Interim Evaluation -

Interim Evaluation - 

My research has been greatly beneficial to the advancement of my project and the adaptation of initial ideas towards a specific and finalised aesthetic and style. I began the project knowing that I had an interest in older mediums of photography, opposed to digital, and decided that I would expand my polaroid photography in this personal investigation as I have an admiration for the aesthetic often seen in 90s films relating to youth and such with a good example being "The Breakfast Club" but until my research of the photographer David Shama I was unsure in how to relate that to my photographic work.

After my research, I began exploring the techniques used by photographers such as David Shama, Julius D High and Jamie Livingston and employed film cameras and instant polaroid cameras in my project and featured them alongside their modern counterpart the DSLR. I have realised that the multiple mediums can work well in cohesion with one another to create a series of connected images and that the multiple medium technique is something that I can extend into my exam photoshoots. Furthermore, the exam paper discussed photographers and artists who created works that were intended to be viewed as photographic installations instead of being seen digitally which lead me to my initial idea seen within my first five photoshoots consisting of scrapbook style collages.

Moreover, the exam paper has also allowed me to consider a similar idea of photographic installations for my final exam pieces. I intend to create three almost life-size photo joiners of three subjects using my digital camera to showcase my understanding of modern technologies and the skills needed to capture a good photograph; however, I will also be including my polaroid medium in that I will sporadically place polaroids around the main body of work and they will be responsible of depicting items associated with the subject and therefore their identity which is a theme that I have returned to many times throughout the furthering of my project.

As the exam itself is 15 hours I intend to permit myself enough time to capture strong photographs for two shoots in the first three hours. I will continue my final shoot in the exam time that directly follows that which should at maximum take 4 hours to complete all three shoots; this provides me with the time to individually edit multitudes of photographs that will compose the large photo joiner installations. After editing I will have to print my photographs and carefully layer them on large sheets of card and then add the finalising details of the smaller photographs, captured using a polaroid camera, around the photomontage of the model. This should create three large photographic installations that will hopefully show my development of my project