Animation and Free Shoot Response

I really enjoyed the animation collaboration, and thought it was a great way to explore concepts and focus on how I look at things. It especially forced me to think about how I wanted to photograph, before I did it, which is something that I don't necessarily do often in the class shoots. In the class shoots, I normally look or construct something that is fitting with the theme. However, with the animation, my concept developed over time, and I think that is something that I want to clearly map out before I make my next animation.

I would definitely like to make another animation for my final project, but I think without so much of a narrative this time. I really enjoyed piecing together all the photographs and constructing something out of it. I have been thinking about the idea of making photographs to music, and possibly making a music video. But I'm also intrigued by exploring spaces and especially time with animation.

I really enjoyed the class shoots, mostly because it gave me something tangible to work with. But I was always very happy when we got to do free shoots, because it was almost like a vacation of not having to work under any constraints. I think I would have liked to have a more equal mix of both. I felt like my work was a bit more concrete when the subjects were less abstract because then I could only focus on taking the photographs, whereas I felt like with more abstract concepts, I didn't have time to come up with ideas that I would be able to photograph well.

My other idea for the final project came to me by mistake today. I accidentally printed two photographs in the same side of the sheet and thought it would be interesting to layer two photographs and see how the colours would come out.