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My Manifesto, of the creative and surreal mind.

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5-10 manifesto rules inspired by surrealism.
  1. To convey a clear methodology of abstract, creative and surreal qualities of a dreamatic identity.
  2. Free one’s mind from the past and from everyday reality to arrive at truths one has never known.
  3. liberate one’s psyche from traditional education, feel an empowerment through the creative mind rather than analytical.
  4. Do not stifle your imagination, break down tradition and become the create space around yourself.
  5. Become an explorer of your own narrative, become who you are and who you aspire to be.
  6. Do not hide your emotions but express them in passion. Do not be silenced by the government but uplift your own political power.
  7. Be unique through your past, your truth, your dreams and express this is such a way to uplift other and not as a example of bitterness towards them.
  8. Evoke a consciousness from those in power, use a voice of positivity for change to better the future.
  9. Be expressive not only through yourself but the environment, view the world as something to composed and to create beauty for others.
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Photoshoot- Breaking the Rules

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To interpret Stephen Gills style of work I visited Le Hocq beach and found an area that was surrounded by rocks and sea and focused on close up on certain sections with interesting patterns. I used pieces of red string in front of the lens to break the rule of manipulation by physically manipulating the lens so what the image is portraying is not what’s there in real life. I purposefully made  some photos out of focus to create a blurry effect that some of Stephen Gills work has where he dipped his lens into the pond water he was documenting. I think this was effective in some images like the images where I experimented with string, but not others where I used plastic in front of the lens which is why I haven’t displayed them down below or edited any.

I displayed these two images together as the string is a similar shape in both,  but the different backgrounds make them contrast one another. The photo on the left has a darker background making the red in the foreground stand out more than the right image. Both of the backgrounds of the images are slightly out of focus which i did to try and interpret the blurriness in some of Stephen Gills work. In my next photoshoot i will experiment by focusing the camera to see if the images are more effective. I chose these two backgrounds to photograph the string against as i like the different detailed patterns. The right image has yellow/brown tone grains of sand and rocks out of focus which is contrasted to the left image with the darker brown tones of seaweed that represent the flow of movement. The movement of the seaweed is similar to the string creating similar shapes and lines making a more interesting image. In the right image the shape of the string is contrasted to the background creating a more juxtaposed image.

 

Experiment

 When  first experimenting I edited some images in black and white to see if they were more effective. This emphasises the darker and lighter tones in the image and eliminates the mismatch of colours in the background.

Stephen Gills images:

I think this is a good interpretation of Stephen Gills work, especially to the images displayed above, as it has a similar flow of movement with similar lines and curves. Although Stephen Gills photography may have more details in the layering of the different materials and the way the materials fit in with the background, I think I captured his style of work and made it my own.

I also experimented by changing the main colours of the string to see if another colour was more effective. I chose to change red to yellow as in Stephen Gills images above there are many yellow and green tones. On the right image i edited the background even more out of focus as in some of Stephen Gills images he uses a blurred effect. I still kept some of the rocks on the edge of the image in focus so only the water blurred so there is contrasting patterns.

I think this image is more effective edited in black and white as the red colour of the string isn’t as overpowering and it fits in more with the background making a more aesthetically pleasing image.

I edited these images in black and white to create a more formal appearance. This makes it harder to tell what the photos are portraying and emphases the combination of detailed patterns.I displayed these two images together as the shape the string is making in both are very similar, but the different patterns in he background makes them juxtapose one another. In this edit, the darker point in the seaweed in the left image are darken and creates a bigger contrast to the string in the foreground, making the lighter points stand out more.

Evaluation:

I will revisit this area again for my second photoshoot and try different way of experimenting like adding different colours of string in front of the lens and maybe placing materials into the landscape making the image in focus to try a different approach. I will work on making the images where plastic is placed in front of the image better as well. I also want to look at my personal archive and interpret some of Stephen gills portrait work from the series ‘Coexistence’ where he dipped the lens in the pond water before taking the portrait creating a blurred effect.

I also want to further manipulate the images in my next shoot by printing them out and adding objects on top to create a collage like image that has aspects that weren’t there when the image was taken.

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2nd photoshoot on reality

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As said in my previous post I wanted to capture a almost less sentimental type of reality and include my next three main interests of, circumstances,dependency and chance. I wanted to use these conceptual ideas to relate to both my previously project on family and then also have a stronger level of signification to that of political landscape. My main original aims of this shoot was to show how to capture the movement of water as this contains many elements of the three words I am focusing on. I wanted to communicate many different angles and places which I would normally not venture. I decided it would be interesting to flip images and add lines into the images to add contextual methods into it.

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I wanted to add in these small white dots as this is what I have done previously experimented with in my political landscape alternate conceptual editing. 

within here I found a really interesting old structure of bars in a highly interesting composition,Additonally I found a water covered web of water which I thought created an area of interest.

within these water shots I wanted to capture the movement of the water itself, and sometimes even repeatedly showing the drop of water repeatedly dropping. I decided to edit these images into black and white as I did not want the colour to be a distraction of the composition of the images itself. 

This is my third image where I mirrored and flipped the image itself, I wanted to do this as I think the final outcome it produces has an interest of simplicity yet intrigue. I wanted to capture this image originally as I though the suture of the plant was so repetitive and structurally well formed, and how this contrasted against the background,and the light tonal sky. 

anylsis:Overall this shoot was less so capturing a direct narrative and more about trying to communicate ideas of form and how to edit in interesting mannerisms to capture the conceptual of reality.

with this project I had two main artist inspirations of…one fo which was very family and pain orientated,it was quite philosophical in the questioning of no on knows what reality really is as we all have a different concept and view of our own lives and own realities. However the second artists wanted to create images which she wanted to happen or was surprised that was happening somewhere in the world in the modern 20th century, She purpose how large companies would demonstrate a country as being modern and forward thinking and ignoring the true reality of factors such as poverty and starvation.  Because of these two clear divisions of ideas of family and not knowing the reality of what people are feeling and they way in which trauma can effect you, to how chance and reality can be predicted.Although I wanted to add my won these into both shoot so using archival images from my past family and then forming reality,around my house and capturing the dependency and effector different relates and possibly adding in themes if conceptual manipulation. from this I decided to brainstorm and experiment with what I think breaking reality means to me.I then got the three main ideas of, dependancy, possibility and chance. I think my first shoot was successful, I think I successful recreated the structure of the artists form and also conceptually edited my photos and to have and area of interest wihtin them. My second shoot was much more conceptual wihtin the thought of the structure and an essence of abstract structure I order to strip away any sense of reality.

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breaking the rules: reality, planning for shoot

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Development:

For my shoot I decided I would go down the road of peter Watkins ideas and I think they Are more possible to communicate in the environment I am in. However I do think It would beneficial if I did present a certain narrative and experimented within a minority of representations seen within school,Or even an experimentation with the prediction fo what will happen in the future, how and the Over not everyone will be interested or know about these events as they would be subject relevance to me and not of relevance to those people I am studying.For my second shoot I want to take a possible studio tablo type shoot and present political  issues such as (hospital in jersey, or political governmental issues in jersey).

 

Shoot images:

 

 

Edits:

Within this image I wanted to capture  a simplicity and delicacy to the image in order to mimic the young and innocent age of my brother at the time. I thought I would enhance the photo by using as tape as this too develops a story and narrative to the image and holds past realities and truths. This narrative is highly interesting to me and is purposes the possible narrative of my family never having me in it. It shows the relationships there before myself and me and the destruction of the truth and reality of what my family was previous.

I used this image as i had no connection with any of the people within this image. These were my grandparents when they were young who I never met.

I believe the  editing within this images purposes a question of the relativity of relationships and when they are formed and how they can easily be broken. The reality is of the division is a connotation of the physical emotional differences all of these people had.

As previously said my main inspiration or this first breaking the rules shoot was inspired by peter Watkins. I thought I would focus on the reality of my parents lives and hw what i think their lives are currently only consists f me being in it, However the majority of their life was with me absent from it. Because of this is used images of their wedding day and my brother who is 4 years older then myself. I wanted to use the same editing technique with repeating different sections of images throughout. I decided the majority of my images work more successful when in black and white as they concentrate on the character themselves. I have recently read the book ‘Camera lucida’ by  Stuart hall and he said something about photography that stuck with me. It is that the punctum is never the most obvious sections within an image. I believe that within my images This power is often metonymic, this means t be that the thinking eye will dd something to the image  itself, this could be a false sense  of reality and adding your own narrative to an image. What a stubbornly sees is different small section, with showing only these small contexts of the images it allows chemical reactions t develop an essence of the wound and memory from the photo itself. What we cannot be repeated but only transformed but only repeated under the instances of insistence. With moving image you aren’t allowed to shut your eyes as the movement goes quickly and you are unable to see the details. But within this shoot I want to discover a different image every-time  I look at the same photo. I believe the concept of reality in this shot is the different truths and stories each would tell who are in the same image. Images such as this also question the future of what will happen, as said previously you cannot predict the future as what you think will be true can ch age in an instance. I will further develop the concept of instances and who a small change can effect the future and impact of a person or being. 

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The Rule of Technicality – My Response

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In this shoot I will be responding to the rule of technicality and taking inspiration from the works of Henrik Malmstrom – particularly his work on ‘A Minor Wrongdoing‘ in which he would photograph people that he saw from the window of his living room using a cheap digital camera. The idea of this book was to create grainy surveillance-type photographs that are unconventional and unique. He would do this through using dark environments along with high ISO’s which I will be replicating in my shoot to show the different people within St. Helier and what they get up to when it appears that nobody is watching them. I will be using an ISO of 6400 on all of my photographs in this shoot to achieve a grainy effect and a shutter speed of 1/30-1/80. I will attempt to create a fusion of documentary and street photography within this photoshoot.

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Edits

In the below edits I have taken photographs of people within St. Helier with a high zoom and ISO in order to create surveillance style photographs. I have then used lightroom to crop these photographs to close in on the subjects and further improve the effect of surveillance. I also added a black and white filter to these photographs and reduced contrast to create conventionally grey images that contrast with ordinary dramatic contrasting black and white photographs.

Analysis

In this photograph I have used the artificial light from town at night to create a dimly lit photograph with little contrast in it.  The lack of light within the setting allowed for a contrasting bright light from a car to illuminate parts of the photograph and create a glare in the camera which creates a mysterious and intriguing subject at which the man in the photograph is looking.  If it was not for the glaring bright light, there would not be a very wide tonal range within the photograph as there would be no major source of light so the photograph is dark grey tones throughout except for this one spark of white.  I think that this white tone within the dark tones of grey add to the photograph by providing another viewpoint and provides a sense of confusion and distortion.  I used a deep depth of field in this photograph to ensure that the entirety of the photograph was in focus but this cannot be seen due to the glare of the car light distracting the viewing eye.  To capture this photograph with a grainy surveillance effect I used a shutter speed of 1/30-1/60 in order to allow some light to enter the lens from the dark environment.  I also used a very high ISO of 6400 to create the grain and conventionally bad quality of the photograph to create a unique composition.

There is no colour in this photograph due to the black and white filter that I have used. I have removed all colour from this photograph in order to convey the theme of surveillance and discretion within the photographs. The use of a high ISO mixed with the black and white effect allows for quite grey and documentary style tones which adds more mystery to the photograph as it is not very clear what the light is or what is going on in the composition. The grainy texture makes the photograph seem as if it was taken poorly, which is the aim of this shoot. The grainy texture creates character and feeling of a dark and disorientating environment to fit in with the surveillance theme. There is a slight 3D effect to the photograph due to the glare of the light separating the man in the foreground from the car in the background – this beam of light surrounding the man further creates a disorientating effect for the viewer, resulting in a slightly abstract composition.  Although I am breaking rules of technicality within this photograph, the man is placed along a vertical line of the rule of thirds but the main viewpoint, being the glaring light, is slightly offset from the centre which adds to the disorientating composition.

This photograph takes lots of inspiration from the work of Henrik Malmstrom’s ‘A Minor Wrongdoing‘ in which he photographs people in the streets using a very high ISO along with a cheap camera to create grainy surveillance-type photographs that are different to the conventional standards of a good photograph.  The photographs that would result from this are similar to mine in the sense that they are dark, grainy and have a sense of mystery and secrecy around them.  Lewis Bush once said that that “the camera technology of today means the real skill and the real statement sometimes lies in taking a wilfully ‘bad’ image”, which is exactly what I am attempting to do with this photograph – create a photograph which is interesting and unique but does not sit within the conventions of photography technicalities.

As with what I think that Malmstrom is trying to convey throughhis photographs, I am questioning whether the technicalities and conventions of society, photography and day-to-day life are necessary and whether people stick to them when it appears that no one is watching them. In this photograph I have photographed a man without revealing his identity, suggesting that he represents society and everyones ongoing ordinary lives.  The photograph observes how society moves and composes itself whilst getting from A to B and also how society presents itself and reacts to certain situations – such as the man staring into the glaring headlights.  This photograph is my attempt of showing people in their own world minding their own business but being watched and recorded without knowing – which can also link to controversy about how closely society is being watched by organisations such as the government.

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Future Of St Helier Prints

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The images I chose to print were featured in my zine, based around the theme of ‘living’.

The top 3 images are paired together, connected by colour and location. The images show different perspectives of the same environment. The image on the left is the largest of the three as I wanted the viewer to notice the details in the image, the bird feeder, domesticated cat, mop and ladder all represent the theme of ‘living’.

I chose to present the black and white image on a single board as I believed that it was more powerful by itself. With the slightly hidden figure centre of the image, the viewer is drawn to connect with the person, relating over the daily task of ‘hanging the washing’.

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FUTURE OF ST HELIER NEWSPAPER AND INSTALLATION

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Hoarding Installation

The unveiling of the Future of St Helier Hoarding at the International Finance Centre on the Esplanade in St Helier took place on Thursday 13 Dec 2018.

First published as a 52 page newspaper supplement in September by the Jersey Evening Post the work produced by A-Level Photography students at Hautlieu School have been transformed into a 34m outdoor installation as part of Masterplan Community Arts and Education Project

We were challenged with responding to specific areas, streets and neighbourhoods divided up along the urban vingtaines of St Helier and to explore through research, archives and photography the built-environment, urban living, diverse communities, town planning, land use and re-generation projects.

We thank all sponsors and collaborators for making this a successful contribution to the island’s cultural records and historic archives Jersey Development Company, Camerons Ltd, MJP Architects, Archisle, Lewis Bush, Photo-Archive Societe-Jersiaise, Kevin Pilley, States of Jersey and Connétable of St Helier, Simon Crowcroft

Earlier today we unveiled the Masterplan Future of St Helier hoarding display at the International Finance Centre. Lots of local media interest from Jersey Evening Post, ITV Channel TV and BBC Jersey who broadcasted live on radio talking to photography students at Hautlieu School, Constable of St Helier, Simon Crowcroft and sponsors Jersey Development Company, Camerons Ltd, MJP Architects about the future of the island and its capital. An excellent example of how a community arts and education project can generate a debate that affects all those who either live, work or visit St Helier.

If you are interested in our views of young people tune into BBC Radio here (listen from 3:18:30 onwards or watch the six o’clock news tonight on ITV.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06rlpdw

If you missed the news last night at ITV Channel TV you can catch up here with Hautlieu students talking (15m.12s) about their images on display at the Masterplan Future of St Helier hoarding on the International Finance Centre.

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The outdoor installation on the hoarding around the construction site is a great way to engage the public in art and debates concerning the future of the island’s capital but, what we need in Jersey is a new contemporary art space that will provide a new venue to showcase art produced in the island, but equally also bring international art to Jersey for the public enjoyment of its residents and visitors alike.

The recent Culture, Arts and Heritage Strategic Review, commissioned by the Government of Jersey makes 20 new recommendations that will revitalise the island’s cultural infrastructure and achieve a wide range of social and economic objectives from tourism, to health and well being to external relations, to planning and environmental developments – in the hope that in partnership with Government it will enrich and enhance Jersey’s quality of life.

Let’s hope those in power who can make real changes to St Helier’s build environment will include such a new art space in the revised Masterplan of the Waterfront. All we need is political will and re-prioritising public funding for the arts. States of Jersey

Future of St Helier Newspaper

The outcome of students work was first published on Tuesday 18 September 2018 as a 52 page newspaper supplement, Future of St Helier that was printed in 14,000 copies and inserted into a daily edition of the Jersey Evening Post and distributed island wide.

Here is a video browser of our Future of St Helier supplement printed and distributed in today’s edition of the Jersey Evening Post. Hautlieu photography students were challenged with responding to specific areas, streets and neighbourhoods divided up along the urban vingtaines of St Helier and to explore through research, archives and photography the built-environment, urban living, diverse communities, town planning, land use and re-generation projects. Each student designed a page spread which was then split in half producing a fragmented image reflecting on the nature of experience and diversity of St Helier.

Here is a video browser of our Future of St Helier supplement printed and distributed in today’s edition of the Jersey Evening Post. Hautlieu photography students were challenged with responding to specific areas, streets and neighbourhoods divided up along the urban vingtaines of St Helier and to explore through research, archives and photography the built-environment, urban living, diverse communities, town planning, land use and re-generation projects. Each student designed a page spread which was then split in half producing a fragmented image reflecting on the nature of experience and diversity of St Helier. Make sure to get your copy before the shops close!Thanks to everyone involved in the creative process Archisle Lewis Bush, Jamie Cole, Simon Crowcroft, Kevin Pilley – States of Jersey and our sponsors Jersey Development Company and Camerons Limited.

When seeing my work presented in a public and popular location, I felt proud as I knew that it would be seen by the people it represents. Both my images were portraits but the overall context demonstrated the past importance of religion against the modern importance of construction. Suitably, it is placed alongside the newly built finance buildings, reflecting the future importance of finance.

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Experimentation with shutter speed and conceptual ideas.

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My main purpose for this shoot is to concentrate on the following two concepts: Night traces of light within a landscape, and mirrors over faces and using fire. I have chosen this as I was inspired by the artist: I have chosen this as I think these additional camera effects will add a dramatised effect to my photos. I think fire emphasises the ideology of pain and anger and will create. I believe will will open us a new concept that allows my images to be more shocking, and possibly connecting more of the sublime which I really want to emphasis. Due to the shoot being based in town I will concentrate the political issues to surrounding the lack of community within town and the amount of crime and poverty being highlighted.

I want to use light capture in order to capture the life and reflect a reality within the movement of people within the town. The place I am taking these photos is right outside the hospital and on peoples park. This is politically interesting as where  I am in jersey. This is the governmental debate as to where to place the new hospital and wether it should be on peoples park.  This could clearly communicate the anger within people who live in town and next to the park and feeling as tho there voices have been diminished as others are making their decision of their future. In my previous shoot I focused on a love and connection within the area and an anger for the castle as it was a clear presentative for the past place they lived and being discriminated against as they did not have as much money as the others controlling their decisions.

Shoot images, for experimentation.

I do need to further develop this shoot as many of the images I do not think I can develop in such a way as I would like. I think shoot works for a quick experimentation but I need to come back to this shoot and area and really further develop this shoot as a whole.

 

 

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Plan for second shoot

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My plan for the third shoot is a clear influence from the exhibition of clare cauhn. I wanted to focus on the the political correctness of femininity and the political influence that can be shown through this girls positioning within the landscape and the fragility to the atmosphere she is surrounded by. I also want to capture more landscape images that she is surrounded by, this could be the movement and emotion of the sea and also how this movement and fluidity of the water is mimicking the women herself. I believe the impact of the sea shows a stronger connection to that of the sublime and nature having a really strong  power. I could in one of my next shoot like to focus on the way someone can go into the water and see both emotions within the person and movement and aggression of nature. I believe this would exactly hit my connection of the sublime, and this will really positively effect my shoot. Being submerged within an atmosphere in which you cannot breath and is deemed dangerous shows such a string emotion within the water and person. So a clear diegetic link between the shoot and emotions based of political bias.

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colour experiments

Experimentation:

For this edit I wanted to revert back to how I edited my previous shoot and how I focused upon the way these shapes, colours and lines can successfully impact a piece. I believe I should further experiment with the images and find more conceptual ways in which I could edit them. I do think the composition of these images are correct in the way it shapes from and connotes a sense of femininity within the images. This political bias is not necessarily seen through injustice but how the sublime environment enhances the femininity of the piece  which contributes to the political factors of women rights and a stance for the power to which a gender can hold.

Evaluation: Overall I do think this photoshoot is a clear presentation of my inspiration from claude chaun and additionally is successful in the recreation of softness and emotion within the landscape itself.

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Edits of three locations on first shoot:

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My inspiration for editing was to exaggerate the emotion possessed throughout the subject and landscape, either through colouring, or more conceptual editing of shape and overlapping of colour.My chosen images editing:

Happiness

I chose to edit many of these images into black and white as it highlights a simplicity and exaggerates the natural light from the sun itself. I though due to the interesting composition of this images that I would add some interesting conceptual shapes in order to provoke more thought to the image itself. Due to this person having a positive connection to this landscape I wanted to express a naivety and exaggerate an ignorance is bliss type of feel. To my mind the circles connote a display of balancing work,oppitunities and commitments and the lines symbolises rising and becoming better and more connected to yourself and not worrying about political ideologies to consume us when in surrounded by our favourite landscape. The shapes also mimic the simplicity and provoke a ignorance is bliss quality. I believe it is evident that this shoot is more concentrated towards happiness and timelessness also mimicked throughout he free and life full movement of the dress.

Within this image I think I have successful caught the light and captured the movement of the dress itself, this personifies the dress to form a positive entity and a sense of freedom. Perhaps to this person this landscape to them is freedom and a place in which they can escape the governmental oppression to which they might face elsewhere. 

When experimenting with he images love I wanted to see how colour effects our emotions and so the effect to which we think about a photo and so what feel it ultimately communicates. I experimented within the saturation and also the conceptual contrast of vibrancy to show a sense of life, freedom and happiness.

anger

I decided the best way to convey anger would be through a darker ampeture and also a colour which clearly symbolises the emotion,this being red. I went to areas which show qualities of small confined spaces and making the subject feel small and powerless. I believe this successful demonstrates how they feel due to the way she is not allowed to make her own decisions but is powered by a governing group of higher people. The harshness of the rocks show an emotionless extent to which emphasis the governing bodies as being cut throat and an ignorance to peoples emotions and well being. 

Whever I have used a lighter tonal shade it is to highlight the irony to the possible future but that is kept through the bars of where she is. This is to communicate the opportunities not given to those depending on their social state ( poor education, not having enough money to pay for school)
I wanted to use typical characteristics  that you would find in a prison to once again emphasis the anger against the powerless state she and her family have been reduced to, due to having no choice in what happens to their future and money.