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Mock Exam Post 3 Action Plan

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ACTION PLAN

  • There are 2 main types of stereotypes of surfers I am aiming to break down through my photographs.

 

  • These are:
  • Surfers are lazy – Surfers are stereotypically deemed lazy due to the thought people imagine of them being very laid back and chilled people. This is exactly the opposite in the real world and the way I am going to show a contradiction to this view is through capturing the not-so-fun behind the scenes chores surfers carry out in order to stay good at their sport.
My main ideas are to capture surfers, getting ready on freezing cold winter days when most are at home and to capture surfers routines in preparing and maintaining their equipment and waking up earlier than most to chase swells.
  • Surfers are scruffy and poor – There is a great stereotype of surfers being people who typically are always short of a penny and life a life in their rusty old van. This makes it hard for people to believe that surfers can also life at the top end of society in luxury accommodation in exotic places. Therefore my ideas for this shoot are to capture a surfer living in one of these places, and conducting a lifestyle of luxury through natural lighting portraits. I also aim to capture this surfer being well dressed and presentable instead of poorly groomed and scruffy clothed similar to the stereotypes of beach bums who smoke weed and look similar to homeless people.
AO1 Develop Ideas, AO2 Explore Ideas, AO3 Record Ideas, AO4 Present Ideas, Unit 2 Portrait

Gender/Loss of identity- editing

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Now I will be editing the images from my 3rd and 4th photo shoots inspired by Francesca Woodman. I will be editing the images in different ways in order to represent feelings that someone can feel when experiencing a lack of identity.

 

Firstly, I opened up the image i wanted to edit and I added a new layer.

I then went to “edit” and “fill” to fill the new layer with the colour black.

Then, I opened a text box over the layer and pasted a small text I had written over again. The text read “Sad, Mad, misplaced, confused, Upset”. I repeatedly pasted this until the entire text box was filled.

I then added a “layer mask” to the text layer and pasted the original background into the layer mask.

 

 

 

 

Final Outcome

This is my final outcome. On one hand I really like this as you can faintly tell that its a human figure by the legs, and I think having the text obscuring the model further shows a lack of identity as you cant make out anything about the person. Furthermore, since the text is different types of emotions the model could be feeling, it is now clear to views how the model feels emotionally. On the other hand, I think that by having the image obscured so much by the text, the audience will not be able to get the full effect of the long exposure effect, or the models expression, which takes away part of the photo’s concept.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Firstly, what I did was select lots of individual parts of the image and then I right-clicked all of them and the pressed “layer via copy”

Next, I selected each individual layer and moved them slightly.

 

Final outcome

This is my final image after the editing process. I decided to use this technique of manipulation in order to express feelings associated with having a lack of identity, such as feeling displaced and no feeling whole. The sections that I have selected and placed in different areas shows the figure displaced and falling apart which is a literal way of expressing the metaphorical concept.