When speaking to Sacha she told me she was looking into derelict buildings. I think the concept of derelict and abandoned shops should be looked into as I feel it will represent waste in a very effective way as once the subject wasn't seen as waste. I also feel that by looking at abandoned stores will shock the audience as it would make them realise the amount of abandoned stores in the Medway area. The audience will also be able to relate to the pictures as the recession has effected everyone so they would realise what has happened to the shops. First I think research should be done into derelict/ abandoned shops around the Medway area so the shoots can be organise and so you can choice a location that looks the most derelict.
Who
would
you
look
at
and
what
ideas
can
you
take
from
those
photographers/artists
in
order
to
structure
the
project?
- Photographer on Flickr who is interested in derelict buildings in Medway, can help with choosing locations to shoot at. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/briand36/sets/72157603202906300/)
- Steffi Klenz, Nummianus, looks into abandoned houses.
How
would
you
choose
to
portray
the
concept?
- Take the image from street view to allow the viewer to relate to the images and the buildings.
- Have the same composition and camera distance for each image similar.
- Include shop door and/or windows to emphasise the fact that the building use to be a shop and wasn't seen as waste but now it is as it has been abandoned.
What would be your visual choices in the images (focus, distance, lighting, camera position etc)?
- Wide angle lens to emphasise the size of the abandoned area and to set the location of the image.
- Keep distance and camera position the same in all photo's similar to Bernd and Hilla Becher to emphasise how normal it has become to see shops that have been abandoned.
- Take the images on an overcast day so they all have a similar feel.
- Show area around the abandoned building to add contrast between the new and old.
- Small aperture to make sure there is a large depth of field so everything is in focus.
How will you structure the project, prepare and plan the visual translation of the concept? How you will you continue to develop the project?
- Research into the statistics about abandoned buildings especially shops to see which buildings are most at threat and which could cause the most problems for the area.
- Research into the council making empty shops look fully stocked to question what we see as waste and does it mean that by making a building look like its got items it becomes not abandoned any more and therefore not derelict? (http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Virtually-shops/story-11996867-detail/story.html)
What
practical
experimentation
would
you
undertake
to
visually
refine
the
concept?
- Visit various locations to see which derelict buildings would look best and take some test shots.
- Visit locations at different times of the day to see when the lighting is best.
How would you evaluate your process and critically appraise the progression of the project?
- Ask peers for feedback and to see if they can see that the image represents derelict buildings so you know your concept is bought across in your picture.
- Ask peers if they know anywhere that would be suitable to take images.
Locations you could look at:
Rochester - Shorts Brothers Seaplane Factory and public air raid shelter (www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/r/rochester/index.html)
Chatham, Theatre Royal
- Photographer on Flickr who is interested in derelict buildings in Medway, can help with choosing locations to shoot at. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/briand36/sets/72157603202906300/)
- Steffi Klenz, Nummianus, looks into abandoned houses.
- Mark Blundell, looks at derelict buildings.
- Brian Ulrich, 'Stores that are no more' explores American retail stores that are no more.
- Jane Samuels , 'Samuels Explores abandoned houses, schools, hospitals and asylums, and takes with her a cast of costumed characters. Her team use the suggested narratives found within the buildings to create disconnected, ethereal and often unsettling images, that play with ideas of memory, story-telling and the reclamation by nature of the man-made structures.'
- Andrew Schneider, abandoned buildings/shops
- John Daniels, Long abandoned corner shop on normal Portsmouth Terraced street.
- Joseph Linaschke, 'Abandoned shop in Duran'
- In a way that almost makes the abandoned shop look 'normal' to show how it has become a normal occurrence to shop's closing down because of the recession we are in.
- By keeping every photo similar in style similar to the works by Bernd and Hilla Becher as there idea is to 'make families of objects' will create a shock feeling as it will normalise the way shops have been abandoned and closed down.
- By keeping every photo similar in style similar to the works by Bernd and Hilla Becher as there idea is to 'make families of objects' will create a shock feeling as it will normalise the way shops have been abandoned and closed down.
- By making this work in to a series will emphasise the amount of shops that have been closed down because of the recession.
What
would
the
visual
elements
of
your
image
be
(composition,
objects/subjects
within
the
pictorial
frame)?
- Take the image from street view to allow the viewer to relate to the images and the buildings.
- Have the same composition and camera distance for each image similar.
- Include shop door and/or windows to emphasise the fact that the building use to be a shop and wasn't seen as waste but now it is as it has been abandoned.
What would be your visual choices in the images (focus, distance, lighting, camera position etc)?
- Wide angle lens to emphasise the size of the abandoned area and to set the location of the image.
- Keep distance and camera position the same in all photo's similar to Bernd and Hilla Becher to emphasise how normal it has become to see shops that have been abandoned.
- Take the images on an overcast day so they all have a similar feel.
- Show area around the abandoned building to add contrast between the new and old.
- Small aperture to make sure there is a large depth of field so everything is in focus.
How will you structure the project, prepare and plan the visual translation of the concept? How you will you continue to develop the project?
- Research into the statistics about abandoned buildings especially shops to see which buildings are most at threat and which could cause the most problems for the area.
- Research into the council making empty shops look fully stocked to question what we see as waste and does it mean that by making a building look like its got items it becomes not abandoned any more and therefore not derelict? (http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Virtually-shops/story-11996867-detail/story.html)
-Visit locations in Medway that have abandoned shops to see which ones look the most run-down and the most derelict as they would make the pictures look more effective.
- Visit various locations to see which derelict buildings would look best and take some test shots.
- Visit locations at different times of the day to see when the lighting is best.
How would you evaluate your process and critically appraise the progression of the project?
- Ask peers for feedback and to see if they can see that the image represents derelict buildings so you know your concept is bought across in your picture.
- Ask peers if they know anywhere that would be suitable to take images.
Locations you could look at:
Rochester - Shorts Brothers Seaplane Factory and public air raid shelter (www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/r/rochester/index.html)
Canal Road in Strood
Chatham, Theatre Royal
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