Friday 6 August 2010

Project 65: Symbols













This project required us to think of more than one visual symbol for the following subjects:
  • Growth
  • Excess
  • Crime
  • Silence
  • Poverty
It states that we don't need to take pictures unless we feel suitably enthusiastic! Well, as someone who has persevered with every single project on this course, I couldn't very well not take pictures could I? Any assesors reading this, please take note! It was also a good discipline to see if I could turn an idea into a visually attractive reality. Sometimes an idea doesn't produce the picture you thought it would.

Growth
  • Acorns under an Oak Tree (may need a super wide angle lens for this)
  • Acorns made of gold (requires some photoshop)
  • A tall person
  • A child standing next to a measuring chart
  • Plus some of my ideas on the previous post (project 64)
Excess
  • Images of obesity
  • A mass of junk food
  • Close up of a high spec car badge (jaguar/ mercedes), perhaps using a wide angle lens again
  • City boys drinking champagne
  • A shot of the nouveau riche at the races, particularly drawing attention to an over the top hat
  • A celebrity with all their designer labels dripping off
The only accessible photos from this list are the junk food and the car badge (if I can take it without getting arrested). As I haven't done much food photography in this course, this is a good opportunity.

Crime
  • Police tape (not feasible for me to take, but is a classic shot used on the news pages)
  • Graffiti
  • Broken windows/ smashed phone boxes
  • Knife/ Gun
  • Drugs
  • Bars on windows, indicating jail.
Silence
  • A very serene landscape, empty of people. For example a jetty over a lake at sunrise/ sunset. Add in a figure in a yoga pose, meditating.
  • A graveyard
  • A person holding their figure to their lips to say "Shhhhh"
Poverty
  • An empty purse, with a few pennies scattered nearby
  • A scruffy child with no shoes
  • A picture of a cage with the phrase "The poverty trap"
  • A fridge with just one thing in it - e.g. value branded milk
I can't think that any of these will be considered very original, but they provide plenty opportunities to produce visually attractive images. Not all of them are accessible - however if I lived in Beverley Hills then there would be plenty of images of "excess" and celebrities to take.

Anyway, here's some of my symbols:








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