Add a selection of your final 10-16 images as a moodboard/ gallery to the blog post too, including any archive material too.
What is a narrative?
A narrative is essentially the way a story is told. For example you can tell different narratives of the same story. It is a very subjective process and there is no right or wrong. Whether or not your photographic story is any good is another matter. Narrative writing can be broadly defined as story writing (a piece of writing characterized by a main character in a setting who encounters a problem or engages in an interesting) significant or entertaining activity or experience. There’s the plot. The plot follows a beginning, middle, and end sequence. The middle of the story is the largest, most significant part, which we call the main event. The main event is really what the story is all about and involves either a problem to be solved or a significant life experience for the main character.
Stories
Stories let us share information in a way that creates an emotional connection. They help us to understand that information and each other, and it makes the information memorable. Because stories create an emotional connection, we can gain a deeper understanding of other people’s experiences. That not only helps us to understand their lives but allows us to take the lessons they have learned and apply it to our own.
Zine
A photo zine is a self-made, printed issue built of photos and captions. The term comes from the word “magazine”, as zines follow the style of magazines with headings, text, and illustrations put on a grid. An important feature of a photo zine is visual storytelling.
What is my story?
The story for my zine is showing around jersey harbour, and the process and history of it. I used 14 images, both in black and white and colour, to disconnect one theme and make it different.
NARRATIVE: How will you tell your story?
3 Words : romanticize, imagination & reality.
A sentence : A reminder that a lot of hard work goes in to the harbour.
A paragraph : To tell my story, i am going to be using my own images i took at the harbour. I did half in colour to half in black and white. I wanted to go from romanticising the harbour and its ‘beauty'(being shown by the colour) and how Jerseys harbour is advertised now, to getting back to the reality of everyday life and how it was back years ago(being shown by the black and white). For the black and white images, i focused on the presence section of developing my images on adobe Lightroom, this made an older looking effect for these images. For the coloured images, i looked at all the effects and adjusted them, making the colours stand out to attract the eye. I will be going from black and white pictures, to the more colourful and meaningful pictures.
Mood Board
My chosen images for my zine :
