Group Tutorial 5/10/21

Group Tutorial

 Elena: 

• Try to find an approach that doesn’t involve relying on the person. 

• Look at aspects of the individual’s life. 

• Try out voice recordings, significant items and focus on part of the poem rather than as a whole.

• Could make up the ideas to help it progress quickly. 

• Stable plan 

• Be honest within your synopsis, simplicity is better. 

• Keep elaborating on your work rather than focusing on the whole thing. 

• Alec Soth- as an example. 

• Create a connection with the subject to gain a better understanding. 

• Use portraiture and look at portrait and light. 

• Try a metre print. 

Simon: 

• Photos of individuals then photos without them and have just the clothes in the frame by themselves. 

• Makes you forget about the individual models and focus on the clothes, etc. Rather than the model.

• Need to find the meaning behind it in a clever way. Keep the same idea but try to find an idea that allows a viewer to understand clearly what the work is about. 

• Showing how fashion can be very inclusive and for everyone. 

• Use backgrounds that almost blend with the outfits and also for them to stand out. 

• Look at a variety of different celebrity posts and influencers within the streetwear, skate industry/ culture. 

• Might be worth looking at photos on shops/ online stores. 

• Try a metre print. 

Isiah: 

• Focusing on a football team and highlighting masculinity. 

• Bring your stuff to shoots and make yourself known from the get-go. 

• Make work don’t overcomplicate. 

• Talk to them and just briefly discuss your images with them, 50/50 they say yes or no. 

• Try a metre print. 

• Look at trying portraits of the individuals and get more personal, with action shots. 

• Learn by shooting photos. 

• Include that you don’t have a massive interest in football. 

Me: 

• Try to focus on the story. 

• Look at a more simplistic and realistic approach. 

• Social media vs Real life. 

• Always want to be photographed. 

• Try a metre print. 

Alfie: 

• Lewis Baltz style

• Looking at industrial buildings or Motorbike collection. 

• Try both ideas and see what ones work best. 

• Have a look at Martin Cregg. 

• Get out and focus on your ideas at the locations to get an idea and a connection between your subjects. 

Phoebe: 

• Looking at memorial places/ possibly peoples happy memory locations. 

• Benches for people that are aesthetically pleasing. 

• Street photography and trying to find ways of capturing what was a location of a past memory.

• Explore all sorts of work you can make just using the bench. 

• Try and create a connection between yourself and the bench. 

Bernard: 

• Taking photos within a pub looking at almost the masculinity of the people there. 

• Look at Gareth McConnell. 

• Have a mixture of portraits and full pub layout shots. Explore the opportunities within the location.

 • Take pictures of specific things within the pub such as: table, drink, chair, etc. 

• Focus on how you will organise your work but making good connections between the individuals there. 

• Show the history of the pub and the characters that visit it. 

• David Moore