Project review-
This is my final sequence of photos for DSDN 144 Project 3- Light. My sequence has under gone many changes and much experimentation over the time I have taken to do this project. Changes include things such as the main idea/theme to it, the choice of lights and the feelings it's aiming to pull across.
My project idea origonally started to display the idea on "how lights act as guides in a location", but this soon changed to "how lights represent barriers in spaces". I went with this new idea because as I looked at my photos, I saw the new idea was working with the way my photos were developing because the lights were starting to give off a menacing look, as if though it's aiming to block you out from entering that space. Another reason why I went with this idea is because the lights are also travelling around the space, not going through it which is giving the impression that you shouldn't be entering through this way. You have to go around this particular part instead.
Reflecting on how my photos have matched my artist models and influences, I feel that the techniques I have taken on board have been taken in with my photos. For my first artist model, the photographer "Tokihiro Sato" the idea of how lights have been used in the outside has swept through my photos. I took his idea on using lights in an outside enviroment, but used it in my own way. Tokihiro Sato has taken his photos with lights that give off a clean sweeping path that seems to guide and relax the person looking at the photos, inviting them in to look at the photo. For my idea, I used the lights but took it in a different way- to represent the idea of the lights acting as a barrier in social spaces, rather than to invite a viewer to observe it like Tokihiro Sato does.
With my second artist model, Henri Carter, I took on board his idea of how he has shown a movement in his photos. When I saw how Henri Carter has displayed a sense of movement in his photos, I wanted to bring this through because I felt that the movement would help to give my lights a sense of direction and purpose instead of merely being placed in the picture. When using my chosen location, I observed the spaces that were more than just straight, front on lines and used my lights in these particular places so that they expressed movement around the curves and bends.
My third influence to my project was the lights used in festivals from traditional chinese festivals. The lights used in these festivals are aiming to give off an emotion through the light colur and the way its been placed and structured. I took these ideas on board because I wanted to bring an emotional feeling to my photos, so that the lights have been done to have a particular use, instead of just looking like decorations within my photo. I used the idea of emotional feelings and set it into my lights with a threating feel to it. The lights haven't been made into straight lines because if they were straight lines surronding a part of my location, then it gives off a warm and guiding feeling which is not what was intended. Since the lines are more jaggered and wavey looking, it almost mentally represents an electric fence that is threatning you to stay away from entering. Another way that I brought foward my dangerous look was by the use of the colour. Origonally there were four colours (blue, red, green and white) that were being used. I decided to cut it down to one colour because when the use of many colours was looking too distracting to the image and having one colour managed to bring this distraction down. The chosen colour (Blue) helps to represent the threatning feel that an electric fence brings to help make my idea more obvious in the photos.
