This week mainly focused on the creation and development of our final project brief, whilst preparing for our pitch that was said in front of two guest professionals and Brian. At the end of last week, I had an idea to take photos of something a lot more abstract than the usual portrait photography. I was influenced by music videos such as The Bay by Metronomy which features a unique filming technique of splitting two videos in half and matching the shapes together. Sounds weird when you say it but when you watch it you’ll understand. Another idea was through the song Contact High by Architecture in Helsinki, where the camera takes shots of furniture in the room with smoke coming out and hands coming out of walls. Trying to show an alternate reality, and highlight the abstract nature of the song. This was what I was going to shoot until I was watching Foxtel on the weekend and re watched the opening to true detective season 1. This is where I saw the double exposure technique Patrick Clair uses to establish the characters or subject’s internal struggles and their connection to the natural and constructed environment. This is when I knew I wanted to try and mimic this technique for my final.

I knew that I had learnt about lighting, establishing the setting via highlighting certain details in the frame (through project brief 3), some Photoshop skills and basic portrait shooting. All of which are integral to successfully produce photos in double exposure photography.

In Tuesdays class I presented this idea and received some really good feedback. The panel also really liked my idea about involving the double exposure photography into Melbourne’s Night life or take photos of Melbourne Underground. Daniel Binns said to look at the naturalistic Melbourne and the constructed Melbourne and contrast them in your photos. So I think that’s a really cool idea.

Therefore, the best way to incorporate all these ideas is to present the materials in a abstract black and white hardcover photobook. With white text under each photo in a different language that somewhat reflects underground Melbourne (but haven’t yet decided what that will be). Now I just have to work out what the settings will be, and who ill take photos of. I also need to work out how id hire a green screen room or photography studio.