Review and reflect report 2

Review and Reflect Report ~ The theme was College Life In Ballyfermot College. So I had to plan out what type of photographs I thought would reflect college life the best. I decided to plan out a storyboard and thought what makes up college life. I thought about what do student do when they are in college so I include in the storyboard 1. Books in the library for students to study 2. Computers to type up their assignments 3. Somewhere students can get something to eat and relax between classes 4. The porter’s office where you get help to find classes when you start first and general help with like a stapler to staple your assignments together 5. The reception because that is were the students go if they are paying their college fees or need letters for anything. ~ So these were the types of images I drew up for my storyboard. So when I went out to take the photographs I knew what I was looking for. I did stick to my storyboard and I did get the photographs that I wanted and had on my storyboard. But while I was walking around the college I saw other images that fitted my brief college life so I ended up taking more photographs then I had on my storyboard 1. The door of the Students Union door 2. A poster that showed you how to get help with dealing with the stresses of college but the poster was under a sign showing you how to find the toilets which I thought was funny. ~ When I came back to the class I loaded up the photographs to Photoshop and cropped them so they would fit in ideas I had on the storyboard. I had to crop all of them in some way so they would look better and fit the ideas I had when I started with the storyboard. ~ I feel that the process of sitting down thing about the subject matter made me focus more clearly on the task of the brief college life. Instead of going out just shooting random photographs and hoping it would fit. By drawing up a storyboard focused my mind on what really mattered in a students life in college. So when I went out to take the photographs I had a clear plan of what photographs I wanted but it also made me look at the college in a new light not just walking down the corridors to get from one place to another but to really see what was in the building. I feel the photographs that I took were what college life is really like. If I could do this brief over again I would have added a classroom where we as students attend class.