Today I received some really good feedback regards my project.
I have now entitled it 'Absence of performance within music'.
My project was far too generically based around already existing work.
So with some discussion, the decision to photograph the leftovers of a gig/performance was made.
Close ups of tickets on the ground, scratched equipment, even the technical sides that nobody sees such as the mixing desk. Then, in terms of the book layout, text will be added in, either quotes from bands or lyrics which still needs to be decided upon.
From the video linked on the previous post, the abstract lead up to set up being revealed in sequence with a few quotes added in reflects this idea in a different way to what I first viewed it as..I still feel the eerie feel to my work will still be present but now the project has been defined down to a specific feature.
I am working with more relevance to the title whilst it still stays with the showing of beyond the performance.
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I shall however, not scrap the idea of photographing beyond the performance in terms of the tuning up, pedals and all the relative images I started with. I will also not scrap the idea of photographing buskers. These shall be continued personally.
Monday, 23 April 2012
Friday, 13 April 2012
More Influences..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhHG1M2gLZ0&feature=relmfu
This video has sparked off the concept of photographing the absent sides of music.
As I attend gigs regularly, I felt the first opportunities were to find something other than a performing musician to photograph, but something different.
I wanted to keep within the music as opposed to using fans, so I began photographing as bands were setting up the stage ready to play, tuning up guitars, a microphone being unused. Here are the ones I produced and selected as the better of the lot; unedited:
This particular gig was in York, so as you can imagine, I did a bit of exploring of the town. I noticed a lot of buskers around which inspired me to perhaps try photographing them for another side of music, the absent side of not being known. However, as the day I was inspired was a short term discovery having only a short walk around the town so that I could get ready for the gig and get there on time; I'd decided on photographing the buskers the following day. Sadly there were no buskers in sight, so I plan on visiting towns that are busker magnets!
My exploring themes will both be actively photographed as of now. Having done this part of research physically and personally, my next plan is to condense these ideas into proposals and into a presentation to present to a small number of classmates and teachers - in the meantime I shall carry on photographing and seeing if my ideas develop. I shall also begin on researching as much as I can into photographers, documentaries, videos (music videos in particular) and possibly the whole concept of buskers.
This video has sparked off the concept of photographing the absent sides of music.
As I attend gigs regularly, I felt the first opportunities were to find something other than a performing musician to photograph, but something different.
I wanted to keep within the music as opposed to using fans, so I began photographing as bands were setting up the stage ready to play, tuning up guitars, a microphone being unused. Here are the ones I produced and selected as the better of the lot; unedited:
This particular gig was in York, so as you can imagine, I did a bit of exploring of the town. I noticed a lot of buskers around which inspired me to perhaps try photographing them for another side of music, the absent side of not being known. However, as the day I was inspired was a short term discovery having only a short walk around the town so that I could get ready for the gig and get there on time; I'd decided on photographing the buskers the following day. Sadly there were no buskers in sight, so I plan on visiting towns that are busker magnets!
My exploring themes will both be actively photographed as of now. Having done this part of research physically and personally, my next plan is to condense these ideas into proposals and into a presentation to present to a small number of classmates and teachers - in the meantime I shall carry on photographing and seeing if my ideas develop. I shall also begin on researching as much as I can into photographers, documentaries, videos (music videos in particular) and possibly the whole concept of buskers.
My early ideas..
Here are a series of images I took whilst I was on a music video set. I had been asked to be a second photographer at the shoot where I took a location shoot of the band, then I photographed the on goings of the music video scenes being filmed.
The finished product: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXxXlTedDQA
This documentary/music connection is something I strongly would like to sway to personally, so I'm hoping I can produce work around this area for a book.
The finished product: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXxXlTedDQA
This documentary/music connection is something I strongly would like to sway to personally, so I'm hoping I can produce work around this area for a book.
Bonjour!
Welcome to my new blog, which is based on 'Directions Within Photographic Communication'.
The concept of this blog is to document my thoughts and processes within this project; the project which is to produce a body of work to put into a book.
Before the brief was officially given, I always had an idea of using ideas from previous projects involving photographing a music video filming. But as I cannot go back to photograph it again, I've decided to go down a documentary music path.
The concept of this blog is to document my thoughts and processes within this project; the project which is to produce a body of work to put into a book.
Before the brief was officially given, I always had an idea of using ideas from previous projects involving photographing a music video filming. But as I cannot go back to photograph it again, I've decided to go down a documentary music path.
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