Monday, 7 February 2011

DOCUMENTARY PROJECT - THE REQUIREMENT

This module provides the opportunity for you to pursue a practical project based on particular area of interest to you, enabling you to explore the possibilities offered by the colour print.

You are encouraged to consider using medium format cameras and to develop your lighting skills. However all formats from 35mm through to large format can be used.

Please find below some inspiration on how to approach the project:

Take us through an aspect of a relationship you have with someone, real or imaginary, and see and feel to what extent colour photography matters in portraying human interaction - love, hate, like, dislike, communication, rejection and belonging.

We journey through life, sometimes a step at a time, sometimes sleepwalking, at other times with a full sense of wellbeing and yet again with dread. Not always one step in front of the other, but often three back, two sideways, and one forward; or rushing onward in one great running leap to land with a crash. The rhythm of life we have can depend on lifestyle, on responsibilities, on culture and outlook, on health and energy.

Describe a small aspect of your own personal or someone else’s journey through life, by means of a series of images that take us into the experience of how you felt in that situation at that time.

Document: - to record evidence of- to state what occurred when, how and with whom. The photograph's apparent ability to portray details, moments and relationships with others 'truthfully' tends to convince us, (or tries to) that that’s how it was.

Contained within our mode of existence are collective items that encode meanings, these give us a sense of where we are and where we've been and what we might become. They are elusive signifiers that click open MEMORIES that are often shared, however differently with others, though sometimes they are private, just for us.