Photography Task.

For our lesson today, we was given an hour to go out with a camera to take photo's that fitted a word from list. The list included words such as mysterious, contentment and confusion.

The brief was "Film openings are often evocative and some very simple images can evoke a variety of different moods and feelings. Your task is to take photos of 6 of the following words. Be as creative and imaginative as you can!"

After discussion with my group, we chose claustrophobic, happiness, depression, future, calm and through. We chose these words because we felt that we had the right ideas in our heads to complete the task and take the images.

"Calm"

We chose this picture to represent the word "calm" and i believe that this shows a calm atmosphere. We chose a spot away from the busy London road that runs past our college and into a small park. We managed to show how two people are calm even though there are lots of people running round and going about their daily lives just a stones throw away.

"Future"

We chose this picture to represent the word "future." We discussed how the technology is developing and if anything that is around today that will definitely be around in the future, is computers. We decided to photo Apple Mac's that are in a media classroom on our corridor and enhanced it using Adobe Photoshop. We liked the fact that it looked different to the original photo and the fact that it symbolises future.

"Happiness"

We took this photo to represent "happiness" as we felt that this was the best composition out of the rest we took. We wanted to also include some elements of calmness, and both of the people in this picture look relaxed and having a laugh with each other. We chose the location as we felt that it was away from lots of people, and very tranquil.

"Depression"

We chose this final image to be a direct contrast to happiness, fitting under the word "depression." We decided to find an empty part of our college building to take this picture, and as it was during a lesson, we found the college hall to be empty. We moved the camera back so that the colours would be darker in the picture.

Overall, we were happy with the way our pictures turned out. We believe that maybe we could have edited the pictures more (apart from 'future') to make them more mysterious and fit the word better, but we were content with how they turned out.