Everyone has a tracker!

Name

Photographer 1 statement of why you like artist

4 written reviews with five practise shots

One final response own

biography

Photographer 2 Statement of why you like artist

4 written reviews with five practise shots

One final response own

biography

Image and photo mood pages x 2

Own photos contact strip

ICT Cropping evidence own photos

ICT Colour enhancements, saturation

ICT Black and white pages

ICT Double exposures or cloning experiment

ICT Double exposures or cloning experiment

TRAD. Tearing, burning, shredding, experiment

TRAD Working on top of photographs fine pen

TRAD. Three collages

TRAD. Cropping with scissors

TRAD. Working on top in water colour

TRAD. Working on top in charcoal and graphite

Planning  spider diagram/mind maps with photographs

4 mock ups

Of own progress and process

Written planning

Final mock-up of idea with annotations

Annotations of all work

The GRADE I WANT

Autum term - Independent final piece

All pupils have independent tracking sheets
Check out the following:

OCR GCSE (9-1) Photography   J173/01 COURSEWORK http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/gcse-art-and-design-j170-j176-from-2016/

AO1: ARTISTS, prove that you have learnt about critical, contextual +  historical matter	AO2: EXPERIMENT Experiment; explore ideas, select + experiment, materials, techniques + processes Write about it!	AO3: PLAN Photo, draw, paint mind map, write a journal with insights relevant to intentions as work progresses	AO4: FINAL Personal + meaningful, realise intentions + show off all skills!
9 Sophisticated + Excellent understanding of other artists  [30]	9 Refined with perceptive selection Fantastic exploration [30]	9 Deep planning. Outstanding ability to reflect on progress [30]	9 Compositional understanding +  complicated realisation [30]

20/06/2017

TASK: Find a photograph and Upload to blog

WRITE: Write about weaknesses. INCLUDE THESE WORDS: Setting, composition, lighting, focus, character, meaning, colour, balance, contrast.

IN PHOTOSHOP, MAKE QUICK IMPROVEMENTS BY: 1. Enhance the colour. 2. Enhance the contrast. 3. Select and crop.

Nathan on Martin Parr

IMAGE ONE

This is uncropped. Natural. My first shot 

Obvious mistakes: 
I need a tripod or a gorillapod so that the camera could be even more steady.
I should have chosen to focus into the foreground or back ground but not both.
I must take the date off of the camera settings.
I need to take fifty photographs for one to work. I was luck to get these but the woman is moving too quickly and is blurred.
Good qualities are:
High colour and composition is full. there is a lot going on.
I think that the sign above is head is funny. I like the contrast of the door frame and position.
The only blue is in the sunglasses.

NOW: Low angle, medium close up shot.

 Cropped is better. I have enhanced both contrast and colour saturation. I added light. I love the depth of this and it reminds me of an early Martin Parr (See Below)

SECOND IMAGE: Two shot.

Needed to enhance the colour and add higher contrast and lighting.

I copped the date out and it now looks more intimate. Like I have stepped closer into the shot which I know is a trick of photojournalists.

Final Piece

I love my final piece and I have printed it too. It is modern and it could be a design for a product or CD cover.

CREATING MY IMAGE: Making changes in Photoshop

I have to show at least five changes

Firstly, I chose my photograph and I enhanced the colour slightly. By enhancing both the saturation and extending the contrast, I think that the photograph looks as though it was taken by a more expensive camera!

Of course I had to chose the colour of the background. Grey seemed to close the jumper. I had used the pipette tool and grabbed some grey off of the jumper, thinking that it would harmonious, but the character blended into the background too much.

I thought of who the character was. I wanted a bright and modern image. I wanted to avoid flag type colours and I did want to create an 'anti football' feel. The composition was easy. I knew that I wanted to reflect the artist's work and use a large figure, looking out towards the viewer.

I took the prop image of Messi, From a wall in a shop. I want to play games with the image of the most famous footballer and the message will be of something else. I had to include a minimum of five shapes and I wanted to reflect the idea of a football and/or bubbles ('I'm forever blowing bubbles!). Circles are more fluid than straight edge shapes which also feel somehow more violent and angry - which is definitely not the message that I want to give.

The circles, although they were making the composition well-balanced, were a bit boring. I made an image based on a bar code - the message here is that we are paying footballers too much.  But I made the bar code separately, using rectangles on the same yellow colour. I then cropped the bar code into another circle and cut and pasted it on.

Too many circles? I kept borrowing the same colours by using the pipette, and added some simple stars using the simple brush shape. It was important to keep limiting my colour so that I was able to almost create a brand or a really professional design.

I had to play with the idea of 'binary Opposites'. This is where in art, design and film-making, a theorist Claude Levi Strauss, believed that imagery and meanings had more impact to the viewer, when they played with opposites. Love v hate, peace v war etc. I decided to just play with the idea of showing a footballer, but picked another sport to type. We had to use a minimum of three words. This is not really binary opposites, but I love the idea that it is playing games with the viewer. Because I am tricking the viewer they might look even closer.

I created some graffiti shapes to enhance the modern feel of the piece and also to make the composition balanced. I created the graffiti on the white board. It was brilliant because working so large meant that I really felt as though I was spraying an aerosol. The letters were not trendy enough, so I changed the colour of the first letter. I was worried though that you couldn't read the word so I created dark lettering and super-imposed a brighter/lighter word on top. I had to make certain that both words were the same shape and then I just shifted the top layer by the keys on the keyboard, rather than the mouse.

A strange gap meant that I created a separate arrow and cut and pasted it on, resizing and moving into place. I flattened the image and thought that this was the final piece.

I loved it but it wasn't as trendy as I had imagined. I returned to the original artist and knew that I had to remove all saturation form the character.

Carefully, I selected an area and removed all colour from the character, and with real care and patience, I infilled by hand using both, pipette and paintbrush and fill tool.

The Seven C's