Final 6 Images & D1

Below are my final 6 images I have chosen and edited to be my7 final images.


I have uploaded these images but there was a problem with uploading my third image. Instead I have just uploaded the rest. I think I couldnt upload the 3rd image because the size of the image was 4KB when the others was 4000 for example.

D1.

Through out the shoot I have been trying to show the audience certain messages with my images. 

       I have chosen my final 6 images because I think they are the best images I have made throughout the shoot and there is meaning towards them .

Most of the techniques I have used for communicating over to the audience is via colour, the irony of being in a factory and thinking it would only be filled with grey machines has a different meanng to it when I come out with quite surprising colourful shots.

I have used the use of colour well in one of my images where everything is in black and white and the capsules are only in colour.

 I have also tried to portray as much colour in the images as I could, It can show to the audience how it can slightly be ore fun than expected to work in a fatory and produce this product. 

Throughout my final 6 images I am trying to shows direction in my images, the eyes are always going in a direction the top one looks at how he is unscrewing the machine, how he has to use two hands to hold it, the second image is on the two capsules and then you look down int the bin because thats the whole point of the image, if they are broken or bent inwards then they will go in this bin which was photographed.  

The next image is showing different directions where you ca look. There are two work men facing other putting capsules into a container, the direction of their hands, and also the camera is facing the middle where the gap is, this show you the back of the factory.

I like the next image because the main part of the image is not in the centre of the image. The glass is not in the centre of the image which is a good thing, they are all going in a direction which i going towards the enter of the image. 

I like the end image because it show how small the capsule are and how colourful and attractive they are. 

Evaluation

I have photographed the factory Nestlé in Tutbury in Burton on Trent.

Throughout the day I was taken to various places of the factory and was only allowed to photograph some of the lines running there, not everything there was photographed.

When I managed to take pictures of the factory I took images of people working, the objects what were being created inside of the Dolche Gusto, The conveyor belts, the cylinders inside the capsules. Aluminium pieces, people at their offices working, people looking at plans on what to do and what needs doing,

People who stand around for a moment and have a laugh with their friends, fortunately I was able to experience a fire alarm which brought workers outside so I images them together. People working on computer lines and people fixing machines.

My idea changed quite rapidly and quickly, it took me a whole to actually get information on whether I could actually g into the factory to take the pictures so whilst I was waiting on their acceptance, I was thinking of a back up plan if I was not to get into the factory; I decided to think that I wanted to take images of construction work as I already had found an artist what deals with that sort of photography. I thought this was a great idea and perused it. A few days before the deadline I was told that I could take the tour around the factory and that I was able to take images of certain things but not everything. My idea then fell back onto the original plan of taking images around the factory and seeing if I could also take some images of the construction men at the same time.

The equipment I have used for this assignment are, a Canon 1100D, if I was to improve this shoot I would take location lighting and also a flashgun and a tripod.

One artist who has influenced me and my work is Lars Tubnjork  his work is fasinating, one of the images i really like is the one where there are people undfr the table and there are work sheets all over the floor; I like the way that the boss is walking in the background as well whilst there is a sneaky woman on the phone as well under the table what shows irony of no cells phones at work.

Another artist what has inspired me is Thomas Demand , in one of his images ot is just a picture of a photocopier which really stands out to me that sometimes you dont need allot in an image to really capture the audiences eye. This photo has inspired me to take images of still life objects in the work place which I have put into place.

I would say i am quite happy with my final images. I think they give a good operspective of what you can find in a different kind of factory, unlike others where it is all machinery, yes there was machinery in this factory but I think taking images of what surrounds the location and the people in it can be more important and more innteresting as they work the place manually.

Project Proposal

My idea for this assignment is to take images of a factory that my dad works in. Nestlé.

 At the moment my ideas has not really changed.
I am going to go to the street that he works on and take images of the street to start and then hope to get inside.
 If I cant get in there is also construction work going on outside of the factory because they are making the street wider so that the delivery lorries can pass through.

My target audience would be probably be to a magazine or Gallery,
I am going to document this project and show the different aspects of working there.

I am influenced by Thomas Struth, I really take to his images because of the way that they look, they look old and the colours of the images looks slightly green which give a sense of age and a great amount of composition in them.

The equipment i will require is a Canon 1100D.
I will photograph this landscape wise and portrait wise. When I take images of the street it shall be portrait wise because it instantly makes the street look longer which gives great depth.

When i get to the sight, there might not be enough room to take photos of the area.
If i stand away away then i could get the image but then theres the main road so there would always be cars passing by.
   I think to overcome this would be that i should take the images when the train barrier is down because on that road is a level crossing.
To get the images I would like I should wait until the barrier is down to gain full advantage of an empty road.

There will be many health and safety restrictions when I go to the shoot,  the road that I will be crossing to get to the road where the factory is will have a main busy road on it, there is also current construction work going on during the day there so I may be asked to stand far away whilst they work.

Through the factory I may be asked to wear overalls as there may be contaminent materials they use in the air like dust, I may be required to wear goggles.

If my plan backfires then I shall hopefully just take the images of the people constructing the street. if not I shall take pictures of the factory as close as I can.

Week by Week Plan

Week 1-
             Write out and compose a Brainstorm which allows me to make and create ideas on what I want to be photographing.

Week 2- Ring nestle to confirm if I can visit the factory.
                            Continue researching artists and write up about those artists.  

Week 3-
Visit the factory and take pictures.
                Take images of people on the street and the road on which it lays on.


Week 4- Edit the images and refer to artist research.


Week 5- Start to work on Criteria UNIT 31.
Start making posts and start writing and creating each P1 M1 D1 for each post.


Week 6+ Continue working on UNIT 31 and 4.
 - Also start uploading images of factory work and include them in your criteria work.
(Overtime halfterm week) - Complete Units 31 and UNIT 4 for Marking.
Complete Evaluation.

Mini Task 3 Work Objects.

Work Objects Task.


My task for today was to go outside and take images of 3 objects what would strongly represent the world of work.
These are the images I took:

I have chosen £notes and coins because it represents what a job is about. It is about earning your wage. And earning money. I placed this on a plain background as I felt that if i had placed it on a textured or patterned background then it would be too much going on and the audience would not be looking at the appropriate picture.

 

When i took this image first it wasn't a bad image. When I started to edit it I didn't think it would quite end up like this. I am pleasantly surprised by the effect and what it has came out like.
 I changed the image to monocrome and slightly turned up the contrast levels.
I think is a good final image because it looks like an image you would get off the internet.
So a pleasant surprise.

 

 I was walking past a shop when i noticed this sign to the side of the shop. I saw the assistant cleaning the shop and thought well Health And Safety is all about work and one of the most important aspects of any job type you are given. I decided to edit this picture because trying to use the spot healing brush just was not enough. 

I used the effect of getting rid of colour for the whole image and then placing the yellow back onto the board which makes it stand out of the image much more.

UNIT 4.

I have stumbled across one artist who really inspires me for Unit 4 in this assignment.
His name is Eric Drooker.

During this assignment I have been looking at the grading criteria and have came across how I can illustrate my ideas into my work to project a stronger theme and sense of knowledge about what I am doing.

Eric Drooker began to sell illustrations to more mainstream publications, and became more widely known as a cartoonist when his short story "L" appeared in Heavy Metal. "L", along with two other stories, his first made up graphic novel, ''Flood! A Novel in Pictures'' a wordless, dream-like narrative of powerless citizens' struggling with authority in a rapidly deteriorating New York City—which won an American Book Award.

In 2006, the Library of Congress wanted the original art for ''Flood! A Novel in Pictures,'' including preliminary drawings, sketches and cover paintings. ''The complete Flood'' Archive is housed in the Prints & Photographs Division of the Library of Congress, which is open to the public.  

              
P1: 
In his work, Eric creates his images using various materials, this can include, paints, pencils, liners etc. This connects to various Medias and to the specific media what he works for and also what his work is mainly about.
For example he works for a magazine and draws about people working in city life. he mentions how he was born in Manhattan and how he draws this idea of the area being so full of buildings. a world of economics.
This relates to media because the media and press mainly talk and broadcast the downfalls the economy has which is city life and pollution etc, his images of people working in a city life or wandering in one is always depressing (hence his weather images and drawings) he gives a sense of meaning that the city life is like a concrete jungle of greyness because of the going ons in it. 

M1:

D1:

P2:

I have been on a website named Pikmonkey and uploaded the entrance to the road where the factory is. I have chosen this image to show how i have used different medias to create my own visual language.

I have edited this image on a setting called Draw. I first started to colour the sky a much darker grey than it was because of the inspiration i took for Drooker. Some of his images are quite deep and meaningful and not always positive and as working in a factory isnt the happiewst of placest as well as the road on which it lies on i thought i would turn it grey to give it more of a downwards feel.

I then clicked on the types of efffect i could give it and wanted to give it more of a depressed look. I found an edit named Nosferatu Dawn which i covered over and really gave it a little bit of paleness to the photo which makes the whole location look quite grim as well and it pushing the contrasts of the black and white up allot. I have turned the black up so it defines the lines of the buildings on either side more. 

M2:

These images are also edited to give a clear meaning to the audience of how I have used the language of art and design,

 have came up with ideas of how i can relate my editing to the artist inspiration of Eric Drooker.

In his images he portrays children playing on a street which is quite a relaxed feel about it and in the background looms this big economic world with factories and pollution behind.

I have chosen this street as the direction going into the factory gets smaller and smaller so its like you are being drawn into some sort of warp,

The image has many types of languages of art and design in it for example the compositions throughout it as the main one are direction and another is lines.

The way it leads you into the factory, it makes you want to go down to that street to see whats at the bottom. with this I have edited it so it looks like quite a gloomy place, though factorys arent exactly the happiest place to work so the ironic ness of this image shows well to the viewer why I have tried to adress this.

P3:

    Similar to P1, Eric Drooker always publishes his work with several visual languages  
going on at a time, for most of his images what show immensly high sky scrapers in the background and like the other image with all of the books; he uses lines with his pencil or crayon what he uses in them.
Another image of where he shows this is where the man is looking up and it really gives you a great sense of how these city buildings and lifestyle can dawn on you. With this included it shows how tall they really are.

Another visual language I would like to point out what Eric uses is the sense of Motion. throught out all of his drawing images, there is always something in the picture what is moving, he can really perfect this by varying it, such as the man on the construction sight, it might not be his faviurite job what is coming over to the viewer and seems theres no life or enjoyment working in the city but with the image of the butterfly which also brings colour into it refreshes the viewer and give sus hope that there is something full of life out there,

Another picture shows this well how it shows people walking to their jobs, people walking from their jobs leaving, the mood is low the weather he has brought into the image represents that the city life isnt what people sometime think it is, (a happy bright up staged area) this can show its the oppositewhere its raining, people have hung backs to show their mood isnt great and the form of colour shows the with the dark blues, but gives us an insight that not all is lost in this area where you can see the mans heart, how ever big it is.

P4:
This image below is one of the favourite images I have from Eric Drooker. This image is intended on viewer to know what it is, and what it is about. The way he portrays it is amazing, there are several aspects of visual language included in this image and also parts of Design language.

For the Visual language and also the Design Language there is colour, because everybody knows that the rainforest and jungles are bound with colour everywhere you go, the leaves are full of life which the city would be, this image can portray night time as well with the dark colours being used mainly so the lampposts are on and glowing.
 I think this drawing can be took from the song Empire State Of Mind. In this song it describes New York to be a 'Concrete Jungle' and this shows in this image just that.

The man who walks up the tube station into this city Jungle life, which shows motion such as the man, the insects buzzing around, like cars or children or adults would be on a typical morning, the trees represents lampposts or buldings, which are everywhere on each corner near and far. The aspect of design language is used here from the colour schemes which I have mentioned before, how it is dark so he has used the vaiation of blue colours, on the trees which give a great dark shadowy effect also.

 The design prospect of the things in order of the image, the business man at the front with a forward tree then more trees what fade into the background.
Another Design layout would be the forreground and background similar to what i jave just mentioned, how at the foreground you have these massive large wild shrubs with then a main palm tree located in the middle of the image and then in the background you would find more trees going off into the distance.  

www.MOCP.org - Research.

I have been searching on the websites for various artists what can inspire me to go out and take images.

 

Nov 14th- Jan 31st:

 

 This image is by Ann Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom, this image tells me that there is a sense of freedom in this workplace, the positioning of thw subjects is well used and how every individual workman is in a different position or pulling a different pose.
This gives an insight of what perhaps men are hoping to do when working in a office job, everything is restricted to do the same thing everyday but inside sometimes they want to break lose for a few moments and this could be a rare sight although it is set up.

 Lars Tubnjork  portrays what he sees as the melancholy and absurdity of modern-day office life and the struggle of the individual against corporate homogeneity. He observes individuals tailoring their environments to their needs—a shoeless man stretching his legs under his desk, another man talking on the telephone tucked under his desk.
Lars Tunbjörk also uses body language and formal constructions to capture the hierarchal levels of office life.
A woman crouches under a desk organizing papers while her boss stands above by the window, for example. In many of his pictures there is a sense that something is festering under the surface or behind closed doors.

 

 Looking at this image, seeing that it is someones office or cubical with snapshots of loved ones and pets is another way workers venture to fight the uniformity and impersonality of the workplace, often revealing more of their personal lives than intended.
Karen Yama's photographs of such different arrangements are odd still lifes that expose our desire to modify our work spaces to feel more like home.

 

 

 Thomas Demand re-creates media-based photographs by painstakingly making and photographing full-scale, three-dimensional models of his subjects.
Although Demand’s subject may seem boring and commonplace, his work often carries cultural or political relevance and offers a smart critique of mass media. In much of his work the relevance of the paper itself is the subject of the picture.This office copy machine is also laden with cultural myths concerning fraud and breaks in confidentiality.

 

Edwards Burtynsky

 

 

 

 

The massive scale of the transformation that has taken place in China is visualized in Edward Burtynsky's photographs of enormous manufacturing plants employing thousands of workers.
Edward used a large-format camera and filling the frame with rows and rows of production lines, the factories and the workers become almost infinite. In some of his images, such as Manufacturing, Youngor Textiles, Nigbo, Zhejiang Province, one person visibly stands out alone.

This image, along with certain others in the series, disclose the presence of a personal story behind each of the millions of factory workers and provide a reminder that individuals are implicated in these seemingly autonomous processes.