Continue to develop your project by working on ideas that came out of your tutorial for assignment 6. As you develop the images and develop your work in response to your chosen genre, you can begin to integrate the ideas from the last activity into your own work. 

Explore the sequencing of your images, whether this is across a wide set of images, or pairs of images. Reflect on the potential narratives this sequencing sets up. 

• Are you limiting your audience interpretation, disrupting their expectations, or something else?
• Will your work be displayed in a grid format or a long line along a gallery wall?
• Will you also continue your work with image and text as you begin to sequence and consider a narrative across the set of images?
• Will your work be large scale or small and intimate, will it be wall or book based?
• Begin to sequence by form, forgetting all you know about the content of the pictures. How does the form you are considering help you to communicate your ideas or relate to your concept?
• Can you place your work unexpectedly as a way to challenge the conventions of your chosen genre?

One of the crime scenes had been a shortcut that the victim took. Giving each image a very brief title such as “The Short Cut” but keeping the “Unique Reference number” label, I am hoping that this will cause a bit of confusion as to what the image actually is.

Looking at other photo books I realise that font style, colour and size can add meaning. This idea was very noticeable in Chloe Dewe Matthews book, Shot at Dawn. She has used different fronts for the words than she has for the date and time. (Figs 1,2,3) The date and time is using a font that makes it look like it has come from an official document print. It makes the piece seem more real and therefore more powerful.

Mathews, C.D. et al. (2014) Shot at dawn. Madrid: Ivorypress.

I am still considering the postcard idea with the images (more than one copy of each) displayed in a rack with the URN on a small white label in the top right hand corner and the title as text on the image. Which is similar to a postcard with the name of the Location on it.

I am looking at different options for presenting the finished work with a photobook being one of those options .

Photo book. – not sure yet what this might look like at this stage. The original images that I looked at would often have been in some sort of “album” or folder. The images themselves would have been in see through pockets with the white label attached to the pockets rather than the image itself. I want a feeling of time to be included in the presentation. I was viewing the original images in the 1980s and 1990s so this would have been done through prints and albums.

Looking at some of my current images (Img. 1,2,3) in more detail and analysing them in relation to how well they might fit in a series, things that work and things that don’t.

The blue garage doors stand out in between the natural greens and browns of the other two. The cracked screen is very close to the camera which gives it a different perspective to the others and makes it appear to be a bigger image. I am however not going to worry about this too much as I may be able to create a nice series by sequencing correctly once I have more images to work with. I also noticed that the word Secrets doesn’t stand out as much against the grey background of the pavement in the garage image. This seems rather like it’s emphasising the “secret” so I will leave it for now. The word Cracked is also coincidentally being broken up by the cracks in the image. These unexpected things may be adding to the meaning of each image.

 

I have started to become aware that the images seem to be informing each other which is not my intention. So a linear presentation is not going to work for this project unless I am able to place them in a sequence that cannot be misinterpreted.  The unique reference number might help with this particular problem. Peer feedback would be a good at this point.