Research–
This first image is being used to advertise summer holidays. However, without the supporting text this image of the boy in a superhero costume could be given so many more contexts. For example the image could be used to advertise costumes or it could be for a children’s party.
The editorial that I took this from makes it clear that Trump is merely exchanging a fee words with this man, however without context this man and Trump could be talking about anything, especially seeing as the man is whisoering and shielding with his hand so that no one can see what he is saying. Without context this image puts Trump in very bad light.
Project-
1. In Lightroom I added a watermark to the bottom left corner of one of my images before also putting my copyright into the metadata. The image is of a very low resolution as it was one of the only ones I had access to at the time:
2. As Donald Trump has been in the news a lot lately I decided to create a fake newspaper headline which shows him in bad light. I searched online for an image of him which looks quite shady. As expected I found many but one in particular caught my eye. It showed him signing the papers for his inauguration, however due to everyone in the background being dressed very formally, there being a dark wooden table and the fact that he has his hands raised and his mouth open as though he is in denial means this could easily be a photograph taken from a court case where he is on trial. I created a fake headline and caption in the style of an online newspaper artcicle like the guarian or the observer and this was the result:
This really shows how easily the meaning or context of an image can be changed just by applying some text to it.
3. Originally I took these images for a workflow project where we had to document an area in 5 images. I chose the train station and attempted to show the fast pace movement of people and trains in and out of the station using slow shutter speeds. When I was given the brief for this project I realised that the images from the workflow project could easily be rearranged to create a narrative of someone using the train station. The images were originally taken in a completely random order. It was only after that I thought of the narrtive and the new order. These are images, in order, below:
The narrtive is about a person using the train station. The first image shows their view of the train station as they walk towards it, the light trails emphasising how busy it is. The second image shows the inside of the station. I panned along beside someone with a slow shutter speed to blur the background but still have their figure recognisable as a person. This was to show how everyone moves quickly through the station, not really paying attention to their surroundings. The third image shows the bridge leading to the platform. I used a slow shutter speed to again emphasise how fast paced it is in the train station. The fourth image shows the person who the narrative is about waiting for their train at the platform from a far. The slow shutter speed blurs one of the trains, showing how much goes on whilst they are waiting. The final image shows a view up tye excalator as the person leaves the next station having caght their train. Again a slow shutter speed is used to emphasise hiw fast pace everything is.
Although the meaning of these individual images was always intended, the order was not and this shows just how importrant the way you sequence your work is. The narrative of these images binds them together, changing the context in which they were taken to one which is easier to read as a whole.
Adam Kitchener 