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"EyePhotography ThrougPlanning Documentary h A Lens" Summative Task
Planning Sheet For your photographic essay, potential subjects can be endless. You may be thinking, “Where do I begin?” You should select a topic that interests you, something you know well and something that is readily available to you. Think of your interests to identify potential projects. Step 1: Think about broad areas of interest that intrigue you. This may be broad topics such as people, wealth, poverty, city life, family, friends, music or a locale. Write as many down as possible.
You are a documentary photogr apher and have been hired by E yeLens Magazine to create a photo essa y. They trust your talented visio n and have decided to give you artistic free dom in the subject you choose to document. Their only requirement is that you have a minimum of 9 pho tos for their magazine feature. What will be your story to tell? A photographic essay is a seri es of photographs which attempt to do one or more of the follo wing: reveal, inform, entertain, persuade, or compare and contrast. You r photo essay should have a structure. When telling your story, include the following: •A wide establishing shot •Close ups of activity •A decisive event or moment / candid shots •Portraits (head-shots) •A concluding image
Step 2: Select 3 concepts from above that interest you the most and brainstorm possible projects to investigate for that topic. For example, if you wrote down “people,” think about what types of people interest you: skaters, businessmen, street cleaners etc. If you wrote down “family,” think about what aspect interests you. You may wish to do a compare and contrast between your parents, a day in the life of someone, an activity or process. If you wrote down a locale, write some specifics such as food court/customers, types of businesses/products etc.
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