rebel coursework project
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as photography coursework rebelled themeTRANSCRIPT
Idea 1 For this project I decided that I wanted to create a set of photographs that would fit the theme of rebel. For this I came up with the idea of having to under aged teenagers with alcohol and cigare@es. I wanted this to seem like the ordinary/stereotypical ways of what an elder would see in a teen and believe what they do when they go out with there friends and what they do behind there parents backs. This comes under the rebel theme as it shows an feel on rebelling against what a perfect child should be and feels like the parent has the neglected the teenager to feel like they need to be like this towards their parent. For these photographs I decided that I would photograph two models smoking and drinking alcohol, with what seems gothic/rebel clothing and I want these clothes to be oversized ripped and make the look perfect for the theme. I want to create these photographs using Photoshop by blurring and doubling the picture to make the picture it look as if the teens are drunk it what they can see through their eyes when they are drunk. I want to edit these photographs further by prinGng the photos and ageing them by making them screwed up and making the colour wear away from them creaGng a old style and also overlaying the photo with text using a le@erset by scratching the le@ers onto the page.
Lukasz Pukowiec Lukasz Pukowiec is a famous fashion photographer that has appeared in many magazines such as Vogue, slave and many more. He is known for his unique twist on photography. For this idea I looked at a set of photographs that he took called “Rebel Rabbit” this photographs focus of a girl who portrays the role of a rebel but with a twist of adding rabbit ears there for creaGng the theme of the rebel rabbit. I like this set of photographs as there is a range of colour and black and white and they are all taken in a bright natural light which gives these photos a natural, perfect look for the model making her look vibrant and powerful in the photographs. I also like how these photographs are taken in rural areas such as woodland and places where a teenager should not be such as the photo of her siNng on an industrial pipe, smoking these portray the views of rebelling against what a teenager should be doing but then it shows the views of how people stereotype teens which is what I love about these photographs.
EvaluaGon For this set of photographs I focused on Lukasz Pukowiec’s photography called Rebel Rabbit. For this set of photos I wanted to create a set of photographs that portrayed a teenager rebelling against what I teenager should not be doing. I want these photographs to show teens on the street smoking and drinking making it look like they don’t care and they are showing what they feel is right. I wanted to edit these pictures so they were blurred and doubled so it was if the teens were drunk and that was what they were seeing through there eyes. I feel that I portrayed that well as my photographs were a very good match to what my original idea was. The only down side to my pictures are that I feel as if I didn’t portray Pukowiec’s views as well as I could of done as the only thing in common with mine and his photographs are that they both follow the theme of a rebelling teen. I could of improved this by adding more detail to the photographs by using more props such as animal ears. To make it more apparent that these were Pukowiec inspired photographs. Overall I’m happy with my outcomes, I like the worn out look in some of my photographs where they are overlaid with text aswell as I feel this work well with the theme.
Idea 2 For idea 2 I came across an arGst on tumblr that created these images of people but took away there face and background and covered them with another photo of a memory or place that he has been before, these pictures of the past and were taken at the Gme of the memory. So for my idea 2 I decided that I would use the pictures from my idea 1 and take a new set of portrait pictures and hide the face and background with the pictures from idea one. I want this idea to portray a feeling of the models looking back on the past and looking back at there bad old ways there for they are bad memories of the past which is the opposite of what the arGst seeks as he seeks happy memories where as I seek the bad ways of the past. For this set I will be using some of the same models for the pictures and overlay the pictures with the pictures from the first set. For these photographs I will be ediGng them using photo shop using the masking tool and overlaying tool and then for development; I will print the portrait photographs and cut the faces out leave the clothes and hair and sGcking it over the top of a first photograph. Then I’ll photograph these photos again and edit them. Also for development as the background pictures are black and white I will go a step further to reedit these photos in black and white to see the outcome.
Erin Case Erin case is an arGst I came on tumblr. Case is an up and coming new photographer who I came across he took a set of photographs called “see the world” he took a set of photographs of hair models with there hair perfectly done by a hair arGst and took photographs as if they were for a famous hair salon such as Toni and Guy, as this is the style he wanted to show the viewers. He then goes a step further to edit these photographs by removing the face and any skin showing and someGmes the original background and replacing it all with a photograph from a past memory. To me I feel these photographs portray a feeling of what the models personality like (the memory photograph). Meaning this would be there photograph that Case would replace on the photograph instead. Feel that these pictures are very delicate as they take a lot of Gme to create and they are very detailed. I like how also the hair colour compliments the colours in the new replaced photograph, making these a strong set of photographs.
EvaluaGon For this set I focused on Erin Case’s set of photographs called “See the World” I wanted to take a set of photographs that were portrait photos of the same people in the original set one photographs and I want to remove there faces to create the feeling of looking back on there bad ways and how its changed them for the be@er. I feel that I have portrayed theses in the right way and I’m very proud of what I have achieved out of these photographs. I wanted to edit these photos further by seeing what they would look like in all black and white and I feel they came out very strong and they are just what they hoped they would be. I also wanted to develop these photos in the same way as I would on photoshop but by hand by removing the showing skin and replace it with a new photo, this however didn’t work as well as hoped for but I did get a couple of photographs of these and changed the brightness and saturaGon on them making them come out quite strong which I am proud of also. I feel I could of improved by using different hairstyles for the models to make them look more like Case’s photographs. Also I could of took another set for the replacing pictures that were bright and colour like Case’s to finish the complete look of his photographs. Overall I feel this is one of my strongest set of photographs and that they work very well, and they also got a lot of posiGve feedback which made them strong.