Mindmaps
Above is my mind map of general ideas about Islands, and all the different ways I could think about the topic. I tried to keep this mindmap broad and open to multiple aspects of things to do with the topic, as this would make it easier to make my own mindmap and decisions on my topic of choice for my study. I tried to include both positive and negative things on the topic of islandness, to give myself ideas on the kind of story I want to tell in my study. I wanted to ask myself the question of whether I wanted to show the good and bad aspects of living on an island, or one or another. These aspects of my above mindmap helped me to narrow my ideas down to a mindmap of my own ideas.
This mindmap is an overview of all the ideas I have for capturing the idea of Islandness in my personal study, as well as ideas about how I would produce each idea in further detail. These include options such as portraiture or landscapes, styles, journalistic elements and locations. This mindmap was also influenced by my review and reflect blog post, in which I discussed the strengths and weaknesses in my current and previous work. I evaluated the success of all my projects and my development as a photographer throughout the course.
Therefore, I have developed a mood board of my ideas for my personal study, of styles, photographers and topics for my work.
Moodboard
In this mood board, after looking further at my mindmap, I have collected images with ideas on Family, and generational identity, as well as stylistic ideas which I like: for example Jim Goldberg’s work, which isn’t really related to what I’m focusing on for the project. However, I included his work as I really like how he includes text in his work, which is something I really want to include in my photobook. Doing this moodboard and looking at varied artists related to my ideas has helped me realise what I want to photograph, who I want to photograph and the stories I want to tell through my images and overall project. Using my review and reflection post to help me was really useful as I have decided to build on one of my projects from year 12 on family, which I enjoyed the most and thought was my strongest work so far. I have included photographers that use grainy, warm editing, mostly all shot on film, as this is the style that I like to use for my pictures when editing, to create a sentimental and nostalgic feeling in my work.