Photography in Film: Flags of our Fathers
- Essay - Harvard Referencing Style
- Revisionist westerns - darker in tone/more troubles/apologetic (to native american)
- Flags of our Fathers
- Eastwood a huge fan of John Ford
- Raising of the Flag - Photo by Joe Rosenthal
- Fenton, Brady, Capa, Lee Miller, Kevin Carter
- 'Before the Rain', Salvador, Killing Fields, Apocalypse Now
- Assignment 13th January
- Read around the subject
- Notions of truth, memory, identity
- Sontag, Berger, etc
- Framework - starting point
- Don't tell me what happens! Assume reader knows the film.
- Discuss, argue, engaging, interesting
- Bibliography - internet sources ok, but balanced
Documenting the Real: The British Tradition
- Semi-Detached viewing?
- Standardisation/Differentiation
- Is there still an appetite?
- Brandt - indicative of the British tradition
- Subjects are given a value (by being photographed)
- Mannerism (assists with Man Ray)
- Roger Mayne
- Medium is being fore-grounded (modernism)
- The Street
- Outsider coming in
- Tony Ray Jones
- The English at the seaside
- Some photos are funny but he is not making fun
- Chris Killip
- Not political or idealogical
- Zak Waters
- On the Road
- Is always in project
- Barrier between camera and subject (becomes thematic)
- Iconography
ADI: Aperture II
- Shortcuts - i inspector, f full screen
- ALT+SHIFT+H - Highlight Hot & Cold
- Enhance - Global
- Definital - local therefore more subtle
- Adjustment HUD is in workflow order
- Color correction affects the shadows only
- Levels
- Never desaturate for B&W conversion
- When you adjust B&W sliders they must add up to 100% for a balanced image
- Viewer Mode>Compare
- Enhance>Tint
- Curves - more detailed correction than levels
- Beware of saturating skin tones
- Use PSD 8-bit for external editing
APDP: Colour Film & Filters
- Subtle adjustments
- Use opposite colour to balance light
- Tungsten lighting
- Filter for the predominant light source when light is mixed
- Florescent lighting
- Use gels
- When using film everything works different as using a negative
- Overexpose to increase contrast in colour film
- Out-of-date slide film to shoot
Photography in Film: Documentary II
- Sally Mann - 'What Remains'
- Documentary gives us a film about a still subject
- Who is the auteur of the film?
- Filmmaker making a film about a photographer who they are a fan of
- (A scholar of Mann's work)
- Perspective of the filmed (through Mann's camera)
- What, Why, How?
- Emphasis on the locale
- Endorsement
- The things that are close to you - best
- Make art out of the ordinary
- 'Art is everywhere'
- Explore project from two different angles
- End show with uplift - living faces at 'death show'
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