LO7

I shoot some more portraits with Nick the drummer from my band. I thought it would be a great way to connect the work with lyrics from the music that I’ve made almost like a visual segway. Even if the audience doesn’t know I do and it I like the idea of it. I’ve noticed that I’ve been shooting a lot in landscape and for a few reasons, one being that it compliments the cinematics images I plan on mixing in in the final edit and I also work with video a think in a cinema narritve way it just feels right to shoot everything landscape format.

I shot these portraits just before the podcast in which I talk about music and the culture of bands touring and preserving in todays climate. It was a great chat and I was happy about the images especially the one above. I do feel the branded shirt does distract a bit to much and almost makes the viewer think of it like an ad.

I’ve found the podcasts a great way of networking and talking about the project. I took these portraits just before sitting down with Andrew in Bristol.

I decided to shoot more portraits with the editorial Spencer Murphy inspired approach as I’m finding the results very positive. I wanted to look at changing the environment up. I’ve used peoples homes and outdoor in the street by music venues. I wanted to take more control and place them areas I consider to by more alone. I wanted to emphasise the subject and also the words choose to mix in with it I feel would work better in a less urban street area. In urban street areas ( in well lit ones) at least there is a lot of signage and text which would distract from the intended meaning.

I’m a firm believer in having a camera with me as much as possible. Sometimes I like take images with no particular thought out reason. I feel that it’s important, especially since I make a living from photography, I see a lot of other professionals slowly fall out of love with personal projects and not have a spark or any energy to go out and shoot.

I made contact with a Cornish band called useless wooden toys and made a trip down, i thought it would be good to get to as many different parts of the country as possible. Cornwall is similar to wales in that it is very large poor areas with run down and underfunded services. You can tell. It’s . strange place with a huge gap between working and higher classes. Lots of holiday 2nd homes and luxury art galleries on one hand and and the other very run down areas with underfunded police and NHS i think it’s really interesting socially and politically. I’ve lived in Cornwall for about 4 years to so i have my own personal relationship with it.

After the last module informing contexts I find myself not completely sure of the direction of the work. I am really interested in working with text still but I’m feeling slightly out of touch and unsure of the direction to take I thought the best course fo action is to just shoot and think about it later. I find this is a useful technique in dealing with lack of creativity.