Wordit Project: Photography
Giant: Every time I think of something giant I imagine scale by distance, similar to tourist pictures where someone is holding a famous building. I also thought of seeing the world as an ant and how big everything would be if your looked up.
Public: A swing was the first thing that I had thought of when it comes down to public. The reasoning for this was that a swing was recognizable and typically associated with a park. Not only, but it reminded me a lot of when I used to get out and play on the swings.
Nightmare: What I find scary is a place where I am unable to move or see anything. And seeing a long small tunnel got me thinking about what a nightmare would be like to me.
Reflective: Nothing is more reflective than a mirror, thus is was what I took of. Everyone looks in their side mirror when driving and because of how frequent I use it, to me it was the best pick. The tree in the background isn't much more than something to focus your eyes on.
1. Understand the Problem.
Pick four of the words of the list and take pictures of them as I interpret.
The final product has to result in four square photos.
End goal:
- 4 finished designs
- each must be a different word
- Aspect ratio must be 1 x 1
- Only use words from the list provided
2. Research and Develop.
The first thing that needs to be done is selecting the words that I want to use. Because everything is interpreted from how I please
From the list I can choose from:
- Reflective
- Nightmare
- Oops
- Extreme
- Public
- Rebel
- Giant
- Saturated
- Surprise
- Cold
- Green
- Wiggle
- Ridiculous
- Begin
- Box
- Suburban
I have chosen:
- Nightmare
- Giant
- Public
- Reflective
3. Generate Possible Solutions
Nightmare:
dark, black and white, emphasis on emptiness
Giant:
close to the ground, focus on something higher than the camera, point the camera up towards the subject
Public:
open space, accessible by everyone, parks or buildings, focused on the element that people will use in this location
Reflective:
Something that reflects light, most likely a mirror or water, show what the reflection showing
4. Select and Develop best Solution.
Each of these words and design ideas were chosen for simplicity purposes. They would be easy to interpret and fit the word well enough.
5. Model and Prototype.
I did it.
6. Test and Evaluate.
Something that were needed to complete the composition was to make sure that it fit into the specified proportions and so they developed properly. It could have been taken further through extra development within photoshop changing the focus and position.
7. Produce
Even though they might not have turned out great, I'm still satisfied with the final turnout. There was a lot more that I could have done to improve the overall result. While going through I had a difficult time figuring out how the photo was going to fit into a perfect square. Some other thing include laying in mud and getting the right angle on something to make it look giant even though it's not. However, some good things came from it, like a well thought out shot that was properly utilized. However, I learned that angles matter a lot when it comes to expressing something.
