Narrative: What is your story?
Describe in:

• 3 words

Reviewing teenage stereotypes.

• A sentence

A story line consisting of current teenage stereotypes.

• A paragraph

A look in to teenage lives, thinking about the stereotypes made. Consists of bad habits, partying and normal life, like makeup, sleep and working out.

Design: 

Consider the following

• How you want your book to look and feel

I want my book too look consistent by using a sequence within my imagery, and I want it to feel shiny.

• Format, size and orientation

I want a smaller square book as they are easier to handle, and will keep my pictures in tact.

• Title 

My title is a short description of my book, giving as much detail as I can.

• Structure and architecture

My book will have a structure which goes into the personality and meaning of each photo.

• Design and layout

I want to have some smaller images and some images that are full bleed to create attention and effect to my favourite more effective photos.

• Editing and sequencing

I have edited my images to contain full texture with a filter over the top of all photos to create a sort of party and fun effect.

Mood Board.

Key words.

1. Aesthetic

To be concerned with beauty. A set of principles underlying the work of a particular artist or artistic movement.

2. The cubist aesthetic

Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted.

3. Indexicality

Guide signs and symbols memory. In photography, indexicality refers to the direct relationship between the photographer, the photograph, and the subject. This concept emphasises that photographs are inherently linked to the physical reality they capture, serving as an imprint of the real world.

4. Formalism

Formalism describes the critical position that the most important aspect of a work of art is its form – the way it is made and its purely visual aspects – rather than its narrative content or its relationship to the visible world. Structure over content ,no emotion or context.

5. Representation

Ideas are depicted. To understand representation in photography is to understand how you are interconnected to the thing in which you photograph. It is to accept the responsibility for how you depict a particular subject. Understanding the deep impact images have in our society is the reason for teaching representation in any capacity.

For my photobook, i made it in lightroom classic. To make this, you go to the personal study folder, then select all using ctrl A. Go back into top collections, create collection inside of personal study, in a separate folder. Click book, then create. Drag in new images and create save book. Images are at the bottom can drop and drag them in, use zoom button and favourite different templates. Use right click too add pages.

I then played around wit the sizes of the photos on the book to see what i liked. I did this until i got the layout that suited me.

I colour coded all my images so that i could put them all in to one folder where all my best images were. All my green images were the ones i wanted to include in the book.

For my title. it took me a while to decide. I picked Captured and Misunderstood, as I wanted to emphasise that teenagers are NOT who they hang around with, nor what they do. I wanted to show how a lot of us are misunderstood all down to stereotypes of the wrong type of teenagers.

Evaluation.

• How successful was your final outcomes (book, film, prints etc)?

I like the way my book turned out. The pictures were what i was going for and I like the way they are edited. I also really like my title as I believe it created meaning.

• Did you realise your intentions?

At the start no, but as I started gathering pictures it all became clear to me.

• What references did you make to artists references?

I have looked at Nick Haymes photographs, and decided I really liked his work. I tried to stick with his style of photography with a lot of texture making it look as realistic as possible.