Unit 21 Evaluation For unit 21 we were given the opportunity to choose what we wanted to do. We were given the options of photography, a music video, a short film, or a print advert. Initially I wanted to make a short film because I had watched short films from previous years and they were interesting. After planning and deciding, I chose photography because it was a subject I enjoyed the most of all, whereas filming was something I felt I hadn’t enjoyed as much. Originally I was going to take photos with a variety of topics and put them into an exhibit. I decided not to do this because I was running out of time and if I was to take photos of a variety of topics then I would have needed to go to lots of different locations outside of school hours, which was not easy due to not having the opportunity for transport. My final product did not turn out how I wanted it to be however I’m not disappointed by the final outcome. I used Photoshop rarely in my final piece. There are only 2 images that are edited and I feel happy about this because originally I didn’t want to have an exhibit consisting of edited photos. For my pre-production I researched popular artists of topics: macro, landscape, architectural, wildlife, and forced perspective. The images from the artists inspired me and made me take images similar to theirs and give me further ideas for my final exhibit. During production I took roughly 50 photos, if not more. I feel that taking roughly 50 photos helped me because I was then able to choose out of a great range and select the best. I also feel I could have the used the time I had more efficiently. I feel that if I was able to organise transport then I could have had a greater collection of interesting images. During the process, when I did some editing on Photoshop, I learnt about some new tools I hadn’t realised what they could do and that they could add a lot more interest to my images. For example I learnt about the tool ‘Hue/Saturation’. This allowed me to adjust the colours within the image.
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Unit 21 Evaluation
For unit 21 we were given the opportunity to choose what we wanted to do. We were given the options of photography, a music video, a short film, or a print advert. Initially I wanted to make a short film because I had watched short films from previous years and they were interesting. After planning and deciding, I chose photography because it was a subject I enjoyed the most of all, whereas filming was something I felt I hadn’t enjoyed as much.
Originally I was going to take photos with a variety of topics and put them into an exhibit. I decided not to do this because I was running out of time and if I was to take photos of a variety of topics then I would have needed to go to lots of different locations outside of school hours, which was not easy due to not having the opportunity for transport. My final product did not turn out how I wanted it to be however I’m not disappointed by the final outcome. I used Photoshop rarely in my final piece. There are only 2 images that are edited and I feel happy about this because originally I didn’t want to have an exhibit consisting of edited photos.
For my pre-production I researched popular artists of topics: macro, landscape, architectural, wildlife, and forced perspective. The images from the artists inspired me and made me take images similar to theirs and give me further ideas for my final exhibit. During production I took roughly 50 photos, if not more. I feel that taking roughly 50 photos helped me because I was then able to choose out of a great range and select the best. I also feel I could have the used the time I had more efficiently. I feel that if I was able to organise transport then I could have had a greater collection of interesting images. During the process, when I did some editing on Photoshop, I learnt about some new tools I hadn’t realised what they could do and that they could add a lot more interest to my images. For example I learnt about the tool ‘Hue/Saturation’. This allowed me to adjust the colours within the image.
BEFORE AFTER
Throughout my production I ensured I took the photographs myself so that my final piece was completely my own ideas and work. Even though I asked for inspiration from others I still feel that the outcome of my exhibit is my own decisions.
I feel my final piece is not as good as I wanted it to be mainly because I didn’t stick to my plan. However I don’t think my final piece is bad because I will still able to gather a range of interesting images that can potentially bring attraction.
I’m glad I didn’t edit all of my images because it prevented me from having a large range of poor and repetitive editing. If I had edited all my images then I would have run out of techniques to use when editing causing a potential loss in interest from the audience.
If I could change anything it would be the location of my images. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to have the opportunity of transport to get me to a location I felt happy with to use in my exhibition.
I also would change the topic of my photos. Again I was prevented to do this due to not being able to get transport that could get me to locations that would allow me to have a wide range of intriguing images.
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