time : final proposal

Since my last idea was a fail, I've taken a whole new approach to this project.

For this project, I aim to explore and communicate how time effects and transforms the food and meals we eat each day. I am taking a look at what meals are made of and what they become. I aim to show this in an interesting way which is through provoking. I want to try and portray a commercial feel to the images, as I feel the advertisement industry sometimes hides the reality of products, much like the meals which sometimes hide the ingredients in it, showcasing an appetising exterior.

I will show this transformation in food by taking before and after shots of meals which I have throughout the week. Using a document style layout and shoot, I will clearly display the beginning and end product, allowing the contrast between the two to be able to be seen clearly. In the "before" image, the ingredients will be lay out without any association to one another. After the meal is prepared, I will take an "after" photo, where all the ingredients are combined into one appealing dish. I will use bright lighting to give the images a "commercial" feel, and to enhance the coloring of the ingredients. This also creates an "exposed" feel to the pictures, the ingredients are being shown for what they are. From here, I will use a short shutter speed to maintain correct exposure in the images, also allowing to get crisp images that are a "snap shot" of time. This allows me to explore time in a different way - by not following the actual process but showing clear examples to start and finish - and the difference that time has on the initial products.

I think that this idea will be interesting to shoot as it makes me, and viewers, think harder about what is actually in our food, in where it all came from. As emphasis on organic and natural products develops in the modern society, I believe that this series will act as a small window into this issue. I think that it will explore time in an interesting way, by seeing how with time, things can completely transform.

time : stop motion development

I am not happy with it at all. Like I said on my last post, the images are too jumpy and don't flow together. It also proved really hard to photograph every aspect of my day as challenges rose from the second I woke up - such as getting undressed. Also, I don't actually think i'm comfortable showing all this stuff. Although this would be interesting to see and communicate, I think I need to change up my idea and start again from scratch.

Here's the stop motion anyway..

time : second shoot

These photos are for the beginning of my stop motion. They are from in the morning from the time I wake up and got out of bed, and go into the bathroom to have a shower. The lighting made it really hard to get good shots as it was hard for my camera to focus and take consecutive shots to get a seamless and not jumpy shoot.

time : initial shoot redo

I just realized that the contact sheets I posted yesterday, were actually all the same, not the actual different contact sheets, so here's the rest of them! Sorrrrrrrry.

time : task 1

Stop motion attempt:

time : initial shoot

My first shoot wasn't that successful because my camera ran out of memory space so I couldn't take enough photos.

time : proposal

For this project I want to create a stop motion that will show the process of my day. I will be looking at the journey from leaving the house in the morning and what goes on in my day. In this journey, I hope to capture my perception of the day and how my mood changes throughout the day. For example, at the start of the day it will feel slow and boring, and as the stop motion goes on it will become more fast paced an vibrant.