reflection of your work

By Friday 8th December we should have your final prints (x3) ready to mount and frame

  • you will learn how to cut window mounts using a bevel cutter
  • you will learn how to groupĀ  / sequence your images
  • you will learn how to present your images using foam-board

Alternative Presentation Techniques

You should explore other possibilities and show on your blog a range of ways that you could present your work

such as…

Tanja Deman…using screens or backdrop to display images and present an alternative context
Experiment with alternative-shaped images….try circles

 

Remember to pay careful attention to…

  • your lighting
  • exposure control
  • composition
  • focus

Add at least one sequence of images to your blog to show the layout / framing of your final images

 

Use Photoshop to place your images within a document and add screen shots to show your process…

Tableau Ideas and Starting points

  • re-create an existing story-based photograph or painting, or scene from a film
  • illustrate a poem, story, song lyrics, dream etc
  • one or more of The Ten Commandments
  • one or more of The Seven Deadly Sins

Tableau Photography is staged. Think of it like theatre. Include props, backgrounds, costume etc that connects to your theme somehow.

Tableau Photography makes use of symbolism and metaphor.

Allegorical paintings / photographs contain metaphor and symbolism

Pictorialist Photography has connections with Tableaux Vivant.

here are some examples that could inspire your own ideas…

American Gothic by Grant Wood
The Last Supper by David LaChapelle
Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth
Disney’s Snow White

Critical Analysis of the story of Snow White CLICK HERE

Extension Task

  • Visit the Constructed Narratives Exhibition by Hautlieu A2 Photography Students
  • Berni Gallery—Jersey Arts Centre
  • Open 9am-5pm
  • Document your visit with photographs
  • Create a blog post with a review of the exhibition
  • Analyse a key image / set of images that interested you.

 

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