Final Project - Plan For my final project, I want to piece together my favourite photographs from my shoots in a way that would be themed around a crime/thriller aesthetic. For this, my project will look like a crime investigation board, with my different pictures as suspects, victims and possible scenarios and theories. I'm also going to use other resources like wanted posters and files from real cases, and coloured string to connect them and link them together. I could set it out in two ways - on a cardboard frame with pins with post-it notes for evidence, or on a plastic screen with string and red marker pen. I would use glass but I wouldn't be able to get it into school, so plastic seems like a much better option. I think that using string to connect my photographs will showcase how I bring my ideas together, and see the comparisons between my older shoots and where I've taken inspiration from.
Inspiration -
Pictures to Use -
The Final Piece
Close-Ups and Other Angles
Starting from the Top - For the title of my piece and the topic I focused on (Concealment) I used cut-up magazine lettering to make the entire piece have a more modern aesthetic to it. The slanted effect of the lettering allowed me to keep the wording and quotes that I used messy, whilst the pictures stayed neat. In the top left, I created a key to present what all of the different colours of the string I used represents - red meaning 'unsolved', green meaning 'in question', and white meaning 'solved' - to pull together the crime board I was trying to recreate. In the top right, underneath the title is the meaning of concealment - 'the action of hiding something from being known'. I thought this would be a good addition, as it allows people who may not know what 'Concealment' is to understand my photographs a little bit more clearly.
Stopping in the Middle - Towards the middle of my piece, I used quotes from the photographers I had based my shoots off of, to give a viewer an idea of where and who I got my ideas from. Then further towards the middle, I ripped out the words 'MISTAKEN IDENTITY', as it links into concealment with the missing poster in the top right, where I used an eye and a mouth from a picture I had taken prior to the final piece. I also printed off A6 photographs of where I have been - 'The Water Tower' in Murdishaw and 'The Psychedelic Beach Huts' on the Western Coast of Scarborough. Next to this I have ripped up the lettering of the word 'Duplicity' and placed them vertically down the board to fill space and draw more attention to the right side of the board.
Landing at the Bottom - In the bottom left of my piece, I used another missing poster, but covered some features of the model up with the fairy lights from a photo I had taken in Disneyland Paris, to make sure the posters still fit in with the rest of the theme. For lettering and words, I used another quote from a photographer I was inspired by, and lyrics from 'Little Lies' by 'Fleetwood 'Mac', next to the missing poster, and lyrics from 'Beautiful Liar' by 'Beyonce' in the bottom right.
Meanings of the Words I Used - 1. Manipulation - 'the action of manipulating something in a skillful manner.' 2. Mistaken Identity - 'Mistaken identity is a defense in criminal law which claims the actual innocence of the criminal defendant, and attempts to undermine evidence of guilt by asserting that any eyewitness to the crime incorrectly thought that they saw the defendant, when in fact the person seen by the witness was someone else.' 3. Duplicity - 'the belying of one's true intentions by deceptive words or action.'