Evaluation

Project evaluation

My concept behind this project was to physically represent my memories in a single image. I mainly wanted this to be my concept because the entire project is put under 'north east stories', this makes me want to make the project to relate to me as much as possible as i do live in the north east and no one knows the northeast and what goes on there better than someone who lives in the northeast. So making it relate to me is almost effortless. 

The factors that have really influenced me are seeing photographers and images through my research on narrative photography because it lead me down paths I may not have even thought about had I not looked and these images or photographers images. 

I think my final outcome does meet the requirements of the brief because I have captured an engaging narrative in my photography it’s an image showing my memories, showing my looking back at memories that I miss and the reason I think this Is an engaging narrative for the audience is that you can come up with a thousand explanations for the image, the possibilities for the narrative true story could be endless.

I think if I was to improve my work I would have at least try to physically re-enact a photo from a memory I cherish I do feel like that would be just as powerful but I think the way I captured the memory in my actual final outcome is far better.

To complete this project I had to do a lot of research and a lot of thinking to actually just achieve the smallest ideas for a final piece because at the start of this project I was truly stuck for ideas and I thought I wouldn’t achieve a final piece in time. But the research gave me lots of direction to go down to create a final image and I would say that was my main help.

A new skill that I have been working on for a while but used by myself for the first time during this project was captures one. This is the soft ware I used to look at my images from the shoot and determine a final image and also edit the final image.  As I have used this software before I did not find it too challenging but I am glad that I was able to use the software with no complications.

The assignment challenged me a lot because it made me really think out side of the box to fathom ideas because at the start as I stated I had no direction.

On reflection I am happy with how the final piece came out. In my head I had an idea of using personal experiences to show an engaging narrative and to use memories and those personal experiences and I think my final outcome really represents some of my memories.