I am so happy to hear those positive feedbacks from the panel, as I mentioned I still not hundred percent sure on what exactly I will do for the final project, so they tried to inspire me with artists and photographers who work with colours and emotions. ‘Optimism Filters’by Corrie Baldauf is one of the examples given by Sophie, and there is a big sheet of colour filters being held up by the subject to highlight their emotion. I think this is a great example because Corrie Baldauf’s work is also emphasizing emotions, it’s sort of saying colours are a way to bring optimism to you. While listening to Sophie’s explanation on this photographer, lots of pictures emerged in my head, how can I use the bold colours of cellophane papers to highlight different emotions. I am doing something a bit different, but I think this photographer’s work still gave me some inspiration to prompt me to consider how can one colour highlight the opposite meaning, such as yellow is a happy colour but I use it to highlight a sense of bored. 

Paul said he liked my idea as he has never encountered anyone who has worked with colours using a physical filter like cellophane papers because post-production is so much easy to control and it’s too powerful in nowadays. If I have more time I will explain that the idea came from William Eggleston’s inspiration, in the photographers or film makers that I remembered, he is the first and the best photographer to me who contains colours and associate with emotions. During the time he started photography, the post production is not as powerful as what we have now, but through the use of colours, all the subject in his work looks emotional. Since I knew him I really want to try something similar, but since I don’t have a similar scene like him (old cars, motels etc.) so the idea of using cellophane paper has emerged. 

To sum up the feedback I have received were quite negative and motivated for me to extend this idea further, yet there was one thing Paul mentioned with cellophane paper is that he is worried about the purchasing of the whole range of gradients (colour), I thought about this for long after the pitch, the next thing I will experience on will be to include more than one colours in the subject to see if the cellophane paper will still cover the original gradients and colours of the subjects, I will use contrast colours to see what emotions or feelings can they create.