Brainstorms! (In an effort to expand, improve, add complexity, and push your final projects further, please pick 10 of the following to discuss.)
- Ideas sometimes grow out of irritation. What is a negative thought you are having about your project? What is the opposite of this negative thought? How could you implement a change in your project so that this negative thought will subside?
This project is seriously irritating on top of the fact that it's the end of the year and I'm not really into doing anything. I'm not sure what to photograph and where to photograph How people should be positioned and lighting. I've done a lot thinking on this project and as I started to take pictures the idea developed more which has helped in making this peice more fun.
- What is the “opposite” of your final project? How can you rework your project to include the “opposite”?
The opposite of my project would be people in their clothes where you see people in clothes not just clothes without people I thought about includeing the people still in their clothes but I'm not sure if I like it thoguh.
- What is a consistent theme/visual element in your project? What would be the opposite of this? How can you implement that into your project?
- Type twenty words or phrases that relate to your project.
Clothes; action; feeling; movement; lose; bright; positioning; identity; environment; how we view others; time; emotion felt not seen directly; type of person; what we wear everyday; a double-check; colors; pride; standing out; being above; self-espression.
- At the deepest core, describe why you like this project. Dig deep!
What I like about this Project is the photoshop work I really get to challenge myself with it and try things I may not have fully grasped in photoshop. Plus it interested me when I first started.
- Expand your project. If time, money, materials, etc would not affect you, how would you expand your project?
If money and time wasn't an issue I'd be going everywhere to get different back grounds frrom far away places like New Zealand or the Rockys and I'd fine the most outragous outfits and photograph them. I'd use different color lights and effects make the image really pop.
- Contract your project. What would it boil down to if squeezed and contracted to its simplest form?
- Look at one of your images. Redesign it entirely.
- Divide your project into three components. Rearrange and reassemble them in your mind.
the three components would be depression; excited; and work; when I divide the pics up the depression pics could be a broader subject because depression has many forms and same goes with excited.
- List your assumptions about your project. Reverse these.
Simple; easy going; thoughtful. It may look simple but has alot of complexity in how it is photoshoped and lined up; easy going in how it makes the viewer feel but has many different emotions; and finally the meaning behind the series.
- What would your project look like 100 years ago? What would your project look like 100 years in the future?
- Remove something from your project. How does it change?
When I remove the element of the human figure the picture changes dramatically that the image loses its meaning that is was originally meant to have it just truns into a scenery pic instead of a image with a story.
- Persuade the reader that your project works well and is the most amazing project you have ever completed.
- Persuade the reader that your project stinks. Then, persuade the reader that you will make changes so that it no longer stinks.
- Think of one of your most memorable dreams. How could you add elements from this dreams to your project?
I don't really have a memorable dream but I have an idea of a person walking a girl in a long sleeve dress carrying books in a huge garden. I could take a picture of a person walking to class and photoshop them into a scene with a garden add a sunny day to it the dress in optional depending on if I find a dress I like.
- How would you convert your project into a narrative? How would you remove any narrative from your project?
To make my project more of a story I would shot the scenes in a scequence so that the subject is going about their daily life and it shows what is being done around the subject.
- How would you connect your images physically and conceptually? How would you make them disconnected physically and conceptually?
- What would happen if you demolished your project and reconstructed it physically or conceptually?
- Name an artist/photographer/designer/videographer who would love your project. Why?
- Name an artist/photographer/designer/videographer who would hate your project. Why?
- How would you make your project more edgy, saccharine, provocative, empty, revealing, concealing, funny, sad, mysterious, blunt, honest, disingenuous, fast, slow, playful, austere, hateful, lovable, bold, subtle, long, short, big, small, connected, disconnected?
