Photography in Film - Lecture: Memento

  • Assignment 1 - Essay Memento or La Jetee
  • 'Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts' by Susan Heywood
  • 'Photography & Cinema' by David Campany
  • 'The Cinematic - Documents of Contemporary Art' by Davis Campany
  • 'Classic Essays on Photography' by Alan Trachtenberg
  • Christopher Nolan - Director - Memento - Film Noir
  • Memento - flashbacks are in B&W
  • The current is played out in reverse
  • 'Neo-Noir' - Nino Frank
  • Neo-Noir - Chinatown, Taxi Driver, The Long Goodbye
  • Anti-heroes - who do we trust?
  • Can't trust anybody!
  • Zooming into photographs (Blade Runner)
  • Form of truth
  • Sontag - Most of the photographs
  • Objectivity - truth, unbiased, factual
  • Subjectivity - personal feelings, beliefs & desires
  • Godard Quote
  • Polyscenic - multiple interpretations
  • Polaroids from Memento - William Egglestone Style
  • Sontag - Fragile Proof
  • Essay Tips - Notions of Proof - Subjectivity - Memory & Identity

Documenting the Real - Approaching Documentary

  • Conceptual & Intellectual step-up
  • More confident
  • Want to do - Compelled to do
  • Don't ask lecturers - Convince them!
  • Must work from a diary (work back from deadlines)
  • Being organised allows 'time off' without feeling guilty
  • Assignment 1 - Essay HCB
  • Assignment 2 - 10 prints 'Open Brief'
  • Naturalism, Realism & Truth
  • The best essays are in fact 'Arguments'
  • Genuine crossover of work but not a duplication (from one module to another)
  • Critical Journals for every module (A5 is suitable)
  • Depth of Research (NOT breadth)
  • Be Creative (ie Walker Evans hidden camera)
  • John Grierson Filmmaker 1920s and 1930s Documentary Films
  • "The creative treatment of actuality"
  • What do I bring to the shot? Different view point?
  • Constructing a viewpoint
  • Naturalistic - a surface reality
  • Eastenders offers us a 'Naturalistic Aesthetic'
  • Naturalism in style - representation - re-presentation
  • Realism of attitude
  • Truth? Ansel Adams WWII Photos of Nisei

ACPP - Advance Creative Photographic Practice

  • Working towards independent study
  • Online booking of studio and darkroom
  • 'Marcus Doyle' - Landscape Photographer
  • Photography is not just pretty pictures - body of work and a series of images
  • Printspace
  • Colour processing - Marcus Roberts
  • spectrumphoto.co.uk
  • Critical Journals
  • Assignment 1 - Environmental Portraits
  • idea/story is all important
  • execution is taken for granted
  • doesn't have to be ten portraits
  • tell a story, groups, home (environment)
  • model release (simplify)

ADI - The Year Ahead & Colour Management I

  • Colour Balance/Correction
  • Web/Book/Images theme to our work (identity)
  • Workflow from capture to final print
  • How text is used
  • Aperture/Booksmart/iWeb
  • Dates 7th Dec Sign-Off Tutorial, 11th Jan Issue Assignment 3
  • Editing Proficiency - image relate to each other
  • RAW - Dynamic Range
  • Color Temp, Flash 6000k, Florescent 4000k, Tungsten 3000k
  • CTO/CTB - Color Temp Orange/Color Temp Blue
  • Grey Card - Use on first image of a shoot
  • sRGB/Adobe RGB (1998) to CMYK
  • Mini assignment 8-10 images with different white balance settings

APDP - Introduction & Assigments

  • Assignment 1 Issued - Ansel Adams Essay
  • Assignment 2 Issued - 6 Prints "The Games We Play"
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