Week 2

The “50 frames” assignment has been interesting: Taking 50 photos knowing 46 of them will go unused, and the 4 that will be used are for an assignment worth 0%, is a strange task as there is no real incentive to put effort into it. However despite no tangible insentive for quality I have been trying to make my 50 frames good and varied.

The question posed on the board for a blog prompt is “Reflect on methodology for the 50 frames exercise. Did you complete it all in one go? Do you remember the story on your situation each photo?”

My methodology for taking the 50 frames was to at various moments of inspiration takes some photos of anything remotely interesting in my general vicinity. My photos were captured over many days, sometimes lots in one day, other days I wouldn’t take any, towards the end I was running out of time so I began desperately taking photos of random items around my parents house where I was staying the weekend.

I remember the “story and situation” for each photo, I tried to make it interesting and unique, attempting to capture a different aspect of stuff we talked about in class or something else related to film/photography.

Some examples include my time lapse photos of me eating an apple, it’s a series of 10 photos starting with a complete apple and then a “progress shot” after each bite until its gone. I soon realized I wouldn’t be able to use this for the assessment task since the sequence was more than double the required number of photos, and making all of them part of a sequence would make it hard to write about each one.

Ever since I was a kid stop motion has fascinated me, and I would create “movies” using action figures and a webcam that would create GIFs of fight scenes I choreographed with Dragon Ball Z characters, multiple Spidermans and the occasional Lego monstrosity. In my first project brief last semester the title screen was a stop motion progress shot of a hand drawn title card, and its definitely something I would like to continue to develop my skills at.