Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Final Product (U C what I C)

this week we learnt about the concept of perception and the rule of thirds, relating to the golden mean and the Fibonacci numbers. using these concepts, we are assigned to do a photostory using no more than 10 pictures with no words. the catch is that we must have a twist.

i have searched online for possible stories with twists. some are about judging things on the surface which turn out not to be what it seemed so i decided to use that concept for my story.

here's my take on this assignment. inspired by independent films and my morbid life. haha! hope these pictures narrate the story im trying to bring across. look out for the twist!







i hope you enjoyed that. for this assignment, we are required to do a twist in our stories. as for those who didn't get it, my twist is that the girl is actually in a relationship with the other girl. story goes like this :
1. Girl A saw her "boyfriend" with another girl.
2. Girl A confronted the "boyfriend".
3. Girl A was pushed to the floor.
4. Girl A quarreled with "boyfriend" over phone.
5. Girl A cried badly.
6. Girl A decided to jump down.
7. Girl A died with a picture in her hands.
8. (Twist!) All along she was having problems with the girl, not the guy.

the pictures are made to be dark to depict the dark story of how love can lead into a tragic ending.

comments by tutorial peers: most did not get the twist, due to the last frame being not that clear that the two girls are lesbians. i think the girls can be more intimate in the photograph. and put the focus more on the photograph.
comments by alfred : he said that the story is quite weak. that the novelty of the story is not there although my pics do tell a story.


***IMPROVED VERSION***

taking into account the comments from my classmates and tutor, i have improved on the last two pictures.

i have added pool of blood as suggested by my peers to show the dramatics of the dead person. also i added a photo in her hands to link to the last frame.


for the last frame, i have changed the picture of the lesbian couple into a more obvious one that depicts their relationship as comments came in that it wasn't obvious. i have thus used a kissing lesbian couple picture.


"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications,
offer an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution."
-Ansel Adams