Photo Essay: William Pei (42852684) & James Stubbs Grigoriou (42797411)
Theme: Light
Sub-Theme: Artificial Light
We chose artificial light as our theme because we believe it
epitomizes the concept of ‘everydayness’. Everydayness is the idea that by
focusing on the things around us, exploring the mundane through photography, we
can capture things the human eye fails to see. An everyday image is defined by
Susan Murray in her article Digital Images, Photo Sharing, and Our Shifting Notions of
Everyday Aesthetics as: “the types of images that
we can create or engage with on a regular basis that evoke or reference the
more ordinary or frequent moments of our lives” (2008, p. 151).
Light is a necessity in our world, mans ability to control light is one of his greatest achievements, one which modern society is based around. We found it intriguing that something so pivotal could also be so mundane. As humans we fear the darkness, the unknown. We increased blacks/shadows in editing to increase the contrast between the lights and surrounding darkness to emphasize this idea. We also increased the contrast and saturation of the pictures to add to this effect. We used cross fades for slide transitions to give the feeling as though each slide was a light being turned on.
The music was chosen due to its ambient and electric feel. We thought this fitted in nicely with artificial lights. It was also selected because of it’s haunting sound for the second half of the video. We accompanied this haunting sound with images outside the house, images that expressed a feeling of isolation and darkness; this was intended to be in contrast to the bright photos at the beginning of the clip (which were much lighter cheerier). We also slowed down the video in the second half to accentuate the unsettling feeling of the pictures/music.
Light is a necessity in our world, mans ability to control light is one of his greatest achievements, one which modern society is based around. We found it intriguing that something so pivotal could also be so mundane. As humans we fear the darkness, the unknown. We increased blacks/shadows in editing to increase the contrast between the lights and surrounding darkness to emphasize this idea. We also increased the contrast and saturation of the pictures to add to this effect. We used cross fades for slide transitions to give the feeling as though each slide was a light being turned on.
The music was chosen due to its ambient and electric feel. We thought this fitted in nicely with artificial lights. It was also selected because of it’s haunting sound for the second half of the video. We accompanied this haunting sound with images outside the house, images that expressed a feeling of isolation and darkness; this was intended to be in contrast to the bright photos at the beginning of the clip (which were much lighter cheerier). We also slowed down the video in the second half to accentuate the unsettling feeling of the pictures/music.
Bibliography
Music- "The Flight (496 Km)" by Vulturius Maestus
Available at: http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/513480/vulturius-maestus-the-flight-496-km
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Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ accessed 11/10/2012
Murray, S (2008) Digital Image, Photo Sharing, and Our Shifting Notions of Everyday Aesthetics in Journal of Visual Culture Vol 7(2) pp. 147-163.
Murray, S (2008) Digital Image, Photo Sharing, and Our Shifting Notions of Everyday Aesthetics in Journal of Visual Culture Vol 7(2) pp. 147-163.
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