film poster analysis

   

• Everything in this film poster is central.
• All the colours in the poster are dark.
• The target audience of the film is adults.
• The shot focuses on the emotion in his face and the lyrics that he is writing on his hand and these are key parts of the film (8 mile).
• The film title is written in a sans-serif font.

• The film poster for wild child has a split between characters, the main character(poppy) being at the front and all the characters she is against(to begin with) are at the back.
• All the colours used are bright and bold.
• The target audience of the film is teenagers to young adults.
• The shot focuses on the attitude of the main character.
• The film title is written in a sans-serif font.

• The film poster for charlie and the chocolate factory separates the main characters from the minor characters - the two main characters are central to the poster.
• All the colours used are bright and bold.
• The target audience of this film is families.
• The shots focuses on the look of each different characters faces as by noticing that you start to imagine what sort of character they may be.
• The film title is written in a serif font.

location recce

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i31YBaHCmdW8x_SU5DTO7CQ80loxDKizRZe0XEICI7E/edit?usp=sharing

treatment

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1saAbrmjBpWxNOBYu64P4Wd1KI8RLrGpSVY8WLsoNGhk/edit?usp=sharing

fashion photography

1. When is an image a Portrait? When is it a fashion photograph? Are the two the Same?

      A portrait and a fashion photograph are not the same thing. What’s the difference? An image is a portrait when the photographer is concentrating on someone’s face for example, you can get a self-portrait which is an image of your personal face where you have taken it yourself, whereas a portrait in general is a photo of anyone's face other than your own. This is different to a fashion photograph - a fashion photograph is where, even though they have put make-up on the persons face in order to make their facial area look idyllic, the image has to focus on the clothes and the fashion garments that the model is wearing as that is what they are trying to advertise, so if they concentrate on the face too much then that would become the centre on attention rather than the fashion being the main priority.

2. To what degree should an image be manipulated to go into a fashion magazine?

In the short clip, manipulations are made by giving the model a makeover - styling her hair and putting make-up on her face and then using a fan to make her hair flow back, following on to photo-shopping by adapting the size of her eyes and eyebrows, changing the length of her neck, also changing the shape of the area where her neck and shoulders join and also editing her cheekbones to make them more visible and on show. 

  

      I think there should be a line drawn to make it  clear as to how many manipulations/changes are acceptable to be made to a model in adverts and fashion magazines. My reason for this is because eventually people do pick up that the image that is being displayed in front of them is not the how they would look, and so that may change their opinion or they decision, as in if there is a product being advertised then they might decide not to by it as the image shows false results. When it comes to making changes to models,  it the line should be drawn after make-up and hair styling, my opinion is that also it looks good, photo-shopping should not be done on models as it is false advertisement and it is editing the real thing.

      An example of photo manipulating is;

    

      This image shows photo manipulations done for the dove advert - on the right is the 'before' stage and on the left is the 'after' stage, the stylists have done her hair and make-up and used a fan to make her hair flow. After doing that they have used photo-shop to enlarge her eyes, eyebrows and her lips, her cheek have been made thinner to make them more visible and her neck has been extended in an attempt to make her head look smaller also changing the shape of the area where her neck and collar bones meet so she looks less broad.

     My opinion is that too much photo manipulating has been done to this image trying to make it look ‘perfect’ when ‘perfect’ is an impossible reality. I think  

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson -

• Why is he famous?
• Why is his work significant in Photojournalism?
• Find and upload to your blog some work of theirs
• What Camera/Technique did he use

Henri Cartier-Bresson was famous for his photography, taking many decisive snapshots that soon became inspiring for many people. He was a french photographer who's idolized photographs helped discover photojournalism as an art form. He took many photographs that stirred the nation, including his famous shot on the top view of a spiraling staircase with a cyclist riding past. Henri Cartier-Bresson was known to the public as the father of modern photojournalism.

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer considered to be the father of photojournalism. He was an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. *taken from Wikipedia*





Cartier-Bresson used a specific camera called a 'Leica', it is said that the Leica became a companion for all situations, Henri for example always had his Leica with him. The maker of the Leica camera  'Oskar Barnack' said these words about the camera "its an intregal part of the eye" and "an extension of the hand" - this shows how popular the Leica camera was back in the 1920's.

portraiture

Application, Context And Tech
In your posts you will need to discuss  the journey that Portraiture has taken over its' history. For example the movement from Rich and Powerful people having expensive portraits made for them to the works of Portraiture photographers depicting the inner conflicts and catching their subjects in moments when they are least prepared. 

Look at work of at least one of the following photographers and discuss:

Diane Arbus (Matthaei family portraits)
Walker Evans
Richard Avedon
Tony Vaccaro
Larry Clark

Diane Arbus 

Diane Arbus had a particular style of photography, she liked to photograph the real image, no fake smiles or laughs, she wanted that original fearful depression look to show people what life was really like.

Diane Arbus got listed as one of the most destinctive photographers of the 20th century. she just became known for her unearthly, bitter portraits.

A quote from the photographer herself; Arbus was always a slightly mysterious character

                            

When photographing the Matthaei family, Diane Arbus didn't go for your typical portrait. She liked to capture the mood rather than producing a portrait with a fake emotion. The image above is of Marcella, looking depressed or angered in some way. 

In 1968, Arbus once wrote to a friend; "all families are creepy in a way". People were amazed at the sort of families Diane was based around, she was focusing on devoted, happy families. yet in the photo's she produced - all of the family members were looking creepy and depressed. It came as a confusion to many people with never got solved as before anyone understood her reason for taking those interesting photo's, she took her own life in 1971.

In the 1960's, America, she took pictures of 'the outsiders'. These people included; freaks, waifs, transvestites, nudists, identical twins and strip teasers. Her reason for capturing people like them in particular was because was trying to document the aspects of society that many people overlook. 

                    

The child in the image above was holding a toy hand grenade. Diane took so many pictures of this young boy that he started to get annoyed or stressed.

In most of the photo's she took, it generally seemed almost like she was masking other people with her own emotions. Diane had quite a troubled life and in the portraits she took, all the people were either looking vaguely depressed or they were listed as freaks.

Robert Capa and Tony Viccaro

Robert Capa/Tony Vaccaro

• Describe the different circumstances that these photographers experienced as Photojournalists in WW2 
• Find and upload to your blog some work of theirs

Eddie Adams

•  Describe the difference between the video footage and the photograph of the "Execution"

Remember to get a Merit grade


You will need to cover the above evidence in sentences/paragraphs and not as answers to the questions and then with you own thoughts and arguments discuss, what makes Photojournalism a reliable/unreliable style of photography  

To get Distinction grade

You will need to cover the merit question and then apply this definition to another example that you come up with yourself E.g. Modern approaches to photo gathering at news events such as crowd sourcing, twitter etc. Are these more effective?

• Describe the different circumstances that these photographers experienced as Photojournalists in WW2 

Robert Capa

• Robert Capa was a Hungarian war photographer and photojournalist
• He covered five different wars, these being:

 - the Spanish Civil War

 - the Second Sino-Japanese 

 - War World War II across Europe

 - the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and 

 - the First Indochina War.

Robert Capa was a war photographer who hated war, he once said;

 "the war photographers most fervent wish is for unemployment"

In the many different wars that Capa witnessed he captured a

In these conflicts Capa captured an astonishing range of experiences, from both frightful images from the frontline at the battle of Normandy, to the celebrations of the Liberation of Paris, and from the effects of war on civilians to soldiers who are left dead in the wake of destruction. Effected by the monstrosities that he witnessed first-hand, Capa is reported to have said he would stop reporting on war and that he never believed in another conflict after the Second World War. However, he continued to report on conflicts until, sadly, he was killed in 1954 in Vietnam, stepping on a landmine during his reportage of the First Indochina War.

my photography background

I have a Nikon D3200.

The things I enjoy photographing the most is 'capturing the moment' for example, a laugh, a cry, a baby's first footsteps, something that can inspire you in a simple snapshot - and that will amaze you!

Doing photography runs in my family - my nan used to enter competitions in Devon with photographs of our family and friends and she won one of them with a snapshot of my brother hiding behind a door, in one hand he was holding a biscuit - and in the hidden hand was the whole packet of biscuits, he was only 4 at the time. I want to keep photography in the family to make her proud.

I already do a voluntary photography job taking photos of a youth club in order to make a flickr account to publish the youth club and show what events and activities they do such as having a pool table, a table tennis table a music room, a crafts table and also including the quiet room and the kitchen where the young people are able to cook a snack for example cooking cakes or cookies for all the staff and young people.