A brief introduction for my photo book (not included in the photo book):

Palette – is a thin board that provides a space for artists to lay and mix colours.

When we speak about colours, there is always an intrinsic interpretation in everyone’s mind, for instance, the film by Disney Picture – ‘Inside Out’ red is typically a representation of anger; blue is sadness and etc.. This is a typical example of people’s innate understanding on those colours, in this ‘Palette’, firstly colours are a tool to represent emotions and secondly I am using my understanding of different colours to break the potentially rule on colours.

Explanation of each group of colours and the text on each page:

1.Red (featuring by Yellow)

• instead of symbolizing luck, anger, emergency etc.
• a sense of isolation and the sense of anti-social
• 거리를 두고 – leave distance in between (one another)
• when we stand outside the society, leave the community where we usually are, we can see things more clearly and precisely

2. Green (featuring by purple)

• people think green is a colour that represents peaceful; growth and purple is symbolizing mysterious
• it is more about the sense of tension, anxious
• with the highlight of colour purple, brings another level of intension
• 조용하고 긴장해 – I have designed this sentence like a dialogue spoken by the characters inside the photo: ‘hush and get nervous’.

3. Blue (featuring by Pink)

• when blue mix with a bit of white and turns into sky blue, it is no more the representation of sadness or depressed
• in this group of photograph I want to present a phenomenon – teenage fever, what a teenage girl usually think and behave: they might themselves away from the other thinking they are more special, but they also have fantasy dreams and imagination.
• 사춘기 소녀의 꿈 – a teenage girl’s fantasy dreamland

4. white (featuring with black, yellow and red)

• white is a representation of pure, clean or dream
• instead, I want to show hesitate, confusion, being puzzled in teenage years, wondering which way to go but still using white to show teenager’s energetic and curiosity
• 나의 청춘 – during my youth
• 무지개를 찹았다 – I caught a rainbow, to finish with this photograph and this sentence is sort of hoping everyone’s teenage years can be very glorious and beautiful.

 

Overall conclusion:

The biggest challenge for me in this project brief was also to find all the different colours to shoot that can match this concept, although I wanted to say that I felt very fortunate to study in RMIT where most of our buildings are designed with different colours and this has made so much easier for me to do this project. Something I might change or I would plan more precisely to do a better job next time is to always do test shooting before the actual shooting day, I think the red part came out as the most effective group amongst this project brief which I believe that 40% should credit to my test shooting. I think for media students any production under test shooting/filming will save a lot of time for us.

One thing I have discovered in this project brief: the two models I have used for shooting, one of them is a girl that I knew quite a while but the other girl who only appeared in the green series I knew her for only a month. The green series is the group that I really want try one more time, I am not saying who is better, the more I want to say is shooting someone that you know will actually make the shooting easier and explicitly.

 

Lastly, thank you Brian:)