My intention for this unit of work was to use the idea of scale by using high and low angles, and also by editing pictures. My intention was based upon the idea of fantasy and how I can use scale to create a fantasy theme in my pictures. I believe that I have met my intentions. This is because all my shoots clearly link in with the theme of scale and fantasy because of the images making things looking bigger and smaller than they should be. I achieved this by using the right equipment, different angles and using hotshot for the editing process. Having the lego figures available was an advantage for me as I wanted to use them as I had planned to use them in my shoot ideas. The variety of angles I used helped me meet my intention as well. Being able to take shots from extremely high angles such as shoot 5 and 7, it enabled me to relate to scale and use, which I did with the large buildings surrounding the area then the people below who looked significantly small.
My influences and artists are evident in my work. Ive used a few of the artists and their work which I researched about in my work, from it being around the ams idea or just for inspiration. Andrew Whyte is an artists that is evident because of his 'legography' which is where he used lego figures to make them seem like they're moving and exploring the human world. This is what I done in my first 4 shoots with the lego figures, and this was down to the inspiration of Andrew Whyte. Also, William Eggleston is another artist that is evident. I used William Eggleston's 'Tricycle, Memphis' photo as a starting point. In this photo he too a photograph of a children's tricycle but took it from a very low angle, making it seem bigger than everything else in the photo. This gave me the idea for shoots 5, 6 and 7 because I thought of the idea of taking pictures from high angles instead and making certain subjects smaller than they actually are.
A lot of work from this unit did work and went how I planned it to. The artist research was good and that worked very well and the artists I did look at fitted into my theme of using scale. Also, I think a lot of the shoots went well and linked to my artists well.
What I think that didn't work was that I didn't relate my work to more artists. I feel I could have used some of the other artists and their ideas for inspiration which I could have then tried out for myself.
I chose the 4 photos from shoot 4, 5, 6 and 7 because I felt these were my best images and most relatable to my subject theme of scale and fantasy. In addition to, these are my best edits from each of those 4 shoots so they were the best looking ones as well.
I will display my final piece by having the 4 images in a line next to each other on a wall. However, they're all different sizes with the largest scale ones being the smallest in terms of the size of them image and the small scale images being larger in terms of the size of the image. Therefore, from the left it will be the smallest sized image and then the further right you go, the images will get bigger and bigger but the image will be more small scale focused.
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